Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Celebrate Christmas

What is your favorite thing about the Holiday Season? *
Getting to see friends & family
How will you spend Christmas Day this year? *
With family, a traditional Christmas Celebration
How many holiday cards do you send out each year on average? *
5-25
How many Holiday Parties will you attend this year? *
1-3
What is your zazzle Store URL *
What was your favorite Christmas/Holiday gift you ever received and why?
I think I'll go back to my childhood for this one... the best was when I received this very special doll that I wanted. Her name was 'Look Around Velvet' She had long blond hair that you could create interesting styles with and a string that you could pull and her eyes and body would look around. She wore a plaid red, white and green dress and red slip on shoes. She also had a metal stand that you could clip her into so that you could freely style her hair without dropping her. I actually still have her today!
What is your favorite Christmas/Holiday food/recipe? What is so special about it?

That would have to be a recipe for Candy Cane Bark that I make every year. It's a great recipe to share and take to friends and family...
Here is the Recipe...
1 package semi sweet chocolate chips (like Hershey's morsels)
Several peppermint candy canes ( if I use the small ones usually about 15 or so)
1 tbsp. canola oil

First put candy canes in a ziplock bag, sometimes I double the bag so no pieces fall out! Take a kitchen mallet and smash the candy canes into little bits. If you have children that like to help this would be a good job for them! Melt chocolate chips in microwave. Not too long or they will burn, just keep checking them periodically! Stir til smooth, add the crushed candy canes and the oil and mix together! On a cookie sheet lined with waxed paper spread the mixture out. You can play with how thick or thin you want it to be! Then put this in the fridge for about an hour to harden up! After an hour remove from the fridge and break into different size pieces! They look very festive on a nice crystal dish! Ready to serve! I

What is your favorite Christmas/holiday craft project?
My favorite Christmas craft project would have to simply be decorating the house and the Christmas tree. The Christmas tree is a big decorating project in itself. I usually pick a color theme with two or three coordinating colors. I decorate with all clear mini lights and spend quite a long time wrapping these around the individual branches of the tree for a beautiful look. I also love using glass balls in crystal bowls and vases and placing them around the house. Decorating a wreath is usually in there too and I usually use ribbon and ornaments for this as well.
What is your favorite Christmas/Holiday movie and why?

My favorite Christmas movie is Serendipity, just love this movie, it's a chick flick, a holiday love story set in New York with lots of romantic and funny moments. (My husband actually likes it too, don't tell him I said that) It stars Kate Beckinsale, John Cusack and Jeremy Piven. Starts out with the two main characters meeting up while shopping in New York for Christmas gifts for respective lovers.
There is magic in the air and thus a romance begins to develop but not sure if this is right, they go their separate ways and then mysteriously reconnect several years later... ready to watch!

What is your favorite Christmas/Holiday memory?
I loved the year that we took our three boys to Big White Ski Resort for a Christmas vacation. It was a fabulous family time and very relaxing. We went out for Christmas dinner (so that was a lot less work for me) and enjoyed tons of skiing/snowboarding together. I brought some decorations from home to add to our condo to make it festive. The boys still hung up their stockings and we opened presents Christmas morning as usual. The ski village was beautiful at night, so many sparkling lights and decorations. It was a wonderful time and gave us great holiday memories...


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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Celebrate Christmas

What is your favorite thing about the Holiday Season? *
Getting to see friends & family
How will you spend Christmas Day this year? *
With family, a traditional Christmas Celebration
How many holiday cards do you send out each year on average? *
0-5
How many Holiday Parties will you attend this year? *
0
What is your zazzle Store URL *
What was your favorite Christmas/Holiday gift you ever received and why?
My favorite Christmas Gift has got to be the Baby Jesus! Without Him there would be no Christmas, as it is His Birthday that we celebrate each year. In my estimation there are no other gifts that can outshine God's Greatest Gift to the world. To think that He gave His only Son as a tiny little Baby, allowing Him to be born in a humble stable just so we could have God be more like us, instead of some far away, unapproachable king in a castle, amazes me. Thank you God The Father and Holy Spirit! Thank you Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph! Thank you Jesus! God bless you all this Christmas and always!


Saturday, December 10, 2011

Celebrate Christmas

What is your favorite thing about the Holiday Season? *
Getting to see friends & family
How will you spend Christmas Day this year? *
With family & friends, the more the merrier
How many holiday cards do you send out each year on average? *
5-25
How many Holiday Parties will you attend this year? *
3-5
What is your zazzle Store URL *
What was your favorite Christmas/Holiday gift you ever received and why?
My favorite Christmas present is the engagement ring I received from my fiance last year. :) We had been together for 6 years, so I knew an engagement ring was coming sooner or later, but I really had no idea when. It was Christmas Eve last year, and I remember just being stressed out over something stupid (can't remember what it was now), and it was causing me to kind of be a crab. As I was furiously getting ready, he proposed to me. I wasn't crabby anymore, haha! I don't think there is another Christmas present that could top that, unless someone bought me a new DSLR camera, hint hint. ;)

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Grandma Hystad's Christmas Recipes, Bar Mixes, Information

Grandma Hystad's Christmas Recipes, Bar Mixes, Information

Author: Bruce Chambers

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GRANDMA'S WRAPPED TURKEY

Place dressed turnkey, breast up in center of greased, wide,
heavy foil. Bring ends of foil up over breast. Overlap fold
and press up against ends of turkey. Place bird in shallow pan.
Open foil last 20 minutes to brown. Bake at 450 F, (230 C)
according to timetable.



Stuffed Turkey shirtTHAWING GUIDELINES

Allow 24 hours per 5 pounds if defrosting in fridge. For quicker Thawing results, place turkey in sink full of cold water, allowing ½ per pound. Change water often to keep water cold.

ROASTING TIMES FOR STUFFED TURKEY
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F

Ready To Cook Weight Roasting Time
6 - 8 pounds 3 - 3 ½ hours
8 - 12 pounds 3 ½ -4 ½ hours
12 - 16 pounds 4 ½ - 5 ½ hours
16 - 20 pounds 5 ½ - 6 hours
20 - 24 pounds 6 - 6 ½ hours

For unstuffed turkey, add ½ hour to each above




GRANDMA'S BAKED HAM AND APPLES
Ham apron
2 large slices of hamsteak
2 teaspoons.......(10 ml)........prepared mustard
4 tablespoons.....(60 ml)........brown sugar
2 tart apples
1 ½ cups..........(375 ml).......apple juice

Place the ham in baking dish and rub with mustard. Sprinkle with 2 tablespoons (30 ml), of brown sugar. Core the apple and cut into thin slices. Cover the ham with the apple slices and sprinkle with rest of brown sugar. Add apple juice. Bake at 300 F, (150 C), for 30 minutes or until tender.
YIELD: 4-5 servings.
TIME: 40 minutes







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Sunday, December 4, 2011

Celebrate Christmas

What is your favorite thing about the Holiday Season? *
Getting presents
How will you spend Christmas Day this year? *
With friends, in our own fun celebration
How many holiday cards do you send out each year on average? *
0-5
How many Holiday Parties will you attend this year? *
0
What is your zazzle Store URL *
What was your favorite Christmas/Holiday gift you ever received and why?

Being a green deer in the green woods, I don’t get many presents. It is just not something that is done a lot out here in the wilderness. At christmas time, all of a sudden many people come out to our forest, usually very busy complaining that there is no snow (or too much snow) this year and why there are no reindeer to be seen and what's for food and, mainly, how hard it is to find appropriate presents for someone. I don’t know much about christmas (I’m just a simple animal), but I am sure it wasn’t ment to be all about buying things. In January they are all gone and it is peaceful again.
A great gift, every year.

What is your favorite Christmas/Holiday food/recipe? What is so special about it?
Food is a problem during the winter as the leaves are already gone and the ground is cold and, usually later than Christmas, often covered with snow and ice. So the question of a favourite christmas dish sounds a bit strange to me. Some animals may get along okay by eating other animals, but this is not exactly my style. So it is moss and lychens in the winter, and some trees have more or less edible bark. Personally, I prefer fresh leaves and berries, grass and herbs from a summer meadow and, you might have guessed so, chocolate chip cookies.
What is your favorite Christmas/holiday craft project?
I have a very ambitious project: This year my goal is to write an answer to a question that I can not really relate to and use at east 100 words for it. This, I hope, could make it turn into a little story that I imagine to start a life of it’s own, just as if I’d throw all those words into a big bottle and watch them move about, see them playing, organizing themselves, making sense and nonsense and maybe, after a while, trying to figure out why they are there and what it all means. This would be nice.
What is your favorite Christmas/Holiday movie and why?
What is a Christmas/holiday movie? I am green and I know nothing of these things. Please ask me about things that I can tell you about, My neighbor animals and their little stories. Or what it is like to get up early on an autumn morning and annoy the whole lot by belling in the early morning mist until the forest echoes with the rustle of headache pill boxes being opened, a sound that would be music in my ears, weren’t they deafened already by my own sweet voice. Or the smell of the earth when it’s touched by sunshine.
What is your favorite Christmas/Holiday memory?
One day two years ago, in mid december, I came around the corner on my bicycle. (I am a deer who is open to contemporary means of transportation, in case you wondered.) I was about to meet someone for the first time and I was very curious. The moment I made that bend around that corner it began to snow for the first time of the year. It almost seemed like the snow announced my arrival and I came to the meeting point covered with white flakes. I wasn’t aware of it at the time, but that day I found love.


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