Any holiday recipes?

Question

I love the holidays!!! Does anyone have any holiday recipes they would share with me? Whether it be drinks, cookies, main courses... Thanks in advance! :)

Answer 1

OAST TURKEY WITH SAUSAGE FENNEL STUFFING AND MADEIRA GRAVY
a 12- to 14-pound turkey, neck and giblets (excluding liver) reserved for making gravy
sausage fennel stuffing
1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, softened
2 cups turkey giblet stock or chicken broth

For gravy
1 1/4 cups Sercial Madeira
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
4 cups turkey giblet stock or chicken broth

Garnish: fresh small fennel bulbs, (sometimes called anise), quartered with fronds attached, fresh small white onions with greens attached, fresh thyme sprigs

Preheat oven to 325°F.

Rinse turkey and pat dry inside and out. Season turkey inside and out with salt and pepper and pack neck cavity loosely with some stuffing. Fold neck skin under body and fasten with a skewer. Fill body cavity loosely with some remaining stuffing and truss turkey. Transfer remaining stuffing to a buttered 1 1/2- to 2-quart shallow baking dish and reserve, covered and chilled.

Spread turkey with butter and on a rack in a roasting pan roast in oven until a meat thermometer inserted in fleshy part of a thigh registers 180°F. and juices run clear when thigh is pierced, 3 1/4 to 4 hours.

During last 1 1/2 hours of roasting, drizzle reserved stuffing with stock or broth and bake, covered, 1 hour. Transfer turkey to a heated platter, reserving juices in roasting pan, and discard string. Keep turkey warm, covered loosely with foil.

Make gravy:
Skim fat from pan juices, reserving 1/3 cup fat, and deglaze pan with Madeira over moderately high heat, scraping up brown bits. Bring Madeira to a boil and remove pan from heat.

In a saucepan whisk together reserved fat and flour and cook roux over moderately low heat, whisking, 3 minutes. Add Madeira mixture and stock or broth in a stream, whisking, and simmer, whisking occasionally, 5 minutes. Season gravy with salt and pepper and transfer to a heated gravy boat.

Garnish turkey with fennel, onions, and thyme.

Answer 2

1001 Holiday Coconut Squares
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Keys : Nuts
Ingredients :

3cup1001 Cookie Mix
2xeggs
1tbllemon rind
1cupshredded coconut
3/4cupfinely chopped pecans or walnuts
1/4cupeach finely chopped red and green candied
cherries
Domino Granulated Sugar, as needed

Method :

* Just one of the many different types of cookies made from the master cookie mix.
* Preheat oven to 350 F. Generously grease a 13x9x2-inch baking pan.
* In large bowl, mix together cookie mix, eggs and lemon rind. Stir in coconut, pecans and cherries.
* Spread in prepared baking pan. Bake 20-25 minutes.
* When done, center should spring back when pressed lightly. While warm, cut into 1-1/2" squares. Sprinkle with sugar.
* Makes 48 squares.
* If desired, use 1/2 cup of either red or green cherries instead of 1/4 cup of each.

















1986 Winner: Praline Cookies
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Keys : Cookies Holiday
Ingredients :

1/2cupButter
1 1/2cupPacked brown sugar
1xEgg
1 1/2cupFlour
1tspVanilla
1cupChopped pecans

Method :

* Preparation Time: 25 minutes
* Baking Time: 10 to 12 minutes
1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter, sugar and egg. Stir in flour, vanilla and pecans. Mix well by hand. Shape into balls about the size of walnuts, place on cookie sheets and flatten to about 1/8 inch.
* 2. Bake 10 to 12 minutes, or until brown. Remove from oven and allow to cool
completely and harden. (These cookies are chewy, not hard).
* Winner Jean McGree of Flossmoor "bores everyone," she says, with this family tale of Christmas praline cookies: "Since the time Mom had been a little girl, each November Grandma would surround her back yard pecan tree with sheets to catch the falling nuts. But most of the nuts had to be knocked from the branches with her long-handled broom. Then she would spend hours stooped over those sheets, picking up the pecans and sorting the good ones from the black and hollow shells.
* "When her daughter married and moved away, the nuts were carefully picked over, packaged and shipped 'up North.' Free time in the first week of December was always marked for shelling the pecans. Sore hands and stiff backs were repaid with secret nibbling and promises of praline cookies for Christmas. "Soon, I'll start looking for a package from Great-Grandma in South Carolina. Then, as we crack the pecans, I can retell the 'pecan story' to Michael and Ann, who know that Santa always looks for pralines on Christmas Eve."

















1989 2nd Place: Great-Grandma's Gingerbread Cookies
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Keys : Cookies Holiday
Ingredients :

1/2cupVegetable shortening
1cupSugar
3xEggs
1/2cupCold water
2tspBaking soda
1cupSorghum or molasses
All-purpose flour (5-6 cups)
1tspGround cinnamon
1/2tspGround cloves
1tspGinger
1/2tspSalt

Method :

* Preparation Time: 30 minutes
* Chilling Time: Overnight
* Baking Time: 10
minutes
* 1. Cream shortening and sugar in mixing bowl, beat in eggs, one at a time. Mix water and baking soda in small bowl until dissolved. Add baking soda mixture and sorghum to butter mixture. Sift 5 1/2 cups of the flour, the spices and salt together. Blend into dough. Divide dough into 4 balls. Wrap in plastic wrap. Flatten and refrigerate overnight.
* 2. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Roll 1 portion of dough out at a time on lightly floured surface. Cut into desired shapes. Bake on a greased cookie sheet until puffed, 10 to 12 minutes. Do not overbake.
* 3. When cool, decorate with buttercream frosting and/or candies as desired. Sorghum gives these cookies a special flavor, but molasses can be used as a substitute.
* gingerbread men left Bohemia in 1872 and immigrated to the United States. Smith's great-grandmother, "Babicka" Novak, lived in a small Czech-American town in South Dakota where Smith's mother grew up in the 1920s. At Christmas time, her great-grandma would give her neighbors Old World gingerbread men, reindeer and rocking horses.
* "One year when Great-grandma delivered the cookies, she brought along her teenaged grandson, who was visiting from a small ethnic Czech community in Nebraska," Smith wrote.
* "Introductions made that day over the watchful eyes of the gingerbread men eventually lead to wedding bells for my parents a decade later. Great-grandma Novak probably had planned this all along!"