Post by fussbucket on Nov 28, 2012 16:49:58 GMT -5
Anyone interested in doing a holiday recipe swap? All you have to do is share a favorite holiday recipe from your arsenal, and in return you get loads of other great recipes beloved by awesome people you know or pretend to know. This should be something that you and/or your family love to *actually* make and eat at the holidays, not your Pinterest fantasies.
I was thinking about a focus on baked goods (cookies, candies, cakes, pies) but am open to more general stuff if folks are more interested in that. Bonus points if you have a story to share about your recipe.
If you're interested in participating, let me know by replying below. Assuming sufficient interest, we can dust off our recipe boxes this weekend and do the swap early next week?
Does it have to be a family recipe? Imma gonna be honest and tell you that most of my beloved recipes came off the Internet. If pressed, I can offer up my mom's stuffing and frozen chocolate pie.
Does it have to be a family recipe? Imma gonna be honest and tell you that most of my beloved recipes came off the Internet. If pressed, I can offer up my mom's stuffing and frozen chocolate pie.
No, it only has to be a recipe traditionally *enjoyed* by you and/or your family! I for one don't have any "family recipes" that have been passed down to me that weren't photocopied directly out of commercially available cookbooks (several of which I also own...).
if it has to be handed down recipes, I'd break out the potato candy one and then just have people stare blankly at it...because, really, who the hell makes potatoes into candy? (answer, scotch irish folks and/or my great grandma during the depression) (and you know I'll include that one just for the "WTF?" factor. ANd because we DO actually make and eat it every Christmas)
I'm in! Finding something that 's a baked good may be a little harder, but I have a few. Apple pie, cinnamon quickbread, oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Though our biggest holiday tradition is Christmas Eve lasagna, which I'm willing to share.
True story: Long before the advent of meatball abortions in our little world, I made peanut butter fudge for Christmas from a microwave recipe provided by a poster named "MrsAMB."
It was pretty good. Not cross-the-street-and-tell-you good, but with some chocolate ganache on top, good enough to serve my guests.