Wishing all of you peace and joy this holiday season!
Poinsettias for you!
May Santa bring you everything you ever wished for!
Dancer & Prancer
May you eat delicious scrumptious incredible desserts.
Sweet Fantasy
And may you be happy!
Merry Christmas to you!
25 Dec 2010 Leave a Comment
in Sweet, What I think... Tags: Christmas, Christmas and holiday season, Dessert, God, happy, holiday, Holiday greetings, Holidays, joy, pointsetta, Santa Baby, Santa Claus, Shopping
Oh’ Christmas Tree
16 Dec 2010 1 Comment
in Holiday, Serendipitous Adventures, What I think... Tags: Christmas, Christmas tree, holiday, merry christmas
Every year right after the Thanksgiving holiday Jeff and I head out in search of the perfect Christmas tree. It’s become a wonderful tradition now that we live in New England.
It’s just not that easy finding Christmas trees in Florida, unless they look like Palm trees and not the kind you can chop down yourself!
Nope, no Christmas trees here
Our adventure begins with the initiation of a large cup of a warm and inviting – frothy, double caramel lattes. Enough to keep us warm from old man winter and doused with an adequate amount of sugar to supply us with enough energy to run through endless fields of trees.
We make our way over to Van Wilgens Garden Center where the festivities all begin. Do we want a Blue Spruce, a Frasier Fir or the reliable Douglas-Fir? We grab our saw and off we go. Noses lead the way… onto the most fragrant tree of all, which is, for us the bushy Douglas-Fir, but seriously… these trees looked more like the Fat Albert Spruce. Honestly, for real – that is the name of a real pine fir tree!
The search begins…
Van Wilgens Tree Farm
There at the end, I think I see it…
Fragrant bushy Douglas-Fir tree
Yes, it’s perfect, absolutely gorgeous, we found the perfect Christmas tree!
The perfect Christmas tree!
Jeff the lumberjack cutting down our Christmas tree.
Timber
Timber!!!
So the nice people at Van Wilgens Garden Center helped load our tree onto the tractor and tow it back to our car where they kindly hoisted it upon our roof, tied it snugly down for the ride home.
With our Christmas tree placed in her new home, I make plenty of hot coco with a crazy amount of vanilla fudge chunk ice cream floating to the rim of our cups – another round of sugar for tree trimming.
Here we were… all sugared up, unwrapping delicate ornaments and untangling miles of colorful lights to adorn our tree, then we christened with an angel at the top.
Heartful Thanks
I think the tree is b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l!
Beautiful Tree
And here’s the mistletoe where Jeff and I… shared our Christmas list.
Mistletoe
Come they told me, pa rum pum pum pum
14 Dec 2010 2 Comments
in Holiday, What I think... Tags: Bing Crosby, Christmas, Christmas music, David Bowie, funny or die, holiday, Holidays, John C. Reilly, Little Drummer Boy, merry christmas, will ferrell
This is my absolute favorite holiday song, and so I thought I would croon you with this Christmas carol…
That is… I’m going to channel this through Bing Crosby & David Bowie
hint… (click Bill Cosby & David Bowie names it’s the link to a Christmas song duet)
Bowie & Bing - Christmas
If I really sang this song to you, I would sound more like Will Ferrell & John C. Reilly
hint… (click Will Ferrell & John C. Reilly names it’s the link to a Christmas song duet)
Will & John - Christmas
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!
Little Drummer Boy – lyrics
Come they told me, pa rum pum pum pum
A new born King to see, pa rum pum pum pum
Our finest gifts we bring, pa rum pum pum pum
To lay before the King, pa rum pum pum pum,
rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,
So to honor Him, pa rum pum pum pum,
When we come.
Little Baby, pa rum pum pum pum
I am a poor boy too, pa rum pum pum pum
I have no gift to bring, pa rum pum pum pum
That’s fit to give the King, pa rum pum pum pum,
rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,
Shall I play for you, pa rum pum pum pum,
On my drum?
Mary nodded, pa rum pum pum pum
The ox and lamb kept time, pa rum pum pum pum
I played my drum for Him, pa rum pum pum pum
I played my best for Him, pa rum pum pum pum,
rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,
Then He smiled at me, pa rum pum pum pum
Me and my drum.
Eat These Snowballs
29 Nov 2010 6 Comments
in Bake, Cookie, Dessert, Food, Gourmet, Greek Dishes, Holiday, Sweet Tags: Christmas, Cookie, greek cookies, Greek dessert, Greek food, greek pastries, kourambiedes, Powdered sugar, Shortbread
Every holiday season the kitchen begins to resemble a powdery blizzard of flour and sugar slightly dusting the counters and floors with its snow like velvetiness. A reminder of what is soon to come with winter’s wonderland, I begin my Christmas season making several batches of all my favorite holiday cookies, and Kourambiedes are at the top of the list.
Greek Holiday Cookies
These delicious crumbly short bread cookies, covered in a gluttonous amount of white powdered sugar have me reminiscing of childhood Christmas’s visiting relatives, sleigh rides and snowball fights.
Let it Snow...
Some things will never change!
These scrumptious treats are a traditional Greek holiday cookie and I’m sending them from our table to yours to enjoy this holiday season!
Καλά Χριστούγεννα
Merry Christmas!
Kourambiedes
Kourambiedes
Here’s what you’ll need… 2 – 9 x 11 Cookie sheets, Flour Sifter, Oven Temp: 350 degrees, Bake time: 25 minutes. This recipe makes approximately 25 cookies.
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees
Cookie Dough:
1 – 1 Lbs. Unsalted Sweet Cream Butter
4 – Cups Flour
½ – Cup Powdered Sugar
1 – Teaspoon Baking Powder
2 – Egg Yolks
Topping:
2 Cups Powdered Sugar
Allow butter to reach room temperature. Beat the butter and powdered sugar in a stand mixer for 15 minutes, until white peaks are reached.
Butter Sugar Whipping
Slowly add egg yolks one at a time to butter mixture beating for five minutes. Combine baking powder and flour mix well, then add to mixture one cup at a time mixing well in between each cup.
Cooling
Form round disc shape and place on greased cookie sheet. Bake cookies for 20 to 25 minutes or until a golden color. Remove from oven and let cool for one hour. Once cooled use flour shifter to drench cookies with powdered sugar until overflowing.
Kourambiedes Sugared Up
