Have you gotten all the supplies you need for your New Year’s meal yet? If not, you better grab them quick before they are sold out!
Here are a few of our favorite recipes for our traditional New Year’s Meal:
Brown Sugar & Honey Glazed Ham
What are your family’s favorite recipes for the New Year? Do you have any special traditions?
Here is another post we found about the luck associated with the traditional New Year’s Meal.
It’s been a little chilly here in Florida but I’m sure that it’s even chillier in other parts of the country right now. We have been told that this may be the coldest Christmas since the early 80s! Will we see any snow? That is the question on all the kiddos’ minds right now.
When it’s chilly outside we love to keep warm with some hot soups and such. Here are a few of our family favorites!
You can also check out some of our no-fuss crockpot meals for an easy dinner on cold days when you don’t feel like doing much.
What are your family’s go-to soups for this chilly season?
Are you tired of wasting your money on gifts that just aren’t appreciated? Or maybe you’ve noticed that your dollar just doesn’t stretch as far as it used to?
Well, here are a few gifts that are sure to be well-loved and appreciated!
These are always a hit around our home and everyone who gets any as gifts always ask for more!
Fudge — Always a Winner!
Continue reading “Made From Scratch Gifts”
It’s just about that time of year when I need to get started on my Christmas Fudge. I definitely need to get it made before the Polar Express Party so we can share it with our family and friends who may come to visit.
Here are the recipe links for the fudge flavors that we have made in the past:
The Milk Chocolate Fudge has several flavor variations to try.
Milk Chocolate Fudge (Christmas Fudge) — several flavor variations!
I am hoping to try a couple of new flavors this year… maybe even an egg nog flavor! It’s always fun trying out new flavors and sometimes we have great success while others are total flops but we have fun trying!
Here are some of the other candies that we make around this time of year as well:
Chocolate Covered Eggs (updated with more flavors!) (shape into balls for Christmas Candy)
Crockpot Chocolate Peanut Clusters aka Reindeer Poop
Haystacks aka Noodle Cookies (2 versions here)
We hope you find these recipes easy to use and we pray that you have a blessed holiday season!
Let us know in the comments what your favorite Christmas Candy is!
There’s nothing like snuggling up with a cup of hot cocoa after coming in from the cold… ok, ok, I know… it doesn’t really get that COLD here in Florida but I sure can remember some cold days from my
time further north and I still enjoy a nice cup of hot cocoa every now and then.
I can remember my mom making us a pot of cocoa on the old wood cookstove. We would sip as much as we could before we had to head out the door to catch the school bus… at one time we had to walk 1/2 mile uphill to get to the bus and in another place we lived it was an even further walk downhill… not much easier if the driveway was iced over.
Here are some of our All-Time Favorite cocoa recipes:
Hot Cocoa (Powdered)
Of course, you can always use the ready-made kind at the store too but there is just something a little extra special about whipping up some cocoa from scratch and the memories you make will be cherished for a lifetime!
You can also whip up some fresh cookies to go along with your cocoa for an extra special snack!
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