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Polar Express 2025

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We hope and pray you are all having a blessed holiday season. This post is a little later than I had wanted due to some computer glitches. Thankfully, the problem has been remedied, and I can share some of our Polar Express updates with you.

Once we got to St. Nicholas Day, we got the tree up… it is a little smaller and simpler than usual, but it works perfectly for us right now. Then it was time for us to focus on the upcoming Polar Express Party, our Bethlehem dinner, Christmas Eve dinner with our traditional eggnog making party, and then Christmas Dinner, and planning for our family that will be visiting.

We had our Polar Express Party on the 2nd Saturday of December, as this seems to work out best for most people. We did not have as many people as we had expected, but it was a lot of fun. This has been an annual tradition that we try to keep for our friends and family, and some were able to experience it for the first time this year.

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Our Top 10 Favorite Bacon Recipes

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Most people probably think of bacon as a Breakfast food, but we use bacon in so many ways!

Here are some of our favorite recipes:

Biscuits ‘N Gravy

Side Dish:

Bacon-Wrapped Asparagus printable recipe

Cheesey Potatoes

Land Your Man Beans

Pepper Poppers

Casseroles:

Chicken Bacon Ranch Casserole

Main Dishes:

Spinach and Bacon Smothered Chicken

Chicken Bacon Avocado Wraps

Bacon Wrapped Pork Tenderloin

Soups:

Loaded Potato Soup

Christmas Breads with Baking Timeline

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This has been one of our favorite Holiday Recipes for the past couple of years, and everyone looks forward to getting these as gifts. The cover photo is from last year, when we used Rosella Jam for the filling!

The recipe and instructions are very long and a little time-consuming, but you could also buy the premade crescent dough and use that in place of the sourdough. You would just use the filling of your choice, a glaze or icing, and then bake about 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.

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Easy Rosella Sauce

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We love Rosella here… it is known as the Florida Cranberry, and I love Cranberries, so this was a must for our garden. Rosella is a very pretty plant, and we use the leaves in some recipes, like Butternut Squash Medley, as well. We have been trying to use as many plants as we can from the garden, and this one gets used in so many ways. Mr. Awesome also wants to try some in our favorite cream cheese cookie recipe. I’m also going to try this in our Christmas Bread this year!

Last year, we made a bunch of Rosella Jam, and we still have plenty left, so this year we did something a little different. We have frozen several gallon bags of Rosella, dehydrated some of it for teas, and made some Rosella Sauce… it is so good! We served this at Thanksgiving, in place of the traditional cranberry sauce. I do want to try boiling some of our lemon grass to make a tea to try in place of the plain water for this recipe, but I keep forgetting.

This would probably also freeze really well and make a great gift! It can be used as a jelly or jam as well as an alternative to cranberry sauce.

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Molasses Cookies

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I forgot all about this recipe… I found it when I was looking for another recipe. It was scribbled on the back of a small note for something else, and I almost overlooked it. I do remember that these were so good that I asked for the recipe.

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