Menu du jour christmas entertaining : 33 Recipes


  • Recipe Easy Cooking for Effortless entertaining Part 2
    Easy Cooking for Effortless entertaining Part 2
    It is Christmas Holidays and it is definitely crazy season too!!! I see more and more people in the shopping malls, frantically planning and buying to make this Christmas season more special than the previous one. The reality however is, that[...]
  • Recipe Easy Cooking for  Effortless Entertaining Part 1 - Starters/Snacks
    Easy Cooking for Effortless Entertaining Part 1 - Starters/Snacks
    With Thanksgiving behind us an Christmas on its way, I find myself always on the lookout for easy recipes and ideas to make entertaining fuss-free and without much effort. I heard someone say the other day that her family spends the Christmas[...]
  • Recipe Easy cooking for effortless entertaining Part 1 -  Chicken Liver Pate
    Easy cooking for effortless entertaining Part 1 - Chicken Liver Pate
    Chicken Livers....you either love it or you don't. Some people, like me, would sneak into the kitchen at night and eat the Chicken Liver Pate in spoonfuls from the fridge and others are appalled by the idea of eating offal. I suggest you give[...]
  • Recipe Easy cooking for effortless entertaining Part 1 / Smoked oysters  smothered in Cheese!
    Easy cooking for effortless entertaining Part 1 / Smoked oysters smothered in Cheese!
    Today I share with you the second last post of Part 1/Snacks or Starters. What is amazing about these delicious little bites is that you can prepare the different elements of this dish before the time and when your guests arrive, just pop them[...]
  • Recipe Christmas Candy #4 - Buckeyes
    Christmas Candy #4 - Buckeyes
    Buckeyes , aka Peanut Butter Balls are the fourth candy recipe from A Couple in the Christmas Candy Kitchen . They are known as "buckeyes" because when finished, they resemble the nut of a buckeye tree . We love this recipe because[...]
  • Recipe Christmas Candy #6 - Earl Grey Truffles
    Christmas Candy #6 - Earl Grey Truffles
    Truffles: the ultimate chocolate treat.  A Couple in the Christmas Candy Kitchen  had to make truffles, and since we love the idea of cooking with tea and have many tea aficionados in our lives, we created the Earl Grey Truffle[...]
  • Recipe Christmas Candy #7 - Snickers Bar Fudge
    Christmas Candy #7 - Snickers Bar Fudge
    Besides truffles, fudge is another "must do" Christmas candy. A Couple in the Christmas Candy Kitchen found a recipe for "candy bar fudge," made with Snickers Bars . We made a couple of minor adaptations and were quite pleased[...]
  • Recipe Pulled Pork and Pasta, Christmas Craziness Round One
    Pulled Pork and Pasta, Christmas Craziness Round One
    This year I simply could not get into holiday mode. In fact, I did not even trim the tree until last week. Once the tree was trimmed and lit, my vision of sugarplums arrived? along with the realization that there was less than two weeks until[...]
  • Recipe Christmas Candy #5 - Chocolate-Dipped Fleur de Sel Caramels
    Christmas Candy #5 - Chocolate-Dipped Fleur de Sel Caramels
    Wondering what to do with the leftover chocolate you had after making those Buckeyes? Can't let good chocolate go to waste! Our suggestion is the latest in A Couple in the Christmas Candy Kitchen's holiday recipes. However, #5 isn't a recipe[...]
  • Recipe Yule Log
    Yule Log
    I hope you all had a lovely Christmas or whatever holiday you celebrated. I thought I would share a photo from ours. My dad made this yule log for Christmas dinner. He says he made it once 30 years ago, but I don’t remember it. I think it[...]