your "specialty" during the holidays...

Not this past Thanksgiving I made some of the most amazing mashed potatoes ever. There were none left. You premake them the day before, then the day of, you bake them. O-M-G. Everyone was raving about them. I also make a stellar broccoli casserole. I can't wait for Thanksgiving this year! I'm moving into a new house next week and cannot WAIT to utilize my big kitchen!!

Will you share the mashed potato recipe?

Our family is recipe is called Cranberry Yum-Yum. It's fresh cranberries and apples with marshmallow, cool whip and sugar. Yummy I have been eating since I could chew.

For Thanksgiving, it would be green bean casserole, mushroom bread stuffing, roasted garlic and parmersan whipped potatoes, and pumpkin mousse pie. Oh, I also make a killer pumpkin cheesecake trifle that literally takes five minutes to put together.


For Christmas, the first three Thanksgiving recipes, cherry apple pie, sugar cookie cutouts (with sanding sugar only), white chocolate chip chocolate cookies, mint fudge cookie balls, marbled peppermint bark, and a chocalate cheesecake trifle.

There's more, but I'm getting hungry just listing this stuff. And yes, every single item mentioned is asked for each year. My family is a bunch of greedy SOBs.

Please share your white choc chip chocolate cookie recipe and the trifle!

Trifle is top secret. (it's my mom's recipe...she'd cut me)


Buuuuuuuuttt the cookie recipe (which is far superior anyways) is from the back of the Nestle Tollhouse White baking chips bag.

pumpkin white chocolate cheesecake

homemade caramel brownies (yes homemade caramel and brownies)

Lemon cookies

Pumpkin caramel loaf (once again homemade caramel)


I am the dessert queen

I do a ton of cooking over the holidays-huge meals, desserts, treats etc.

It is a holiday requirement though that I always make pumpkin rolls and Green bean Bacon Wraps for any meal that I make or attend It's long stem canned Green Beans (like 3-4) wrapped in half a slice of bacon. Line up as many as you can fit on a cookie sheet. Melt a stick of butter, stir in a cup of brown sugar and a tsp of garlic powder. Pour that over the Beans and then bake around 400 until they start to get crispy. Soooooo good.

I'll have to make these. So 1/2 cup of butter. 1 cup brown sugar. 1 tsp garlic powder per 1 can of green beans? Or however many fit on the sheet?

Usually one package of bacon per 2-3 cans of green beans. It just depends on many beans you put in each wrap. Usually we use several packages of bacon and my SIL now cans whole green beans for me to use. We try to get as many on a cookie sheet as possible-but try to keep it to two cookie sheets of wraps. No matter how many we make per cookie sheet I just stick to the 1/2 cup butter, cup of brown sugar and tsp of garlic powder per cookie sheet. I hope that make sense. Oh and I just cut the entire package of bacon in half before I even open it. My kids love helping wrap them too--I guess because everyone loves them so much and the kids want some of the credit lol!

I make a mean chicken pot pie from scratch... but idk the recipe, I just play it by ear.
Also, my buffalo wings drive people crazy because I like it with an extra kick instead of focusing on the buttery flavor

I make insanely delicious apple pie and sweet potato pie, amazing baked man n cheese, and super yummy stuffing.


Year round I make hot spinach artichoke dip. It's divine and requested at every potluck. My mouth is watering thinking about it.

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Every year I make Nigella's coca cola ham - so so good and there would be a mutiny if I didn't bake a ham.

http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/ham-in-coca-cola-171 - except my ham is at least twice that size :happy:

I also make my grandma's trifle - I daren't even being to think how many calories are in this :noway: