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1000+ bilder om Christmas på Pinterest. Simple Homemade Marshmallow Recipe. Welcome!

Simple Homemade Marshmallow Recipe

Come join us as we find beauty amidst the bedlam of everyday life. Inspiration and encouragement for meal time, finances, home life, DIY and more. If you're new, you may like to subscribe for free updates. Subscribe via email to have new posts delivered directly to your inbox by email. Thanks for visiting. Everyone needs to try their hand at Homemade Marshmallows at least once because the end result is just SO MUCH FUN! Last Minute Gift Idea: Boozy Macerated Dried Fruit. This incredibly simple recipe makes a perfect holiday gift.

Last Minute Gift Idea: Boozy Macerated Dried Fruit

But if you find you can’t bear to share, you can simply make some up for yourself and hoard it while you’re home on vacation. The macerated fruit will be best after about a week (or maybe more), but make sure not to forget about it in the back of your cupboard! The dried fruit and alcoholic syrup can be enjoyed mixed with mascarpone cheese or over ice cream, served with cheese or roasted meats, or drizzled over plain or spiced cakes. Make sure to use unsweetened, unsulphured dried fruit. Last minute Christmas gifts – Manderol jelly & some free gift tags. December 23rd, 2010 How is everyone doing on the Christmas gifts front?

Last minute Christmas gifts – Manderol jelly & some free gift tags

Wrong question? I so hear you, I’m terrible this year. My timing sucks, I’m still waiting for a few online orders to arrive and have almost lost hope, that they will be here on time (keep your fingers crossed for me, please do!). Here is my backup plan: Since I love to give away homemade goodies, not all is lost and I’ll throw in an extra kitchen shift involving chocolate truffles and chutney, just in case… DIY Infused Olive Oils. Your information will *never* be shared or sold to a 3rd party.

DIY Infused Olive Oils

DIY Christmas Series-30 days of DIY. It’s that time of year again!

DIY Christmas Series-30 days of DIY

Depending on where you live, you’ll be enjoying the warmth of a crackling fire, sipping hot cocoa and trying to stay warm for the next of 5-6 months! Christmas Carols will be blasting again in our house this year, especially while decorating for this wonderful holiday. For many, the holidays can be stressful, gifts to buy for family, gift exchanges at work and trying to find something for those close friends. Myself, along with a host of other blogs are bringing to you, 30 Days of DIY Christmas gift ideas! Each day a new blog will post about a fabulous gift idea, from food to crafts, there is sure to be something for everyone. Homemade Extracts. Hi guys!

Homemade Extracts

As you can probably tell Jenny and I are way into Christmas and love giving homemade gifts as presents. We already shared with you a cute wrapping situation for one of our banana bread recipes, and today we thought we would do homemade extracts. We are giving you recipes for five different kinds: lemon, grapefruit, vanilla, cinnamon, and orange. So you can either made all five, or pick you favorite and go with it. Extracts are really easy to make, the only thing you really need to give it is time, these extracts take about two weeks to make. Homemade Extracts Makes 1 cup each extract Ingredients:cinnamon extract:1 cup brandy4 cinnamon sticksvanilla extract:1 cup brandy3 vanilla beans, split with the “caviar” scraped outorange extract:1 cup high quality vodkapeel of 5 oranges, ALL pith removedlemon extract:1 cup high quality vodkapeel of 5 lemons, ALL pith removedgrapefruit extract:1 cup high quality vodkapeel of 3 ruby red grapefruits, ALL pith removed Directions: 1. 1. 2. 3.

Layered Grapes and Bread with Chèvre and Balsamic Recipe on Food52. Cooking is more fun with friends.

Layered Grapes and Bread with Chèvre and Balsamic Recipe on Food52

Find your friends who are already on Food52, and invite others who aren't to join. Let's GoLearn more Join Our Community Follow amazing home cooks. Collect recipes and articles. Sign Up ♥ 11 + Save ▴ How to Make Italian Christmas Fig Cookies. This is one of those recipes that changes in form and flavor with the whims of the hands that make it.

How to Make Italian Christmas Fig Cookies

It's a recipe that's made with several generations in the kitchen at once, mixing, rolling, and shaping together. It's also a recipe associated entirely with Christmas—and like other recipes that fall under that category, the first bite or whiff of the cookies' aroma is sure to bring on waves of nostalgia. Known as cucciddati or cucidati in the Sicilian dialect, buccellati are Sicily's best-known Christmas cookie.

A thin pastry wrapped around a filling of dried figs and nuts, they are reminiscent of fig cookies, but better—and prettier. Vanilla Rooibos Tea Cookies recipe on Food52.com. Cooking is more fun with friends.

Vanilla Rooibos Tea Cookies recipe on Food52.com

Find your friends who are already on Food52, and invite others who aren't to join. Let's GoLearn more Join Our Community Follow amazing home cooks. Collect recipes and articles. Everyone's Favorite White Cookies recipe on Food52.com. Cooking is more fun with friends.

Everyone's Favorite White Cookies recipe on Food52.com

Aunt Clara's Anise Seed Cookies recipe on Food52.com. Swedish Rye Cookies recipe on Food52.com. Mrs. Wheelbarrow's Rugelach recipe on Food52.com. Cooking is more fun with friends. Macadamia & cranberry American cookies. Camembert med aprikos- og rosinkompott. Canal House Peach Jam Recipe. Mango chutney. Varm chevre med honning. Curry and Cardamom Cookies Recipe. Gorgonzola Cheesecake with Vanilla Pear Compote. I recently came across the idea of a savoury blue cheese cheesecake in an issue of Food & Drink magazine and I was immediately taken by the idea! I am a huge fan of cheesecake and I had never even thought about trying a savoury cheesecake let alone one made with a blue cheese!

It sounded so amazingly good that I had to try it.