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USCHO Cooks: Maybe We Can Beat Bobby Flay

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For Christmas, I think I'll do ham in Coca-Cola or Vernors ginger ale, mashed sweet potatoes, a vegetable, some bread, and a dessert.

For gifts, this is what I plan on doing:

-Chocolate fudge
-Peanut butter fudge
-Chocolate toffee no bake cookies
-Peanut brittle
-Cashew brittle
-Maple Pecan pralines
-Cranberry bread
-Chocolate no bake cookies
-White chocolate pistachio bark
-Peppermint bark

And some other stuff.
 
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2016 has been a pretty crappy year by most standards, but there appears to be hope on the horizon.

Alton Brown quit Cutthroat Kitchen, is rebooting Good Eats, and is rebooting Iron Chef America as the Chairman.
 
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I would love to see Chef Faulkner. Food network ****ed it up big time by screwing her over twice.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
2016 has been a pretty crappy year by most standards, but there appears to be hope on the horizon.

Alton Brown quit Cutthroat Kitchen, is rebooting Good Eats, and is rebooting Iron Chef America as the Chairman.
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Bummer. I love Cutthroat Kitchen. Iron Chef will never equal the Japanese version. That was a perfect program made by culture that made winning and losing real. Our cat is named Chen and my fantasy football team is named Gridiron Chefs. Allez Cuisine!

I miss Sweet Genius. Ron Ben-Israel was ideal in his role.
 
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I miss the best thing I ever made and Tyler's ultimate.

I have most of TBTIEM on DVR and 14 episodes of TU.

I plan on pulling them off my DVR during Christmas vacation.
 
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My hot buttered rum cutout cookies are very pretty, but it's going to be another 10 years before I make cutouts again. What a pain in the ***. Funny how it's not a pain in the *** to bake 1500 cookies and 22 different kinds... but those cutouts.. ugh. The zimsterne were also cutouts, but the dough was much easier to work with (almond meal - not flour).

Almost done. Just have the buttercrunch left. I added triple chocolate hazelnut to the list, since I had extra hazelnuts. I'm still deciding what to do with a bag of Andes' baking chips, and a bag of "salted caramel crunch".
 
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Hosting a family get together tomorrow for 12 -

Pan Seared Pork Medallions
Spinach and Fontina Lasagna
Potatoes Au Gratin
Carrot Souffle
Green beans with almonds
Brioche Rolls
Chocolate Feather Bed
Mixed Berry Pie

Slightly concerned about the pork, as I haven't made anything like that before. And the chocolate feather bed recipe is really, really long, but I'm doing the desserts and lasagna today, so I should have plenty of time.
 
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leswp1 said:
Carrot souffle?
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<a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/carrot-souffle-recipe.html">Carrot souffle</a>. I followed some recommendations and cut the butter and sugar in half. Still delicious, and easy to make. Been obsessed with it since I had it at the Busy Bee Cafe in Atlanta last year. Best thing I ate on the trip (not this recipe, though).
 
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jen said:
<a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/carrot-souffle-recipe.html">Carrot souffle</a>. I followed some recommendations and cut the butter and sugar in half. Still delicious, and easy to make. Been obsessed with it since I had it at the Busy Bee Cafe in Atlanta last year. Best thing I ate on the trip (not this recipe, though).
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Thanks!

edit- holy crap that is a lot of butter!
 
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jen said:
Hosting a family get together tomorrow for 12 -

Slightly concerned about the pork, as I haven't made anything like that before. And the chocolate feather bed recipe is really, really long, but I'm doing the desserts and lasagna today, so I should have plenty of time.
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Lots of compliments on the pork (I thought it was just OK) and the desserts. Chocolate Feather Bed turned out great - very rich, though. Basically four layer sponge cake with whipped ganache between layers.

And the cookies are finally done. Baked two kinds tonight (just from the recipes on the green and red Andes' chips bags). Final count: 1774, 24 different kinds. 50% given to friends and family, 44% donated to charity... the rest go to my family's Christmas (and usually there's so many left over, they get taken to my sister-in-law's family as well). And, um, some get broken and they need to be........ disposed of. :) No cookie baking for awhile. And no cutouts for 10 years. Minimum.
 
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jen said:
Lots of compliments on the pork (I thought it was just OK) and the desserts. Chocolate Feather Bed turned out great - very rich, though. Basically four layer sponge cake with whipped ganache between layers.

And the cookies are finally done. Baked two kinds tonight (just from the recipes on the green and red Andes' chips bags). Final count: 1774, 24 different kinds. 50% given to friends and family, 44% donated to charity... the rest go to my family's Christmas (and usually there's so many left over, they get taken to my sister-in-law's family as well). And, um, some get broken and they need to be........ disposed of. :) No cookie baking for awhile. And no cutouts for 10 years. Minimum.
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We used to do sugar cutouts every year, with icing & decorations. Sadly, that stopped once I left for college in 2005. I wonder why. :D
 
jen said:
Lots of compliments on the pork (I thought it was just OK) and the desserts. Chocolate Feather Bed turned out great - very rich, though. Basically four layer sponge cake with whipped ganache between layers.

And the cookies are finally done. Baked two kinds tonight (just from the recipes on the green and red Andes' chips bags). Final count: 1774, 24 different kinds. 50% given to friends and family, 44% donated to charity... the rest go to my family's Christmas (and usually there's so many left over, they get taken to my sister-in-law's family as well). And, um, some get broken and they need to be........ disposed of. :) No cookie baking for awhile. And no cutouts for 10 years. Minimum.
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Reminds me of my house as a kid. My mom made cookies for weeks. Dozens of shortbread all hand decorated with green food coloring in the shape of Christmas trees. I can't remember all the kinds but I remember my favorites. She also made stolen which got better as I got older. Acquired taste I guess.
 
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I still have some crystallized ginger and some paper baking pans to use - probably gingerbread and brownies.

walrus said:
Reminds me of my house as a kid. My mom made cookies for weeks. Dozens of shortbread all hand decorated with green food coloring in the shape of Christmas trees. I can't remember all the kinds but I remember my favorites. She also made stolen which got better as I got older. Acquired taste I guess.
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I've debated making stollen, but it seems very divisive. And all the reportedly "good" recipes I've seen use almond paste, which I hate.

FadeToBlack&Gold said:
We used to do sugar cutouts every year, with icing & decorations. Sadly, that stopped once I left for college in 2005. I wonder why. :D
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My aunt and uncle do cutouts every year. The buttered rum cookies were delicious (I used butter rum extract instead of rum), but I don't have the patience to spend so much time on one thing when I'm making 24 different kinds, and they don't survive transport very well (I don't do sandwich cookies or anything with soft frosting on it, either). I made two snowmen before I realized the little scarf was going to snap off the second it got packaged. All the pretty pictures of intricately decorated Christmas cookies are not how mine ever turn out. I threw some gold and silver glitter stars on the frosting, and called them decorated.
 
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Haven't started making cookies yet for myself. Latest I have ever started.
 
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