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AROUND THE KITCHEN TABLE
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The Spice For This Issue
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Welcome to another issue of Around the Kitchen Table! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving with turkey, pumpkin pie, and all the trimmings! This will be the only issue of Around the Kitchen Table for December. I know you are busy with holiday shopping, baking, and decorating! Christmas is on a Tuesday this year so if you'd like your Watkins order to arrive before the holiday it should be placed by Wednesday, December 13th. Many thanks to Lilly from Pennsylvania for sending in a bunch of bread and muffin recipes from the Christmas web site www.northpole.com. Santa and Mrs. Claus and the elves are preparing for Christmas with all kinds of recipes and activities. This is the same site Audrey referred us to for cookie recipes last month. Carol from Ohio has also been contributing her favorite recipes. Thanks gals for helping make this newsletter a success! Our 2007 Holiday Gifts and Entertaining Products are now available at our online catalog. Some of the new products include Holiday Sprinkles Set, Baked Potato Soup Mix, Snowflake Cookie Cutters, Mini Shower and Travel Kit, Mini Moisturizer Kit, Head to Toe Starter Kit, Roasted Garlic Snack and Dip Mix, and Country Gravy Mix. You'll find them under Gifts - 2007 Gifts and Entertaining. Recipes this issue include Spinach Dip with Artichokes, Chicken Florentine Casserole, Hash Brown Potato Casserole, Chocolate Hazelnut Biscotti, Eggnog Trifle, Lime Meltaways, Butterscotch Blondies, and Honey Bun Cake. If you are interested in starting your own Watkins Home Business get all the details at: Watkins Business Details Join for the discount, for part time income, or a full time career! Build your own home business so you can stay home with your family, save for your children's college fund, retire early, pay off bills, or save for retirement. With consistent effort you can build a thriving business! Let me help you.
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Christmas is forever, not for just one day,for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf. The good you do for others is good you do yourself. ~Norman Wesley Brooks, "Let Every Day Be Christmas," 1976
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May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace,The gladness of Christmas give you hope, The warmth of Christmas grant you love. ~Author Unknown
ENTER DECEMBER CONTEST Thanks for reading my newsletter and entering each month. Please don't quit; you might be next month's winner!
Audrey from Idaho is November's newsletter contest winner. She wins a Head to Toe Starter Kit from our 2007 Holiday Gift Line.This kit is filled to the brim with eight favorites to get a robust sampling of our line of natural-based personal care. You're covered head to toe! Perfect for travel or gift giving.
December's newsletter contest winner will receive a jar of Menthol Camphor Ointment. This cooling, soothing product has been making people feel better for more than 85 years. It helps relieve that stuffed-up, congested feeling of a chest cold and suppress the accompanying cough. Also provides temporary relief from aching muscles as well as sunburn, windburn and minor burns and scalds. To enter December's contest answer this question. If you were given a free hand to remodel or update and refresh one room in your house, which room would you choose and how would you change it? Email your answer with your name and address to eleisiawhitney@watkinsonline.com with "December Contest - Room Remodel" in the subject line. Make your life the best it can be. Eat nutritious foods, exercise, love, and laugh!
What is Christmas?It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace. Agnes M. Pharo
How To Toast Nuts
Spinach Dip with Artichokes - 50% Less Fat
4 cups fresh spinach leaves, slightly packed (4 oz)
A 9-oz box of frozen spinach can be used in place of the fresh spinach. Cook as directed on box and drain well, pressing spinach with paper towels to remove excess liquid. Chicken Florentine Casserole Pounded skinless, boneless chicken breast halves are layered in a baking dish with basil-seasoned cooked pasta shells, thawed spinach, cottage cheese, shredded Italian-blend cheese, and prepared alfredo sauce.
2 to 3 lbs. skinless boneless chicken breast halves Preheat oven to 350. Cover chicken with plastic wrap and pound with a meat mallet to about half the original thickness. Toss cooked pasta shells with the olive oil, garlic granules, and one teaspoon of the basil. Spread in a 9x13" dish or pan. Using half of the chicken, place evenly over the pasta. Spread cottage cheese over chicken, then the spinach. Sprinkle half of the shredded Italian cheese, then half of the alfredo sauce, and the rest of the basil. Place the remaining chicken on top, then pour over the rest of the alfredo sauce. Sprinkle with the rest of the shredded Italian cheese, and bake for 45 minutes. Serves 6.
Hash Brown Potato Casserole
2 lb. hash browns (frozen) Mix potatoes, margarine, onion, soup, sour cream, cheese, salt, and pepper. Place in 9 x 13 inch pan (may butter if you wish). Mix corn flakes and margarine (add garlic to taste, if desired) and spread over top of potatoes. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour. Can be baked at lower temperature for longer time, i.e. 300 degrees for 2 hours.
Chocolate Hazelnut Biscotti
4 ounces (125 grams) semisweet or bittersweet chocolate, chopped fine Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C). To toast hazelnuts spread on a baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes or until lightly browned and the skins begin to flake. Remove from the oven and place nuts in a dish towel. Roll up the towel and let the nuts steam for 5 minutes and then briskly rub the towel (with nuts inside) to remove the skins from the nuts. Cool and then chop coarsely. Set aside while you prepare the dough. Reduce temperature of oven to 300 degree F (150 degrees C). Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper. Mix finely chopped chocolate and brown sugar; set aside. Sift or whisk together the flour, cocoa, espresso powder, baking soda and salt into a bowl; set aside. In the bowl of your electric mixer combine the eggs and vanilla and hazelnut extracts and beat to blend, about 30 seconds. On low speed mix in the chocolate/sugar and flour mixtures until a stiff dough forms, adding the hazelnuts about half way through mixing. On a floured surface divide the dough in half. Form each half into a log 12 inches (30 cm) long. Do this by rolling the dough back and forth into a cylinder shape with floured hands. Transfer the logs to the baking sheet, spacing them well apart (width-wise on the pan), and pat to even the shapes. Bake until almost firm to the touch, about 35 - 40 minutes (logs will spread during baking). Remove from the oven, place on wire rack, and let cool for 10 minutes. Using a long spatula transfer the logs to a cutting board. Using a serrated knife cut the dough into slices 3/4 inch (2 cm) thick on the diagonal. Arrange the slices cut-side down on the baking sheet. Bake 15 minutes. Turn the slices over and bake until crisp and dry, about 15 minutes longer. Remove from oven and let cool on wire rack.
Gfit suggestion
Eggnog Trifle
1 1/4 cups cold fat free milk Pour cold milk into large bowl. Add pudding mix, 2 tablespoons of the orange juice and nutmeg. Beat with wire whisk 1 minute. Gently stir in whipped topping. Slice cake horizontally into 4 layers. Sprinkle cake layers evenly with remaining 2 tablespoons orange juice. Cut into 1-inch cubes. Place 1/2 of the cake cubes in bottom of 2 1/2-quart straight-sided bowl. Spoon 1/2 of the whipped topping mixture over cake cubes. Top with strawberries and almonds, reserving several for garnish, if desired. Layer remaining cake cubes and whipped topping mixture over strawberries. Top with reserved strawberries and almonds. Refrigerate until ready to serve. Store leftover dessert in refrigerator. Makes 10 servings. How To Toast Nuts - Spread in single layer on baking sheet. Bake at 350 degrees F for 5 to 7 minutes or until lightly toasted.
Lime Meltaways
12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
Butterscotch Blondies
Makes 9 large or 16 small squares Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a buttered 8-inch square baking pan with foil or parchment paper, allowing a 2-inch overhang. Butter lining (excluding overhang); set pan aside. Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl; set aside. Put butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment; mix on medium speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add eggs and vanilla; mix until combined. Reduce speed to low. Add flour mixture, and mix, scraping down sides of bowl, until well combined. Mix in butterscotch, cashews, and toffee. Pour batter into prepared pan; spread evenly with a rubber spatula. Bake until golden brown and a cake tester inserted into blondies (avoid center and edges) comes out with a few crumbs but is not wet, 42 to 45 minutes. Let cool slightly in pan, about 15 minutes. Lift out; let cool completely on a wire rack before cutting into squares. Blondies can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature up to 3 days. Makes 16 small squares
Honey Bun Cake In a large mixing bowl, combine dry cake mix, egg whites, sour cream and applesauce. Beat on low speed until moistened. Beat on medium for 2 minutes. Pour half into a greased 13-in. x 9-in. x 2-in. baking pan. Combine brown sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle over batter. Cover with remaining batter; cut through with a knife to swirl. Bake at 325 degrees F for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. For glaze, combine confectioners' sugar, milk and vanilla until smooth; drizzle over warm cake. Yield 20 servings.
The Dark-eyed Junco is a common bird at winter bird feeders across North America. Data from Project FeederWatch show that it is often the most common feeder bird in most areas.
It comes in several distinctly different looking forms, but all are readily identified as "juncos" by their plain patterning, dark hood, and white outer tail feathers.
Visit my birdwatching blog California Birdwatching for pictures of my backyard friends.
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