What You'll Need
3/4 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup dark molasses
1 egg
2 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp cloves
1/2 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp salt

What To Do
Cream together shortening and sugar. Add molasses and egg and beat well. Stir together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, and salt. Add to first mixture. Mix well. Chill dough and form into 1" balls. Roll balls in sugar. Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes. Enjoy!

What You'll Need
1 can artichoke hearts
1 can green chili peppers
1 cup Hellmann's Mayonnaise
1 cup parmesan cheese

What To Do
Mix together. Put in a baking dish and heat for 30 minutes at 350 degrees until golden and bubbly. Tastes best with crusty French bread or Triscuits.

What You'll Need
3 pkgs 3 oz cherry jello (sugar free)
1 15 oz can drained crushed pineapple
1 1/2 cups pineapple juice drained from can of crushed pineapple
1 1/8 cups hot water
1 10 oz can mandarin oranges drained
3 15 oz cans whole berry cranberry sauce
4 to 8 oz chopped walnuts according to taste

What To Do
Make jello with hot water and pineapple juice. Add the cranberry sauce, crushed pineapple, mandarin oranges, and walnuts. Mix all together. Spray the mold with Pam to prevent sticking. Pour mixture into mold and chill. Enjoy!

What You'll Need
1 pound of large shrimp (peeled and deveined)
3 heads of broccoli (cut into pieces about the size of the shrimp)
2 cloves of garlic
3/4 cup of olive oil
1/2 cup of white wine
1 box of your favorite ziti (any size)

What To Do
In a large saucepan, sauté the crushed and pressed cloves of garlic with the olive oil.
Add the broccoli (already washed) and sauté for about 10 min. Keep stirring it around.
Add the wine and continue stirring. Meanwhile, boil water for the pasta and cook the pasta (Al Dente - to the tooth) or all mushy like glue if you prefer. When the pasta is drained, put it into the saucepan with the broccoli. Keep stirring. Otherwise the pasta and broccoli with burn and stick to the pan. Add a splash more of olive oil as needed. The broccoli should be soft enough to easily push a fork through it. Add the shrimp to the mix and keep stirring until the shrimp is cooked (red and curved). Remove from heat (otherwise the shrimp will continue to cook and become a bit tough) and serve. Salt to taste. (It will need some to bring out the flavor)

Serve with white wine. And don't plan on kissing anyone unless they have eaten the garlic as well!

What To Do
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line three 9x13 inch baking pans with parchment paper. In a large bowl, break apart almond paste with a fork, and cream together with butter, sugar, and egg yolks. When mixture is fluffy and smooth, stir in flour to form a dough. In a small bowl, beat egg whites until soft peaks form. Fold egg whites into the dough. Divide dough into 3 equal portions. Mix one portion with red food coloring, and one with green food coloring. Spread each portion into one of the prepared baking pans. Bake 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven, until lightly browned. Carefully remove from pan and parchment paper, and cool completely on wire racks. Place green layer onto a piece of plastic wrap large enough to wrap all three layers. Spread green layer with raspberry jam, and top with uncolored layer. Spread with apricot jam, and top with pink layer. Transfer layers to a baking sheet, and enclose with plastic wrap. Place a heavy pan or cutting board on top of wrapped layers to compress. Chill in the refrigerator 8 hours, or overnight. Remove plastic wrap. Top with melted chocolate chips, and refrigerate 1 hour, or until chocolate is firm. Slice into small squares. Enjoy!

What You'll Need
2 egg whites
1/8 tsp salt
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups of packed, flaked coconut
Candied cherries

What To Do
Grease and flour cookie sheet. Beat egg whites until foamy, Add salt and beat until soft peaks form. Add sugar 1 tbsp at a time. Continue to beat until very stiff. Fold in the extract and coconut until well blended. Put rounded teaspoons of batter on the baking sheet and top with a cherry. Bake at 300 degrees for 20 minutes. Cool. Enjoy!

What You'll Need
1 cup butter
3/4 cup powdered sugar divided
2 1/4 cups flour
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla extract
2/3 cup chopped pecans

What To Do
Cream together butter and ½ cup powdered sugar. In a separate bowl, sift together flour and salt and add to the creamed mixture together with vanilla and pecans. Shape into balls. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. Roll while hot in ¼ cup remaining powdered sugar. Cool and roll again. Use more powdered sugar if desired. Enjoy!

What To Do
Sift together flour, 1 cup of sugar, cocoa, baking soda, ½ tsp salt. To this mixture add water, oil, white vinegar and vanilla and mix well with the dry ingredients. In a separate bowl, cream together cream cheese, egg, 1/3 cup sugar and 1/8 tsp of salt. Fold in chocolate chips. Fill the cups about ½ full with the cocoa mixture. Then add the cream cheese mixture until baking cup is ¾ full. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes. Cool. Enjoy!

What To Do
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. In shallow bowl, combine pecans, bread crumbs, paprika, salt, pepper. Mix mayonnaise and honey in separate bowl. Cover chicken with honey mixture. Coat in pecan/bread crumb mixture. Bake for 10 minutes. Turn over and bake for an additional 12 minutes or until chicken is tender and cooked through. NOTE — watch chicken very closely — pecans tend to burn fast (if nuts start to get too brown, put foil on top and reduce heat to 350 degrees). Serve warm with honey mustard or dipping sauce of choice. Enjoy!

What To Do
Cut (or have the butcher do it) uncooked meat into slices 1/8 to 1/4 inch thick. Pound to flatten. Spread mustard over each slice. Salt and pepper to taste. Finely dice the onion, bacon and pickles and pile them on each slice of meat. Roll them up and secure them with toothpicks. Heat oil in frying pan. Brown the rolls of meat. Place them in a baking pan. Make gravy from the drippings and pour over the meat. Bake at 350 degrees for two hours. Serve over spaetzle or thick egg noodles. Red cabbage makes a great side dish.

What To Do
Sprinkle the beef cubes with salt and pepper. Melt half the butter in a large dutch oven. Add beef cubes a few at a time and brown thoroughly. Add diced carrots and onions and brown them with the meat. Mix in the flour, garlic, thyme, bay leaves and ¼ cup parsley. Add wine and bouillon and stir well. The meat should be covered with the liquid. If not, add more wine and bouillon. Cover and simmer for 1½ hours or until meat is tender. Meanwhile, brown the small onions and carrots in the remaining ¼ cup of butter. Remove from the pan and sauté the mushrooms. Add the carrots and onions to the meat and cook for 20 minutes longer. Then add the mushrooms and cook an additional 15 minutes or until the vegetables are done. Just before serving, stir in the brandy and the remaining ¼ cup of parsley. Serve with your favorite noodles. Great holiday buffet dish!