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Rosemary Cheddar Popovers

December 17, 2013 By Talya Tate Boerner

This post is sponsored by Great Day Farms. Comments and opinions are my own.

Popovers are a bit more fancy than the regular dinner roll and will make a festive addition to your holiday menu. These rosemary cheddar cheese popovers are crusty on the outside and light on the inside—perfect with Christmas beef tenderloin.

If you’d like to check out this recipe, head over to Great Day Farms for all the details. Click HERE and I’ll meet you there.

only a few basic ingredients needed…

talya

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Chocolate Covered Cherry Christmas Mice

December 6, 2013 By Talya Tate Boerner

I’ve been making these chocolate covered cherry Christmas mice several years now. They are fun to make and always a big hit at every holiday gathering.

Ingredients (makes 18-24)

8 oz Melting Chocolate (I used Ghirardelli semi-sweet)
1 medium jar Maraschino Cherries with stems
Mini Chocolate Chips
Hershey’s Kisses
Wax Paper
Red Gel Icing

Method

Melt chocolate in microwave or in double boiler.

Dip cherry in melted chocolate and press against the bottom of a Hershey’s kiss. The melted hot chocolate will stick to the kiss.

Place on wax paper. While still hot, add two mini chocolate chips on the seam between the kiss and cherry, pressing the chips into the melted chocolate. These are the mice ears.

Let dry on wax paper. (Yes, I used parchment paper coated in Pam because I was out of wax paper…)

Add a tiny dab of red gel icing to the tip of the kiss for the mouse nose.

You can trim the “tails”. Or not.

Store in an airtight container or in the refrigerator.

Aren’t they adorable?!

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Farm. Food. Garden. Life.

…”Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.” – Twas the Night Before Christmas

Not Your Momma’s Cranberry Sauce

November 22, 2012 By Talya Tate Boerner

Momma loves the cranberry sauce that slithers out of the can with a vile sucking sound. The can leaves imprinted rings around the jelly providing an easy slicing guide. Momma has learned to show up for Thanksgiving with her own sad can, in case we accidentally forget.

If you prefer a quick, more flavorful cranberry sauce, this is an easy recipe you can whip up in the time it takes to slide that jellied concoction on to a dish…

Easy Cranberry Sauce

One bag fresh cranberries (12 oz)

3/4 cup orange juice

2/3 cup brown sugar

1/3 cup granulated sugar

2 oz rum

Dump all the ingredients in a saucepan, stir on medium-high until most of the liquid cooks off – about 20 minutes. The cranberries will split and pop open. Can be prepared in advanced and stored in the fridge for 2-3 days.