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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

12 Days of Christmas: Day 9 - Favorite Holiday Recipe


Favorite Recipe

I have a major sweet tooth. Chocolate always seems to do the trick for me. Every year I have to have these:

Ting-A-Lings
Ingredients
2 cup(s) semi-sweet chocolate bits
1 cup(s) salted peanuts
2 cup(s) chun king chow mein noodles
Directions
Melt chocolate & pour over peanuts & noodles.
Stir to mix; drop by spoon onto waxed paper to harden.

I know they don't look pretty but they are delicious!


My family always has a big meal but we also love to just snack while we watch Christmas movies or while we are playing games. So my snacky food that I have to have is :

Dried Beef Log
Ingredients
16 ounces dried beef, finely diced
16 ounces cream cheese, softened
½ cup sour cream
2 or 3 green onions, with some of the green, very thinly sliced
1 tablespoon worchestershire sauce
Directions
Cream together all dip ingredients until well blended together.
Form into a log
Cover and chill
Serve with assorted crackers

I couldn't find a picture of it in log form. But you can always use it as a spread too just like on the right of this picture.

What are your must have recipes?


8 comments:

  1. Mmmm! My family makes chinese christmas cookies (what we call them ;-)) for the holidays too! I haven't had them in ages... but maybe this is the year when I make them again. YUM!

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  2. I've never heard of either of these. Thanks for the recipes!

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  3. They both look DELISH!

    Thanks for linking up :)

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  4. We call them Haystacks and use butterscotch instead of chocolate! They are my favorite! (the chocolate looks delish though!!!)

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  5. mmm that chocolate goodness looks so yummy!

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  6. We make tin lings too! But we call them Chow Mein Noodle cookies.. so effin good!!!!

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  7. MMMMM...OK that looks so good! :-)

    CHOCOLATE CHIP CHEESE BALL
    1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
    1/2 cup butter, softened
    3/4 cup confectioners' sugar
    2 tablespoons brown sugar
    1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
    3/4 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
    3/4 cup finely chopped pecans
    DIRECTIONS

    In a medium bowl, beat together cream cheese and butter until smooth. Mix in confectioners' sugar, brown sugar and vanilla. Stir in chocolate chips. Cover, and chill in the refrigerator for 2 hours.

    Shape chilled cream cheese mixture into a ball. Wrap with plastic, and chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour.

    Roll the cheese ball in finely chopped pecans before serving. But it can be hard to form a ball so I skipped the nuts and just put the mixture in a bowl.

    SO GOOD!

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  8. We make both of these at Christmas too! I LOVE them both :)

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