A crave-worthy salad made with 5 simple ingredients! This 5 Ingredient Christmas Salad is perfect for the holiday season (including potlucks!).
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After Eight Bundt Cake
An After Eight Bundt Cake with dark chocolate cake, peppermint buttercream, and a dark chocolate glaze.
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10 Best Make Ahead Holiday Appetizers
The 10 Best Make Ahead Holiday Appetizers are the perfect way to prepare for a holiday party without the stress! Some of these recipes can be made weeks in advance and parked in the freezer until you’re ready to reheat them or make others a few days ahead of time and let them sit in the fridge.
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Meyer Lemon and Rosemary Tom Collins
Meyer Lemon and Rosemary Tom Collins is a refreshing seasonal recipe that has a hint of rosemary and the bright taste of Meyer Lemon.
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Cranberry 75
My favourite pre-dinner cocktail has to be a French 75. I love the lemon flavours, the bitterness of the gin and of course, bubbles. Who can resist? Around the holidays I up the ante with infusing the drink with cranberry simple syrup for a festive spin on things. I almost always offer the simple syrup and gin at our annual holiday party so I can serve these Cranberry 75s on repeat for our guests.
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Holiday Rosemary Garlic Pork Roast
Christmas Day Dinner is possibly my favourite meal to plan and make every year. I love the elegant and grand feeling of it. The fact that family is all around and we’ll be up late chatting, eating, and sipping wine … perhaps a bit too much of all of those. 😉 Recent years and this year will have me serving a big roast on Christmas Day. I love turkey and ham, but I also make them frequently enough during the year that we don’t feel as though we’re missing out. A great way to create a show stopping centre piece for the main protein is to leave the bone-in. This Holiday Rosemary Garlic Pork Roast will wow guests with its crispy exterior and succulent interior. And you’ll be feeling grand from as little hands on work as possible!
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Eggnog Madeleines
Cookie Week is in full swing around here and I’m very excited to share this Eggnog Madeleines recipe! I kicked off this week with these Chocolate Toffee Shortbread Cookies that were part of a real life cookie exchange aka holiday cookie party. And there ain’t no party like a cookie party. Today is all about collaborating with my fellow Canadian food bloggers with another #CDNFoodCreatives collaboration on Holiday Cookies. Big thanks to Laura from Bluenose Baker, Kacey from The Cookie Writer, and Evelyne from CulturEatz for hosting! There are 19 other drool-worthy holiday cookie recipes below. Hopefully we’ve hit you right in time for your holiday cookie exchanges!
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Cookie Party – Salted Dark Chocolate Dipped Toffee Shortbread Cookies
It’s holiday baking season and what’s Christmas without cookies? Good old St. Nick would probably have a thing or two to say about no cookies come Christmas Eve. I have a whole week stuffed with amazing cookies planned and this is a worthy start. I was beyond excited when my friend Kate from The Wood and Spoon asked if I wanted to participate in a real life cookie exchange with other food bloggers. I was a huge yes and immediately started scheming on what kind of cookies I would send out. I wanted to ship my fellow food blogger Teri at No Crumbs Left something festive, but outrageously delicious. I hope she thinks these Salted Chocolate Dipped Toffee Shortbread Cookies live up to expectations! Big thanks to Rebecca from Displaced Housewife for hosting this cookie party!
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Manchego Cheese, Ham and Olive Bites
Sometimes it’s the simplest things that taste the best – with minimal intervention. Take this simple bite size dish; Manchego Cheese, Serrano Ham, and Castelvetrano Olives as the simplest of recipes with 3 ingredients and ready in about 10 minutes. And what better time of year to let simple ingredients shine than over the holidays? Everyone has a hundred other tasks to complete around the holidays; why add another time-consuming one?
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Festivius for the rest of us – Pomegranate Lime Gimlet
I’ve been told many times that I’m an old soul. I’m unsure if this is something that is just me; not learned or anything, just always there, or if I’ve slowly acquired a taste for things that perhaps make me appear older than I am. Take cocktails for example, gin which most people associate with an older demographic is by far my favourite. And this Gimlet throwback to the 1920’s is definitely a new favourite. The fact that it’s colours are perfect for the holidays is a coincidence that makes me happy.
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