What's the one thing you're known for making during the holidays?

What's that one thing that you're always asked to make for the holidays, or the one thing that everyone knows you'll be bringing?





Mine is a Double Layer Pumpkin Pie.What's the one thing you're known for making during the holidays?
My sweet potato biscuits are always devoured. The recipe is from Food and Wine magazine, from a few years back. It is a pretty easy one to follow.





MAKES 1 DOZEN BISCUITS


Sweet potato makes these biscuits dense, sweet and moist. Delicious with roasted or grilled meats or simply slathered with butter and honey, they're a must for holiday tables.





Ingredients


* 1 2/3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour


* 1 tablespoon light brown sugar


* 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder


* 1/2 teaspoon salt


* 6 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces


* 1 sweet potato (10 ounces)--baked, peeled and pureed


* 1/4 cup cold half-and-half


* 2 tablespoons sesame seeds





Directions


1. Preheat the oven to 425掳. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.


2. In a bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Cut in the butter with a pastry blender until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in 3/4 cup of the pureed sweet potato and the half-and-half and mix just until the dough comes together.


3. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface and knead gently 6 to 8 times, just until the dough holds together. Roll or pat the dough into a 9-by-7-inch rectangle about 3/4 inch thick. Sprinkle the dough with the sesame seeds and pat them in. Using a sharp knife, cut the dough into 12 squares. Arrange the biscuits 1/2 inch apart on the prepared sheet and bake for 15 to 18 minutes, or until golden brown. Serve hot.What's the one thing you're known for making during the holidays?
Pumpkin roll, and corn bread dressing.
I am always asked to make and bring my homemade Irish Creme Fudge. I also make this using Kahlua, brandy, Kirsch, spiced rum or other liqueurs and add nuts and/or fruits that compliment the chosen liqueur.





Irish Cr猫me Fudge





3 sticks of butter (3/4 pound)


3 cups sugar


2/3 cup evaporated milk


1 7-ounce jar Kraft marshmallow cr猫me


12 ounce bag semi-sweet chocolate chips


1 bottle (airline size or nip) Irish Cr猫me


2 cups walnuts or pecans - optional


2 8-inch square pans sprayed with non-stick spray





In a 3 quart sauce pan - preferably enameled cast iron - melt butter, sugar and evaporated milk. Bring to a boil, turn down heat to a low boil and cook for 5 minutes.





Turn off heat and mix in marshmallow cr猫me. Once that is incorporated, mix in the chocolate chips until mixture is an even chocolate color then add the Irish cr猫me and nuts, mixing thoroughly.





Pour mixture into pans and cool thoroughly before cutting into squares and serving.
Sweet Potato Souffle!
Stuffed bread. My family gobbles it down. I make the dough, and we fill it with pesto, feta, ham, cheddar, you name it. Then I roll it up and bake it. I've been asked for the recipe constantly.
For the holidays, everyone expects my gooey butter cookies.





The rest of the year, I get requests for sour cream cupcakes and mexican crack dip.
mixed greens with smoked pork...a southern tradition that everyone loves at my home.
Mine is Carrot Souffle'





Not only at Thanksgiving, but Christmas and Easter of course since it is carrot's. The souffle' itself is beautiful and sweet. You would never know you are eating carrot's. My son loves it as much as my husband does.





Use ask.com, type in carrot souffle' recipe and there you go. Mine is from the 1996 Southern Living Cookbook.
Prime Rib





It tastes really good and my family always eats it now.
Bread pudding





6 slices day-old bread


2 tablespoons butter, melted


4 eggs, beaten


2 cups milk


3/4 cup white sugar





Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).


Break bread into small pieces into an 8 inch square baking pan. Drizzle melted butter or margarine over bread. If desired.


In a medium mixing bowl, combine eggs, milk, sugar. Beat until well mixed. Pour over bread, and lightly push down with a fork until bread is covered and soaking up the egg mixture.


Bake in the preheated oven for 45 minutes, or until the top springs back when lightly tapped.





dulce de leche flan





1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise


1 quart whole milk


4 cups sugar


For flans:


1 large egg


8 large egg yolks





For caramel:


1/2 cup sugar


1/2 teaspoon light corn syrup


2 tablespoons water








Scrape seeds from vanilla bean into a large heavy saucepan and stir in pods, milk, and sugar. Bring mixture to a gentle simmer, then place a small saucer upside down in pot to keep mixture from sticking to bottom or forming a crust. Cook over very low heat, stirring occasionally, until thick and brown, about 2 1/2 to 3 hours. Cool.


Make caramel:


Preheat oven to 325掳 F. Place eight 6-ounce ramekins in shallow baking pan. Combine sugar, corn syrup, and water in small saucepan with pouring lip. Stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Increase heat and boil without stirring until deep amber color, occasionally brushing down sides of pan with wet pastry brush and swirling pan. Immediately pour caramel into ramekins, tilting and rotating ramekins to coat bottom and rewarming caramel over medium heat if it gets too thick.





Make flans:


Whisk together egg and yolks in large bowl. Whisk in dulce de leche. Strain mixture through sieve into large measuring cup and pour into ramekins, diving evenly.





Place baking pan in oven. Pour enough hot water into pan to come two-thirds up sides of ramekins. Cover pan tightly with aluminum foil and bake 30 minutes. Tent foil to vent steam and continue to bake 10 to 15 minutes, until flans are set around edges but still slightly wobbly in centers. Using metal spatula, transfer flans in ramekins to rack; cool 30 minutes. Chill at least 3 hours and up to 2 days. To unmold flans, run a small knife around edges to loosen. Invert onto plates.
smoked salmon and butterscotch cookies.


:)


yummmm.
pecan pie and fresh cranberry sauce
honey nam with mac salad
YUMM!!


Can I have a piece of your double layer pumpkin pie?! :)


I am known for bringing Apple stuffing and cranberry walnut bread with homemade cream cheese spread :)


Happy Thanksgiving!!
trully i cant cook for my life. except everyone counts on me for mashedpotatoes. only i eat them a lot being that its all i know how to cook so its not that special to me.
Well, I pretty much do the cooking. But the thing people hurt for the most without me is my mashed potatoes and gravy. Especially the gravy.
I make the world's best mashed potatoes - you don't even need gravy or butter to like them.


My husband makes the world's best pumpkin pie - and it's sugar free so the diabetics in the family can eat it - and you can't even tell it's sugar free it's so awesomely good!
Nothing!
For me it's my cheesecake for my husband it's his layered green salad