Served Hot Christmas Recipes

"One morning when it was really cold and raining out, I was doing my Crossing Guard job at the corner I "work" at. A few yards from the corner is a small Espresso/coffee hut. After I got done and was getting ready to leave the corner, one of the girls who works at the espresso hut came up to me and asked me if I wanted either a hot chocolate..."

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Ingredients: caramel sauce, vanilla...

"How sweet it is!!! The original recipe in a community cookbook specifies 400F and I haven't had any problems - but I need a new stove; however, I've decreased the temperature to 350F based on the comments & suggestions from Zaar chefs."

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Ingredients: pepper, garlic, liquid honey...

"Crunchy cinnamon-sugar snacks like my girls love to get at Taco Bell...yummy for snacks, dessert, slumber parties, football parties, or 'just cause.' Great with Mexican Hot Chocolate! :o)"

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Ingredients: cinnamon, flour tortillas, oil...

"This is my favorite pot pie to use up those holiday leftovers. I tend to make more stuffing and gravy then I need for the meal so that I can use up the leftover turkey in this way. I love the crispy stuffing crust on the top. The gravy keeps the potpie from being dry."

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Ingredients: pepper, ground sage...

"This makes a perfect side to a turkey, prime rib or ham dinner. The recipe can easily be doubled."

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Ingredients: garlic powder, salt, soy sauce...

"A delicious spicy, very moist almost sponge-like sweet cake. Very good as is, with ice cream, or iced."

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Ingredients: ground allspice, eggs...

"My love of cranberries led to me to adopted this recipe. I think that it is the perfect fall pie with the crisp tartness of the berries shining about the sweetness of the apples. Original poster's comments: "Found this in the Sunday paper in the coupon section and it's become a huge hit. I'm not usually a fan of cranberries, but I like the..."

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Ingredients: cinnamon, cranberries...

"THIS is SO easy, and is 'hands-down', our FAVORITE soup recipe in this house!! You won't be disappointed!"

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Ingredients: dried basil, dried oregano...

"A delicious hot beverage that is perfect in cold weather and for holiday entertaining. Also a wonderful drink if you are feeling a bit under the weather as well! Tastes especially good with ginger-bread cookies! Be sure to spike it with high-quality dark rum. This version can also be chilled. Recipe adapted from Suzanne Lombardi from Star Cookies."

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Ingredients: cinnamon sticks, dark rum...

"This is typical of lenten dishes from Lebanon. Rich in fiber and nutrients, it makes for a wonderful one dish meal or a substantial side dish. The original comes from a 1997 issue of Eating Well magazine but has been modified to suit my tastes. If you replace the chicken broth with vegetable broth, this is a vegan dish as well."

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Ingredients: cilantro, brown lentils...

"This is a pretty simple recipe made stove top. These are great to bring on a winter snow covered walk to keep warm. Do use an oven mitt to remove the chestnuts from the cookie sheet for they will burn ya!. Use dry, firm chestnuts; very soft and very hard chestnuts might be rotted. An overcooked chestnut is dried out and hard. Cover the chestnuts..."

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Ingredients: chestnuts, salt, vegetable oil...