I make nuts and bolts every year at this time to give out as gifts and to share with family and friends as a snack when they come over to my house during the holiday season. Oh, and I always have enough for my husband and I to wolf them down while watching Christmas movies. This recipe started from my dad who made them annually for us at Christmastime. They are crunchy and salty and quite honestly, I followed the…
Christmas is easily my favourite time of year and for many reasons; mostly because I love cooking and entertaining and Christmas is (for me and my family) all about eating and getting together! One dish that is traditionally served at Christmas is the French Canadian tourtiere meat pie. The tourtiere originated in Quebec and is a meat pie consisting of ground or finely diced pork, beef or veal. I have always had it growing up with pork, but I have seen many other versions,…
It’s only five days until Christmas! If you are in a pinch and looking for a really simple Christmas treat, this recipe takes a little over an hour only, and most of that time is for the setting of the cranberry pistachio white chocolate bark in the fridge. Cranberry pistachio white chocolate bark just screams christmas to me. The cranberries are red; the pistachios green; and the chocolate is white; making it Christmas themed by the colours alone! It is…
When I entered to be a part of the Great Food Blogger’s Cookie Swap I got really excited to start looking up what cookie I wanted to make. It is my first cookie swap ever and I wanted a cookie that would be sweet, tasty and feel like Christmas. I looked online and found some double chocolate chip cookies, mocha chocolate chip cookies and peppermint chocolate chip cookies. I decided to blend these three types of cookies together as one, and…