QOTW: What are your favorite holiday cookies? Movies? Music?

[Guest guest]

Time for some new questions of the week.

Sorry I didn't have time to post any last week.

I know I sure missed reading the responses, so

here are a few extra fun ones for us this week to make

up for it.

 

QOTW [questions of the week] for December 16th -22nd:

 

1. What are your favorite holiday cookies?

Share a recipe or memory if you can.

 

2. What are your favorite holiday movies?

 

3. What is currently your favorite holiday music CD/record album?

 

 

Share with us all if you have time; we know the season

is busy but we'd love to hear from you!

The other moderators and I would like to wish you all

the most joyous holiday!

 

 

~ PT ~

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Well to be honest I like any kind of cookies! But of Christmas-shaped cookies

with sprinkles are good for the holidays.

I have 2 favorite movies I watch around this time of year. They are " It's a

Wonderful Life " and " The Family Man " .

As for albums being the rocker at heart that I am, I like Twisted Sister's " A

Twisted Christmas " . LOL!

 

 

~ PT ~ <patchouli_troll wrote:

Time for some new questions of the week.

Sorry I didn't have time to post any last week.

I know I sure missed reading the responses, so

here are a few extra fun ones for us this week to make

up for it.

 

QOTW [questions of the week] for December 16th -22nd:

 

1. What are your favorite holiday cookies?

Share a recipe or memory if you can.

 

2. What are your favorite holiday movies?

 

3. What is currently your favorite holiday music CD/record album?

 

Share with us all if you have time; we know the season

is busy but we'd love to hear from you!

The other moderators and I would like to wish you all

the most joyous holiday!

 

~ PT ~

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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QOTW [questions of the week] for December 16th -22nd:

 

1. What are your favorite holiday cookies?

Share a recipe or memory if you can.

 

My best friend's mom made these every year at Christmas and finally

shared the recipe with me after I grew up. They still bring back

wonderful memories of time spent with them. (Lacto-Ovo)

 

Betty Crocker's Best Chocolate Chip Cookies Ever

 

Ingredients

 

2/3 c butter

1/2 c granular white sugar

1/2 c packed brown sugar

1 t vanilla

1 egg

1 1/2 c plain flour

1/2 t baking soda

1/2 t salt

1/2 c chopped pecans (optional)

1 c semi-sweet chocolate chips

1/2 c butterscotch chips

 

 

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350oF

2. Mix butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla thoroughly.

3. In separate bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, and salt.

4. Blend flour mixture into butter mixture.

5. Mix in nuts and chips.

6. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet for 7 – 10 minutes.

7. Allow to cool for 3 minutes before removing from cookie sheet.

 

 

2. What are your favorite holiday movies?

 

It's A Wonderful Life has been the tradition in our family for

years. After our Thanksgiving Day festivities, we all gather in the

living room to kick off our Christmas season by watching it together.

 

3. What is currently your favorite holiday music CD/record album?

 

I love the old standards. Any of Perry Como's Christmas albums from

years gone by are in my cd player during Christmas.

 

Merry Christmas to all!!

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1. What are your favorite holiday cookies?

Share a recipe or memory if you can.

 

My favorite holiday cookies are Chocolate Chip Orange Pecan Cookies. I shared

this recipe here a few weeks ago when someone requested vegan cookie recipes,

but I am including it again.

 

 

 

Chocolate Chip Orange Pecan Cookies

 

 

 

1 1/4 cups whole wheat pastry flour

 

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

 

1/2 teaspoon salt

 

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

 

2 teaspoons orange extract

 

1/3 cup olive oil

 

1/2 cup brown rice syrup

 

2/3 cup soy milk

 

1 cup non-dairy chocolate chips

 

1 1/2 cup chopped pecans

 

 

 

Preheat oven to 350 and spray cookie sheets with cooking spray. Mix flour,

baking power and salt. Stir in oil, vanilla, and orange extract. Slowly stir in

the soy milk. Fold in the chocolate chips and pecans. Drop dough onto cookie

sheets. Bake for 13-15 minutes. Transfer to a cooling rack. Cookies will be

slightly sticky and need to be stored with wax paper between layers to keep from

sticking.

 

 

 

2. What are your favorite holiday movies?

 

It's a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, and The Night They Saved

Christmas.

 

 

3. What is currently your favorite holiday music CD/record album?

 

An old album from 1964 that I inherited from my parents called a Firestone

Christmas, with a mixture of Christmas carols and secular Christmas songs by a

bunch of different singers, including Julie Andrews. I remember this album from

my childhood and it's still my favorite.

 

 

 

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1. What are your favorite holiday cookies?

Share a recipe or memory if you can.

 

Chocolate Chip (CC) Reese's Peanut Butter Cup (RPB) Cookies. Make

regular CC cookies but use your thumb to make a placeholder in the

center of the cookie for the mini-RPBs.

 

About 5-10 minutes prior from the CC cookies finish baking, place the

RPBs in the placeholders.

 

2. What are your favorite holiday movies?

Die Hard, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and Christmas Story

 

3. What is currently your favorite holiday music CD/record album?

Traditional and the humorous songs.

 

 

, " ~ PT ~ "

<patchouli_troll wrote:

>

> Time for some new questions of the week.

> Sorry I didn't have time to post any last week.

> I know I sure missed reading the responses, so

> here are a few extra fun ones for us this week to make

> up for it.

>

> QOTW [questions of the week] for December 16th -22nd:

>

> 1. What are your favorite holiday cookies?

> Share a recipe or memory if you can.

>

> 2. What are your favorite holiday movies?

>

> 3. What is currently your favorite holiday music CD/record album?

>

>

> Share with us all if you have time; we know the season

> is busy but we'd love to hear from you!

> The other moderators and I would like to wish you all

> the most joyous holiday!

>

>

> ~ PT ~

>

[Guest guest]

> QOTW [questions of the week] for December 16th

> -22nd:

>

> 1. What are your favorite holiday cookies?

> Share a recipe or memory if you can.

 

i love my pistachio and cranberry biscotti. i'll

repost the recipe seperately.

 

 

> 2. What are your favorite holiday movies?

elf, a christmas story, miracle on 34th st., it's a

wonderful life, and christmas vacation.

>

> 3. What is currently your favorite holiday music

> CD/record album

 

i don't really have one. i like most traditional

songs. god rest ye merry gentlemen is a fave.

 

i hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday season!

 

 

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> QOTW [questions of the week] for December 16th -22nd:

>

> 1. What are your favorite holiday cookies?

> Share a recipe or memory if you can.

 

I love all the basics. Russian Teacakes, Peanut Butter Blossoms, Sugar cookie

cut-outs

decorated with almond frosting and sprinkles, Chocolate Chip cookies with extra

holiday

red, white and green chips added, and Ginger Krinkles.

 

> 2. What are your favorite holiday movies?

 

I love Elf, A Christams Story, It's Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, and

A Christmas

Carol that TNT did with Patrick Stewart playing Scrooge. Oh, and I also love

Christmas

Vacation with Chevy Chase and Scrooged with Bill Murray.

 

> 3. What is currently your favorite holiday music CD/record album?

 

I love to listen to my Jethro Tull Xmas CD and a whole bunch of Celtic Christmas

CDs.

 

Merry Christmas and Happy Solstice to all!

 

~ PT ~

 

If there be any truer measure of a man than what he does,

it must be what he gives.

~ Robert South

[Guest guest]

>

>

> > QOTW [questions of the week] for December 16th -22nd:

> >

> > 1. What are your favorite holiday cookies?

> > Share a recipe or memory if you can.

>

>I love Christina Pirello's cutout cookies. I remember going to a

holiday dinner she sponsored in Philadelphia about 20 years ago. The

food was amazing and she was so kind.

>

> > 2. What are your favorite holiday movies?

>

>I always look forward to Christmas in Connecticut, White Christmas

and Miracle on 34th Street. I also like It Happened One Christmas

and An American Christmas Carol.

>

> > 3. What is currently your favorite holiday music CD/record album?

>

> My favorite of all time is the Bonanza Christmas album. It brings

back memories of my childhood. My mother played Christmas music

constantly on the stereo and this was always a favorite. But she

always had the Firestone albums and all the classics- Bing Crosby,

Dean Martin, John Denver, Elvis, Ray Conniff, etc. It went non-stop

from the day after Thanksgiving,through Christmas while she decorated

and wrapped. I miss having music in the house all the time.

 

Jo-Ann

>

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, " artichoke72x " <artichoke72x

wrote:

 

> > 2. What are your favorite holiday movies?

> elf, a christmas story, miracle on 34th st., it's a

> wonderful life, and christmas vacation.

 

Hey, your favorite movies are the same as mine!

Cool. Have a Merry Holiday.

 

~ PT ~

 

" Listen to the howl of our spiritual brother,

the wolf, for how it goes with him, so it goes

for the natural world. "

~ Oren R. Lyons, Spokesman, Traditional Circle of Elders

[Guest guest]

> QOTW [questions of the week] for December 16th -22nd:

 

> 3. What is currently your favorite holiday music CD/record album?

 

> ~ PT ~

Tree-Side hoot by the Christmas Jug Band, with dan hicks

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, " Cuthbert J. Twillie "

<jdsears669 wrote:

>

>

> > QOTW [questions of the week] for December 16th -22nd:

>

> > 3. What is currently your favorite holiday music CD/record album?

 

> Tree-Side hoot by the Christmas Jug Band, with dan hicks

>

 

That sounds like an interesting CD. I will have to check it out

on amazon.

 

~ PT ~