Welcome to the 17th Annual Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies!
DAY 1: Double Chocolate Thumbprints
For the chocolate lover! A chocolate cookie filled with soft chocolate ganache and festive sprinkles.
I use half of this dough to make these cookies, and half to make Chocolate Peppermint Bark Thumbprints
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When spring is inconsistent in its warm sunny days, this creamy chicken soup with spinach and artichokes, together with some homemade bread, make a perfect light supper.
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I love sheet pan dinners for their easy preparation and even easier clean-up.
This smoked sausage and vegetable combination is very easy, and very adaptable. Use your preferred linked-style smoked sausage like kielbasa, andouille, or chorizo links (not loose raw chorizo). A combination of vegetables of various colors makes for a delicious and healthy dinner. I like using sweet potatoes and/or butternut squash, red peppers, zucchini, and onion.
Start cooking the longer-cooking vegetables first, then add the quicker cooking vegetables closer to the end of cooking time.
I season this with a premixed Cajun seasoning, but you can also use a combination of salt, pepper, onion and garlic powders, thyme, oregano, smoked paprika.
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An Indian rice dish that is completely adaptable to any protein and vegetable combination you have on hand. Made here with chicken, zucchini, snap peas, red pepper, carrots, and onion.
This is similar in flavor to a biryani, but a simpler preparation, and packed with more vegetables.
For a low carb version, use cauliflower rice instead of basmati rice.
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DAY 12: Chocolate Raspberry Thumbprints
For the chocolate raspberry lover! A chocolate cookie filled with raspberry jam and drizzled with dark chocolate.
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DAY 11: Chocolate Orange Shortbread Sticks
Delicious orange shortbread sticks coated in dark chocolate.
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Ninja-bread Men
Snow Capped Christmas Trees
Russian Teacakes
Cranberry Orange Pinwheels
Baklava Thumbprints
Chocolate Orange Shortbread Sticks
Raspberry Almond Thumbprints
Boston Cream Cookie Cups
Coconut Macaroons
White Chocolate Cherry Pistachio Cookies
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