BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — The vacations are a time for household, pals, and naturally meals!
Sit down on the Second Cup desk and take pleasure in our favourite vacation dishes and drinks, that includes recipes from WKBW expertise, employees, and followers.
Katie Morse will get issues rolling with a vacation impressed appetizer- a sweet cane caprese!
She describes this platter as the proper choice if it’s worthwhile to get out the door shortly, or when you’re not a lot of a prepare dinner.
“Everybody will love how cute it’s, and it is all the time a success,” she mentioned.
Katie’s Sweet Cane Caprese
Serves: 8 folks
Complete Time: 5 minutes
Substances:
- 2-3- tomatoes
- 2-3- balls of recent mozzarella
- 3 leaves- recent basil
- Olive oil
- Salt
- Pepper
Directions:
- Slice two/three tomatoes (relying on how giant they’re) and recent mozzarella.
- Layer within the form of a sweet cane – one tomato, one cheese slice and many others.
- Drizzle with olive oil
- High with salt and pepper (elective)
- Enhance with basil (elective)
Ideas:
- The show works finest when you use a dish that’s one coloration versus a dish with a design, that approach the sweet cane actually stands out
- You may put three basil leaves collectively in a mistletoe form
After many requests from Second Cup followers, a.okay.a. ‘Cuppies’, Ed Drantch is sharing his Christmas cookie martini recipe.
He mentioned one phrase to explain the cocktail is “YUM!”
These vacation drinks are easy and ideal for the 21+ crowd.
Ed’s Simple Christmas Cookie Martinis
Serves: 1 individual
Complete Time: 2 minutes
Substances:
- 1 shot – vanilla vodka
- 1 shot- Irish crème
- 1 shot- Amaretto
- 1 shot- milk/cream
- Vanilla icing
- Sprinkles
- Ice
Directions:
- Take the cup you are utilizing to serve and rim the glasses with icing
- Use a shaker to sprinkle festive sprinkles across the glass
- Pour every shot into the identical shaker, over ice
- Shake it up
- Pour into glass with icing and sprinkles
Ideas:
- These drinks are alcoholic and solely to be served to folks ages 21 and older
Producer Katie Lane, ‘K2’, affords her household’s tackle the old style casserole.
She mentioned this consolation meals is fast and handy. It’s a aspect dish that adventurous and choosy eaters alike can get pleasure from.
“Our broccoli-cheddar casserole is likely one of the first issues I placed on my plate at Reavey household vacation dinners,” she mentioned.
Reavey Household Broccoli-Cheddar Casserole
Serves: 10-15 folks
Cook dinner Time: half-hour at 350°F
Substances:
- 3- 10 oz packages of frozen broccoli
- 1- 12 oz of Velveeta block cheese, reduce into ½ inch smaller cubes
- 36- Ritz crackers (frivolously crushed in plastic Ziploc bag)
- ½ stick- butter; approx. 4 tablespoons
Directions:
- Warmth oven to 350°F
- Grease/butter and flour backside of casserole dish
- Cook dinner broccoli per bag and drain
- Combine the Velveeta and ½ of the cracker crumbs in with the broccoli
- Spoon combination right into a casserole dish
- Soften butter slowly within the microwave and blend with the remaining half of the crackers
- Shake and unfold butter/cracker combine over high of the casserole
- Bake for half-hour at 350°F
Ideas:
- When mixing, the Velveeta might be clumpy; the remainder will soften when baking
- You may make additional cracker topping as you need
AM Buffalo’s Mercedes Wilson is kicking issues up a notch along with her seafood boil.
Boils occur year-round within the Wilson family and are sometimes paired with nice conversations and film nights.
“It is change into a staple in my household as a result of everybody will get to choose their components, so no two luggage are alike,” she mentioned.
The Wilson Seafood Boil
Serves: 2 folks
Cook dinner Time: 45 minutes at 350°F
Substances:
- 2- corn stalks
- 2- andouille sausage
- 4- eggs
- 6- small potatoes
- 2- clusters of crab legs
- 2 cups- frozen cooked giant shrimp
- 1- lemon
- ½ stick- unsalted butter (sliced)
- 2 cups- minced garlic
- Outdated Bay seasoning
- 1- oven “turkey roasting” bag
Directions:
- Boil 2 stalks of corn half approach carried out (midway) and put aside
- Sauté 2 andouille sausage till brown on outdoors (preserve grease)
- Boil 4 eggs and put aside
- Boil small potatoes midway and put aside to a turkey roasting bag
- Add 2 clusters of crab legs, cleaned and halved lobster tails
- Add 2 cups of frozen cooked giant shrimp
- Minimize lemon in quarter inch slices and put within the bag
- Add all corn, sausage, eggs and potatoes to the bag
- Put a half stick of unsalted butter (sliced) in a bag and a pair of cups of minced garlic
- Season with previous bay seasoning to your liking
- Shake the bag till nicely combined and put within the oven for 45 minutes at 350°F
Ideas:
- Bear in mind to poke a small gap on the high of the bag for air launch
This subsequent recipe comes from Good Morning Buffalo Editor Erin Phillip’s kitchen.
Erin’s mother mentioned the recipe is courtesy of her ex! Erin mentioned she is simply joyful one good factor got here out of their relationship this vacation season.
Erin’s Crockpot Sausage Dip
Serves: 4 folks
Cook dinner Time: half-hour in crockpot on excessive
Substances:
- 1 pack- Cooked Jimmy Dean sausage
- 1 can- Authentic Rotel diced tomatoes
- 2- cream cheese packages
Directions:
- Cook dinner the sausage per package deal
- Add sausage, tomatoes and cream cheese packages to crockpot
- Cook dinner on excessive for half-hour
- Stir then serve
7 Information Senior Reporter Eileen Buckley has one thing in your candy tooth- her household’s well-known pineapple cheesecake recipe!
Her husband’s grandmother gave her this recipe greater than 35 years in the past at her bridal tea celebration the place everybody was requested to convey their particular recipe for the bride.
She mentioned she all the time makes the cheesecake in honor of ‘Grandma Choops’.
Grandma Choop’s Pineapple Cheesecake
Serves: 12 folks
Cook dinner Time: Crust- 350 °F for 10 minutes
Substances:
- 1 & 3/4 to 2 cups- flour
- 2 sticks- butter
- 1 tablespoon- sugar
- 2- 8 oz packages of cream cheese
- 1 cup- sugar
- 1/4 cup- lemon juice
- 1 can- crushed pineapple (well-drained)
- Contemporary whipping cream
Directions:
- First make the crust:
- Mix 1 & 3/4 to 2 cups of flour, 2 sticks of butter, 1 tablespoon sugar
- Work this collectively and press right into a 9×13 baking pan
- Bake at 350°F till golden brown, approx. 10 minutes
- Put aside to chill
- Then, make the cream cheese filling:
- Beat 2- 8 oz packages of cream cheese, 1 cup of sugar, 1/4 cup lemon juice collectively right into a cream
- Unfold over the cooled crust
- Unfold can of crushed pineapple (however ensure that it’s nicely drained) excessive of the cream cheese filling
- Unfold recent whipped cream on high
- Refrigerate for a few hours to agency up, then serve
Loyal ‘Cuppies’ might bear in mind listening to about this scrumptious dish forward of our Thanksgiving episode.
Cheryl despatched 7 Information her cherry cheesecake dip recipe!
She mentioned the dessert dip was all the time an workplace celebration favourite and tremendous straightforward to make.
Cheryl’s Cherry Cheesecake Dip
Serves: A pleasant gathering
Complete Time: 10 minutes
Substances:
- 8 oz- cream cheese
- 7 oz- Jar fluff marshmallow cream
- 8 oz- thawed whipped topping
- 48 oz- canned cherry pie filling
Directions:
- Place the cream cheese in a bowl
- Beat till clean and creamy
- Add the marshmallow cream and beat to mix
- Add the whipped topping and beat till mixed
- Unfold the combination right into a 9- or 10-inch pie plate
- Pour the cherry pie filling over the cheesecake combination and refrigerate
Ideas:
- Serve with graham crackers or cinnamon tortilla chips
- Can put together a day upfront
Cuppie Kim is bringing us again to the fundamentals with a Christmas classic- reduce out cookies!
She mentioned this recipe tastes similar to the cookies her mother made years in the past and supply enjoyable for the entire household.
Kim’s Minimize Out Cookies
Serves: About 10 folks
Cook dinner Time: 7-10 minutes
Substances:
- 1 cup- butter
- 1 cup- sugar
- 2 tablespoons- heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon- baking powder
- ½ teaspoon- baking soda
- 1 teaspoon- vanilla
- 3 cups- flour
Directions:
- Combine all your components collectively in a mixing bowl
- Bake at 325°F for 7- to 10- minutes till golden brown in backside
- Let cool
- Frost with heavy whipping cream and powdered sugar
Ideas:
- Heavy cream is the key
- If you happen to’re storing cookies in plastic containers, use wax paper in between layers, it would preserve them recent longer
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