Christmas Eve Dinner Menu

This is a staple at all family gatherings since I was in diapers so long ago. Everyone knows it but no one has ever written it down, UNTIL NOW! Great Grandma Reedy gets the credit. When doing some research on German recipes for our German friend, I found that German Creamed Spinach is very similar, but there is no cream in this recipe.

My award winning Crème Brûlée. I have also been known to pour this over brioche in a casserole dish to make Crème Brûlée French Toast. I also have used it as the base for regular French Toast by soaking potatoes bread slices and cooking it on the stove in a 12 inch frying pan.

How to make Hot Bacon Dressing as good as Grandma’s – but faster!

Made a ton of tweaking over the years to arrive at this easy and perfect cheesecake, every time.

A classic French apple tart is little more than apples and pastry, but such simplicity means that imperfections like tough or mushy apples, unbalanced flavor, and sodden crust are hard to hide. In our recipe a quick and buttery pat-in-pan dough bakes to a shortbread-like texture that gives the tart a sturdy base. For intense fruit flavor, we pack the tart with a whopping 5 pounds of Golden Delicious apples. We cook half into a concentrated puree, which is made more luxurious with butter and apricot preserves, and we slice and parcook the remaining apples and use them to adorn the top with concentric circles. A thin coat of preserves and a final run under the broiler provide an attractively caramelized finish and a distinctively European flair.