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Monday, December 21, 2015

CHRISTMAS CINNAMON CARAMEL APPLE MARTINI

CHRISTMAS CINNAMON 
CARAMEL APPLE MARTINI
Well, this well be my last post for the evening. I hope that
you all will enjoy the holiday drinks for today that I've
posted for you all my dearest friends and followers. 
Happy Holidays---

Ingredients:
1 oz Buttershots Schnapps
2 oz Vodka
1 oz Rose's Sour Apple Mix 
Maraschino Cherry
Cinnamon
Brown sugar 
Caramel syrup
Candy cane and fresh apple slice for garnish
Directions:
1- Sprinkle some brown sugar and cinnamon on a small plate. Then
pour caramel syrup on top of the sugar mixture in a circle. Dip the rim of a martini glass in the mixture and spin back and forth and all around until the whole rim is coated. Place the glass or glasses in the freezer until ready to use.
2-In a shaker with ice, add the Buttershots, the vodka and the sour apple mix. Shake for a minute. Remove the glass or glasses from the freezer. Place one maraschino cherry in the bottom of the glass. Pour the mixer from the shaker into the glass. Garnish with a Candy Cane and an apple slice and serve.
Happy Holiday's 
my dearest Friends & Followers
I hope you all 
Enjoy the Holiday drinks

THE CANDY CANE DRINK

The Candy Holiday Drink~
Candy Cane Drink
Good evening my dears, I found another fun holiday
Drink for you all that you might find fun & quite tasty too!
It's called the Candy Cane. Oh, my It does look good.
So I thought I would share with you all---
The link below is where I found the fun Christmas drinks
vintage-inspired-party.html
Ingredients;
Godiva White Chocolate Liqueur
Peppermint Schnapps
Crushed Candy Candys
Directions;
1-Wet the rim of your favorite shot glasses and then dip into the crushed candy canes that you had already prepared.
2-Mix equal parts of the Godiva White Chocolate Liqueur and 
Peppermint Schnapps together, Shake and Pour into the rimmed shot glass Lol! Festive and delicious shots for you Christmas Holiday.
CANDY CANE DRINKS
I hope that you All my dears will
Enjoy the Candy Holiday Drink
Happy Holiday's 

CHRISTMAS Holly Jolly Jelly Shots

CHRISTMAS
HOLLY JOLLY JELLY SHOTS~
HOLLY JOLLY JELLY SHOTS
Hello, my dearest friends & followers and welcome to my
humble blog. It's almost Christmas & I thought I would 
add a few Christmas Holiday Cheer for you all. I have been
doing this every year and I hope that you all enjoy the different
recipes that I have found... Happy Holidays~
The link below is where I found this grand recipe:
holly-jolly-jelly-shots
Ingredients:
1-[3-ounce] box of cherry gelatin dessert
1-[3-ounce] box of lime gelatin dessert 
3-packets of unflavored gelatin
1-[14-ounce] can of sweetened condensed milk
1 1/2 cups of vanilia vodka
36 dollops whipped cream for garnish 
36 mint leaves for garnish
72 small red candies or 36 if using just one for garnish 
Directions:
1- Lightly coat a square dish with cooking spray, then using a 
paper towel, wipe out the dish. It will leave a light residue to help
unmold your shots, but it won't affect the taste.
2-For the Red layer, sprinkle half of a packet of gelatin over 1/4 cup of water. Remember to allow it to soak in a minute of two. Then add one box of the Cherry gelatin, along with 1 cup of boiling water. Stir until everything has dissolved. Adding 3/4 cup of vodka of your choosing. Repeat the same process to the Green layer.
3-To make the white layer, you need to sprinkle two packets of gelatin over 1/2 cup of water. Then allow it to soak in a minute or two. Pour in 1 cup of boiling water and one 14-ounce can of sweetened condensed milk. Stir until everything is thoroughly mixed and the gelatin is all dissolved. You should have approximately 3 cups of liquid. Allow this to cool down to room temperature.
4- After you have allowed the liquid to cool down to room temperature. pour half of the Red mixture into the prepared pan. Place pan in the refrigerator to set, for about 20minutes or more. Once it is set, add 1/3 of the White mixture to the top of the Red mixture. Pop any air bubbles and return to the fridge to set again for about 20 more minutes till set. Repeat with the half of the Green mixture. Then White, then Red, then White again, then Green. Allow finished pan to set another 2-3 hours or what would be even better is overnight.
5- When you're ready to serve, gently pull the edges away from the pan, and invert onto a cutting board. Slice into even squares. Alternately, you can just cut in the pan itself but it might be harder to remove the first few squares.
6-Finally you then place them all on a nice Christmas like serving platter and top with whipped cream, using a piping bag or can. Top with a small bit of mint leaf and a red candy or two to simulate a holly leaf.
Happy Holidays 
I hope you  all enjoy the 
Christmas Treats 
Happy Holidays 


Sunday, December 20, 2015

JOYFUL MEMORIES POEM

Joyful Memories~
Those days remembered
of joyful hue
live as the echoes
of times oh so new.
Christmastimes blessings
wonderful sights
now are the magical
days I delight.
Joyful memories
painted with time
live as the wonderful
days on my mind.
Joyful the journeys
magical scenes
painted with colors of
reds,  blues and greens.
Wonderful moments
that my mind still sees
become as remembered
joyful memories.


by Bill Pearce
2015


SILENT NIGHT

Silent Night~  
In honor of the Christmas Season I always try to find 
Christmas theme stories, legends, photo's and historic 
happenings on this blessed day, which is celebrated in so 
many ways in honor of all that have Faith, Love & Peace
in their hearts. The one SPIRIT THAT WE BELIEVE THAT IS 
ALL AROUND US IN EVER COUNTRY IN THE BEAUTIFUL 
EARTH. I PRAY THAT EVEN WITH THE COMING THINGS IN
THE NEWS, THAT WE CAN ALL COME TOGETHER AS ONE
PEOPLE WITH LOVE AND KINDNESS TO ALL RACES 
FAITHS. 
Silent Night is known most places around the World and there is a wonderful history behind the most beloved Song 
by Bill Egan, A Christmas Historian
anoldfashionedchristmas.com/silent_night 
link to the site I found the story~
Every Christmas I have always watched the Silent Night 
movie[old yet so fun; I started watching the movie with my Dad 
years ago, as a teenager. And of course, Geroge C. Scott in
A Christmas Carol. Which I have put on here for you All~ 
As I started this post I didn't realize that I had one about a year ago, on the beloved song 'Silent Night'. However, this is a bit more detailed as through the years on my blog I get better at writing & research my subjects. I hope you enjoy the most updated version.
It all started 180 years ago for the very first time in a small village church in Oberndorf, Austria---'Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht'.  
In that small church in Oberndorf, Austria the folks had a Midnight Mass In St. Nicholas Church. They were all listening to the assistant pastor of the Church and the choir voices of director ---Franz Xaver Gruber of the Music. The Choir was also accompanied by Fr. Mohr's guitar. 
So on that very Christmas Eve, a song was born that would beloved in the hearts of people all over the world, from that small church 180years ago. Silent Night is now translated into hundreds to thousands of different languages across the world so that everyone can enjoy the Spirit of Christmas with the song. Now sung by untold millions/billions every December from the smallest of chapels in the Andes to Grand Cathedrals in Antwerp & Rome for just a few.  The song was 
originally in German the first six stanzas of Silent Night written by Joseph Mohr in 1816.  In history sadly know one really knows what inspired Joseph Mohr to pen down his poetic version of the birth of Christ. Sadly the world's fortunate was left behind when Joseph Mohr was transferred to Oberndorf the following year in 1817. It happened on December 24, 1818. When Joseph Mohr journeyed to the home of musician-schoolteacher Franz Gruber who lived in an apartment over the schoolhouse in nearby Arnsdorf. 
Joseph Mohr showed his friend his poem, asked him to add a melody to the song so that is could by sung at Midnight Mass. 
To this day, it is unknown why Joseph Mohr reason for wanting 
a new carol song.  There were many speculations in the day, some say it could have been the organ didn't work, others thought the assistant pastor Joseph Mohr merely wanted a new song for Christmas Mass. So later that evening, both Joseph & Franz stood in front of the main altar of the Church and sang the new song they wrote together 'Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht!' for the first time.  Its seems that during that time there was a master organ builder  Karl Mauracher. While doing some work in the Ziller Valley when travelling through Oberndorf he obtained a copy of the composition of the song 'Silent Night' ~ Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht!' & took it home with him. From day travelling through Oberndorf, the simple Christmas song began a journey around the world as  the ' Tyrolean Folk Song.'
Two traveling families of the folk singers from the Ziller Valley that was similar to the Trapp Family Singers of the 'Sound of Music' fame incorporated the song into their repertoire. It was said that the Strassers sang the song in a concert in Leipzig in December of 1832.
Who would guess a little song in a small town by an associate pastor would turn into a beloved song for years to come!
In the year of 1839, The Rainers performed 'Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht! ' for the first time in America, outside of the Trinity Church in New York City. Silent Night by now had become the favorite Christmas Carol of the Artistically Appreciative King Frederick William lV of Prussia, who used to have the Cathedral Choir sing it for him during the Christmas season each year.
Sadly by the time the song 'Silent Night' had become so famous throughout Europe, Joseph Mohr who had written the song died. Leaving the song without the true truth of who the composer was.
It seems that in Berlin authorities stated Franz Gruber was the composer ---the melody had been assumed to be the works of Haydon, Mozart or Beethoven at various times and these thoughts 
persisted even into the twentieth century sadly  for Joseph Mohr who had originally written the song.
However, there is GOOD NEWS THE CONTROVERSY 
WAS FINALLY PUT TO REST FOUR YEARS AGO WHEN A LONG-LOST ARRANGEMENT OF 'STILLE  NACHT'  IN THE HANDWRITING OF JOSEPH MOHR WAS AUTHENTICATED. IN THE UPPER RIGHT-HAND CORNER OF THE ARRANGEMENT, JOSEPH MOHR WROTE
---'MELODIE Von Fr. Xav. Gruber."
I hope that you all enjoy the story
of the Song 'Silent Night' 
Your Friend Always Wendy 

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