Christmas Recipes (Most Popular)
Sooo easy to make--Delicious and nutritious! The only fat comes from the pie crust--you could even bake without the crust, and lower the calories significantly.
It is not Thanksgiving or Christmas at our house without this traditional dish. We freeze cranberries in season so we can enjoy this dish all year long.
Holidays are not the holidays without our family's favorite treat. This is my grandmother's recipe and thanks to the miracle of freezing things, it can be made all year. Freezing the cranberries does not hurt them for this recipe. Recipe doubles easily.
This is an authentic San Marino dessert cake, studded with a variety of fruit. In the past it was cooked not in the oven but in the fireplace " between two fires" which means in a heavy copper pan, which had a concave lid in which live hot coals were placed so it had heat from above as well as from below. It is intended for serving in small pieces along with a sweet dessert wine.
These stuffed pears are a brilliant, colourful mix of rich orange-ginger cheesecake and warm red pears baked into a small bite of decadence.
Rich, succulent dark chocolate truffles made with pureed pumpkin for a double dose of antioxidants, vitamins and fiber!
Stevia, cottage cheese and egg whites make this a low fat, no sugar; guilt free version of a new york cheese cake. 136 Calories; 20 grams of protein in each slice.
Filled cookies with the taste of figs, raisins, oranges, walnuts, honey, cinnamon and chocolate -- something for everyone! Great Christmas cookie!
Loosely adapted from "Aromas of Aleppo" by Poopa Dweck, these are meatballs made from a combination of ground lamb, turkey and chickpeas stewed in a sour tamarind-tomato sauce. The chickpea puree is obtained from simply processing the chickpeas to a paste. Hummus is too thin
This is a variation of Coq au Vin, made with duck legs. The sauce is made velvety smooth with the subtle addition of chocolate, which perfectly balances out the salty bacon and savoury herbs. This is similar to a Cristine Cushing recipe, though my copy does not have a source attached
An almost-flourless (but wheat-free), intensely rich stunner of a cake made with Toblerone and butter, guaranteed to be a hit at the next Christmas party of chocoholics!
A Jewish recipe I found in my mom's recipe box. She grew up in a predominantly Jewish (but also very Greek) neighbourhood in downtown Toronto so has a lot of these recipes.
Connoisseurs who taste this seductive dessert of meringue and chocolate ganache will be reminded of a French dacquoise. Yet in Morocco this unforgettable flourless, butterless cake bears the intriguing name of Le Russe, "the Russian."
Just when you thought your favourite sugar cookies couldn't get any better... along comes this excellent royal-icing like mix that is a deep dark brown with a great chocolate flavour and shine after drying hard!
A great Valentine's day meal when cut down for 2, Filet mignon is stuffed with a luscious lemon-garlic butter and lobster combination and roasted to perfection.
Serve with honey-glazed carrots and garlic-rosemary mashed potatoes for a great savoury feast. Ras el hanout is a traditional and complex Moroccan spice blend, and may be found in specialty grocery stores.