[Old Sarge]

MOLASSES COOKIES!

[laurenmarlowe]

United States Marine Corps Band~National Anthem

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

Chocolate fudge!!

Mom used to make it every year. My sister has since taken up this tradition.

[laurenmarlowe]

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Zeus Lee pushes a palette of cargo from a C-17 Globemaster III onto a 60K loader at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, on Dec. 14, 2008. Lee is a load crew team chief from the 332nd Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron. DoD photo by Airman 1st Class Jason Epley, U.S. Air Force. (Released)

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Warren Burton, a combat correspondent, fires a 60-mm mortar system during live-fire training outside of Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, on Dec. 12, 2008. Burton is with the command element for the Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force ñ Afghanistan, deployed in support of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force mission in Afghanistan. DoD photo by Cpl. Pete Thibodeau, U.S. Marine Corps. (Released)

U.S. Air Force KC-10 Extender tanker pilot Capt. Justin Simms from the 908th Expeditionary Aerial Refueling Squadron pilots the aircraft on a combat mission over Afghanistan on Dec. 15, 2008. DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Aaron Allmon, U.S. Air Force. (Released)

[jagusafr]

Ustecake (pronounced “oosta-cockah”) - a very sweet Swedish custard that condenses 5 gallons of milk into 1 gallon of custard. Sinfully good, my grandmother Swensen-Jacobson made it every year. Hasn’t been made since she died, about 10 years ago. Beats the hell out of lutefisk.

Colonel, USAFR

[Kathy in Alaska]

Favorite Christmas Treats

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Egg nog

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[Tanniker Smith]

Good evening, Lauren. Good evening, all!

Favorite treats???
Everything that Mrs. Smith is baking tonight!
That, and the snowmen cookies that her mother bakes. (No one else is allowed to make those. They're her specialty.)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hello Veterans, wherever you are!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

A PRAYER OF PROTECTION

The light of God surround you
The love of God enfold you
The power of God protect you
The presence of God watch over you
Wherever you are, God is,
And all is well.
Amen.

BLESS THIS HOUSE

 Bless this house O Lord we pray; Make it safe by night and day; 
Bless these walls so firm and stout, Keeping want and trouble out:
Bless the roof and chimneys tall, Let thy peace lie over all;
Bless this door, that it may prove ever open to joy and love.
Bless these windows shining bright, Letting in God's heav'nly light;
Bless the hearth a'blazing there, with smoke ascending like a prayer;
Bless the folk who dwell within, keep them pure and free from sin;
Bless us all that we may be Fit O Lord to dwell with thee;
Bless us all that one day we May dwell O Lord with thee. 

(Click on graphics for music)

A PRAYER OF PROTECTION

The light of God surround you
The love of God enfold you
The power of God protect you
The presence of God watch over you
Wherever you are, God is,
And all is well.
Amen.

BLESS THIS HOUSE

 Bless this house O Lord we pray; Make it safe by night and day; 
Bless these walls so firm and stout, Keeping want and trouble out:
Bless the roof and chimneys tall, Let thy peace lie over all;
Bless this door, that it may prove ever open to joy and love.
Bless these windows shining bright, Letting in God's heav'nly light;
Bless the hearth a'blazing there, with smoke ascending like a prayer;
Bless the folk who dwell within, keep them pure and free from sin;
Bless us all that we may be Fit O Lord to dwell with thee;
Bless us all that one day we May dwell O Lord with thee. 

(Click on graphics for music)

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Peanut butter fudge!

[Aliska]

Those sugar cookies are decorated so beautifully; I never was able or had the patience to make them so pretty. I finally found a recipe I like the best; sugar cookies are all different.

As to the other there are so many. Those Peanut Blossoms are a family favorite plus I love divinity but don't always get it right.

Right now I got some Andes Creme de Menthe baking chips at Aldi's and am trying to figure out which recipe to use for those, copied several.

My son insists I bake a cherry pie so he bought frozen cherries. Before we had two little trees that produced well every year, no fussing with them at all, but they died. I've replaced them now, but it will be awhile.

I got fed up with rolling pie dough for 2-crust pies so adapted my own method of pressing the dough around a 9X11 glass baking dish, filling in the bottom, smoothing it out with a baggie (takes some practice) and then using some reserved crumbly dough to sprinkle over the top then top with some special sugar. The general idea I got watching a Polish lady use dough scrape. The sugar crystals are larger and it keeps forever, had to buy it from the bakery. They are not those round, opaque, pearly ones.

[HopeandGlory]

Good morning Troops, Veterans and Canteeners.

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Our Flag Flying Proudly One Nation Under God

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Lord, Please Bless Our Troops, They're fighting for our Freedom.

I pledge allegiance to the Flag
of the United States of America,
and to the Republic, for which it stands;
one nation UNDER GOD,
indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.

Prayers going up

[CindyDawg]

I make a fantastic choc fudge once a year. When I was about 4 or 5 we would take a trip to see family and come home late Christmas Eve. There were 4 of us kids in the back seat of a big car. No seat belts or car seats. 1 slept on the luggage rack, 2 got the seat. I got the floor board behind my daddy.
He should not have stored that big box of home made fudge that my aunt made for us under his seat. Six hours was a long time. Today my grown kids guard their tin that they take home. They don't take any chances with their little ones treating themselves.

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[Kathy in Alaska]

[Drumbo]

Mom’s Ambrosia coconut fruit salad, her Cherry Cream Cheese Cheesecake and Aunt Rosie’s Red Velvet Cake. The holiday’s just aren’t the same without that stuff.

[mylife]

Finally! a pic of my fave. Kolache Warm and butter on it.

Not a great looking kolatch, but you cant beat em with coffee!

[BIGLOOK]

Mele Kalikimaka, Lauren!