Dessert Day

Today is Dessert Day.

Son-in-law and grandchildren will be hard at work making pumpkin pie, chocolate cake and maybe even a chocolate pie, fudge and peanut butter balls (my favorite). If baking goes wrong we can always pick up a couple from the guy below.

Preparations Under Way

As you can see DH has started his famous Cranberry Chutney recipe .... one of our favorites.

Long Arm Meeting

MERRY CHRISTMAS

We had our longarm Christmas Long Arm Party today.

Today's Show'n'Tell Program was anything Christmas. Now sit back and be prepared to see lots of eye candy.


Shirley Stutz dazzled us with her creativity. Shirley took 6 Christmas Advent panels




to make this wonderful quilt. Thanks you Shirley.

Christmas napkins. Tutorial HERE

This is a book of the owner's quilts. Made via Snapfish

The quilt above and this quilt are made from the same pattern.

Tree Skirt

Our luncheon

The Crock Pot Chicken was loved by all. Janice gave us the recipe.

Cook 4-5 chicken breast in water (or stock) with some celery, carrots and onion. After it cools break it apart into small pieces then freeze it.

The day of your party remove frozen, cooked chicken breast from the freezer. Place in crockpot with 2 cans cream of chicken and 1 can cream of celery. Heat on medium for several hours. Serve on buns or just plain.

It was delicious ........ thank you Janice.

Fat Quarter Rose Tutorial (video) HERE

My purchases

See you January 14, 2009. Program is bring your favorite quilting tool. We'll also discuss our wholecloth project which is due at the September meeting.

EDIT: I'm sorry I don't have names with all the projects ... I just didn't think to write the names down. SORRY.

Cranberry Chutney Recipe

1 lemon

1 1/2 cup water

1/2 cup cider vinegar

2 cups honey

1/4 tsp cardamon

1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp curry pwd

1/4 tsp. grd ginger

1/4 tsp allspice

4 navel oranges

6 cups cranberries

1/2 cup golden raisins

1/2 cup diced dried apricots

1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

1. grate lemon rind, juice the lemon, put juice, rind, vinegar, water, honey and all spices together in a pot.

2. grate 1 orange rind and add to pot.

3. peel oranges, slice and add to pot.

4. bring mixture to boil and cook 5 min. reduce heat to simmer and add 3 cups cranberries, raisins and apricots. Simmer 30 min. or until chutney thickens.

5. Stir in remaining cranberries and walnuts .... cook another 20 min.

6. allow to cool and chill.

yields 8 cups

84 cal per/ TBSP

1 grm protein

1 grm fat

20 grm carb

0 cholesterol

Thank you Dave owner of our health food store for sending me the correct recipe.

I posted the above recipe back on 11/26 but the recipe was missing some ingredients. Over the years we lost the recipe so DH was winging it. I wrote to Dave and he sent me the "real" cranberry chutney.

Cranberry Chutney

Many years ago I took a cooking class at the local health food store. Dave, owner, is a wonderful cook. At that time he also had an eatery connected to the store. I can't tell you how many times I stopped there on my way home from work to pick up dinner. Alas, sometime ago he closed the eatery to expand his health and organic food selections.

Back to my story ... we cooked up some fabulous meals during that class, had lots of fun and some of the recipes I'm still making. BUT (there's always a but) somewhere along the line I lost the recipe booklet.

One of the recipes we still make and love is Cranberry Chutney. DH makes it only at Thanksgiving and Christmas .... I guess just to make it extra special.

Here he is ..... recipe at the bottom. You might recognize this style of photo if you read 365 Crockpot Blog (I do, love that blog). Oops the apple didn't make it in the photo.










The start with spices.

Adding his special touch.

Now to cook it down.

Official taste tester GD#1

All pretty in the jars ........ it won't last long tomorrow.

Doug's Cranberry Chutney

Go HERE for the correct recipe.