Cooking Pot With Cannalicious - The Festivus For The Rest Of Us Edition

[Cannalicious]

Happy Holidays everyone!

It's time to prepare for festivus, December 23rd. It's cool if you celebrate something else, as it is a season of entertaining and lots of food. In this edition, I will mostly be showing some snacky snacks, treats, brunch stuff and deserts. They are all pretty simple.

 

[Cannalicious]

4-2-1 creamy, cheesey garlic spread.

This what you'll need:

or instead of the powder (I couldn't find my bulb until too late). It is much better with fresh garlic.

The 4:2:1 is the ratio for hard cheese:butter:beer.

Doesn't matter if by weight or volume: 2 Tablespoons = 1/8 cup = 1 ounce

I will be using 4 oz cheddar (1/2 cup)
2 oz butter (1/4 cup)
1 oz of beer (1/8 cup)

garlic to taste!

The key to this is to make sure the butter and cheese are both at room temperature.

Put the butter and cheese in your blender until smooth or almost smooth.



Put the beer and your garlic in and blend it again until mixed and smooth.



Label your dip so your drug tested roommate doesn't eat it. Chill it overnight, or about an hour if your hungry to let those flavors melt together.

I usually take it out of the fridge for 30 mins or so, so it softens up.

So spread it on some french bread or a piece of toast and put it under the broiler until its all nice and bubbly!



This is also really good at room temp on crudities and crackers.

Potency: 1 Tablespoon of butter = 1.75 ounces or 3.5 Tablespoons of spread.

 

[Cannalicious]

Crippling Cranberry Crumble

What you'll need:



1/2 bag (6 ounces) fresh cranberries
2 Granny Smith or other baking apple
2/3 c. sugar (split)
2.5 ounces(5 Tablespoons) chilled butter - this is important for the texture
1/2 c. flour
1/2 c. chopped nuts

1 - 1.5 quart baking pan.

You can easily double this recipe. It's a piece of cake to make.

Preheat your oven to 375:



Rinse your cranberries, chop your apples, take 1/3 c. sugar and mix them in your greased baking pan.



In your food processor, combine butter, flour, the rest of the sugar (1/3 c.), and a couple tablespoons of the nuts. It's done when you get small clumps.



Put it in a bowl, chop the rest of your nuts, mix it together and spread it on top of cranberry mix.



Bake about 50 mins or until brown.



This is really strong stuff. Dosing: 1 Tablespoon of butter = about 1 cup of crumble = about 1/4th of the crumble.


Yum Yum, especially with ice cream!

 

[AM to PM]

Really tasty lookin recipes Canna! These will be compiled and tried! Keep it comin

 

[Cannalicious]

TY AM - tell me what you think if you make anything...I'd love input.

Do it for the Shorteez Shortbread. - Almond Style; 8-10 cookies
What you'll need:

and

4 ounces butter
3/8 cup powder sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup flour
3 Tablespoons chopped toasted* almonds

parchment paper

Preheat oven at 315 degrees.

Whip butter, powder sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy - It doesn't take long by hand if you don't have a mixer.



Stir in flour and almonds until it forms a soft dough and throw it in the fridge for 5 mins.



Take a spoonful of dough and make crescents and place on parchment paper. (My mom told me that without the parchment paper, the bottoms get weird so that's what I do.)



Cook anywhere from 15-25 mins depending on size of cookie. Just watch them, take them out when they are golden brown and cool on a cookie rack.



Sprinkle with powder sugar.




Dosing: 1 Tablespoon of butter is almost in every cookie

*Toasting Almonds - If you don't buy toasted almonds there are two ways I know how to do it:

One is to bake 'em at 350 for 15-20 mins until golden brown, stirring them once in a while. I invariably burn them this way.

The second way is the microwave . I utilize this appliance for boiling water, and a few cases such as this. I hate the microwave except today. Microwave nuts on high for 20 seconds only, and unless you have a rotisserie microwave, turn plate and nuke for 20 seconds more. The almonds won't brown up, but they will have that toasted taste (works for any nut).

 

[generalgrievous]

Making the garlic spread ASAP....


thnx for the recipe ...