Choice Morsels

A link list from my Good Eating Monday posts for all my Favorite Holiday Recipes! I usually try at least one new Holiday recipe every year, so here's some great ideas for you to try! Chocolate Peppermint Crinkles Sometimes called  "Black & Whites" An Old Fashioned Classic! Chocolate Clouds Made with Egg Whites, this Delicious Cookie  is Rich with Chocolate Chips! Banana Walnut Fruitcake There's nothing better then a home-made fruitcake! Bananas, Walnuts, Dates, Candied Pineapple & Cherries! Yum! Italian Cheesecake Brownies An Easy Way to Make Those Ordinary Box Brownies Really Fancy! ****** That's it for today! More of my Holiday Favorites next Monday!

   Happy New Year!  May your 2014 be a year filled with good things! I'll be taking New Year's Eve & New Year's Day off, so next blog will be Mama Kat on Thursday. Today I'm making  Chocolate Clouds , a delicious meringue cookie filled with chocolate chip goodness! We always host a Pray-In-The-New-Year event annually at the Airman Center on base, featuring food, fun, movies & games until just about 15 minutes prior to midnight when we gather, share prayer requests, then pray over the hour into the New Year. I'm taking the chocolate clouds. Plus I'm trying a new slow cooker recipe for mac & cheese. I love trying slow-cooker recipes, since the appliance is more economic then the stove!  Last week I tried a couple rounds of  Slow-Cooker Rosemary Rolls , one with herb, the other without. I added that extra teaspoon sugar, extra 1/2 cup of flour and split the olive oil with half coconut oil and the second batch came out quite a bit better....