Favorite Christmas Movies

Top 5 Christmas Movies (2010 edition)

Jill
We’re No Angels
A Christmas Carol (1984--George C. Scott)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1964)
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Ernest Saves Christmas

Haley
White Christmas
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Ebbie
The Holiday
While You Were Sleeping

Justin
White Christmas
Love Actually
Elf
Frosty the Snowman
Christmas Vacation

Finn
A Pink Christmas
Frosty the Snowman
Disney’s Christmas Sing-a-long
A Charlie Brown Christmas

Nadine
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Nutcracker: The Motion Picture
White Christmas
Love Actually
Eloise at Christmastime

Gabe
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Die Hard
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Emmett Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas

Jody

Christmas Vacation

Miracle on 34th Street (1974--Natalie Wood)

One Magic Christmas

Christmas in Connecticut (1945--Barbara Stanwyck)

It's a Wonderful Life

Rich

A Christmas Carol (1984--George C. Scott)

Home Alone

A Christmas Story

Christmas Vacation

Emmett Otter's Jug-Band Christmas

Richelle

Emmett Otter's Jug-Band Christmas

One Magic Christmas

Elf

Christmas Vacation

A Christmas Story

Elijah

Elf

Yo Gabba Gabba Christmas

A Charlie Brown Christmas

Mac

It's a Wonderful Life

The Year Without Santa Claus

A Charlie Brown Christmas

A Christmas Carol (1938--Reginald Owen)

Christmas Vacation

Please post your updated list in the comments!  Mine hasn't changed.

-paneer

Hard Tack Candy

Pictures from the hard tack candy production factory December 2010:

Chester P. Greenwood and Milk Punch

Yesterday was a day of celebration in Farmington, ME: Chester P. Greenwood Day, celebrated yearly on the first Saturday of December. This year, C.P.G. Day also happens to fall on Chester's birthday (born in December 4, 1858).

Chester famously invented earmuffs while breaking in a new pair of ice skates. He got sick of his ears freezing in the bitter wind, and after little success with wrapping a scarf around his head he had his grandmother sew some wool to ear-sized wire loops.

Greenwood's Champion Ear Protectors were worn by U.S. soldiers in World War I, making them Chester's most famous invention, but he also patented a whistling tea kettle, a steel-toothed leaf rake, an advertising matchbox, and a machine for making wooden thread spools.

The most important aspect of the Chester Greenwood Day celebrations is always the parade. Everyone wears earmuffs, what could be better? A few highlights from this year's parade, in order of appearance:

Christmas Pepper Jelly

Our plan is to make one thing each week for our Christmas Gift Baskets. Today it was Pepper Jelly!!!! We used the directions on the liquid pectin package, with some alterations.

Christmas Pepper Jelly

3 Large Red Peppers (we used Ancient Sweet)
6 Medium Orange or Yellow Peppers
2 Medium Pablano Peppers (to add some heat)
2 Cups Cider Vinegar
1/2 Cup Apple Juice
6 Cups Sugar
2 Pouches of Liquid Pectin
1/2 tsp Butter

Pulse the peppers in a food processor in small batches (you should have small pieces...not puree).
Drain in sieve for one minute.
Mix together peppers, vinegar, apple juice, sugar, pectin and butter in large pot.
Stir over medium heat until sugar disolves. Cover and boil for 2 minutes, them remove lid and continue boiling for 8 minutes.

Ladle into sterilized 4 oz canning jars, seal, and process for 10 minutes in a water bath.

Makes 12-14 jars of deliciousness.

For a wonderful appetizer, pour one jar over cream cheese and serve with crackers.

Biscotti

BonBon and I started our Christmas baking today. We made biscotti. We made Almond-Cherry, Triple Chocolate, Chocolate-Orange, Chocolate-Peanut Butter, Lemon-Poppy, Traditional Almond, White Chocolate-Macadamia, and Christmas Biscotti with cranberries and pistachios (All Red and Green!). We mixed up the doughs and will bake them off just before Christmas.

But Obviously we needed

to taste them so we baked

up some samples.