Carnival of the Recipes

Welcome to another Carnival of the Recipes, where you can find some good downhome cooking, fancy dishes for entertaining, and terrific recipes for celebrating, feasting, and eating anytime! I had a bit of a short circuit with the carnival, and I appreciate Shawn for helping me out! I think I managed to include all the entries, but please look it over and let me know if I missed any or botched the links.
To illustrate this week's carnival I used several images from some of our many vintage books. I hope they don't make it too slow for our dial up friends to load. I tried to control myself- you should see all the pictures I didn't use. Maybe another carnival...


Main Dishes
I love chicken, and might try Triticale's classic chicken dish, purportedly an Elvis favorite (A La The King).

Or maybe we'll have what they're fixing at ChickenRecipes- Roasted Chicken!

Cehwiedel presents Wheatless Honey Lemon Chicken - New Recipe Posted posted at Kneadle Work.

Kevin presents Braised Lamb Shanks posted at Seriously Good.

Rightwingprof presents More Food: The Saute posted at Right Wing Nation.

Christmas Baking!
To the right we have a picture from a vintage children's book about Wales. The children in that picture are stirring the Christmas plum pudding and will bake enough to share with all the neighbors. At our house we've been making my grandmother's apple-orange bread, snickerdoodles, cracker toffee, and all sorts of other yummy things. All around the bloggerhood good things are cooking. For instance:
Christmas Berry Jelly posted at Christmas Recipes.

Third World Country is thinking about Grandmother's Date Nut Bread, and it sounds lovely. There's a reason why Grandmothers' recipes get passed down, isn't there?

Mrs. Happy Housewife and her children are making easy gingerbread cottages- using cookies!

Gingerbread Cupcakes (oh, my, this makes my mouth water!)

Mama Squirrel presents Chocolate Hazelnut Crescents posted at Dewey's Treehouse.

Blest with Sons has some delicious looking (and kid friendly) truffles.

Maureen presents Trinity Prep School - Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies posted at Trinity Prep School.

All of these sweet treats would be good to share with a friend!

The recipe carnival goes international in our Holiday Traditions with:
montacado or montacao anise cookies from spain, Springerle anise cookies from Germany- my mother makes these every year using the original springerle pans my great, greats used (we're very traditional in some ways). Bothenook shares two separate recipes and entries with pictures. I think The Geezer really likes Christmas, because we have four recipes from that blog- but it's Christmas, so I'm going ahead and including them all. Plus, they look really good:
chocolate crinkles/snowflakes and thumbprint cookies
(with picture!) See, yummy looking!
Christine presents Candied Walnuts posted at Morning Coffee & Afternoon Tea.
Joe Caterisano presents Amish Sugar Cookies posted at Mom's Favorites.

Soups and Sandwiches
Yes, folks around the blogosphere are certainly cooking up a storm! I bet ours isn't the only kitchen that looks like three winds of destruction came sweeping through!

Bernadette at Booklore shares some traditional Polish Christmas Eve soups, and it's good to have something so warm and nourishing to keep us from overloading on the sugar.

That geezer fellow is also sharing a very tasty looking lentil soup.

Beefy Beanie Soup posted at Diabetic Recipes.

Kathy Maister presents English Muffin Pizzas

Bill at World Famous Recipes presents Salmon Boats or Tuna Boats

Vegetables
Gary at Disease Proof offers some tasty looking veggie snacks.

In the Headlights has some very savory looking garlic mashed potatoes. I think this is the recipe my mother prepared for us recently, and there were no leftovers, no, not even enough to run your finger along the serving bowl.

larryb presents How to Cook Collard Greens by Sarah Sandori posted at Baking 101.

Adam presents Glazed Carrots posted at Men in Aprons.

Holiday Beverages

Bill at Famous Recipes presents Christmas Drink Recipes

We make our hot cocoa mix every year, but this year we used some flavored coffee creamers, making peppermint hot chocolate. It's quite tasty. For added creamy chocolate goodness try adding some powdered sugar and sifted unsweetened cocoa powder.

She didn't submit it, but I just came across this post over at Carmon's Buried Treasure Books, and it looks so good I have to share it- Peppermint Chocolate Mocha!

That's it for this week. Thank you all so much for your recipes!
The next carnival is December 24th, and is hosted by Morning Coffee and Afternoon Tea. This submission form at TLB makes the carnival very easy for the hosts. You can also send recipes or links to recipe.carnival@gmail.com by noon CST on Saturday.