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Garlic Butter Pretzels

Garlic Butter Pretzels

Garlic Butter Pretzels

Prep Time 20 mins
Cook Time 1 hr 15 mins
Total Time 1 hr 35 mins
Course Appetizer

Ingredients
  

  • 1 16oz Bag Utz Old Fashioned Sourdough Hards
  • 3 Sticks Butter
  • 1.5 Packet Dry Onion Soup Mix Mrs Grass
  • Garlic Powder
  • Coarse Sea Salt

Instructions
 

  • Pre Heat Oven to 250.
    Melt 3 sticks of butter in a pan.
    Mix in packets of Onion Soup Mix
    Sprinkle in Garlic Powder.
    While that is melting, taking the pretzels out of the bag and crush them with a mallet. The smaller, the better.
    Strain the crumbs and salt, leaving just the pretzel bits. Reserve the crumbs.
    Take the pretzels and pour them into the pan. Mix them all around ensuring they are all coated. Leave no white pretzel bits.
    After being mixed, lay them out on a baking sheet and sprinkle garlic powder and Sea Salt to taste. Sprinkle some of the crumbs on top of them
    Put in oven for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, pull the pretzels out, stir them around, sprinkle crumbs and garlic and salt over them and put back in for 15 minutes. Repeat until they have been baked for around an hour.
Sweet Potato Mash

Sweet Potato Mash

Sweet Potato Mash

Ingredients
  

Crust

  • 2 Cup Brown Sugar
  • 2/3 Cup Flour
  • 2 Cup Chopped Nuts (Pecans)
  • 1 Cup Butter (melted)

Sweet Potato Mixture

  • 6 Cups Mashed Sweet Potatoes
  • 1 Cup Sugar
  • 1 Teaspoon Salt
  • 2 Teaspoon Vanilla
  • 4 Eggs Well Beaten
  • 1/2 Cup Butter (melted)

Instructions
 

  • Combine brown sugar, flour, nuts, butter in mixing bowl and set aside.  This is the topping.
    Pre-heat oven for 375.
    Boil sweet potatoes for 30 minutes, then shock in ice water. Sit for around 1 hour.
    Combine sweet potatoes, sugar, salt, vanilla, eggs and butter in a mixing bowl in the order listed. Mix thoroughly for 4 minutes, medium speed.
    Pour mixture into buttered baking dish.
    Bake for 30 minutes.
    Put crust on and bake for another 10 minutes.
    Let sit for 30 minutes.
    Can be made the day before, just refrigerate and let sit out for 30 minutes before putting in the oven.
Drunken Cherries

Drunken Cherries

Drunken Cherries

Course Appetizer

Ingredients
  

  • 1 Jar Maraschino Cherries With Stems
  • 1 Bottle Whatever Flavor you want
  • 1 Package Chocolate
  • 1 Coarse Sugar

Instructions
 

  • Drain the juice from cherries and fill the jar with your favorite spirit. We used Jack Fire, Red Stag, Smirnoff Vanilla, and Knob Creek.
    Let sit overnight.
    Melt chocolate in microwave.
    Take cherry by stem and dip in chocolate.
    Roll in sugar and set on parchment paper
Old Joe’s Eggnog

Old Joe’s Eggnog

Old Joe's Eggnog

Old Joe's recipe to make his famous eggnog
Course Drinks

Ingredients
  

  • 1 Half Gallon Store Bought Eggnog
  • 2 Ounces Rum
  • 2 Ounces Brandy
  • 4 Ounces Amaretto
  • 2 Ounces Kahlua

Instructions
 

  • Pour eggnog into mixing container.
    Mix in alcohol.
    Garnish with nutmeg or cinnamon.
    Done.