A Very Special Senior Team Holigay Recipe Roundup

This is…you can’t make a meal with this roundup. We’ve got cookies, gravy, cake, pasta, sausage balls and two separate and very different alcoholic beverages. Okay, like, you could make this a meal but I have questions if you do that and don’t add anything else. Why are the only options straight whiskey or grasshoppers (lactose intolerant arsenic, basically) and WHAT DOES THE GRAVY GO ON. What this is, however, is a pick-your-own-adventure of the senior team’s fave recipes for the holigays. And what this is REALLY about as opposed to anything you could use to build a meal, is what we consider ours and what we consider worth sharing with you. Enjoy and as Anya says, mangia mangia! Wishing you the happiest of holigays!

xoxo,

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8 Comments

  1. I love this, especially the last one. I have a logistical question, Laneia. Say you have two children and also need to put presents under the tree after they are asleep. When should you fit that in? Before, during, or after the whiskey?

  2. okay i am FASCINATED by the honey cake, immediately looked up a recipe, but as a service baker who does not want to wear out my people with too many delicious desserts will have to wait a little to actually go for it. thanks for the tip (and the cake fail photo, epic), viv.

    • The recipe that my friend used was from Olga’s Flavor Factory. Let me know how it goes and if you can send me some ;)

  4. heather that recipe is the exact same one that my family uses and every year i’m like ‘maybe i shouldn’t make sausage balls, i end up eating most of them and then feeling vaguely queasy’ and every year i’m like ‘eh that’s christmas’ and make them anyway! they are so good

    • Me tooooo!!! My mom made these when I was growing up and I LOVE THEM and would have eaten the whole batch if I had been allowed.

  5. I have been chasing the high of medovik ever since the bakery I discovered it at here went vegan and stopped making it. The instagram algorithm learned this about me and showed me lots of recipes for it- in Russian- early in the pandemic shut down, and the translation was always comically bad, so I also have this association of it bringing me a smile in a dark time. Some day I will give baking it a go. I can make baklava, so surely I can make this?? I’ll keep you posted, Viv! I appreciate the humility of sharing your failed attempt.

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