Title: White Chocolate Cheesecake
Cook Time: 35 minutes
Level: Easy
Serving: 4

The delicious cake cheesecake is recognized and prepared in all regions of the world because of its exquisite flavor. Its origin is uncertain, so if you are undocumented and is what we can actually consider their origin is that formed part of the menu that athletes ate at the first Olympics in history, in 776 BC.

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ cup honey cookies (crushed)
• ½ cup melted butter
• 20 tablets Coverage White Chocolate (chopped)
• 1 ¼ cup fresh cream
• 1 tablespoon unflavored gelatin
• ¼ cup water. 2 cups cream cheese
• ½ cup sugar

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Title: Gingerbread Cookies
Cook Time: 40 minutes
Level: Easy
Serving: 30 cookies

Christmas baking wouldn’t seem complete without the next recipe. These cookies are fragrant with ground ginger, nutmeg and cinnamon. If you like your gingerbread cookies on the soft side bake them a little less than the recipe. As the longer they bake the harder they will become.

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 3/4 cup molasses
• 4 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons ground ginger
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• Vanilla frosting of your choice (optional)
• Red and green paste food coloring (optional)

Directions:

In a large bowl, cream butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg and molasses.

Mix the flour, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well.

Cover and refrigerate for 3 hours or until looks easy to handle.

On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to 1/8-in. thickness.

Cut with floured cookie cutters. Place one in. Apart on ungreased baking sheets.

Bake at 350° for 8-10 minutes or until edges are firm.

Remove to wire racks to cool.

Painting some of the frosting red and some green. (optional)

Personal Suggestion: There are a many ways to decorate your cookies; for example you can press raisins into the dough before baking, or you can frost the baked and cooled cookies with confectioners frosting.

Title: Seafood Pasta
Cook Time: 40 minutes
Level: Easy
Serving: 5

In Italy, you can eat pasta including in Christmas Eve. If this year you want to surprise your family with a different and delicious dish, this pasta with seafood taste is an excellent option for  your Christmas  celebration.

Ingredients:

• 1 lb. pasta
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 1 garlic clove, sliced
• 1 onion, sliced
• 1  can tomatoes
• 1/4 tsp. fresh oregano
• 2 tbsp. capers
• 1/2 lb. peeled medium shrimp
• 1/2 lb. scallops
• Salt and pepper to taste

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Title: Chicken with Herbs and Orange
Cook Time: 50 minutes
Level: Easy
Serving: 6

Hello friends we will prepare a rich recipe is a good way to eat chicken with a delicious orange flavor that gives a touch of exotic to any celebration.

Ingredients:

• 3 quarts of thighs and 2 chicken breasts (skinless)
• 1 onion, chopped
• 6 cloves garlic, minced
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 glass of freshly squeezed orange juice
• Herbs: rosemary, tarragon, pepper.
• Salt to taste.

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Title: Christmas Croquettes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Level: Easy
Serving: 10

It is the favorite dish of many children. Its preparation is easy and quick. It is an excellent choice for the littlest of the family to serve something delicious and easy to eat at our Christmas celebration.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Turkey or fish, chopped fine.
• 1 tbsp (tablespoon) of butter
• 3 tablespoons flour
• 2 cups milk
• 1 egg
• Breadcrumbs
• Salt

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Title: Cheese Stuffed Mushrooms
Cook Time: 1/2 hour
Level: Easy
Serving: 6

A study published in the Journal of Nutrition attests to the antioxidant potential of rustic mushroom (Agaricus bisporus). The greatest benefit of the mushrooms on health, subscribe to the authors, lies in the ergothioneine, an amino acid that supplies energy to the cell mitochondria, increasing the effectiveness with which oxygen is involved in metabolism. In addition works in the body as a powerful antioxidant, whose effects are particularly noticeable in the liver, eye lens and red cells.

Ingredients:

• 250 gr mushroom (same size)
• 120 gr cream cheese
• 1 clove garlic
• Fresh herbs (parsley, thyme)
• Juice of ½ lemon

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Title:Baked  Pork Ham
Cook Time: 4 hours
Level: Medium
Serving: 15

On Christmas Eve invitation to celebrate a special dinner for the whole family. We will be preparing a selection of dishes for all tastes and budgets. What is important to success when cooking, do it with love and a little creativity. The rest is done alone.

Ingredients:

• 1 leg of pork 5 to 6 pounds
• 2 tablespoons  annatto seed
• 4 tablespoons salt
• 1/2 cup water
• 10 cloves of garlic
• 1/2 cup onion
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 2 tablespoons oregano

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Title: Buding Fish
Cook Time: 1 hour
Level: Easy
Serving: 4

The Budding is a dish made with savory or sweet ingredients, the beaten eggs are added and cooked in a double boiler pan. Can be served cold or hot. the following recipe is a delicious fish budding from Spain, a perfect  dish for  a holiday celebration.

Ingredients:

• 1 k. clean white fish cooked (can be frozen)
• 3 tablespoons ketchup
• 3 sticks of crab
• 1/2 k of prawns or shrimp (can be frozen)
• 6 eggs
• 1/4 of cream
• Mayonnaise
• Bread crumbs
• salt and butter
• Curly endive

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Title: Lemon sorbet
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Level: Easy
Serving: 6

For Christmas dinner I like to serve this refreshing lemon sorbet recipe for the menu of this celebration, to lighten the palate between courses, a custom inherited from the Victorian era, when great feasts were served with many dishes. Thus, the straw clean our taste buds and prepares us for a new dish.

Ingredients:

• 4 lemon juice
• 200 g sugar
• 1/2 liter of water
• 2 egg whites
• A grated rind of 1 lemon
• 1/2 stick of cinnamon or mint leaves
• 1 pinch of salt

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