Happy Christmastide.

Happy Christmastide.

Decadent Orange Chocolate Truffles by Jennifer

http://notyourmommascookie.com/2012/12/orange-chocolate-truffles/#

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Decadent orange chocolate truffles – they are dangerously good!

Author: Jennifer

Recipe type: Candy

Serves: 25-30

Ingredients

• ⅓ cup heavy cream
• 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
• 2 cups high quality semi-sweet chocolate, chips or chopped
• ¾ teaspoon orange extract
• 1 – 2 cups pecans, finely chopped

Instructions

1. In a small saucepan over medium-low heat, bring the heavy cream to a simmer. Do not boil! Add the unsalted butter, stir until melted. Add the semi-sweet chocolate and stir until mixture is smooth and glossy. Remove from heat and whisk in orange extract. Pour mixture into a large, shallow bowl. Let cool, then refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
2. Once mixture is properly chilled, it is time to roll! Place pecan pieces in a bowl. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Using a cookie scoop or melon baller, scrape the chocolate mixture until you get a one inch ball. Roll each ball into the pecan pieces until coated. Place on baking sheet. Repeat until all of the chocolate mixture has been used.

Notes

Lightly adapted from Ghirardelli

 Ghost Stories for Christmas with Christopher Lee 

Merry Christmas Day.

Merry Christmas Eve.

I hope to post pics and send e-mails, soon. 

Happy Winter Solstice. (Happy Summer Solstice to Everyone in the Southern Hemisphere.)

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Ultra Alexander

 http://bitchinlifestyle.tv/recipe/meet-ultra-alexander/

Ingredients

Ice

2 ounces brandy

2 ounces chocolate liquor

1 tbsp whipping cream

1 tbsp chocolate syrup

Optional garnish

Cocoa powder

Chocolate shavings

Directions

Get out your best cocktail shaker and fill to the top with ice. Cover with brandy, liquor, whipping cream and syrup. Shake it like a polaroid picture, strain and serve in a glass. Since this recipe makes one serving, it’s up to you if you want to rim your glass with cocoa, or top your cocktail with chocolate shavings.

Sometimes, a good night out leads to new friendships. While tequila may be a bad influence, the Ultra Alexander will surely make you feel great. Full, but great.

By: Eva Severed

Thanks to Better Homes and Garden for the inspiration & photo.

Tags: brandy, chocolate, chocolate sauce, ice, liquor, shaker, whipping cream

Sweet and Beautiful November

It's hard to believe this is the last day of November. I planned to post more often this month, but it was a very busy month-family visiting, my Mom's birthday (Nov. 14), my birthday (Nov. 19), Thanksgiving, etc. The entire month was gorgeous. Nothing but sunshine, blue skies and beautiful colors. Our Pecan harvest was wonderful and we are getting ready to harvest our citrus trees. I took some pictures, but I still need to upload them. I still need to post pics from October, as well. Time truly gets away from me.

The farmers are busy harvesting the sugarcane. Harvesting won't end until the beginning of January.

I'm drinking a Pumpkin Ale. I raise it to the month of November. :)

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One of my favorite November songs.

Vashti Bunyan- Rose Hip November

November Full Moon

The November Full Moon is called the Full Frost Moon, Full Mourning Moon and Full Beaver Moon.

More November Full Moon Names

Itartoryuk Moon (Inuit). 
Tree Moon (Neo-Pagan).
Poverty Moon (Mohawk). Trading Moon (Cherokee).
Geese Going Moon (Kiowa).
Falling Leaves moon (Sioux).
Fledgling Raptor Moon (Hopi).
Deer Ruting Moon (Cheyenne).
Freezing River Moon(Arapaho).
Snow Moon (Mediaeval English).
Mourning Moon : Full, Dead : Dark (Janic).
Corn Harvest Moon (Taos Native American).
Snowy Morning Mountains Moon (Wishram).
All Gathered Moon (San Juan Native American).
Beaver Moon, Frosty Moon (Algonquin Native American/Colonia).

Other moon names : Fog Moon, Deer Antler Shedding moon, Oak moon, Mad moon, Storm moon, Dark moon.
Source: http://everythingunderthemoon.net/forum/moon-names-for-full-year-t7789.html

Source: http://creativeeveryday.com/creativeeveryday/2009/11/full-frost-moon.html

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Where the Frost Licks the Moon. Source:http://www.deviantart.com/morelikethis/280202504#/d5kk4ai

Peppermint Crumble Bars by Ashton

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Celtic Tree Month-Elder

Elder Moon: November 24 - December 23

The Death-Child

William Sharp (1855–1905)

SHE sits beneath the elder-tree And sings her song so sweet, And dreams o’er the burn that darksomely Runs by her moonwhite feet.   Her hair is dark as starless night,         5 Her flower-crowned face is pale, But oh, her eyes are lit with light Of dread ancestral bale.   She sings an eerie song, so wild With immemorial dule—         10 Though young and fair, Death’s mortal child That sits by that dark pool.   And oft she cries an eldritch scream, When red with human blood The burn becomes a crimson stream,         15 A wild, red, surging flood:   Or shrinks, when some swift tide of tears— The weeping of the world— Dark eddying ’neath man’s phantom-fears Is o’er the red stream hurled.         20   For hours beneath the elder-tree She broods beside the stream; Her dark eyes filled with mystery, Her dark soul rapt in dream.   The lapsing flow she heedeth not         25 Through deepest depths she scans: Life is the shade that clouds her thought, As Death ’s the eclipse of man’s.   Time seems but as a bitter thing Remembered from of yore:         30 Yet ah (she thinks) her song she ’ll sing When Time’s long reign is o’er.   Erstwhiles she bends alow to hear What the swift water sings, The torrent running darkly clear         35 With secrets of all things.   And then she smiles a strange sad smile And lets her harp lie long; The death-waves oft may rise the while, She greets them with no song.         40   Few ever cross that dreary moor, Few see that flower-crowned head; But whoso knows that wild song’s lure Knoweth that he is dead.

Celtic Tree Month-Reed

Reed Moon: October 28-November 23

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Donovan-"Lord of the Reedy River"



Kate Bush-"Lord of the Reedy River" (Donovan Cover)