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Thank you all so much for coming to our brunch this week! As our gift to you this Christmas, we are handing out $5.00 Gift Certificates to the Heavenly Homemakers Shop. These certificates are for every one of you, and may be used on any downloadable item in the shop. (Printed items are excluded.)
Your gift certificate code is: CHRISTMAS5. Limit one certificate per person. This certificate is valid until midnight on December 27, 2014.
Have a very blessed Christmas!
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Our travel plans this holiday season brought on the need for our family to celebrate Christmas a few days early. I think once you see what our big gift was for this year, you’ll understand why transporting gifts on the road was not a good option…
You remember how I shared that three of our boys are taking music lessons this year – one piano, one guitar, and one drums. A drum set (which we got for a fantastic deal online) was the perfect gift for our “band of boys.” Out came the guitar, synthesizer, and microphone to join the drums – and it’s been one very loud jam session ever since.
This has been incredibly fun to experience. It has also been incredibly…loud. We expected nothing less, but WOW. Today’s project has been to clean out and rearrange our upstairs “game room” so that we can transfer all instruments far away from mom’s office. :)
We’ve had some great down time and oodles of fun with our new instrument and board games. Now, we’re working to get ready for a huge road trip. Praise God for all the fun and family time that Christmas brings!
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Today, instead of sharing a new recipe, I decided to post 7 of our family’s favorite treats from the past few years. From sweet to savory, all of these recipes are delicious and easy – perfect for the Christmas Brunch!
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If you haven’t picked up your free jar of coconut oil from Tropical Traditions, you need to get on it! Offer ends Christmas night, and I’m pretty sure we’ll all be just a little bit busy that day. :) Free Coconut Oil!!!!!
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This salad is super easy to make and super refreshing to eat. It is perfect for our Christmas Brunch!
Mix together three cups combination of any of the following:
Fresh or canned pineapple chunks or tidbits
Canned mandarin oranges or fresh clementines
Sliced bananas
Coconut flakes
Stir in:
1 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Mix well and serve. See how easy that is?!
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There is something about special drinks at Christmas time that I just love! Below, you’ll find 7 tried and true holiday beverages that you’ll love too…
Heavenly Homemaker's Club Members: Access your homepage and all your fantastic resources here! Not a member yet? Please join us!This Cheesy Vegetable Casserole makes it possible to help your entire family enjoy veggies!
This recipe is versatile so you can add your family’s favorite veggies – or be creative so you can learn to eat new ones. The mixture of all these ingredients makes any vegetable taste great!
This recipe is perfect to add to your holiday brunch table. Here are some dishes I recommend serving with your Cheesy Vegetable Casserole for brunch:
The thing about brunches is that you’re wide open to serving just about anything – from main dish to side dish to breakfast dish to dessert. That’s what makes them fun. Putting this Cheesy Vegetable Casserole on the table – even with other breakfast type foods like muffins and sausage – really adds something special. And let’s not forget that it means your putting veggies on the table. With cheese. Veggies with cheese are always a hit!
What are your favorite dishes to add to a brunch table?
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Heavenly Homemaker's Club Members: Access your homepage and all your fantastic resources here! Not a member yet? Please join us!Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!!! Tropical Traditions is offering all of us a FREE quart jar of coconut oil again this Christmas! I love it that they do this! (You’ll find the free jar on this page – scroll down until you see it.)
This isn’t just any coconut oil. This is a jar of their very highest quality coconut oil – the very best I’ve ever had. It is delicious and super high in nutritional value. It’s an entire quart, and it is free with any order of $19.00 or more!
See that? It costs $0.00!!!!!!!
We will have to pay shipping on this order, but I’m planning to put several light-weight items in my cart (like my favorite Natural Soaps!) and I’ll still make out great.
You can also get a free coffee mug in your order. See the link on their side bar and add it to your cart.
I’m very excited to take advantage of this, and I hope you will be too. What a lovely gift to come in the mail!
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Welcome to our first brunch recipe of 2014! You’re going to love this one. It’s great with a cup of coffee. <— You know, this time last year I was just beginning to realize how awesome coffee is. Oh how far I’ve come in a year. Mmmmm, coffee with cream during my Bible time each morning. How I love it.
This bread is also great with a cup of hot tea, hot chocolate, Warm Vanilla Soother, or a cold glass of milk. Pretty much it’s great with anything you like to drink. It’s also very easy to make, and can be baked ahead of time if you’d like to wake up on Christmas morning to a delicious ready-made breakfast.
Cranberry Almond Bread with Orange Glaze
3 cups whole wheat pastry flour (regular whole wheat works okay, but pastry flour is perfection in this!)
¾ cups sucanat
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
1 ½ teaspoons sea salt
1 ½ cups milk
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
1 ½ teaspoons almond extract
3 eggs
1 cup melted butter or coconut oil
1 cup fresh or dried cranberries
Mix flour, sucanat, baking powder, and salt. Add eggs, milk, extracts, and oil. Mix well. Fold in cranberries. Pour batter into 2 well-buttered loaf pans (or six small loaf pans). Bake 45-60 minutes at 350°. Makes two loaves.
Orange Glaze
¼ cup orange juice
¼ cup honey
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon almond extract
Heat orange juice and honey in a small saucepan. Remove from heat. Stir in vanilla and almond extracts. Pour mixture over loaves of cranberry bread about 3 minutes after they have been removed from the oven, but before removing the loaves from the baking pans.
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Heavenly Homemaker's Club Members: Access your homepage and all your fantastic resources here! Not a member yet? Please join us!The beauty of the internet is that while most of us can’t actually hang out and share a meal together (seeing as we’re located all over the globe), we can still enjoy community and fellowship. For the 5th year in a row, we’re inviting you to join us in a lovely Christmas Brunch, held right here every day through December 24.
What’s on the menu? Oh just wait until you see! You’ll get to enjoy new recipes each day, as well as have chances to win prizes. Now that’s always fun!
Each time you see the Christmas Brunch invitation (pictured above), leave a comment on that post to be entered into a drawing for one of five $10 gift certificates for downloadable items in our Heavenly Homemakers Shop. The day after Christmas, we’ll tally all the entries and do a random drawing. The more you comment, the more chances you have to win.
But don’t forget the recipes and fellowship. That’s the best part of all! So make plans to join us from now until Christmas. We have a lot of fun in store for you.
So let’s start now! Leave a comment on this post for a chance to win one of our Heavenly Homemakers Shop gift certificates!
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