'Tis The Season!

Wow, have I had a productive evening! N&S came over after work to help finish up the present for my parents, I cleaned the place top to bottom, did three loads of laundry and am now making a CD of Christmas Songs. The place has gotta be ready for Santa, ya know.

I'm full to the brim with Christmas Spirit, so I shall share with you some Christmassy things:

My Christmas CD
Skating - Charlie Brown Christmas
Christmas Time Is Here - Sarah McLachlan
It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas - Bing Crosby
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/ We Three Kings
- Barenaked Ladies & Sarah McLachlan
Shopping - Barenaked Ladies
What Are You Doing New Years?- Ella Fitzgerald
I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas - Gayla Peevey
River - Joni Mitchell
The Man With The Bag - Kay Starr
Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt
Santa Claus Got Stuck In My Chimney - Ella Fitzgerald
In The Bleak Mid Winter - Sarah McLachlan
The Christmas Waltz - Nancy Wilson
All That I Want - The Weepies
Gaudete - The mediaeval Baebes
Children's Winter - The Celtic Connection
Pat-a-Pan - Mannheim Steamroller
Wintersong - Sarah McLachlan

Recipe for Eggnog Muffins.

Caspian and I made these last year on Christmas Morning. I mixed the dry ingredients the night before and then in the morning we just dumped in the fresh ingredients, stirred, put them in to bake and made coffee for the parents and grandparents. By the time we were all up and about there was a lovely Christmas breakfast ready!
Now whenever I talk to Caspian he asks if we can get up early and make muffins together, so apparently he enjoyed it just as much as I did :)

Eggnog Muffins (Makes 16 muffins)
3 cups Flour
1/2 cup Sugar
1 tbsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Salt
1/2 tsp Nutmeg
1/2 cup Oil
1 Egg
1 tsp Vanilla
1 3/4 cups Commercial Eggnog
1/3 cup Raisins
1/3 cup Chopped Candied Deluxe Mixed Fruit
(The kind you use for fruit cake)

Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and nutmeg in a bowl. Whisk together oil, egg and vanilla until blended; Gradually whisk in eggnog. Add eggnog mixture to flour mixture, stirring just until blended. Fold in raisins and candied fruit. Spoon batter into paper-lined muffin cups, filling cups three-quarters full. Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit (180 Celsius) for 25 minutes or until muffins test done. Cool muffins in pans for 5 minutes. Remove from pans and cool on a rack.

Mmmmm. Enjoy!
Love,
~g~