Quick Snacks for Christmas Eve Eve

Merry Christmas Eve Eve!!!!

Tonight the boys and I decided to do our gift exchange because we weren't sure if we would have another chance before the new year so...tonight was another Christmas celebration.  It's one of the many things I like about Christmas; it may be only one day on the Calendar but there are soooo many people to share it with there are many days of celebration and fellow shipping with friends and family.

Our Christmas celebration goodies was simple, quick to prepare and delicious!

First a friend at work gave me this:
package of lil' smokies
package of bacon cut into thirds
wrap bacon around lil smokie secure with toothpick and place in baking dish
sprinkle a cup of brown sugar and bake at 375 for about 45 - 60 minutes.
These are to die for!!!!  Oh soooooo good!

Now I'm sure you've heard of the cream cheese and salsa dip.  Yep that's it.  I took a brick of cream cheese and poured a half of cup of salsa over the cream cheese and served tortilla chips.  I actually have never tried this before tonight I was very pleased.  If you haven't tried this you should.

Here's another cream cheese dip recipe but I don't have the exact amounts because I actually used a package mix but...I'm thinking I could create my own.  The package was cinnamon and vanilla, I added 3/4 cup of brown sugar and 8oz cream cheese and blended all together.  I served it with sliced apples and cinnamon graham crackers.  OH good stuff!

The boys wanted pizza but I wanted to 'hand make' or Christmas celebration tasties so I had to put my brain in high gear.  Remembering a recipe I got from a pampered chef party I started getting excited, will this really work...hmmmm....ok let's give it a try.

1 can crescent rolls
package of pepperoni and salami
package of shredded pizza cheese
pizza sauce

Take the rolls out and unroll them, placing them in a circle around a round pizza pan.  The wide edge of the triangles will be on the pan slightly overlapping - pictures will be uploaded soon.  Place pepperoni and salami on the rolls, next sprinkle cheese and a light squirt of pizza sauce.  Take the points of each triangle and pull them up and to the middle.  Bake according to the package.  The last 5 minutes top with more cheese and more pizza sauce.  Bake until the cheese is melted.  Oh ya...........way good and yes I'm making it again tomorrow for lunch.  Thats how much we enjoyed our pizza ring.  :-)

A great evening with great food!  Looking forward to more great evenings, more great food and more great evenings with great family and friends.