Sheets Culinary Feats

Sorry this post is a little late, with all the excitement at work and holiday parties I’m running a little behind.

My grandmother has made this fudge for as long as I can remember. I’ve had a lot of different fudges in my day, and still this one is my favorite. Maybe it’s the nostalgia, I’m not sure, but this recipe will always have a spot in my heart.

Fantasy Fudge

Ingredients:

3 cups sugar

3/4 cup, or 1 1/2 sticks butter

2/3 cup evaporated milk

1 12 oz package of semi-sweet chocolate chips

2 cups marshmallow cream

1 cup of your favorite chopped nuts, I love some toasted walnuts personally

1 teaspoon of vanilla

Method of Preparation

1. combine the sugar, butter, and evaporated milk in a heavy bottomed sauce pan. Bring to a rolling boil, and reduce the heat to medium, stirring constantly for 5 minutes. Be extremely careful with the hot sugar, while it may not be caramel yet, 200 degree sticky sugar is still extremely unpleasant on your skin.
2. Remove from the heat and add the chocolate. Stir until melted.
3. Add the marshmallow cream, nuts, and vanilla. Stir until well blended and poor into a 9″X13″ pan and let it cool completely.

These are extremely good after you have let them set up over night covered on the counter. They’ll keep in an airtight container for a week at room temperature, but they never last that long.

I love the holidays myself, namely the wonderful food traditions. Nothing beats getting together with friends and family and celebrating with some great food, great conversation, and the opening of presents and what not.

I’ve worked rather extensively with a Jewish catering service and it was wonderful for me to learn the different traditions that are celebrated for Hanukkah. 10 years ago if you had asked me if I would ever eat a potato pancake with applesauce and sour cream I’d have looked at you like you were a nutter. Now though, I find myself craving them every year.

Admittedly I’m not very up on any on Kwanzaa traditions, but it’s definitely something that I’m interested in learning all about. So if you celebrate, please comment here about your traditions and share with everyone.

I’m not attempting to exclude anyone from these recipes, so again if there’s something you’d like to see let me know and I’ll put something up. I think next week I’ll continue the holiday theme (seeing as how Christmas and Hanukkah are both next week), maybe do some Japanese Christmas recipes.

Anyways, I’d love to go over a few different recipes this week. Including:

Potato Latkes with Sour Cream and applesacue

Fudge

Yule Log