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Old 12-17-2011, 10:01 PM



Mellies cooking competition is back with the Christmas/Hannukah/Kwanza/Yule/Insert-winter-holiday themed thread!!

Please read all posts.
rules
Categories + submission form
prizes
submissions

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Old 12-18-2011, 06:11 PM

Rules

Your username must be in the picture you submit
NO photoshoped on names (or equivilant)
Must be homemade items. (no store bought)
Be creative!

This contest will run from start to finish of the event.
START: NOW! (12/23/2011)
END:
when the event ends. :P

Your entries must be received before the event closes.


FAQ:
You may enter more than one entry.
You may enter more than one entry per category
You may ONLY WIN once per category
What if my entry doesn't look festive? : You may still enter your entry, however festive and themed entries are more likely to win than non-festive entries.

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Old 12-18-2011, 06:14 PM

Categories/Submission Form

Sweets
desserts

Savory selections
main course etc

Drinks
er..drinks.

Bento
bento. haha.

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Old 12-18-2011, 06:14 PM

Prizes

The top 3 will each earn a medal.


Other than that...prizes will be a surprise. ;)

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Old 12-18-2011, 06:15 PM

Submissions

SweetX



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Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Sweet
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Description: Butter cookies.
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Sweet!
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Description: It's a sort of cake, chocolate biscuity base, with strawberries, and then melted chocolate on top!
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category:Santa Sweets
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Description: Peppermint surge cookies decorated like Santa and Mrs Claus
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Mellie Mellie I made ...cupcakes and cakepops
Category: sweet
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Sweets
Item pic: [1] (the last cookie + my name) [2] (a pan of them)
Description: Rudolph cookies! Made with slice and bake peanut butter cookies with small pretzels for the antlers, chocolate chips for the eyes, and a red hot for the nose.
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Sweets
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Description: I baked these cookies as gifts and this is the last batch going to a family gathering tomorrow. ^_^; Some of them were in Holiday Tins and holiday take out boxes. If you need extra pictures, just let me know.
[QUOTE]Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Sweet
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Description: These are gingerbread Christmas tree biscuits decorated with icing, glittery icing and stars!

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Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Sweets
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Description: A Christmas cake!
It's a sponge cake with whipped cream (whipping cream and sugar, not the whipped cream from a tub) topping and strawberries on top. The middle's got some cream and sliced strawberries also. The cake looked funny, but it tasted great!
Process pictures
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Sweets
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Description: Peanut Butter Blossoms -- A chocolate kiss nestled in the center of a peanut butter cookie.
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Sweets
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Description: This is Yan Poop. Yan wanted to open his present early. I told him no of coarse. he was mad at me and well, this is what I found in my good dress shoes. He tried to blame it on Yumeh. I KNEW he was being to quiet! What? ok ok, so it's not Yan poop. It's Rumballs without the sprinkles. I dusted some to make them look like snowballs. XD
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Sweets
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Description: Santas Reindeer! Or a bunch of rudolph look-a-likes lol. Choc Orange muffins with buttons and chocolate chips for eyes, jaffas for noses, candy canes for antlers and glitter gel pen for mouths (the food kind of course). Very delicious heated up with ice cream on the side .
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Mellie Mellie I made a...

Category: Sweet

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Description: This is one of the cinnamon buns I made for breakfast on Christmas morning. I call them "Labor of Love Buns" cause they take so long to make! I pretended they were snowy mountains and decorated them with tiny trees and snowmen. I used pens to color in the snowman's features and I even used tweezers to attach little red sprinkles dipped in frosting to the trees. Between decorations and issues with the cold and letting the dough rise, no wonder this endeavor took me over four hours >_>

Here's the recipe, though I made a nice cream cheese frosting instead of the one included in the recipe.
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Sweet
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Description: fudge done rocky road style!
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
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Description: Homemade strawberry-rhubarb pie! (The center is supposed to look like a snowflake.) Later served with whipped topping and devoured by my family during our Christmas dinner.
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Sweet
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Description: peppermint bark, with real candy canes!
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Sweet
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Description:chocolate/caramel pretzel sandwiches
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
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Description: I got my fiance an Ice Cream maker for Christmas and together we made Reese's Cup Vanilla Icecream!!
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
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Description: I made a second batch of truffles just for the picture. This time, I told them to wait until after I get my picture then they could eat them up!


Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Sweets
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Description: Sugar Cookies! I made them at my friend's house and we decorated them together. We had about 40+ cookies so she kept a third, another to my other friend and the last third for me. I do have a picture of them all but there's no username in it. :')
Sorry for the lack of cookies, my family ate a bunch of them before I could get my camera to it (I'm also pretty guilty of this...

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Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Sweet
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Process : [x] [x]
Description: Creamy chocolate coffee gelato with chocolate cups/decorations. (Some cups broke-- eeks!) Unfortunately made without an ice cream maker, but everything was whipped and frozen with much love!
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category:Sweet
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Description:My multi-colored (and shaped) Spritz cookies. Traditional Almond flavor (well traditional for Swedish folk). Green trees with sprinkles, red Poinsettias w/red sprinkles and red hots or chocolate chips in the center. And a few red/green "x" patterned ones with chocolate chips/walnuts/red hots, a red/green poinsettia and one multi heart in the middle that has walnuts and red hots on it.
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Sweet
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Description: Gingerbread House
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
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Description: I made Candy Cane Cookies. Their peppermint flavored and colored and twisted together to look like candy canes, I also sprinkled peppermint sugar over the top.
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
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Deep fat fried Brownies! OOHHH sooo amazing! They ended up being warm and soft and melty...
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Sweets
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Description: Christmas Cake. I used a yellow cake recipe and made half of the batter green and the other half red before baking. Once it was finished and cooled I iced it with vanilla icing and decorated it with red, gold and green sprinkles.
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Mellie Mellie I made a... Hazelnut Cheescake
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Description: Hazelnut Cheesecake says it all, but it has a secret ingredient of hazelnut liqueur ^_^ I forgot my name in the first image and when I remembered there was only one slice left.


SavoryX


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Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Savory selections
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I realy don't have idea how to name it in english. Dictionary says that they are dumplings but actually they are not. In polish we call them pierogi and all my family members loves to eat them. It takes lot of time to make it last year I made about 1,7k piecies, this year a bit less. There is lot of kind stuffing for pierogi, I think that it can be made from everything xD vegetables, friust, meat, cheese ect
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Savory!
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Description: Red-glazed drunken chicken served on a bed of asparagus--red and green for Christmas!
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
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Description: A roasted turkey filled with a stuffing made with sausage and olives.
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
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Description: This is called a 'Pernil.' (Say it with a Spanish accent like you are Antonio Bandaras! Roll the 'r'.) Anyway, this is basically a roast pork shoulder, but made Puerto Rican style. It has a crispy outside and a tender inside, if you do it correctly. I'm not going to lie, my mom helped but basically this beast was my job. She gave me the recipe and watched over me because I usually make this is the slowcooker, but the oven. Obviously I'm proud as all hell and it tasted delicious. It is usually served with rice. I wish I could send you some! I wish I could have made it look more festive but people wanted to eat... and so did I. And it's kinda greasy so I didn't want to stick anything in there and just make it look gross. <3

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Mellie Mellie I made a...
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Description: It's Sopa Verde, sort of like, mac and cheese? XD Not sure how to explain it considering it's a family recipe. Uh, there's ham and some meat, and then some potato salad. <3 The little figures are chocolate. :3
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
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Description: Christmas Dinner! A ham with Reese's Ham Glaze decorated with Pineapple slices, mashed potatoes (hand mashed and whipped), diced potatoes and carrots soaked in ham juice and ham glaze (because they were cooked with the ham), and stuffing (which isn't overly visible due to the way the pic had to be taken)
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
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Description: green chili pork tamale.
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
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Description: Lasagna, well my attempt at it, really chessey! But also really meaty and tasty
I love it..... leftover for at least three days =D
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Savory
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Description: Homemade stuffing balls.
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
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Description: Sweet Potato Casserole.
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
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Description: Cheesy potatoes at least that's what I'm going to call them since I forgot the actual name of them. They are really good. You fry the potatoes until they start to brown then you put them into a pan or dish and bake them in the oven.
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Savory
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Description: another BLT on wheat with santa's beard of lettuce, bacon eyes, and a tomato hat with a dollop of mayonnaise for the pompom!
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Savory
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Description: a wreath BLT on wheat bread, complete with a bacon bow!
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Savory Selections
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Description: Something light and crunchy is nice the week after all those heavy Turkey dinners. I kept it in the Christmas theme by sticking to Christmas colours. The red fish eggs look like tiny Christmas decorations to me. Shiny round red. I put them on a Triskit with some lettuce. Simple yet satisfying. . .plus kinda fancy because it's not something you'd have everyday.
[QUOTE]Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Savory dish
Item pic:
Description: My Christmas dinner! I've included some extra photos so you can establish that it's me. I had chicken, pork, roasted veggies, yorkshire puddings, potatoes, apple sauce, yummy sparkling juice ... that's all I can think of![QUOTE]

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Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Savory Selection
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Description: Potato & Corn Chowder!
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Savory
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Description: Bacon Wrapped Shrimp Skewers, Baked Potato with cheese, bacon, sour cream and corn
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
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Description:
Fryfest 2011 foodstuffs! Deep fat fried:
Cheese sandwich
Avocado
Shrimp
Lumpia
Onion Rings
Mini Smokey Hot dogs
Chicken wing


DrinksX

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Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Drink
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Description: This was something I made really randomly with stuff I had on hand. It's Cranberry Juice, Sprite and rum. I garnished it with a sugar rim and a cherry threw the straw to represent Rudolph. For a kid friendly version I suggest just the juice cherry and sugar rim. Since they'll be licking the sugar anyway they won't need the extra sweetness of the sprite.
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: drinks
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Description:a chocolate and peppermint milkshake, complete with peppermint bark (which i made before) and andes candies sprinkled on top.... and a candy cane garnish!
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Drink
Item pic: Mmm, delicious hot chocolate!
Description: Homemade hot chocolate mix! Made with instant nonfat milk, Nestle's Quik, dry coffee creamer, and powdered sugar! Super delicious and creamy, especially if you make it with hot milk instead of hot water. And sometimes I like to add a little bit of cinnamon to mine.
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Drink
Item pic: Whiskey Sours
Description: Homemade whiskey sours using the special recipe from my dad's side of the family. We always have these at Thanksgiving and Christmas and they are so delicious and always a big hit; they're probably one of my favorite cocktails. We make them with lemonade concentrate, orange juice, water, bourbon, maraschino cherries, and slices of orange.
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Drinks
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Description: Peppermint hot chocolate made with milk and Nesquik chocolate. To add a peppermint flavor I added an Andy's mint and a peppermint stick.
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Mellie Mellie I made a... Eggnog
Category: Drink
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Description: Homemade eggnog using hazelnut liqueur.


BentoX


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Mellie Mellie I made a...

Category: Bento

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Description: Tempura and yakisoba bento My grandmother requested shrimp tempura for Christmas dinner and we had yakisoba for Boxing Day lunch, so here is the Holiday leftover bento. There's tempura fried shrimp, broccoli, sweet potatoes and eggplant with tempura dipping sauce in a little fish and pig. The yakisoba contains shrimp, broccoli, mushrooms, and cabbage.
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
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Description:My bento, aka tonight's dinner, contains hotdog octopus' on a bed of steamed veggies, apple bunnies with some almonds and for dessert a couple of cookies.
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Description: this is basically a poor man's holiday bento i am in dire need of a grocery shopping trip... anyways, here are some turkey and cheese rolls on lettuce... christmas star cantelope, grapes, honey dew melon and blueberries... sticky rice with a goldfish wreath and ketchup bows
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Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Bento
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Description: My try at a Christmas bento! In the larger compartment, there is a gingerbread man peanut butter and jelly sandwich with fruit leather accessories, a boiled egg santa (hat is made of paper), and some club crackers with salmon on a bed of spinach. In the smaller compartment, I stripped a cutie and made a little tree with the pieces and some fruit leather (star is also paper), and in the cupcake liner there is a few pieces of homemade peppermint bark with a bow of fruit leather.


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#6
Old 12-23-2011, 10:25 PM

Awesome! I'm actually baking right now, so once it's finished, I'll enter! :)

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Old 12-23-2011, 10:26 PM

Can we enter multiple entries? Because I've already made cupcakes, pie, and carrot cake XD

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Old 12-23-2011, 10:31 PM

We could at the last event, I think they just have to be for different Categories?

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Old 12-23-2011, 10:37 PM

I really want to do this. I hope I have the time.

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Old 12-23-2011, 10:45 PM

You can enter more than once, you can even enter the same category more than once! But you can only win once per category. :3

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Old 12-23-2011, 10:46 PM

Ooo entrees. I wish tamales were prettier lol

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Old 12-23-2011, 10:47 PM

Make em pretty? lol. Throw on a little pico de gallo for color on the top (and tasty flavor!) and maybe a bit of sour cream... ooooh I wish we had tamales up here!

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Old 12-23-2011, 10:48 PM

@Mel - thank you! I'm excited - I have so many desserts made already lolol

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Old 12-23-2011, 10:49 PM

we're going to have some left over chili for them but no serving them till christmas eve! tis tradition. :P so I'll probably take a picture of them then.

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#15
Old 12-23-2011, 10:51 PM

The contest goes until well after new years so you guys have plenty of time. xD

Maria: :drool: I can't wait to see!

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Old 12-24-2011, 12:19 AM

Hey Melly :)
Yay so glad you have this thread again. ^^ I should have time for this, this time. :)
How are you??

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Old 12-24-2011, 12:20 AM

I wish I could actually cook, then I'd join. >:U

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Old 12-24-2011, 12:42 AM

Wait, so we have to make something that incorporates our username? :( I'm back in Japan with minimal cooking facilities, but I made a lovely mince pie for my family last Sunday.

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Old 12-24-2011, 12:43 AM

just your username somewhere in the picture you take of it :)

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Old 12-24-2011, 12:49 AM

I'm so glad I didn't start baking yet.
Just have to remember to keep all of this in mind when I do.
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Old 12-24-2011, 12:51 AM

Mellie Mellie I made a...
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Description: Butter cookies.

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Old 12-24-2011, 01:05 AM

scholar: no no, you don't need to incorporate the username into the food item, you just need to throw a scrap of paper into the picture with your username on it. :3
Like Empress did right above this post. :3

Roachi- I'm doing great! I've got soooo much more time this event. It's awesome! And I'm actually at home for all of it so I get to "participate" too! Gotta get to baking! haha.

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Old 12-24-2011, 01:21 AM

Mellie Mellie I made a...
Category: Sweet!
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Description: It's a sort of cake, chocolate biscuity base, with strawberries, and then melted chocolate on top!

Picture isn't great, cellphone camera and all that, but it looks delicious in person.

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Old 12-24-2011, 01:30 AM

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Roachi- I'm doing great! I've got soooo much more time this event. It's awesome! And I'm actually at home for all of it so I get to "participate" too! Gotta get to baking! haha.
Ohh awesome!! Me too, so glad i got time off work. Cept i gotta go back on wednesday. But still that gives me quite a bit of time to do stuff on here!!
Me too! Gotta think of something creative lol.


@Carzee - Mmm sugary sweet goodness :drool:

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Old 12-24-2011, 01:31 AM

Chocolate and strawberries.... :drool:

 


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