Appetizer
Reindeer Food (Mint Salad)
Ingredients:-2/3 cup vegetable oil
-1/4 cup lemon juice
-1 1/2 tbs fresh mint leaves
-1 1/3 tsp of garlic powder
-2 heads of lettuce
-1 large carrot
-10 mini tomatoes
-2 candy canes
Steps:1) Wash all vegetables.
2) Chop up both lettuce heads and place in nice bowl.
3) Chop up carrots and tomatoes into bite sized pieces.
4) Place carrots and tomatoes with the lettuce.
5) In a small dish mix the vegetable oil and lemon juice. Mix well.
6) Add in mint leaves and garlic powder and salt and pepper to taste.
7) Right before serving, mix salad dressing again and then place on salad.
8) If you're feeling adventurous, crumble up pieces of one of the candy-canes and put on salad.
9) Toss salad well.
10) Place one (or two) candycanes decoratively hanging on the bowl. Serve and enjoy!
Okay, so here's how I made the salad. My mom wouldn't let me put any crumbled candy canes in the big one cause she said that was digusting but I tried it on my own little bowl....xD Sorry you can't see the tomatoes, they all got tossed to the bottom. 
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Main Course
Chicken Parmesan Christmas Trees
Ingredients:-six boneless chicken breasts
-1 cup all purpose flour
-1 1/2 tsp salt
-1/4 tsp ground black peppers
-3 eggs
-1 1/2 cups dry bread crumbs
-Parmesan cheese
-unsalted butter
-olive oil
-basil/lettuce
-meat mallot
Steps:1) Preheat oven to 200. Pound the chicken breasts until they're between 1/4-1/2 inch thick.
2) Combine flour, salt, and pepper on a plate.
3) In a small bowl mix the three eggs with 1 1/2 tablespoons of water.
4) In another dish, combine bread crumbs and 1 cup of Parmesan cheese.
5) Next, take each piece of chicken and coat both sides with the flour mixture first, then the eggs, and finally the bread crumbs. Place on a piece of tin foil when finished.
6) Place 1 tbs of butter and 1 tbs of olive oil in a pan and cook each side of the chicken for 2-3 minutes on medium low-medium high heat.
7) Once all the chicken has been cooked, place on a cookie sheet and put in oven for 15 minutes to further brown the bread crumbs.
8) While the chicken is in the oven, cut up a head of lettuce (or basil).
9) Once the chicken has been removed from the oven, allow to cool slightly for five minutes.
10) Cut the chicken to look like Christmas trees by putting ridges that widen out as you approach the bottom of the chicken. To make it look more like a Christmas tree, you can even cut out an area to look like a trunk.
Note: Save the pieces of chicken you cut, these can be placed on the side of the plate as "firewood".
11) Next put the lettuce or basil on top of each piece of chicken to represent the needles on a Christmas tree.
12) Finally, sprinkle the remaining Parmesan cheese over the greens to make it look like the Christmas trees have snow on them.
13) Place the Christmas trees and firewood on plates and serve!
Here's my beautiful Christmas tree chicken! I know it doesn't look exactly like a tree and I considered getting my cookie cutters out to make it look very realistic but then I decided not to...so it looks a little strange but it sure did taste yummy![You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Dessert
Cutout Cookies and Chocolate Stars
Ingredients:-2 sticks soft butter
-1/2 cup sugar
-1 egg
-3 tsp vanilla
-3 cups flour
-1/2 tsp baking powder
-4 bars of baking chocolate (dark or semi-sweet)
-3 containers of white icing
-various sprinkles (green, red, Christmas lights, red hots)
-red and green decorating frosting
-various cookie cutters (snowmen, reindeer, angels, snowflakes, candycanes, stars ect.)
-star shaped molds
-rolling pin
-pastry brush
Steps:1) Preheat oven to 350. Mix the butter, sugar and eggs thoroughly in a large bowl.
2) Stir in the vanilla slowly.
3) Sift the flour and baking powder into mixture and stir into butter mixture.
4) Chill the dough overnight.
5) In a small dish, combine 1 egg and 1 tbs of sugar. Be sure to beat well.
6) Roll out the dough so they are about 1/2 of an inch thick.
Note: When rolling dough, use powdered sugar on the rolling surface
not flour.
7) Using the various cookie cutters, cut out the dough and place on a cookie pan. Be sure to make a few extra stars as these will be used for the chocolate stars.
8) Place the cutout cookies into the oven and allow to bake for 10-15 minutes (or a golden color) before removing.
9) Allow to cool for an hour.
10) While the cookies cool, take a sauce pan and melt the baking chocolate. Be sure to keep stirring so the chcolate doesn't burn.
11) Place a layer of the chocolate into the bottom piece of the star mold.
12) Place star shaped cookies on top of the chocolate layer and then fill in the rest of the mold with the remaining chocolates. For extra decorations, you may place a few sprinkles of your choice on top!
13) Put in the freezer overnight to allow the chocolate to harden around the cookies.
14) As for the rest of the cookies, use as much frosting as you want on the cookies and decorate with the various sprinkles and candies! Have fun with it!
15) After the chocolate stars have been hardened, you may pop them out of their molds, place all the cookies on a festive plate and enjoy!
Here's my yummy cookies! My family quite enjoyed them! I have angels, snowflakes, Christmas trees and candy canes![You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] 
Subject: Christmas Recipes 
