Favorite x-mas gift

redroom.com challenged us to blog about our favorite holiday gift.

My favorite holiday gift was given to me, oh, probably when I was eight or nine. "Santa" aka my dad, purchased a Sega Genesis for me. To this day that is still my favorite video game system, unfortunately it didn't survive the second move back in 2007. (But early nineties to 2007 is a pretty sturdy system if you ask me) I owned all of the old Sonic games except Sonic Spinball, and my dad taught me all of the secrets to play the first Sonic The Hedgehog game. I spent many, many sleepless hours in front of that little black box. I also spent many a time trying to clean the cartridges by blowing into them before shoving them down in the system. Looking back, I don't know if blowing spittle into the cartridge was a good idea, but it always seemed to work afterwards.

Random Recipe #1: Holiday Wreaths

So from time to time I am going to post the Random Recipe series. I'm either about to make the recipe or have recently had a convo about the random recipe I post.

Holiday Wreaths: My husband was telling me how his long past Grandma used to make a huge cornflake wreath that sat on the holiday table and they spent an entire day cutting into it with a knife and devouring it. I think one big one sounds like a logistics problem, (and a germophobe's nightmare) so I am going to make the cookie sized wreaths. Here is the recipe I found courtesy of http://www.cooks.com/.

This wreaths are not mine, these are courtesy of Julie Coleman http://http://www.flickr.com/photos/20922997@N07/

30 lg marshmallows

1/2 c butter

1/4 t green food coloring

1/2 t vanilla

5 c cornflakes

Silver dragees (look at picture below to see what I mean)

Red Hots (Look below)

Melt the butter in the mircrowave for 30 seconds, Add marshmallows and coat with butter, then microwave uncovered for 1 minute. Stir, and microwave another minute.

Add food coloring and vanilla, stir. Fold in cornflakes and blend well.

Drop by the spoonful onto ungreased cookiesheet or foil. Shape into wreaths, then decorate!

This makes 20-30 wreaths, depending on your shaping capabilities. (mine are poor lol)

These are Silver Dragees These are Red Hots