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[CapricornFarm]

Everyone join in! Deb

 

[Melissa Rose]

Christmas Hatching Contest !!!!!!!
Winners will receive a Chicken Swing Handcrafted By Me
Contest will consist of who guess how many eggs hatch on Christmas Eve and How Many Eggs Hatch Christmas Day as well as Who Hatches the First Chicklet. We aren't guessing who will hatch the first chicklet it's just who actually hatches the first chicklet The first two are guess though I tried to tally eggs and participants so please update your totals to help everyone get a good guess on. Deb - Hot2Pot is also so very generously donating a BYC calendar and a lovely chicken themed recipe box. To win The Recipe Contest Post your favorite recipe!!! Happy Holidays and Happy Hatching


MamaMarcy - 11 eggs - 3chick 8 duck
Melissa Rose - 28 eggs 132 On Christmas Eve and 123 on Christmas Day Chicken Monterey
Hot2Pot - 42 eggs
Freckle Face Farm - 24+ ? BLRWs
blessedchick - 11 eggs Christmas Eve= 52 eggs to hatch Christmas Day= 48 eggs to hatch
jerryb - 10 eggs
bikerchic - 16 eggs My guess is 88 on Christmas eve and 298 on Christmas day Impossible Pie
Jennmom2three - 56 eggs
BHep - 28 eggs 105 chick hatch x-mas eve 90 hatch x-mas day
GrannysRoost - 14 eggs
Faerytalefarm - 100 + eggs
sheila3935 - 11 eggs 430 to hatch Christmas Eve 200 to hatch Christmas Day Fudge
RareBreedFancier - 6 eggs 136 early birds Christmas Eve and 357 on Christmas day
Charm1704 - 11 eggs 358 Christmas eve....502 Christmas day
ksm123 - ? eggs
Barred Rocker - 30 eggs
kizanne - 16 eggs Christmas Eve 145 chicks Christmas 180 chicks
In His Service - 24 eggs I will guess 198 on Christmas Eve 323 on Christmas Day
WaterAye - 23 eggs
notinoz2007 - 34 eggs 80 will hatch on 12/24 284 will hatch on 12/25
Neverenuff - 18 eggs
catfishdrum - 3 eggs
billiejo21 - 14 eggs 501 will hatch on Christmas Eve 518 on Christmas day Chicken Asiago Pasta with Leeks and Tomatoes
crazyperson - 16 eggs Christmas Eve: 152 Christmas Day: 175 Coconut Custard Pie
Cynthia12 - 12 eggs I guess that 316 will hatch on Christmas Eve..and 438 will hatch on Christmas day Pineapple Cake
just2rosey - 4 eggs I am guessing 188 will hatch on Christmas Eve, and 350 on Christmas day APPLE BUTTERNUT SQUASH SOUP
Baylor - 7 eggs guessing 250 Christmas Eve 250 Christmas Day
crossgirl - 3 eggs I'll guess 185 on Christmas Eve and 340 for Christmas day Spanish Bean Soup
ajcress - 28 eggs
BarnGoddess01 - 13 eggs - Eggnog
Marthab1953 - 15 eggs
AussieGirl - ? eggs
FarmerChef - 5 eggs
psycoforsilkies - 50 eggs
shellyga - 24+ eggs
reesepoultry - 9 eggs Chicks on Christmas Eve: 30 Chicks on Christmas Day: 50
boogiedog - ? eggs
Blarneyeggs - 0 eggs Baked Vidalia Cheddar Dip
dt1958 - 14 eggs My guess is tha 364 will hatch on Christmas Eve & 300 will hatch on Christmas Day
202roosterlane - 28 eggs 178 for Christmas Eve and279 for Christmas Day BAKED CHICKEN CHILES RELLENOS
CBarrett - 24 eggs My guess is 236 for Christmas Eve, and 329 for Christmas Day - The Bonefish Grille's Bang Bang Shrimp



Recipes

Chicken Monterey - Melissa Rose
4 Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts marinated in a bottled Zesty Italian Dressing for 3 hours
2 Large Hass Avacados
2 Large Vine Ripe Tomatoes
4 Thick Slices Monterey Jack Cheese
Hot Sauce to taste
Marinate Chicken Breasts for several Hours in a bottled Zesty Italian Dressing. Broil for 8 minutes on each side until done. Slice Avacados in half and scoop from shell with spoon. Slice Tomatoes thickly. After Chicken Breasts are broiled remove from broiler and place two thick slices of Tomato on Top. Add a half of Avacado then a slice of the cheese. Use Shish kabob skewers to hold in place. Place back in warm oven until cheese melts and is warmed through. Serve on a platter with a dollop of Hot Sauce under the chicken Breast. Good served with Refried Beans and Spanish Rice. Serves 4


Chicken Asiago Pasta with Leeks and Tomatoes - BillieJo21

2 large chicken breasts, cooked, diced
1 lrg bag pasta (cooked to package directions)
1/2 c olive oil
2 T butter
1/4 t red pepper flakes (more or less to taste)
juice of 1 lemon
5 cloves garlic, diced
3 leeks, chopped
1/4 c parsley, chopped
1 large tomato, seeded and diced
1 c asiago cheese, grated
1/2 c Parmesan cheese, grated
salt to taste

Cook pasta of choice according to package directions. In a medium sauce pain, combine olive oil, butter, pepper flakes, garlic, lemon and salt.
Cook over low heat for 15-20 minutes, allowing garlic to cook (watch carefully so garlic does not burn).
In the last 3 minutes of cooking time, add chopped leeks to pasta. Drain and return to pot. Add chicken, olive oil mixture, parsley and cheese to pasta, stir.
Add diced tomatoes, stir. Salt to taste. Grate fresh cheese over top of pasta before serving.



Pineapple Cake: Cynthia12

1 yellow cake mix...make according to directions. Will want it cooled. I do believe you will need eggs for that.
1 large can of crushed pineapple, keep the juice.
1/2 C. of sugar
1 pkg. of vanilla pudding...make it according to it's directions
Some cool whip, just get a small size~should do....

Bake the cake..like I said, let it cool..when cooled, use bunt end of a butter knife and make holes throughout the cake.
Warm the pineapple and sugar together until sugar is dissolved.
Pour over the cake...
Spread the vanilla pudding over the pineapple
Now spread the cool whip on top....
Now eat it!


Impossible pie - Bikerchic

4 eggs
1/2 stick of butter
2 cups of whole milk
1 cup of coconut
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup plain flour
1 cup sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla

Mix all ingredients, pour into a glass pie plate. Bake at 350' for 1 hour. Serve at room temperature.


Fudge - sheila3935

You just take a can of icing any flavor you want melt it together with any flavor of chips and pour into container to let set.
I used cream cheese icing with semi sweet chips and walnuts on one, and chocolate icing with reeses peanut butter chips on the other.
Next I'm going to try mint chips just not sure yet what flavor of icing I want to use.


Baked Vidalia Cheddar Dip: Blarneyeggs

1/2 cup shredded sharp cheddar
1/2 cup chopped Vidalia onion (I just use sweet onion when vidalias are not in season)
1/2 cup mayonnaise

Mix together and top with a tad more shredded chaddar. Bake iin 350 degree oven for 1/2 hr or until bubbly and browned. Serve with crackers or it's wonderful on apple slices too!


Spanish Bean Soup - Crossgirl

3 or 4 meaty ham hocks ( I use smoked)
1 large onion, chopped
2 or 3 cloves garlic, minced
2 medium size potatos, cubed
2 12-15 oz cans garbanzo beans, or more
2 links chorizo, thinly sliced ( I prefer the dryed)

Method: Place ham hocks in soup pot, cover throughly with water, boil about an hour.
Add onion, garlic and potato - simmer on low heat 45 minutes or so. Add beans and
liquid to pot then add chorizo. Simmer for another hour. Cool. Skim fat. Heat and enjoy!

APPLE BUTTERNUT SQUASH SOUP - Just2Rosey

3 CUPS butternut or acorn squash peeled, seeded and cubed
1 large apple peeled and sliced
1Tbsp butter or margarine
half a small onion chopped
1 clove garlic
2 Tbsp flour (or substitute corn starch)
1/4 tsp thyme
1/4 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper
10 1/2 oz chicken or vegetable broth
2 Tbsp fat free sour cream

1. Steam squash and apple together in steamer of microwave until very tender.
2. In a large sauce pan, saute onion and garlic in butter until onion is clear.
3. Stir in flour and seasonings into saucepan.
4. Add broth. Heat, stirring continually until smooth and slightly thickened.
5. Pour broth and cooked squash into blender. Cover and blend until smooth.
6. Serve immediately. Top each serving cup with 1tsp of sour cream.

I love butternut sqaush. It also makes great Fries. Just cut it into fries, I prefer shoe string fries. Spray with non-stick spray, and bake at 425 degrees for about 40 minutes, turning once. Fries are done when they get crispy and brown at the edges. My kids love Butternut fries, they every single bite, no matter how many I make.


Coconut Custard Pie - Crazyperson

4 Slightly beaten eggs
1/2 Cup Sugar
1/4 tsp. Salt
1 tsp. vanilla

I just beat eggs with a whisk or a fork, then stir in sugar, salt & vanilla
Then, slowly stir in 2 1/2 cups Scalded Milk to this mixture.
Now, throw in a small hand full of shredded coconut. I never measure it, but I'd say about 3/4 cup or so. Not a whole lot. You just want the coconut to float on top. Stir it up again and pour into a 9" deep dish pie crust.
Optional: sprinkle lightly with cinnamon before baking. This gives it just a little different flavor and looks really cool.

Bake at 475 degrees for 5 minutes, THEN, reduce heat to 425 degrees and bake for 10 more minutes. DON'T OPEN THE OVEN UNTIL THIS POINT. Now, you can check it. If your oven is a little off (like mine), slide it out and make sure it isn't giggly in the middle. If it is, put it back for a couple more minutes and check again.

***I use ready made pie shells for this, so if you make your own crust, make sure it's thick around the edges, or it will get too brown. You can also use foil around the edges or a collar, but I never do, because I like really brown crust.

*** This is actually a custard recipe out of an old Amish cookbook that my sister and I altered into coconut custard pie. So, you can just pour it into custard cups, or not even add the coconut and have plain custard, if you want. I have doubled and tripled this recipe with no problems.

CAUTION!!! BE PREPARED!!! When you use a ready made pie shell, guests will swear you BOUGHT this pie!!!


BAKED CHICKEN CHILES RELLENOS - 202roosterlane

6 skinless, boneless chicken breasts halves
1/3 all purpose flour
3 tablespoons cornmeal
1/4 teaspoon ground red pepper
1 egg
1 teaspoon of water
1 4 oz can of whole green chile peppers
rinsed, seeded, cut in half lengthwise (6 pieces total)
2 oz Monteray Jack cheese, cut in to six 2X1/2 inch sticks
2 tablespoons snipped fresh cilantro or fresh parsley
1/4 teaspoon of fresh black pepper
2 tablespoons of butter or margarine, melted
1 - 8 oz jar of green or red salsa



1. Place chicken breast half between 2 pieces of plasic wrap. Using flat side of a metal mallet, pound meat lightly into a rectangle and 1/8 inch thick. Remove plastic wrap. repeat with remaining slices.
2. In a shallow dish combine the flour, cornmeal, and red pepper. Place egg in another shallow dish; add water and beat lightly to combine.
3. For each roll, place a chili pepper halfon a piece of chicken near the edge, Place a stick of cheese on the chili pepper. Sprinke with some cilantro and blake pepper.
Fold in sides roll up, starting from egde with cheese and chili pepper. Secure with wooden tooth pick.
4. Dip chicken rolls in egg mixture. Coat with cornmeal mixture. Place rolls seam side down, in a shallow baking pan. Drizzle with butter.
5. Bake, uncovered, in a 375 degree oven for 25 to 30 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink (170 degrees F inside) Remove toothpicks. Mean while heat salsa, serve over chicke.


Key Lime Cookies - Makes 2 dozen cookies (depends on how big you make the spoonfuls!) Baylor
Preheat Oven to 350 degrees

Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter
1 1/2 cup unsifted powdered sugar
1 egg
1 T. Key Lime juice
1 t. key lime grated peel (or regular limes - usually takes a couple for dough and icing)
1 cup flour
1 t. baking powder
1/2 t. salt
2 cups of crushed corn flakes (I put them in a ziplock and take the roller to smash them up)

Beat butter and sugar together, add beaten egg, add juice and peel, blend. Stir in flour, baking powder and salt (pre mix the dry ingredients for better blending). Fold until blended (Dough will be sticky)
Drop spoonfuls into crushed corn flakes and toss (will be messy)

Place on ungreased cookie sheet
Bake at 350 for 16 mins (or until it doesnt look gooey on top of the cookie - golden brown is too far!)
Remove from oven and wait a few mins before taking off sheet and put on wire rack to cool.

After cookies are cooled you can ice them with a mixture of butter, powder sugar and key lime juice and the peel to taste.
(I start with a 1/2 cup of butter melted then add in powder sugar and rest of ingredients until the icing isnt watery anymore)
The icing will set on the top of the cookies.


The Bonefish Grille's Bang Bang Shrimp! (Tastes EXACTLY like it) - Bayor

Ingredients:

1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup Thai Sweet Chili Sauce
3 drops Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce (or to taste)
1 pound shelled and deveined shrimp
Dry cornstarch
Oil for frying
Lettuce
Chopped Scallions

Directions:

Mix mayo with Thai Sweet Chili Sauce.
Add hot sauce to taste.
Dredge the shrimp in cornstarch.
Deep fat fry the shrimp until lightly brown.
Drain on paper towel, put in a bowl and coat with the sauce.
Serve in a lettuce lined bowl, top with chopped scallions.

ENJOY!!




Egg Nog - BarnGoddess01


12 eggs, separated
1 cup of sugar
2 cups of rum
6 cups of milk
1 cup of whipping cream
Fresh ground nutmeg


1. In a large bowl beat up egg yolks with sugar (low speed first to mix, then high speed until thick and lemon coloured)
2. Slowly beat in rum
3. Chill if done ahead
4. Beat egg whites until soft peaks form
5. Beat whipping cream until stiff peaks form
6. Add milk to yolks and rum (and nutmeg - about 1 tsp if desired). Stir
7. Gently fold egg whites and whipped cream in until just blended
8. Serve with a bit of nutmeg sprinkled on each cup. (Keep a dish of fresh ground nutmeg beside punch bowl for this purpose)

 

[Melissa Rose]

Everyone should be added and updated

What absolute fun

 

[CapricornFarm]

wow, Good job, Melissa Rose! Woot!

 

[crossgirl]

I'll guess 185 on Christmas Eve and 340 for Christmas day.
All the recipes sound so yummy! I remember my mom making those Impossible Pies. There was a pamphlet full of recipes.

 

[Cynthia12]

Quote:
I must have missed it when I copied I will get right on it

Melissa you amaze me. Here's another change..but first let me yell out...nooooo! My little egg that I saw the heart beat in, quit. I kind of wondered, it was behind the others in the fullness of the egg. I was hoping though..so anyway...I just laid 12 eggs down on their sides, and will be officially on lock down tomorrow. Just making sure I get that humidity up at a stay point tonight.
Thanks for all you are doing Melissa!

 

[Cynthia12]

I haven't guessed yet.. I guess that 316 will hatch on Christmas Eve..and 438 will hatch on Christmas day.

 

[Melissa Rose]

Quote:
I must have missed it when I copied I will get right on it

Melissa you amaze me. Here's another change..but first let me yell out...nooooo! My little egg that I saw the heart beat in, quit. I kind of wondered, it was behind the others in the fullness of the egg. I was hoping though..so anyway...I just laid 12 eggs down on their sides, and will be officially on lock down tomorrow. Just making sure I get that humidity up at a stay point tonight.
Thanks for all you are doing Melissa!

Sorry about your little one

But 12 going strong is definitely something to look forward to

 

[CapricornFarm]

Nearly lockdown time! I bought some of that fluffy shelf paper stuff to put in the bottom of the incubator for lockdown. That wire on the bottom sometimes snags little feet. I like to hatch in egg cartons, easier to see the pips. Put candy canes on the tree tonight, and today bought more ornaments. Could not resist 50% off. I need to get serious about wrapping presents. Hatch on, chickies!

 

[Blarneyeggs]

Just did 'day 10' candling for Jan 1st hatch, am so frustrated, not sure what I'm doing, but I really felt like I'd see some movement at this point and didn't. This is my first incubator hatch.

On the upside, am keeping the littlest one home from school today and going into Philadelphia to the Franklin Institute. We're going to walk through the ginormous human heart and hopefully stop at South Street on the way home and eat cheese steaks! Woo hoo!

Still some shopping and wrapping and dealing with relatives to do, but I'm looking forward to a day away from it.

BTW: the human heart exhibit has been there since I was little and smells a bit like feet, if I recall correctly <hee hee>