Friday, December 31, 2010

Tea Roll Recipe

Several people have mentioned how delicious our Christmas morning breakfast of Tea Roll looks.  So, I have decided to post this (super easy) recipe so everyone can try some!


Ingredients:

1 cup brown sugar
1 stick butter (or margarine)
2 Tbs water
2 cans pillsbury biscuit dough (or refrigerated biscuit dough)

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Melt butter in a pan over medium heat.  Add in brown sugar and water and stir until mixture is a syrupy consistency.

pour about 1/4 of the mixture into a greased tube pan.
this is a tube pan


Next roll the dough into balls and throw them into the tube pan.  Once all of the dough has been added pour the remaining syrup over the top.

Now pop your creation into the oven and bake for about 10-12 minutes (our oven cooks things fast so you may have to let it bake a little longer.  Also if you use more than 2 rolls of biscuit dough you will need to bake it longer)

Once your tea roll has finished cooking get your plate that you will be serving it on place it on the bottom of the tube pan and flip it upside down.  Be quick it's syrupy and hot!


Now, enjoy!  I've seen variations of this recipe that include first rolling the balls of dough in cinnamon and sugar mixture, or adding nuts, raisins.  This is the basic recipe, tweak it to fit your tastes and imagination how you will!

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Monday, December 27, 2010

It's The Most Wonderful Time of The Year

Christmas always has and always will be my most favorite holiday.  As a child I was the one on my mother's case, "can we decorate for Christmas now?"  When the answer was yes I would dive into the boxes of trinkets and ornaments cheerfully chirping Christmas songs as I transformed our home into a Christmas wonderland.  My freshman year of college one of my roommates had to BAN me from Christmas music until AT LEAST after Thanksgiving.

Though my vigor for the holiday has never diminished somewhere along the line Christmas joy turned to Christmas hum drum.  The snow falls, trees are lit, carols are sung and the birth of Christ is celebrated the same way year after year.  Yet somewhere in my heart was missing something......the magic.

I began to fear that the loss of youth meant the loss of Christmas joy.  Until I found a very real and unexpected cure for the "bah humbug" creeping up within me..... a baby!  The very second Thanksgiving was over I was on Christmas hyper drive, every lullaby I sang was Christmasy.  I decorated our home and had little talks with Kylea about another special little baby born around this time of year named Jesus.  Kevin had to reign me back on a few things like cookies and milk for Santa and carrots for the reindeer.  "She has no idea that you're even doing that" he kept reasoning.   I found reason has little to do with the unimaginable joy I found in creating holiday magic for our little family this year. Sure, she's too young to appreciate most of what I did, but now the precedent for tradition has been set.  We've established a hybridization of our traditions to create our own holiday tradition that I think will be perfect for us.

We visited Santa on Christmas Eve day.




Kylea LOVED Santa she smiled a laughed all the way home.

such a sweet little face.....how could Santa deny this little angel?
Made a homemade pizza and watched "A Christmas Story" later that night.

Christmas morning started bright and early for us, the only one not bleary eyed was little Kylea.  I suspect it will be this way for many Christmases to come.


At least right at first.  Most of the day she spent recuperating from her early morning.

We all agreed that before presents we would feed our growling stomachs.  So Kevin set to work making tea roll (a delicious Hart family tradition).


Santa brought us LOTS of toys and presents as well as some exotic fruit from his previous destination (a tradition from my family)


a bumbo so Kylea can sit up all by herself!
Santa brings good doggies a treat

Tekoa says I LOVE Christmas!!!!!
The rest of the day was spent relaxing and playing with presents.
GO DUCKS!

Christmas magic has been restored and I can't WAIT for next year!!!