Packet Salmon.

Packet Salmon.

 Yield: 2 servings 

Ingredients:

• 4 scallions, trimmed, cut into 2-inch-long strips
• 1 medium carrot, peeled, cut into 2-inch-long thin strips 
• 1 small zucchini, trimmed and cut into 2-inch long strips 
• 10 oz. salmon fillet 
• 2 tsp. grainy mustard 
• 2 tbsp. white wine 

                                          

Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Tear off a piece of aluminum foil about 2 feet long. Combine scallion, carrot and zucchini and place in center of foil.

Rub salmon with mustard and set on top of vegetables. Sprinkle with wine. Add salt and pepper to taste. Bring the edges of foil together and fold to seal packet well.Bake 15 min. Place vegetables over plate.  Cut the fish in two and top on vegetables. 

Christmas Glogg. Traditional Scandinavian drink.

Christmas Glogg.

Yield: 6 servings 

Ingredients:

• 1 bottle red wine
• 60 ml vodka
• 2 1/2 oz (65g) sugar
• 1 cinnamon stick 
• 6 whole cloves
• 1/2 tablespoon ginger grinded 
• 3 1/2 oz  (100 g) raisins
• 3 1/2 oz  (100 g) almond

 Mix all ingredients in a saucepan, heat on medium until well warmed - do NOT boil. Set aside for 30 minutes.

 Warm up the glogg, just before serving.

Holiday Beverages. Mulled wine.

Mulled Wine. 

Ingredients:

• 1 bottle dry red wine
• 2 cinnamon sticks 
• 12 cloves 
• 2 tablespoons splenda or sugar 
• 1/3 cup Triple sec 

Mix all ingredients in a saucepan, heat on medium until well warmed - do not boil.

Holiday beverages. Mistletoe Punch.

Mistletoe Punch.

Ingredients:

• 1 Bottle (750ml) Whisky Sour mix
• 2 Bottles Strawberry Daiquiri mix 
• 1 fifth-White rum 
• 1 fifth-Cold Duck wine
• 1 Qt. lemon/lime soda 
• 1 frozen ice ring 

Pour rum & mixes over ice ring.

Just before serving, slowly add Cold Duck. Add lemon/lime soda.

Champagne Punch.

Champagne Punch.

 Ingredients:

• 2 bottles Champagne
• 1 bottle Sauternes wine 
• 16oz. frozen lemonade 
• 14oz can unsweetened pineapple juice 

  Freeze maraschino cherries into Sprite in ice cubes. Pineapple, orange or lemon slices for garnishing.

Chill all ingredients. Blend Sauternes, lemonade, & pineapple juice. Add 1 bottle of champagne. Add frozen sprite/cherries. Add more champagne to taste. If sweeter punch is desired, add juice from maraschino cherries, & more Sprite.