five diys till christmas – day 5 : food
With Christmas just around the corner a lot of us are in need of some simple eats ands treats for those last minute guests and late night boozy munchies.
I am here to tell you that if you have 55 minutes and a box of crackers you can feed those people and do it in style.
Here’s your Fridge list:
Cream Cheese
Frozen mixed berries
Nuts (or your nutty uncle Ted, your choice)
1 Head of Garlic
Your tool List:
An oven
A Mixing Bowl
Pretty Bowls for Serving
A spoon
Iron fists for nut crushing
- First things first, preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Now, take that head of garlic : unpeeled, and throw it in a shallow oven safe bowl or pan, and drizzle it with olive oil. Put it in the oven with a timer set for 35 minutes.
- Next, grab your cream cheese and set it out to come to room temp.
- Now, separate your cream cheese into two parts and add one part to your mixing bowl. Grab those frozen mixed berries and add a few spoonfuls about 7 to 10 small berries to the cream cheese.
- Grab a handful of nuts, I’m from the south so I think pecans taste great on everything, crush them with your iron fists. Or you can put them in a plastic baggie and use a spoon to smash them, your choice.
- Now it’s time to stir, because this is such a small serving I don’t use my stand mixer, just a spoon, but if you’d rather you can of course use your stand mixer or just any ol’ mixer!
- Now plop that delicious cheesy spread into a lovely bowl and wait on that timer to go off. Now, those cloves of garlic are going to be super hot so let them rest till cool. This can take upwards from ten to twenty minutes.
- Once cooled,simply grab the top of the skin of the garlic clove, give it a good little pull and that clove should just slide right out.
- Throw those cloves right on top of your softened cream cheese and give them a good smashing with your spoon. Crumble some more nuts, give it a few good stirs.
And there you have it. Delicious and easy cheesy spreads for the holiday munchies. Best part about it is they are great for breakfast too!
Merry Christmas y’all!
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