The Las Vegas Inside & Out 3rd Annual Christmas Special
Join us for our third annual Christmas 2021 special: half an hour of music, food, laughs and contemplations, all from our home right here in Las Vegas! Dale gets misty, Paula makes cookies, we poke fun at ourselves in an outtakes segment, we do a montage of all the folks we've met in the past year, and you even get a reading of Twas the Night Before Christmas in front of the fireplace. It's an old-fashioned nostalgic variety program, made with a lot of love for all of YOU. Hope you enjoy it, and Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and all the best to our wonderful community!
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PARTY CHEESE WREATH
Courtesy of the Kraft Creative Kitchens (Philadelphia Cream Cheese label)
You will need:
2 8-oz pkg cream cheese, softened
1 8-oz pkg shredded mild cheddar cheese
1 Tbsp chopped red bell pepper
1 Tbsp finely chopped green onion
2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp lemon juice
Dash ground red pepper
Instructions:
Mix cream cheese and shredded cheddar with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended.
Add bell pepper and onion, Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice, and red pepper. Mix well.
Refrigerate several hours or overnight.
Place a drinking glass in the center of a serving platter. Drop round tablespoons of the mixture around the glass, to form a ring. Smooth with spatula.
Remove glass, then garnish ring with chopped fresh parsley and chopped red bell pepper. Serve with crackers and/or vegetables.
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MOSTACCIOLI
Good Housekeeping magazine, December 2001, “Cookies from Christmas Past” p 157
You will need for the cookies:
2 cups all-purpose flour
½ cup unsweetened cocoa
1 ½ tsp baking powder
1 tsp ground cinnamon
¼ tsp ground cloves
¼ tsp salt
¾ cup sugar
½ cup (1 stick) butter, softened
1 large egg
½ cup whole milk
For the glaze:
3 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa
1 ¼ cups confectioners’ sugar
White candy decors for garnish
Prepare cookies: Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. In medium bowl, combine flour, cocoa, baking powder, cinnamon, cloves, and salt.
In large bowl, with mixer at low speed, beat sugar with butter until blended, occasionally scraping bowl with rubber spatula. Increase speed to high; beat until light and creamy.
At low speed, beat in egg.
Alternately beat in flour mixture and milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture, just until combined, occasionally scraping bowl.
With cocoa-dusted hands, shape dough by level tablespoons into 1-inch balls. Place balls 2 inches apart on ungreased large cookie sheet.
Bake cookies 7 to 9 minutes or until puffed. (They will look dry and slightly cracked.) Transfer cookies to wire rack to cool. Repeat with remaining dough.
When cookies are cool, prepare Chocolate Glaze: In medium bowl, with wire whisk or fork, gradually mix cocoa with ¼ cup boiling water until smooth. Gradually stir in confectioners’ sugar and blend well.
Dip top of each cookie into glaze. Place cookies on wire rack set over waxed paper to catch any drips. Immediately sprinkle cookies with decors.
Allow glaze to set, about 20 minutes. Store with waxed paper between layers.
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MUSICAL SELECTIONS:
Sleigh Ride – written by Leroy Anderson and published in 1948 as an instrumental. Mitchell Parish added the lyrics in 1950.
Streaming license 1000000006472 obtained through the Harry Fox Agency, New York
Effective dates 12/22/2021 - 12/21/2022
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer – written by Johnny Marks in 1939, inspired by the story published in that year by the Montgomery Ward company. The song was made famous by Gene Autry’s recording in 1949.
Streaming license 1000000006473 obtained through the Harry Fox Agency, New York
Effective dates 12/22/2021 - 12/21/2022
Christmas Cookies – written by Aaron Barker, and made famous by George Strait’s recording in 1999.
Streaming license 1000000006471 obtained through the Harry Fox Agency, New York
Effective dates 12/22/2021 - 12/21/2022
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas – written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane in 1943, and made famous by Judy Garland in the movie “Meet Me in St. Louis”.
Streaming license 1000000006474 obtained through the Harry Fox Agency, New York
Effective dates 12/22/2021 - 12/21/2022
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PHOTO and VIDEO CREDITS:
Clips licensed from Shutterstock - horse and sleigh; stone fireplace scene
Photos licensed from Shutterstock - white professional kitchen; the angry little girl in red
Photos obtained from Pixabay - team of white horses close-up; western street scene; Christmas light window; brick house in snow
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Free Realistic Snow Overlay by Kosmos Motion Graphics
SONGS FROM THE YOUTUBE AUDIO LIBRARY:
- Holiday Story for Merry Christmas 1 & 5
- Jingle Bells 7
- Piano Lullaby
- Home_for_the_Holidays
- Deck the Halls by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
Source:
Sugar in Kid's Media is Gross
I can no longer be content with sugary nostalgia, and now neither can you! Allow me to decimate this trope for the garbage it is.
ARTICLES ------------------------------------
Pathos
The Cultural Evolution of Candy Land
Addiction Resource Center
Why Is Sugar Addiction A Problem?
CDC
Childhood Overweight & Obesity
SONGS ------------------------------------
Here Comes Santa Claus
Gene Autry
Marc ten Haken Channel
The 1939 Beethoven Cycle: Symphony No 6 Pastorale/Toscanini
Beethoven
Restoration Archive Channel
Fourside - Samba Big Band Version (The 8-Bit Big Band) ft. Chad Lefkowitz-Brown
Keiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka
The 8-Bit Big Band Channel
Grain
Kuniaki Haishima
RedPhoenix37 Channel
Original Music from Friendship is Witchcraft (ep. 1-3)
Sherclop Pones
SherclopPones Channel
Butter Building - Super Smash Bros. 3DS
Jun Fukuda
SiIvaGunner Channel
Forest Maze (Super Mario RPG) for String Quartet
Yoko Shimomura
Patti Rudisill Channel
Swinging 1930s Nutcracker Christmas Music Melodies
Tchaikovsky
Pax41 Music Time Machine Channel
Yodeling in Meadow Hill
Namco Sounds (SuperSweep)
NintendoMelody Channel
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