Decadent holiday recipes

The first two recipes are for you if your version of holiday decadence involves Demon Liquor.

The third recipe is if your preference is for Demon Weed.

The fourth recipe (a familiar dish to longtime blog readers) merely involves Demon Calories, forbidden white foods, and fats.

And BTW, these aren’t just girlie recipes. They’re for anybody — although in the first three cases, I’d have to amend that to “anybody over 21.”

Here goes …

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1. Mike’s Perfect Sangria
From Commentariat member MJR

Ingredients:

• 1 tablespoon of chopped fruit (this can be any fruit that you wish!)
• 2 oz pineapple juice
• ¼ oz Monin tiki syrup
• 1 oz margarita mix (½ oz fresh lime juice & ½ oz simple syrup)
• 3 oz red wine

Directions:

1. Start with your favourite (MJR is Canadian; they spell funny) wine glass and fill it ¾ full of ice.

2. Take your chopped fruit and add a little or a lot to the glass – we recommend one tablespoon.

3. Pour the pineapple juice, Monin tiki syrup, margarita mix, and red wine into the wine glass.

4. Stir to combine.

For an added touch, garnish with a wooden skewer so you can eat the soaked fruit once you’ve sipped all the sangria! And last but not least, enjoy!

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2. The Monte Cristo
Also from MJR

Ingredients

• 3/4 oz Grand-Marnier
• 3/4 oz Kahlúa coffee liqueur (or Tia Maria in a pinch)
• Coffee
• Whipped cream
• Sugar

Directions

1. Sugar rim a coffee glass.

2. Pour in Grand Marnier and Kahlúa .

3. Fill up with coffee but not to the rim, keeping room for the cream.

4. Top with whipped cream.

5. Garnish with a cherry.

Note the glasses used should be warmed before making the drink.

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3. Laurie Wolf’s Canna-Infused Truffles
From Weedmaps.com

For this one, I’ll just send you to the site, where there are delicious pictures and even instructions on how to turn your tasty treats into a decorative tree. You can skip the tree part if you’ve already got the munchies.

Of course, you should make Canna-Infused Truffles ONLY where it’s legal. We can’t have you committing a fourth felony for Christmas in addition to your standard daily three.

And finally …

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4. Claire’s Decadent Potato Casserole
By Moi

This rich and festive side-dish is still legal everywhere even for children (!), though no doubt there are millions of Nutrition Nazis who itch to deprive us all of its pleasures.

There is nothing healthy and nothing gourmet about this dish. It’s humble and working class. All it’s got in its favor is that you might want to put your face down in it and suck it right out of the casserole; it’s that good.

• 8 large potatoes or 12 medium ones
• 1/2 cup melted butter
• 1 can Campbell’s cream of chicken soup, undiluted (see what I mean about working class?)
• 1 pint sour cream
• 1/2 cup or slightly more of chopped green onions

Boil the potatoes in their skins until fork-tender. Drain and set aside to cool

Mix melted butter, undiluted soup, and sour cream in a bowl

Peel the cooked potatoes with a knife

Grate 1/2 of potatoes into a 9 x 13 pyrex dish.

Top with 1/2 the soup mixture, then with 1/2 the green onions.

Repeat.

Top lightly with anything you have that’s tasty and crunchy. I use Italian seasoned bread crumbs, but you could also use crumbled cereal, corn meal, crushed croutons, etc.

Bake uncovered at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. Remove from oven and let sit for 10 minutes or so.

Enjoy.

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