Rosie's Holiday Recipes and Music

How does Rosie fry a turkey?

Here is the Romero family recipe for deep fried turkey:

Ingredients:
1 whole turkey

1 can of Tony Chachere’s Creole Seasoning

Peanut oil (enough to fill a pot)

Preparation:
*Place the turkey in a pot and fill with water to just past the turkey legs
                      
*Remove the turkey and mark where the water level drops to

*Fill the pot to this mark with peanut oil once you’ve emptied the water

*Clean the turkey in the sink, removing all entrails and rinsing with water

*Pour a generous amount of Tony’s all over the turkey; be generous with the seasonings inside of the cavity and get underneath and all around the wings and legs

*Place completely dry and seasoned turkey in deep fry basket until ready to drop in oil

*Heat the oil at 350 degrees

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What does Santa snack on at Rosie’s house?

Forget the milk and cookies. Santa snacks on buttermilk and seasoned, roasted pecans when he visits Rosie’s home on Christmas Eve.

Rosie loves whole buttermilk,which he cannot find anywhere anymore (if you know where to find some, email us here)—and usually leaves it out for Santa to drink.

For snacks, Santa enjoys Cajun-seasoned, roasted pecans, a specialty of Rosie’s mom. Here’s the recipe:

Ingredients:
Pecan halves (2 cups)
Melted butter (1/2 stick or 1/4 cup)
Salt to taste
Garlic powder to taste
Cayenne pepper to taste

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What about Rosie's Favorite Holiday Music?

Here are the links to Rosie's favorite Christmas Music:

-Merry Christmas Cajun

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I'm overwhelmed with holiday preparations. Can you help me get organized?

If you’re feeling that it’s impossible to get your home ready for holiday houseguests. Good news: You can do it.

A tip: Fix yourself a cup of hot cocoa, start a fire in the hearth and get comfortable in your favorite chair. Then make a list—and check it twice—of everything you need to do so your home makes a good impression on your houseguests—and so it makes them feel comfortable during their stay. Then enlist the help of your family and make appointments with any service pros you’ll need to help you finish the chores on time.

Here’s my pre-holiday honey-do list:

1. Have the furnace inspected. Chances are, you’ll have the heat on while company’s here, at least overnight. You’ll rest easier knowing a heating and air conditioning technician has given your system a once-over and cleared it—or repaired it—so it won’t leave your guests in the cold.
   
   
2. Sweep the chimney. It’s a messy, time-consuming job, so you might want to hire a professional chimney sweep. Choose one who can do both a cleaning and an inspection. An inspector will look for cracks in the masonry, damaged dampers, worn-out chimney caps and other problems, in addition to removing what you can’t see: the creosote, soot, ashes, dust, leaves and even birds that are stuck in the flue and chimney.
   
   
3. Hang your stockings by the chimney with care—a lot of it. Hanging stockings can damage your mantel and pose a fire hazard. Tips: Use the smallest hook or nail you can find so the hole you pierce into the mantel will be nearly invisible when you remove the nail after the holidays. Move holiday stockings away from the mantel before lighting a fire.
   
   
4. Gussie up the guest room. If it’s been doubling as a sewing room, a storage space or a home office since last time grandma came to visit, get in there and clean it out. Move your personal items to another room so you won’t have to bother your guests to retrieve them during their stay. Make room in the closet for company to hang clothes. Launder the bedspread, and place a candy cane on each pillow. And if your guests have stayed with you over past Christmases, frame a holiday photo from their last visit and display it in their room.
   

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Will 7UP extend the life of my Christmas tree?

You’ve added bleach, aspirin, soda, syrup or sugar to your Christmas tree’s water to help the evergreen last longer. Did they work?

Tree experts say they don’t. It seems like they would: The common blend of 7UP and bleach seems like it would, indeed, make the tree’s water more acidic and help the tree take in more moisture and food. The sugar in the soda, it seems, would help feed the tree. The disinfectant in the bleach would prevent mold, fungi and algae from forming.

So it seems. Yet it’s an urban myth, and it’s not true.

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