Missing Sodus
By Melissa White
mgoodcooke@yahoo.com

Well, even though many of us would have liked to put off the snow for as long as we could, if did at least wait until December. Try to get your shopping done early, so you can enjoy being with family and friends going to see Holiday movies, reading stories with the kids. (Leave the crabby last-minute shoppers to themselves.)

Familycorner.com has some fun recipes, I found this one to do with the kids:

Chocolate Marshmallow Slices

1/2 cup butter or margarine
1 package (12 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips
(2 cups) 1 package miniature marshmallows (10 1/2 ounces)
1 cup finely chopped nuts
Additional nuts

In medium saucepan over low heat, melt butter and chocolate chips. Stir constantly until well blended. Remove from heat; cool 5 minutes. Stir in marshmallows and 1 cup nuts. Do not allow marshmallows to melt. On wax paper, shape mixture into two 7' long rolls. Wrap in foil; refrigerate about 20 minutes. To coat rolls, roll in additional nuts. Wrap; refrigerate overnight. Cut rolls into 1/4' slices. Store in airtight container in cool, dry place. Makes about 3 dozen slices.

Another fun recipe:

Christmas Coffee Cake

You'll need a couple extra hours to make this cake on Christmas morning due to rise time, but the wait is worth it! Enjoy this gooey cake as an easy Christmas breakfast for you and your family.

1- 24 count package of frozen dinner rolls, thawed but not risen
4 oz. box of COOK AND SERVE butterscotch pudding
1 stick butter or margarine, cut into pats
1/2 cup of brown sugar

Cut thawed dinner rolls in half and arrange in a greased Bundt pan.

Mix together brown sugar and pudding mix. Break up all the sugar chunks. Sprinkle brown sugar and butterscotch pudding mixture over the rolls in the bundt pan, top with pats of butter.

Cover pan with a towel and put in warm place to rise, approximately 2 hours (or as dinner roll package directs).

When rolls have risen to the top of the bundt pan, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

Bake cake for 30 minutes or until top is browned. Remove pan from the oven and allow to cool in pan for 10 minutes.

Turn bundt pan onto dish or plate. Allow cake to cool a bit more as topping will be hot.

Enjoy!

Author Amanda Formaro is the entrepreneurial mother of four children. She and her husband live in southeastern Wisconsin. She is also the owner of FamilyCorner.com Magazine at http://familycorner.com from which she operates several free newsletters, including her favorite, In The Kitchen. (While some have visions of crafts, recipes and gift ideas wandering around in their heads, others of us are wandering with our many lists so we don't forget to do anything. What I decided to do years ago from when the kids got their first ornaments when they were born was to get them one every year, then when they move out and have a tree of their own, they will have treasured memories to hang on their trees as well.)

The annual Bread Sale is today at the Sodus Free Library, from 10 to 5. All the breads are wrapped and ready to give or eat.

Tomorrow, December 18, the Sodus Point United Methodist Church will have a Cookie Walk from 10 to 2. You can also enjoy lunch (meatball subs). The church is on Bay St., and proceeds will help purchase new dining room tables.

There will be a Christmas Cookie Sale, First United Methodist Church, 301 S. Main St., Newark. 10 to 1. Huge variety of homemade cookies.

The Wallington Fire Dept. fireworks are Sunday at 6.

Some Christmas books to enjoy:

The Polar Express (which is also a movie and there is a CD sound track as well) by Chris Van Allsburg

In the front of the book, Chris tells how he avoided telling people where he had gotten the idea for the story. After ten years, he has revealed that he got the story from a little beggar child after he had purchased some matches from him. He had tried to give the child money for the beautiful story but the child had disappeared.

The Feathered Crown by Marsha Hayles (A fun thing to note is that the author is from Pittsford, NY.)
Good Night, Copycub by Richard Edwards
It's Bedtime, Wibbly Pig! by Mike Inkpen
Allie, the Christmas Spider by Shirley Menedez

I wish I could have found some more events for you. Everyone must be getting tired out.

If you know of a fun place to get the Christmas tree with sled rides, cocoa and maybe Santa, please let me know. Or maybe place you've eaten recently that decorated nice.

mgoodcooke@yahoo.com

Have a great week and enjoy each other's company (and if the kids are older and you can handle it, let them help you to get ready for Christmas. Remember the men and women who can't be with us in our homes at Christmas but are always in our hearts.

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