Holiday DIY: Homemade Baileys

The holidays are here and with it comes all the parties come all the boozing! We are big fans of ceasers and baileys for the holidays in our family.

A close family friend has been making his own homemade Baileys for as long as I can remember. Last year I decided to try my hand at it and now I will never go back to buying it! This version is so much creamier and goes down do much smoother, no after bite!

With loads of parties to go to needing a little gift to give and lots of family gatherings coming, it's the perfect time of year for you guys to test out this recipe yourself!

What You'll Need

INGREDIENTS 

-1 cup wild turkey 
-1 cup 1/2 &1/2 
-1/2 tsp coconut extract 
-1/2 tsp almond extract 
-1 tin condensed milk 
-3 eggs 
-3 tbsp choc. syrup

Put it all in an blender, blend for 1 minute and you're ready to go! 1 bottle of wild turkey makes just over 3 batches and each batch fills just about 1 empty wine bottle. I tend to keep empty wine bottles in the fall for when I make this and I have a couple more decorative ones on had for when we have company or to give it as a gift. 

I have also packed them up in mini bottles attached to mason jars with coco mix and marsh mallows like the idea bellow. The hard part is finding mini unlabled bottles so stock up if you see any throughout the year!

And lastly you can set up a super cute little coco station like I did for our party last night. People can make their own coco and add baileys, great for when you have family over. I also make coffee ice cubes to have on hand for those who like to drink it cold. They are stowed away in my frezzer in zip lock bags.

Hope every ones week is off to a great start and let me know what you think of the recipe!

The Christmas Round-Up

We had a perfect Christmas here at the Silverii household filled with lots of family traditions and great company!

First on the traditions list was spending Christmas eve at our family friends house who we have a seafood feast with every year on Christmas eve for as long as I can remember! This year we added in a dirty gift exchange! it made for more laughs than usual to say the least lol. I ended up with a fun gift but nate brough home a bottle opener that makes orgasm noises when you use it.... yay! NOT lol though he is pretty amused by it! Also there were stress ball boobs and penises lol, beer opening rings, penis pasta and lots of other weird wonders

 (apparently there were sperm inside the stress ball penis...)

 (beer bottle opening rings super powers!)

(LOL)

Needless to say we all got off to a semi late start Christmas morning. This was our first year being able to host Christmas morning at our house! It feels so nice to have a home you want to share with other people. We were a small group this year just us the dogs and my parents but it was a perfect day. We opened gifts, relaxed and watched It's a Wonderful Life ( a must in my family for the holidays) while the turkey cooked. Then settled in for a nice little Christmas dinner!

We spoiled each other a bit this year cause it was the first Christmas since we have been married where we could afford to! So we got a new 40 inch flat screen as a present to the both of us. Nate got me an amazing bubble bath set from fruits and passions, the raddest leather purse from beaded dreams a local native store along with a rabbits paw and fox tail! Also two shirts n9ot pictured that I am in love with. I am a lucky lady!

 (the boys couch lol)

Hope everyone got to enjoys their holidays as much as we did, and that you all spend your new years with the ones you love!

What We Ate Wednesday: Canadian Thanksgiving Edition!

So for all my American and International readers, this past weekend was Canadian Thanksgiving! We live in the future and get to eat turkey before ya'll!

My family is getting together next month at a family cottage to celebrate when we are all able to be there. So for this weekend I cooked dinner for me the hubby and my mom cause my dad is out west at the moment.

You'd think that would mean it would be a small affair but for me any holiday can never be small. I love to entertain, cook and be festive! So here is a little peak into our holiday season.

Got these super cute little cupcake toppers, how perfect are they!?! I made vanilla cupcakes with  cherry pie filling and cream cheese icing. (and yes those are my magical white pumpkins I have been dreaming of since last year)

The makings of a pretty table setting!

A little afternoon snack! Baked Cream Cheese Crab Dip!

A must for my turkey is a brine (recipe to follow photos)

A turkey brine makes the juciest turkey you'll ever eat, I promise!

My Brine Recipe

1/2 cup kosher salt
1/2 cup sea salt
1/2 cup brown sugar
3 sprigs fresh rosemary
2 whole heads of garlic
large pot
water

Fill pot up 1/3 full with water, add salt and sugar bring to a boil and simmer till all is dissolved. Take off of heat, add ice and cool water till pot is 2/3 full. Wait until water is 100% cooled down and add in whole defrosted turkey add as much water as required to cover turkey. Then add in rosemary, and cut garlic heads in half to add in as well.

You want to let it soak for at least 6 hours at most 30 hours. If you don't have the fridge space to keep it cool remove some liquid every few hours and add ice.

Cook turkey as usual but you will not have to baste as often and be sure that if you use the drippings for gravy you put a potato cut into 4 in the pan when reducing liquid to soak up the salt. I made the mistake of not doing that one year and on man it was like salt water lol no good.

Table before and after food is cooked lol ( yes I turned a pumpkin into a vase for the table center piece <3)

YUM! So we had brown sugar and cilantro carrots, my moms recipe homemade stuffing (I am addicted to hers and never care to try another recipe lol), garlic mashed potatoes with a sweet potato tossed in for some extra tastiness and of course TURKEY!

 

After we digested and cleaned up, we settled in for a game of rummy and had an AMAZING pie that my mom picked up from the farmers market off of Bronson. Apple caramel walnut pie!

Bottom line is for a meal for 3 people we ate WELL! Now that fall is officially here keep an eye out for lots of baking and cooking recipes! If you guys want recipes for anything above feel free to ask in a comment or shoot me an email <3