It's funny how certain things stick with you. I remember that my little sister and I would make red and green paper chains and hang them all over our room. I remember that we went to confession once a year on Christmas Eve (God forgive us!). My Daddy would drive us, and somehow turned this dreaded event into a super fun time. I also remember how Daddy would pile us all into the car to drive around and look at the Christmas lights
Every year at our annual Christmas party, my Mama would serve cream cheese topped with red and green hot pepper jelly and surrounded by crackers. Recently, after all these years, I tried it, and couldn't stop eating!
Carly, my oldest daughter, said, "Mom, why in the world are you putting jello on cream cheese? Of course, she changed her tune when she tasted it. I plan to serve this extremely Christmasy hors d'oeuvre this week, and I challenge you to jump on the wagon too. You won't regret it.
I do have one question: does anyone else have a hard time spelling hors d'oeuvre? You wouldn't believe how many times I've had to look it up, and I still can't spell it. This "hors d'oeuvre" simply consists of red and green hot pepper jelly on top of a block of cream cheese, served with crackers. (I just discovered that Nabisco makes Christmas wheat thins!)