Roast Beef Sloppy Joes (Christmas Eve)

Ingredients
4-5 lbs. round bone pot roast
1 onion-diced
Salt & pepper
Potato rolls

Brown onion, put with roast. Add salt & pepper to taste--cook like a pot roast but a little longer than usual keeping water on it. Put juice in freezer until grease comes to top then remove it from juice and make gravy out of juice. Shred meat with fingers then pour gravy over meat and freeze until ready to serve. Just warm it and serve on potato rolls.

Note from Jen: I'm sorry that I hanven't updated in forever. And I have to admit that this recipe didn't technically come from Grandma's recipe box. One of you gave it to me at my wedding shower. But it does have Grandma's name on the recipe card, so I hope it's close enough.

I always look forward to Christmas Eve and being together with family. And just the smell of these sloppy joes makes it seem like Christmas. Happy Holidays, Holts!

Christmas Dessert (aka Peppermint Cake)

From the kitchen of: June Holt

Crust Ingredients:
1 lg. box vanilla wafers--12 oz.
1/2 c. melted butter or margarine

Crush wafers--combine with butter and press 2/3 in bottom of 9x13 pan. Reserve rest for top.

Chocolate Layer Ingredients:
1 1/2 c. powdered sugar
1/2 c. butter softened
4 eggs
2 sq. melted unsweetened chocolate
2 tbs. Hershey cocoa
1 tsp. vanilla

Mix these ingredients in order given. Mix long enough for mixture to thicken (5-10 minutes). Spread over crust.

Peppermint Layer Ingredients:
7 oz. jar marshmallow cream
1 c. whipping cream whipped
1/2 c. crushed peppermint candy--crush in blender
1 c. nuts (optional)

Whip cream--add marshmallow cream and peppermint candy. Spread over chocolate layer. top with rest of crust. Freeze---Allow to defrost 1/2 hour before serving.

Note from Jen: Buffer asked me for this recipe before Christmas. Sadly, I didn't check my email until this week. But it was a good reminder for me to start working on this blog again. I think that once a week was a little overwhelming. Let's try once a month. And I'm all for requests!