Top 10 Most Popular Posts 2015

A good year, 2015.
You know it was a good year if 4 of your top 10 recipes are about Hawaii!
Ahh... I love that place. So I'm loving that others enjoyed reading them too

Here's the most popular recipes posted to my blog in 2015.  I always take a couple editorial "liberties" as it's hard to compare something that was on your blog for 11 months and got 500 views to something posted last month and got almost two hundred! 

I'm a little embarrassed that my most viewed 2015 posting was a "dump" cake involving a cake mix, but that's the way these things work. Everybody likes easy, they do, they really do.

Here's a better summary of what was popular
- 2 desserts
- 2 boozy drinks
- 2 restaurant/travel reviews
- 2 basic egg recipes/techniques!
- 1 appetizer
- 1 salad/easy dinner  

German chocolate dump cake

 

Best Mai Tai on Kauai

 

Hana Banana Macadamia Crisp

Inspired by a trip to Mama's Fish House on Maui
  

Pina Colada for a Crowd 

Trainwreck bar and grill 
A post about a little restaurant in Burlington with the best bloody Mary.

 

Perfect hard boiled eggs 

Tzatziki Chicken in Lettuce Cups 

Mama’s Fish House
Maui

Carmelized Onion, Cheese & Bacon Dip

Perfect poached eggs in the microwave

 

Top Ten 
Top 10 Most Popular Posts 2014
Top 10 Most Popular Posts 2013
Top 10 Most Popular Posts 2012
Top Ten Posts-  Annual 2011

I didn't do a "Personal" favorites from 2014... I just may have to go back and do that.
Top 10 Personal Fave's Blog Posts 2013
Top 10 Personal Blog Posts 2012
My Personal Top 10 Recipes from 2011

Everybody likes this...
Top 10 Martini Recipes 2013 
 

Eggnog Mousse

I had this party, and decided to serve rum & egg nogs, hot buttered rums and wine and beer.
Guess what people drank?  
Wine and beer, and then some more wine.
Next day...
Dozens of dirty wine glasses and two full half gallons of eggnog in the fridge.
Geez. Now what?  I could have made my eggnog martinis, but you can only have so many of those.  There's also Eggnog Cheesecake Bars.

 

 

Eggnog mousse!  

Easy, fast, delicious and festive for this time of year!

Makes about 8 servings

Ingredients

    2 packets unflavored gelatin

    4 cups eggnog   

    1 cup powdered sugar

    2 cups whipping cream

    1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

    3 Tbsp brandy or spiced rum OR 2 teaspoons vanilla or rum flavoring

In a saucepan, sprinkle gelatin over 1 cup eggnog. Heat slowly, stirring until gelatin is dissolved; remove from heat. I barely got my eggnog hot, just wanted to dissolve the gelatin. Stir in remaining eggnog and brandy or rum; Chill about 20 minutes, until it just starting to thicken.

In a large mixing bowl, beat sugar into whipping cream until soft peaks form. Gently fold in slightly thickened eggnog mixture, nutmeg.  Add to individual serving glasses and chill until ready to serve.  Cover with plastic wrap if storing more than a couple hours.  Serve with more whip cream on top and a sprinkle of nutmeg.

Pour it into cute tall glasses, or wine glasses work too.

You can see it's still pretty liquid, more like a custard sauce, but it set up quickly in the glasses and had a nice fluffy texture.

 I put my glasses in a baking pan for ease of putting in, and pulling out of the fridge.