Coach Spore DieselI've just had a completely wild and foolish idea.
Making 12 days of B Dylan Hollis recipes.
Call it a Hollis Jollis Christmas.
Wanna cook ridiculously with me?
I'm doing 12 B Dylan Hollis recipes for fun this Christmas.
A Hollis Jollis Christmas!
Do as many or as few as you like. Same ones or different. Share in pics, video, text ... interpretive dance?
Please feel free to boost! Here's where to find him baking:
YouTube
https://youtube.com/@bdylanhollis?si=i_GirQ6MhRxnmwcM
TikTok
https://www.tiktok.com/@bdylanhollis?_t=8s8v5Sl7wol&_r=1
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/bdylanhollis?igsh=MzNyYm50ZWFoY2gz
I also have his cookbook on the way but it won't arrive in time.
Working on my shopping list for A Hollis Jollis Christmas.
What I already have plenty of:
Floof powder
Floof soda
EgGY
SimaNIM
Sweetened condensed milk
Salt
Usually for recipes that call for cinnamon, nutmeg, and other spices in that general category, I just use pumpkin pie spice or apple pie spice instead - already optimally blended.
But they don't contain clove and most vintage recipes do require it. So I might buy clove and nutmeg separately.
Stuff I already have but may need more of:
Quick oats
Choccy chips
Butter (so much butter)
Brown sugar
Vanilla
Flour
Shopping list:
Cool Whip x 3
Graham cracker crust x 2
Jiffy corn muffin mix x 2
Powdered sugar
Butterscotch chips
Vanilla pudding mix (big)
Strawberry cake mix
Salted peanuts
Pecans
Eggnog
Ice cream (pint)
Buttermilk
Bananas
Applesauce
Lemon
Ritz crackers
Rolo candy
Chow mein noodles
Onion soup mix x 2
Cheddar cheese
Cheez Whiz
Kool-Aid
Potato chips - 8 oz
Tang
Sprinkles
Wait wait wait - no moo juice?!?!
Checking, checking ...
No ... ?
It looks like I didn't select any that call for moo juice!
HoKAY! I've ordered everything but buttermilk and eggnog since their recipes are next week.
FIRST UP!!!
Chow mein cookies from 1968!
https://youtube.com/shorts/MgiRn7bqW9U?si=_L8CX01CwKghokbM
I got errors uploading to pixelfed. I did put it on loops but there's a queue.
Please forgive my terrible cinematography!!
Dylan's video. Maybe I should post these before mine instead of after.
Hollis Jollis Christmas Number Two!
Secret Cornbread from 1987!
Here's Dylan doing it.
Oven is hot already, roommate was using it.
Due to my Firm Opinions, "well greased" means buttered.
Now supremely weird!
I forgot to get a pic of the dough in the dish before it went into the oven.
Smells nice though.
Boulder: Yiayia, I like cheese!
Me: Oh my sweet granddog, this is not for you.
I could not make the cornbread exit the pan to be on a rack, so I guess we're eating it right out of the pan, then. Once cooled enough.
It's pretty good. I'm not rolling my eyes with joy but the sweet/salty balance is achieved and it's not dry.
Uh oh.
I finished making today's recipe but it won't BE finished for another hour, so I took a look at tomorrow's recipe.
The ingredients for that one are not ready anytime soon either. Sigh.
It's okay. I can swap it out for a different, later recipe in the same category.
RECAP:
(It's been two days, why do I feel the need to recap?!?!)
1 Chow Mein Cookies
2 Secret Cornbread
Okay I posted on #Pixtagram this time!
Hollis Jollis Christmas!
Number Three: Kool Aid Pie!
https://pixtagram.social/p/springdiesel/773652214354977136
Please ignore the logical fallacy regarding lemons. I'm still half asleep and editing it out now would be so much hassle.
Crap! I forgot to take a photo!
Spring Dew (@[email protected])
#BDylanHollis #HollisJollisChristmas number three: Kool Aid Pie
Dylan's pie. It was grape.
Hollis Jollis Christmas recipe number four:
Potato Chip Cookies from 1976!
Here's Dylan's video.
How these came out. Video forthcoming.
Did you notice I'm doing 12 recipes and not 12 days?
Just making room for the chaos. No way will there be 0 chaos over the course of 12 days. I started when there were 15 days to Christmas and I give myself permission to do 2 recipes or 0 recipes any given day.
Giving up is also an option, but so far I'd rather keep having fun with it.
Hisses with Geese 🌱@springdiesel Oh my goodness, I'll have to watch the video to see if they're the same, but I remember in Home Economics (yeah, I'm -that- old, lol) making chow mein crunchy cookies… I think they were dipped in some sort of peanut butter batter, put on waxed paper in small bunches, then had a melted Hershey's Kiss or some other chocolate on the top… memory lane!
@springdiesel just watched the video... very close! :-D Hope you had fun!
@dasparky How fun the memory! I think the recipe was written before haystacks were widely known, but they seem to be basically the same.
I remember home ec! What a terrible loss. I received a measure of wrong information, but the bulk of what I learned was solidly helpful.