Featured Recipe Magic Snowman Stew

Steps:

• In a skillet, cook beef over medium heat until no longer pink; drain. Remove 24 peas and one carrot chunk from the stew vegetables; set aside. Add the remaining vegetables to beef. Cook until vegetables are thawed. Add gravy; mix well. , Pour into an ungreased 9-in. pie plate. Top with eight mashed potato snowmen, using 1 tablespoon of potatoes for each head and 3 tablespoons for each body. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 20 minutes. , Meanwhile, with a sharp knife, cut the reserved carrot into eight strips. Insert one strip into each snowman for a nose. Place three reserved peas on each for buttons. Add peppercorns for eyes. Drizzle ketchup between head and body to form a scarf.

Steps:

• Line pan with oubrowned meat.
• Add vegetables.
• Sprinkle with salt pepper sugar and tapioca.
• Add juice cover with foil.
• Cook at 300 degrees for 4 hours.

Steps:

• In a food processor, combine cream cheese (reserve a spoonful for hat), 1/2 cup Monterey Jack, garlic, and salt and pepper to taste. Freeze until firm, 30 minutes.
• Shape mixture into 3 balls; roll balls in remaining Monterey Jack. Freeze until firm, about 1 hour.
• Just before serving, stack balls; secure with toothpicks. Use vegetable peeler to shave celery scarf; pin with clove. Cut bread into 1- and 1 1/2-inch rounds; glue hat together with cream cheese, then secure with toothpick. Punch dots from olives with plain round pastry tips, and cut end off carrot; press in place. Serve with crackers.

Steps:

• Print out the Magic Snowman Stew PDF and cut out the poem and the individual labels. Put each item included into the Snowman Stew into their own separate bag and tie them with curling ribbon. Place a small dot of hot glue onto the back of each label and glue it to each item it corresponds with. Link to PDF: Magic Snowman Stew