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contentsRAINY DAY CRAFTS ...................4-7WINTER CONTAINERS ................8-9MISTLETOE ROOTS ......................10GARLIC INSPIRATION ..................15WINE & CHEESE ......................16-19CHOCOLATE JOY ....................20-21‘NOGGING OFF’ ...........................22

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If Susan Barclay Nichols had it her way, she would make pretty much everything. She already makes her own makeup, jewellery, lotion, sham-poo, purses, clothes and more.

“I’m passionate about crafting,” she says.

For the past six years, she has been bringing her crafty ideas to the Chilliwack and Yarrow libraries and offering free classes to kids and teens.

She much prefers giving handmade gifts rather than buying things for people.

“Nothing is better than a homemade present,” she says. “It’s the idea that you’re thinking of the person and that you’ve tailored the gift to that person.”

Barclay Nichols is offering up some ideas for inexpensive homemade gifts this year that can be Christmassy or not. These crafts can be made by kids, teens and adults, and are easy enough that anyone can make them.

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The great thing about Shrinky Dinks is that you can completely customize them specifi-cally for one person, says Barclay Nichols. Whether it’s making a keychain and writing a message on the piece, or tracing your sports team’s logo onto it, the options are almost endless.

You can use Shrinky Dinks to make a plethora of gifts, such as earrings, rings, charms, pendants, buttons, key chains, dog tags, zipper pulls, pins or as decoration (to

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stores or bead stores. Use per-manent markers or pencil cray-ons for colouring.

HOW TO MAKE IT: Using Shrinky Dink paper, you draw or trace, and then colour your art onto the plastic paper. Make sure to use permanent markers or pencil crayons (do not use crayons, paint or washable markers). Bake it in a 325-degree oven for up to three minutes and you’ve got a smaller, hard-plastic version of what you just created.

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jewelleryBarclay Nichols has some fun ideas for

Christmas jewellery.You can make recycled earrings, bracelets, charm bracelets

and more by using small Christmas ornaments as materi-als. Use old and/or spare ornaments that you’re not using on your tree or around your house. You can use ones that you already have, or you can find them in garage sales, thrift stores, dollar stores, or grandma’s closet. As long as they’re small and lightweight, they will work. Some ornaments you can use are: Christmas balls, lightbulb-shaped ornaments, and snowflakes.

You can also make unique creations out of beads, simply by using a combination of different shaped and sized beads stacked one on top of the other to create things like Christmas trees, angels and snow-men.

The beads and other supplies for jew-ellery (earring hooks, metal rings, clasps, etc.) can be found at dollar stores or bead stores.

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and fragrances to make it perfectly personalized, bath salts make a nice, relaxing gift for your mother, sister, aunt, grandma or other members of your family.

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HOW TO MAKE IT: Mix 100 grams (1/4 cup) of epsom salts into a bowl. Add 1-3 drops of food colouring and mix in. Add more food colouring or mix different colours together to get the desired colour. Add 1-3ml of essential oil or fragrance oil and mix well. For fizzy bath salts, add 2 tbsp of baking soda and 1 tbsp of citric acid to your salts. Store in cellophane bags or glass containers.

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Let your creative side shinechocolates & candy

Who doesn’t love chocolate? It’s a great gift for almost anyone, and when you’ve made your chocolates by hand, it’s even more appreciated. Barclay Nichols is offering up a few different ways to work with chocolate including making chocolate pretzels, chocolate bark, lollipops and tiger butter.

INGREDIENTS: Use either white, milk, or semi-sweet chocolate wafers (aka melting chocolate) to make your treats. You can find the chocolate wafers in the

bulk section at most grocery stores. Other suggested ingredients are nuts, dried fruit, pretzels, peanut butter and candy.

MELTING IT: The chocolate should be melted slowly over low heat in a double-boiler on the stove, or in the microwave at low power. If you are using a microwave, heat the chocolate for about one to two minutes, stir, and then heat again as necessary.

BEING CREATIVE WITH IT:1) Chocolate bark: This tasty treat is basically a bar of chocolate with nuts, dried fruit or candy

in it. Melt the chocolate as directed above, stir in your preferred add-ins, pour onto a piece of wax paper on a cookie sheet or plate, and let cool in the fridge. Some suggestions for add-ins: nuts, chopped candy canes, cinnamon hearts, raisins, coconut, Rice Krispies, and dried fruit.2) Tiger butter: It’s chocolate and peanut butter — rawr! For every one cup of melting chocolate,

use about 1/2 cup of peanut butter. You can use chunky or smooth peanut butter, but do not use light peanut butter. Melt the chocolate as directed above, add peanut butter and mix well, pour onto a

piece of wax paper on a cookie sheet or plate, and let cool in the fridge.3) Chocolate lollipops: Moulds to make lollipops and the lollipop sticks can be purchased at

Dicken’s Sweets. After you make the lollipops and once they have cooled, turn them upside-down and push them out. Do not pull them out by the stick.


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4) Chocolate pretzels: Melt chocolate as directed above. Add pretzels, stir with a spatula, and add more pretzels if necessary. Dump the chocolatey pretzels onto a sheet of wax paper on a cookie sheet and spread them out so that they are touching each other as little as possible. Let cool in the fridge.TIPS: Never mix chocolate with water. Make sure your

dishes and utensils are completely dry before using them to melt or stir chocolate.Do not heat chocolate at high temperatures as it can scorch eas-

ily.If you wish to add different flavours or colours to your white

chocolate, use oil-based flavours (like the brand LorAnn) and powdered or oil-based colours. Do not use food colouring.

Use wax paper, parchment paper, or flexible moulds to pour your chocolate onto or into so that you can easily remove the chocolate once it has hardened.

For more information on these crafts, or to see a list of other artsy cre-ations, check out Susan Barclay Nichols’ blog at www.swiftcraftymonkey.blogspot.com. In addition, teens can sign up for her craft sessions ‘How’s That Made?’. The classes take place every Thursday (except the second Thursday of the month) at the Chilliwack and Yarrow libraries. To resister for How’s That Made?, call the library at 604-792-1941.


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Chilliwack tends to be a place where people like to produce their own garlic - or at least cook with it.

From the backyard food gardeners who put their blue-ribbon garlic up for judging in the Chilliwack fair, to the founder of the Chilliwack Garlic Festival who believes in its bright future, garlic has been busy gaining fans over the years.

I would guess a fair bit was planted in local gardens this fall, with varying cultivars from red Russians or Korean, to purple softneck or Persian stars.

It’s also popular with a growing number of CSAs, or community supported agriculture operators.

It’s growing in popularity and for good reason. Not only is it ridiculously healthy ingredient, said to lower the risk of heart disease and offer a tonic effect for some, it also adds flavour oomph to whatever you’re cooking.

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Rich Roast Garlic Spread

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six heads of garlicextra virgin olive oilfresh thyme or rosemary leaves,

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It helps to be ready to entertain when the holidays roll around. To have a few stellar vintages, that can be quickly and expertly paired with some local, artisanal cheeses, will put you that much further ahead.

Kim Murphy, owner of the Sardis VQA Store has put together some wonderful recommendations for the Christmas table. In fact her entire store on Vedder Road is a like a one-stop shop for outstanding B.C. vintages and locally made Fraser Valley cheese, from Smits & Co.w Farm Cheese of Chilliwack and Farm House Cheeses of Agassiz.

“The reason why I chose the Gray Monk 2011 Siegerrebe is that not only does it pair beautifully with the basil gouda from Smits & Co.w, but it’s also a beautiful wine to have with your turkey dinner.”

In fact all of the grown-in-B.C. gems she picked seem to have that magical flexibility. They are all “holiday style wines,” she explained, single varietals, that tend to go with everything from the turkey, and ham, to the cranberries and stuffing.

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the siegerrebe grape, a cousin to gewurtztraminer at this time of year.

“The sagey aroma and herbaceous flavours go really well with the whole Christmas dinner because of those same elements found in the food.

“This Gray Monk wine also won a gold medal at the All Canadian Wine Awards, so it’s just a phenomenal choice.”

The basil flecked gouda from the Lickman Road farm was a good match to the herbal elements in the wine.

“It cuts through the gouda, and it does what a good food and wine pairing should do, which is to cleanse your palate so every residual taste is gone. The palate is fresh and clean for the next one.”

Murphy can’t believe she still has Lang Farm Reserve Riesling 2008 on the shelves.

“I would estimate these grapes are 35 years old. I predict the gouda will melt in your mouth with this riesling,” she said before a recent tasting, that confirmed her prediction.

“Lang Vineyards was closed for a while. It was part of a conglomerate of wineries that were sold off when one of the owners went bankrupt. But now there are new owners in the house. Gunther Lang, the original

winemaker and owner is back in the saddle consulting, and the nephew is general manager, so it’s back to their roots.

“Not only did it win gold medal at the B.C. Wine Awards, but it was also named Best White Wine in B.C. so we’re very lucky to still have it in stock.”

One of her favourite after-work offerings is a wedge of gouda, a baguette and some slices of tart granny smith apple.

“The apple will pick up the apple notes in the riesling.”

Murphy was reminded of a trip to the Normandy region of France a few years back, when they explored sumptuous cheeses like the new offering, Lady Jane, from Farm House Cheeses of Agassiz.

“The Lady Jane is like a big, soft brie, with quite a mushroomy element to it. So we’re going with big burgundy wines to go with it.”

She opted for not just one but two wine selections to go with the Lady Jane, a white, the Poplar Grove

Gray Monk Siegerrebe 2011 & Smits & Co.w

Farm Cheese basil gouda.

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Chardonnay 2010, as well a red, the Church & State Hollenbach Family Vineyard Pinot Noir 2009.

“You can just smell the butteriness of this chardonnay, and such nice pear aromas.”

With a complementary taste and similar body and viscosity, it’s a great match.

“It sits on the palate offering a long, lingering taste. It has good body.”

The Pinot Noir was equally delicious with the cheese.

“The mushroomy taste of the cheese pair beautifully with the pinot noir, which is sometimes described as having an earthy aroma. This pinot is just packed

with flavour! There’s a deep, rich fruit on the nose, strong cherry, with a light to medium body.”

The next pairing was just as exceptional.

Murphy picked the Oak Bay Gamay Noir 2011 to go with the Farm House’s ‘La Pyramide’ ash-ripened goat milk cheese.

“Not only is the gamay noir from Oak Bay beautiful in aroma when you first put it up to your nose, but my goodness look at the colour!” she said.

It’s a deep, rich, ruby red.“The hue is so bright.”It’s a brand new vintage for

the store from the St. Hubertus Estate Winery.

“And why I chose this gamay to go with the ash-ripened cheese is because of the spice,” she said. “I am confident the peppery spice is going to complement the strong taste of the cheese.”

Oh it did all right. Two flavour bombs going off in your mouth.

“You don’t want to overpower the cheese with the wine either. I

think it’s a beautiful pairing. Again it has the palate cleansing effect, and the wine went so well with the richness of the cheese.”

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This was among her favourite pairings.

“Although they really all were fantastic.”

Last but not least was the Dirty Laundry Kay-Syrah 2010 with the Smits & Co(w) black pepper gouda.

It was specially chosen to go with the biggest selling cheese in the store, the black pepper gouda.

The black pepper in the cheese meets and melds nicely with the white pepper notes in the wine.

“This syrah has got it all, even on the nose, and with a velvety texture, and a bit of chocolate and raspberry and that white pepper. With my first bite I noticed the wine taste was already in my mouth, but the

cheese didn’t seem to have that big spice that it sometimes does on its own. They both melt in your mouth together.”

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The Chilliwack realtor loves to offer home-made Christmas-inspired sweets to the privi-leged few of her clients, family and friends on her list.

It’s an enormous undertaking, but she loves it.

“It’s something I’ve started and now I can’t stop because I have a number of people who have told me they totally look forward to it now every year,” she said.

It all started with cherry chocolates, a bit of nostalgia from her childhood.

“My mom used to make the cherry choco-lates every year. It’s her recipe that I now use for the dough.”

Sexsmith has been in real estate for more than 20 years, and that’s about when she first started handing out the heavenly choco-late dipped maraschinos.

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At a certain point she decided she had to expand her sweet horizons beyond the chocolate cherries.

“That’s when I started making the almond bark.”

The tally of supplies is incredible for the total of up to 125 Christmas chocolate pack-ages she produces with love every year for the lucky few.

She boxes 1000 cherry chocolates and 1000 peanut butter cups, many pounds of almond bark, as well as coffee and butter-scotch flavoured chocolates.

In all it takes several 10-lb bags of choco-late — milk chocolate, white chocolate and dark chocolate. She buys about 30 lbs of almonds, and lots of butter, icing sugar, corn syrup and sweet condensed milk.

She knows her reputation has preceded her when she meets a prospective client who tells her: “I hear you hand out home-made chocolates...”

Every year the packaging gets nicer and nicer, after she goes on the hunt for lovely ribbon and little boxes to add to the wow factor.

“I like them to look pretty and elaborate.”It can be a daunting amount of work, but

she paces herself and gets well prepared.For her signature cherry chocolates, she

drains the cherries, mixes a sweet dough, and then hand rolls each cherry into the dough, puts a toothpick in each, freezes them and then dips each one in melted chocolate.

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The gorgeous packages get delivered per-sonally, with cards, usually by the first week of December.

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The thick, spiced drink we know as eggnog has become synonymous with the holidays. It is so linked with the Christmas season that a person may be hard-pressed to find it sold in the supermarket any other time of the year. But eggnog wasn’t always the holi-day beverage it has become.

Eggnog is believed to have originated in 17th century Europe, primarily as a drink for the elite, since the ingredients in the beverage were hard to come by and thusly relegated to the very rich.

Although there is little certainty to the ori-gins of the name, the recipe for eggnog has essentially remained unchanged throughout the centuries. It consists of beaten eggs, cream or milk and sugar mixed with some sort of alcoholic spirit. The Old English were believed to mix it with wine, though once the

drink was brought to the New World, colo-nists substituted rum for the wine. Rum was readily available through tradesman running between the Americas and the Caribbean and therefore less expensive than another spirit.

Other ingredients were also added to give it a customized flavor. However, the use of nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves has become traditional flavors for the holiday brew.

Although eggnog is widely enjoyed throughout the holiday season, in the past it was served at special events and social occasions. As a warmed beverage it can easily chase away winter’s chill. This is how it may have come to be enjoyed primarily during the holidays.

Try your own homemade eggnog with this recipe, courtesy of Cooks.com.

raise a glass to eggnog‘nogging off’

Holiday Eggnog (Spirited)1 dozen eggs1 pound powdered sugar1/2 teaspoon salt1/4 cup vanilla

8 cups evaporated milk3 cups water1 quart spiced rumNutmeg, to garnish

Beat eggs until light in color, gradually add sugar, salt and vanilla. Then add milk and water. Stir in rum (brandy, bourbon or rye may also be used). Cover the nog and ripen for 24 hours in the refrigerator. Stir again and serve sprinkled with nutmeg.


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