On this episode, we’re gonna mosey back in time to see how they celebrated Christmas in the old west! We’ll also count down the top five musical Christmas sketches on Saturday Night Live, give you a recipe for Slow-Cooker Mashed Potatoes, and get your thoughts on what you’d have a professional baker make for you at Christmas in our latest Season’s Musings.
00:00 – 01:39 Intro
01:39 – 03:50 We Need a Little Christmas Now
03:50 – 11:03 Five Golden Things (SNL Musical Christmas Moments)
11:03 – 14:54 All I Want For Christmas is News
14:54 – 24:55 Christmas in the Old West
24:55 – 40:47 Season’s Musings
40:47 – 43:42 Wrap Up
43:42 – 46:27 Outtakes + Special thank you 🙂
“We Wish You A Merry Christmas” United States Marine Band
“Jingle Bells” Performed by Kristen Nowicki
Deck the Halls B Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Slow-Cooker Mashed Potatoes
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My late Swedish husband said he remembered candles on the christmas tree in his lifetime.
CONGRATULATIONS!! That shouldn’t be in the outtakes, it should be the INTRO. Nice work, but most of us knew it all the time. Great show, again, but miss the boys. If you watch Antiques Roadshow, they seem to have several ‘ol west handmade toys–many just like the ones you described. Again, great going on being chosen as a wonderful community Christmas podcast (I got most of the words in there)
Tim, I would like to make a comment about your mashed potatoes recipe. While adding milk will loosen the potatoes, I would personally save the liquid/stock in which the potatoes are cooked instead of draining the liquid. That broth is full of the starch from the potatoes and would keep the them nice and fluffy while adding extra flavour. You could even get away with using less salt as their will be enough from the broth. And for your comment about loosening the potatoes, some people like their mashed potatoes a bit creamier, and/or less lumpy. Adding the liquid will make them looser and possibly creamier.
Congrats for the MMC award. It’s well deserved. You do a great job.