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- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1 can (6 ounces) crabmeat, drained, flaked and cartilage removed
- 2 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon lemon-pepper seasoning
- 1/4 teaspoon minced garlic
- Paprika
- Assorted crackers or vegetables
- In a small bowl, combine the first six ingredients. To serve chilled, cover and refrigerate until serving. Sprinkle with paprika.
- To serve warm, spoon into a greased 3-cup baking dish. Bake, uncovered, at 375° for 15 minutes or until heated through. Serve with crackers or vegetables. Yield: 2 cups.
- 1 can (8 ounces) crushed pineapple
- 3 medium firm bananas, sliced
- 1 jar (10 ounces) red maraschino cherries
- 1 jar (6 ounces) green maraschino cherries
- 3-1/2 cups eggnog, chilled
- 2 packages (3.4 ounces each) instant vanilla pudding mix
- 1 prepared angel food cake (8 to 10 ounces), cut into 1-inch cubes
- 1 carton (16 ounces) frozen whipped topping, thawed
- 1/4 cup chopped walnuts
- Drain pineapple, reserving juice. Dip bananas in juice; drain and discard juice. Set aside pineapple, bananas, three red cherries and three green cherries. In a bowl, whisk the eggnog and pudding mixes for 2 minutes or until slightly thickened.
- Place half of the pudding in a 4-qt. serving or trifle bowl; layer with half of the bananas, pineapple. cherries, cake cubes and whipped topping. Repeat layers. Garnish with walnuts and reserved cherries. Yield: 16-20 servings.
Happy New Year!!!
January 17th, 2014We would like to wish everyone a safe and Happy New Year! Welcome to 2014! A new year and a new theme for our site. We hope you like it! Click here to see everything that has changed with the site!
Website Changes
January 1st, 2014Intro
With the new year we thought it would be fun to shake things up a little with the website to give it a new look.
First, what did NOT change?
Site Content
All of the old content is still here and you can find it in the site menu at the top (and a little to the right side). You can still get to our pictures, recipes and videos using the menu.
Okay, so… what did change? A lot really.
Magazine Layout
More and more sites, especially blogging sites (like ours), are moving to a new “magazine layout” format which organizes things while at the same time making it much easier on the eyes. We think the new look is really nice.
Site Menu
The site menu is located at the top of the page and a little off to the right. It is docked now which means that as you scroll down the page the menu will not scroll off the screen and out of view. It is always available. Oh, and to the very far right: a dedicated site search button, again, always available.
Featured Posts
When you visit the home page of the blog you will notice three “feature” blocks at the top of the page. These are blog posts that we want to stick out for a little while and they will only be seen at the very top of the home page (not as you scroll down). If we change them later so they aren’t “featured” items anymore they will appear in their normal date order in the blog. Again, these features are only visible on the home page of jjwinter.com and only at the very top of that page.
Primary Sidebar (Left Side)
The left side is similar to what we had previously, links to the different site categories and other items.
The Blog (Middle)
The center of the page is still our blog area. Every time we post something new (by date) it will bump the previous article down the page. Previously the blog mostly consisted of recipes… videos and other things were only on the site menu on dedicated pages. This will be changing and over time we will be putting more things up here in the main blog section. You can see some videos right now in the blog area.
Content Sidebar (Right Side)
This area is brand new. We are adding to it, little by little, but it will take time. This area will allow us to highlight newly added videos and picture galleries… and the newest ones will always be on the right side of the site. This will be helpful later on because the first page of the blog might only show one video, one image gallery and the rest of it might be filled with recipes, jokes, comments or other information… but the right side will still show more videos and pictures.
Mobile Website
Our website also received a major face-lift when it is viewed from mobile devices. The image at the left (below) shows how the site will be displayed initially for mobile devices. Optionally, if you scroll down to the bottom you can tap a button to switch to “desktop” view which will try to render all of the feature boxes, blog posts, highlighted videos and galleries, and attempt to stick to the normal theme we are using (this can be seen in the second image on the right). You can scroll down to the bottom of the site again on your mobile device to switch back to mobile viewing. You can click these images to see larger versions:
Outro
We hope this information helps you figure out the new site and makes it easier to navigate. Once you are more familiar with the layout we think you will like it.
Feedback
Do you like the new look or do you hate it? Please leave your comments and we will get back to you!
Pinterested?
October 16th, 2012
I have added Pinterest to the Shareaholic links at the bottom of every post.
Let me know if it works (or let mom know if it doesn’t work LOL) in the comments!
Site Updates
August 25th, 2012I just wanted to pop in to mention some recent updates (and disruptions) to the site. Some things like the main theme were broken but I’m pretty sure everything is fixed now.
WordPress has been upgraded to 3.4.1 and all of the themes and plugins have been updated too. The updated version of the stock Twenty Eleven theme broke the family pictures in the site header. I have fixed this problem… at least for the time being.
I cleaned up the right side content… since the categories section is so large now I thought it would be nicer to bump it down the page a little and instead bump Skype, ShoutBox and “Site Stuff” up the page so it would be quicker and easier to locate.
A few months ago we offered up a few polls but they weren’t used much so they have been hidden.
What else… hrm! Oh, I added the WordPress Jetpack Plugin which offers massive improvements over the stock WordPress installation. Some of the benefits include a Twitter feed widget (already on), social networking enabled comment system and tons more.
Finally we turned off the ability to scroll through the images in the site header since some users reported problems.
Email me if you find anything broken or would like me to change anything!
Darren
Twitter Embeds
August 24th, 2012twitter embeds #ftw!
— Winter, Inc. (@winterinc) August 24, 2012
Crab Spread
December 10th, 2011
| Crab Spread |
Christmas Trifle
December 8th, 2011
| Christmas Trifle |
This recipe was tested with commercially prepared eggnog.
The Only Constant Is Change
November 20th, 2011
Please click here to read about all of the recent changes to our website!
Live Chat
July 6th, 2010I have added the ability for everyone to chat in one room together, all at the same time using the new Chat page: http://jjwinter.com/chat/.
Ride The Wave!
May 31st, 2010
Have you heard about Google Wave? It’s a new communication tool by Google that was recently enabled for Google Apps domains like ours (JJWinter.com).
If you don’t have an email address on JJWinter.com you can use the normal Google Wave: http://wave.google.com.
If you do have an email address with JJWinter.com you can use the normal Google Wave (above) or you can use the JJWinter.com Google Wave: http://wave.jjwinter.com.
Click here for detailed information about the brand new public Winter Family Wave.
In any case whenever you want to “wave” you should enable Google Gears for your web browser or you should consider using Google Chrome.