'LET EVERY DAY BE CHRISTMAS' ~ HOLIDAY CACTUS / HOLIDAY CRAB CAKES

“Let Every Day Be Christmas”

~ Norman W. Brooks

Holiday cactus

(Schlumbergera truncata)

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HOLIDAY CRAB CAKES

~ As an appetizer or entree, this family favorite is always a hit.

(easy broiling as tasty as frying)

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1 lb. good lump crab meat

1 cup panko crumbs

2 large lightly beaten organic eggs

1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro

4 finely chopped green onions

1/2 diced red bell pepper

1/2 diced yellow pepper

1 Tbs. chopped green chilies

2/3 cup mayonnaise

coarse salt & freshly ground pepper to taste

2 Tbsp. melted unsalted butter
Hungarian paprika
chopped green onions or chives

• Combine all ingredients. Gently fold in crab.
• Preheat broiler. Using scoop, drop onto Pam sprayed baking sheet. Brush with melted butter. Sprinkle with chopped green onion or chives and a dusting of Hungarian paprika.
• Broil approximately 6 minutes or until golden.

THANKSGIVING and/or CHRISTMAS CACTUS

Collectively, Christmas-, Thanksgiving- and Easter Cacti are often called "Holiday Cacti." The first two are members of the genus Schlumbergera. The plants most often sold ... as "Christmas Cacti" (by which name they sell best) are Schlumbergera truncata cultivars. These are clones selected for their colours and growth habit and given cultivar names. Their flowers are asymmetrical (zygomorphic), not normally pendent, but bent somewhat upward at the ovary, so that they grow outward, rather horizontally from the tips of the segments on branches which are usually much more erect than those of the true Christmas Cactus.