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This Christmas, Sandra Lee’s cup runneth over with festive ways to intoxicate yourself and your tree with a Semi-Homemade cocktail party.  I know there are a lot of people out there who don’t like the way Sandra ”cooks,” but I have to admit, out of all the styles of chefs/cooks on the Food Network, my style of cooking more closely resembles that of Sandra Lee than anyone else’s.  In fact, the picture on this blog is from my Thanksgiving.  It is one of Sandra Lee’s Mayflower Martini’s and I made it for my guests.

Yes, she makes a lot of cocktails, but these Christmas ones look delicious and festive!  She is entertaining her guests with a Frosty Cocktail, a Candy Cane Cocktail, and a Gingerbread Martini.  I don’t know anyone who has all of the liquor’s required for all these cocktails, but maybe if you pick just one festive treat for your guests, I think they’d appreciate the creativity and get into the holiday spirit. 

Even if making drinks isn’t your style, Sandra Lee has come up with the oddest tree decorating tip I’ve ever seen in my life.  She suggests taking all of the glasses out of your cupboard and stringing them upside down on your tree to resemble bells.  I’m on your side Sandra, but this idea was ridiculous.  Let’s forget for a moment that using your goblets on the tree and making your guests drink out of jelly jars is tacky, but they didn’t look like bells.  They looked like you drank a few of your cocktails when you decorated your tree and hung up the first glass objects you found.  Cocktails good.  Cocktail glass ornaments bad.  And if the ornaments didn’t scream drunken Christmas enough, the tree was topped with a nutcracker holding his very own frosty Martini.

Sandra Lee also made some appetizers to go with the drinks and insists that the hearty foods will balance out the copious amounts of alcohol.  If you’d like to check out this episode it airs December 20th at 5:30pm and December 25th at 12:30pm.