The 70s. Trenton 72 degrees this afternoon. 71 in wilmington as well as allentown. Even reading reporting a temperature this afternoon of 71 degrees. Now, most of the rainfall has move out. However, take look at the last several frames. Moving out of maryland, back into central sections of delaware, southern delaware right now watching some moderate showers. Even a rumble thunder. So well keep tabs on that. Otherwise were looking at mild conditions and some fog developing overnight. But look at the temperatures. 61 still in wilmington. 63 in millville. 66 degrees right now in philadelphia and were looking at 58 degrees in pottstown. So it is pretty mild. Not only here but even as we move a little farther to the north. Look at new york city. 63 degrees. We have 59 degrees in boston. So for tonight, its mild and muggy. Were keeping tabs on some patchy fog. There might be a couple of showers especially the farther south and east you are away from philadelphia. But come tomorrow, above average temperatures again. In fact we could flirt with 70 degrees on Christmas Day. Coming up well have your entire holiday forecast and also ill tell you why you might not want to put away the rain gear just yet. Iain, back to you. All right, scott, thanks. When you walk out the door the fox 29 weather and Traffic Authority has got you covered as we take live look at read tonight. You can get live radar anywhere and alerts sent right to your phone. Just search for it in the apple or google play stores. Developing to night fire tears through a popular delaware bakery. You can see the flames shooting from the serpes Bakery Building on kirkwood highway in elsmere. Investigators tell us it started just after 6 00 when crews got to the scene the building was engulfed. It took about an hour to get things under control. Two firefighters had to be taken to the hospital with minor injuries. Investigators do not know the cause tonight or the extent of the damage. Also, developing to night, one lane of route 70 in south jersey still shut down tonight in cherry hill area hour after this nasty crash. Skyfox over the scene just after 6 00 tonight. A car slammed into a power pole on route 70 in cherry hill. Knocking the power line down. You can see the sparks on the grass much the road was shut down for hours in both directions as crews worked to clean up the mess. No word tonight on what caused the crash or if anyone was hurt. If you havent finish doing your Christmas Shopping you may be too late. A lot of malls closed at 6 00 today but if you need to grab one last stocking stuffer, dont panic. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson joins us live from plymouth meet. Shawnette, one store there open for another 45 minutes. Reporter yeah, this target behind me is open until 11 00 oclock tonight for last minute shoppers and take look at the parking lot. There are plenty of cars still here and take look, people still trickling in. Started about an hour ago. Reporter the clock is winding down for last minute shoppers. Lucky to have stores like this target in Plymouth Meeting open through the night. I got what i had to get and thats it. Why you shopping so late . Got the wife to take care of. Thats it. She takes care of Everything Else. Reporter steady flow of last minute shoppers grabbed what they could. Its fun. Its fun. You rushing. You rushing. Reporter some really procrastinated werent looking for major gifts. My photographer said youre being a toaster oven for your wife. Youre going to help her cook more. No no. Reporter other has done their shopping to find they were out of supply. Im gift wrapping some presents and stocking stuffers. I have all the presents just ran out of wrapping paper roar report supermarkets were also packed. George adam and his family getting last minute dressings for the dinner table. Little bit of eggs for breakfast somebody dinner whatever the case may be. Reporter who is responsible for dinner . I dont cook. Reporter last minute shopping is actually the norm but this weather certainly isn isnt. Its very strange. Ive seen people in tshirts. Its weird. I want the snow. Reporter hold on. I dont know about the snow. I like the fact that its december. Im not wearing a coat. Just a blazer and im very comfortable. So i dont know about the snow, but there are other stores here at the metroplex most of them close at 6 00 oclock this evening. We did drop in to a few iain and the shelves were pretty skimpy. So im done. laughter . All right. Shawnette, thank you. Shoppers forced to run out a packed North Carolina mall or hide in stores when gunshots ring out. Police say a long standing feud between two groups boiled over this afternoon leading to gunfire inside the mall and charlotte North Carolina. Investigators say an off duty officer heard the shots and confronted the armed man. Thats when they say he point add gun at the officer who then fired his service weapon. The suspect died at the scene. So i mean it was just pure pandemonium. Just frightening looks on the peoples face that is made me realize this is something serious. The officer was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation. A devastating blow to parts of the southeast and midwest on Christmas Eve after severe storms ripped through the area. Unseasonably warm conditions are being blamed for a storm system which spawned tornadoes, heavy rain, high winds and hail. Seven People Killed in mississippi. Three in tennessee and one in arkansas. According to the National Weather service, the twister in north mississippi may have been on the ground for 150 miles. Traffic is flowing again in langhorne after a truck overturned this afternoon. Skyfox over route 1 in east maple avenue where a trailer loaded with jars of Peanut Butter overturned just after 1 00 this afternoon. Officials say the load overturned on the ramp blocking traffic. The driver had to be rescued from the truck. No word yet tonight on his condition. We just got off the phone with officials there and they are telling us that road is back open. Two south jersey churches targeted by vandals spray painted and tagged just days before christmas. But its not keeping the congregation down as Christmas Eve. Fox 29s Joanne Pileggi shows us how they are rising above this holiday. Reporter on the eve of christmas it is a celebration of advent here at New Life Fellowship church in glassboro. Advent is about the fact that christ came to bring hope to the world. To forgive sins. Reporter inside this Gospel Center church the faithful are happy to share this holy night together. Pray as we sing to you emmanuel. Reporter theyre trying to look beyond an agregious act of vandalism to church property. Isnt a lot of times during the holidays lot of crazy things happen a lot people are in need of different things, and kind of taken back by it but theres a lot more important things in life than a van. Reporter the church van was spray painted with anti christian hate message this we week. And new life wasnt the only house of worship in town affected. I cant really say whether its anti christmas or not. It could just be simply someone trying to get arise out a group of people. Reporter the First Presbyterian church of glassboro also targeted by vandals who spray painted black paint on the church sign. Police are investigating. This is a time for prayers and this is a time forever answer and this is a time to remember what christmas is all about. Reporter those who came for Christmas Eve services say the same. They want to embrace the positives of this solemn religious day. Not so much us or the church or the building. Its reality were coming to that the scripture testified to that god became man to rescue sinners and revels to restore them. Children of god. Reporter pastor jordan wouldnt let this vandalism spoil the church holiday. He said its a van at the end of the day we can paint it and move forward. In glassboro, joanne phil will he gee, fox 29 news. Just in time for christmas, some local families getting christmas cheer. Today santa along with lawmakers in south philadelphia filled up a truck with gifts for families in need. It was all a part of the sixth annual Operation Holiday help program. From gifts to singing even a simple hug. Officials made sure these families know that someone cares. It was great. It really showed how much everybody really supports you and everybody really really cared when you go through things and everything like youre not alone. You dont feel alone. Theyre there to support, somebody actuall actually cares. The mom you just heard has daughter in the hospital fighting for her life. The little girl is 12 years old and had to have emergency brain surgery and doctors are still not sure whats wrong. Meanwhile over the weekend, theyre grandmother passed unexpectedly so these gifts mean a lot more to this family this christmas. Simply picking up Holiday Package lands one couple in handcuffs. What police say was inside that box that got them arrested. Talk about a tiny hero. How a 10 month old baby saved her whole family when their house caught fire. And tracking santa as he makes his way around the world tonight. You can see norad says big man in red and his reindeer theyre in tampa, florida, right now. Now, with tomorrow traffic heres bob kelly. Hi, im sue serio in for bob kelly on this Christmas Eve. We have this on going traffic situation. I95 southbound on ramly from the betsy ross bridge is closed and this is the situation through september of 2016. Your alternate is the girard avenue ramp and hopefully thats the only traffic issue we will have with santa coming tonight. Now good day philadelphia will be on Christmas Day. Well see you then. A christmas surprise for the two in this car. Police say they picked up a Holiday Package from a male carrier near atlanta but it wasnt gifts inside. Officers got a tip that it was marijuana so police followed them from the carrier through down spike strips and corner the couple. They popped the trunk and they found 10 pounds of weed inside. Police say it was worth 10,000. Both of them have been arrested. Talk about a tiny heroism a baby saves an entire family when their house catches fire. Firefighters say when they showed up at this hope late last night near cincinnati it was engulfed in flames but the family of four who lived there were all outside save. It turns out their 10 month old baby started crying when the flames broke out. Waking up the family just in time of the investigator think a candle may have started the fi fire. Todays reporter temperatures meant people traded in their coats for tshirts and shorts. How do you celebrate a Winter Holiday without the Winter Weather . Fox 29s dave kinchen went to find out. Merry christmas. Reporter Christmas Village still one of center citys biggest al tracks even without the white stuff on the ground for Christmas Eve that feels a lot like a time for palm trees. Just ask vicky palm. What do you make of shopping in this weather . On Christmas Eve. Isnt it weird. I like it. Im a warm weather person so this is fine for me. Reporter you were trying on gloves but it was too warm, right . Yeah. Reporter tell me about that was like. Its way too hot on Christmas Eve. Reporter still with last minute Christmas Shopping to do vendors we spoke with say business is good. People are brave. Theyre still coming out and theyre still spending money so thats good. Reporter with temps pushing 70s getting out and about before christmas seems oddly more inviting with shorts and short sleeves replacing thick wint coats. I love it. Whatnot . Its beats snow any dave the week. Too bad im not on my boat. Reporter did you ever think you would be wearing no short sleeves and no coat on Christmas Eve. No, i didnt. Reporter many running on kelly drive are wearing less. Im a schoolteacher it feels im more on spring break than christmas break today. I feel very weird wearing tank ut top running outside on Christmas Eve. Most dont mind unless you get the children. Its not snowing yet. Its not snowing yet . Are you happy about that or sad. Sad. Youre sad. Why . Because i like building snowmens. We caught up with mayor Michael Nutter strolling through Christmas Village to see if there was anything his office could do. Do you have the mayoral powers to somehow bring in little bit of snow . Are you seeking that power that hot . Even if i did i would not. You know, snow costs money. It looks really pretty. I assume theyll be snow at some point in time but probably not today. From center city to old city where a special Christmas Eve service was held at Old First Reformed United Church of christ. Church two Outdoor Services with live nativity scene with live animals were held tonight. The pastor wanted to show the christmas story in a different way. We get a check of whats on your radar. Kind of crazy we saw those people out in shorts on Christmas Eve, scott much its not going any way any time soon. Well is repeat of what we saw today tomorrow for Christmas Day were talking about record warmth. The jet stream its well to the north. So most of the cold air the snow is well to the north as well. So well continue with those winds generally out of the south pumping up some of the that moisture but also the mild air. Take look at the possible record for philadelphia tomorrow for Christmas Day, the forecast high is 68. The Current Record is 68 from 1964 so were looking at temperatures again flirting with that record territory. Look at the numbers right now. Still really mild o really miles Christmas Eve. If youre headed oh Midnight Mass it is going to be mild but also muggy and also well have to keep tabs on maybe a couple of spotty showers far south and east and also fog developing overnight. 46 in pittsburgh. 63 degrees right now as we move toward new york city. Boston checking at 59 degrees. So for tonight, its mild, its muggy, patchy fog developing with all of that moisture in place. And as we go hour by hour with your holiday forecast for Christmas Day itself by 9am, were looking at some areas of fog. 63 degrees. By 1 00 oclock, temperatures already in the upper 60s. A mixture of sun and clouds and then we could have some more showers moving back into the picture by christmas afternoon and evening. But take look at ultimate doppler. Most of us are dry. However, take a look at whats happening as we move toward kent county, Sussex County were tracking not only showers but also some thunderstorms moving through Sussex County. Some of this will continue to move toward sections of south jersey. So dont be surprised if you hear a rumble of thunder as we watch for the best chances of some overnight showers south and east of the i95 corridor. But this system is going to advance back toward our area during the day tomorrow. So dont put away the up before he bell las just yet. Heres friday 2 00 oclock most of us are dry and quiet. But then you can see as we continue to go in time, were watching more of that moisture kind of moving up from the south but the better chances will stay in sections of delaware as well as south jersey late on your Christmas Evening. Then for saturday, its mostly cloudy throughout the and tire day, but take a look at saturday night. Headed to the linc were talking about possible showers moving in. So that christmas forecast again, were talking about those numbers topping out near record territory. A High Temperature of 68 degrees. Well above where we should be for this time of year which is in the low 40s. The Weather Authority seven day forecast well show i was chance of some rain. 57 degrees on saturday as we kick off kwanzaa and once again that rainfall chance during the afternoon and evening could impact the eagles game and look at 70degree temperatures on sunday. A chilly change on monday. But then milder temperatures by tuesday, wednesday and then new years eve may be a possible shower and theres that kick off forecast at the linc. Pretty mild cloudy and once again a possible shower. All right, scott, thank you very much. I know eagles have to win that game. Sean will talk more about that but sixers news first. Sam hinkie had us scratching our head. Sixers made move theyve made before. A player comes back to fill until should have never left in the first place. Do or die time for the eagles they have to win on saturday to keep their playoff hopes alive. An old friend tries to prevent that. Thanks to norad we can see santa and his sleigh in North Carolina right now. Hope you guys were nice and not naughty. Now your winning lottery numbers. The Desean Jackson coming home to philly looking to bury chip kelly and eagles. A win for washington could clinch the division. Two years since d jack played for philly but he still excited to come home. Hes even more excited to win the nfc east. Im definitely excited about the opportunity having to go back in philly and play in front of, you know arc lot of fans that, you know, some like me, some probably dont, whatever, regardless of the case, we just want to take care of the students at hand thats at stake right now which is within a foot bull game. Regardless of anything else like i said im not going to let it be bigger than weights. We need to win. First thing the eagles have to do is control the combination of Desean Jackson and kirk cousins it looks like they finally found their qb of the future. Cousins has highest completion percentage in the league at almost 70 and hes helped change the atmosphere around d. C. Start to create the culture and the identity that you want, that takes time, and, um, hey, were not were not, you know, 12 and two. Were seven and seven. But we do have great chance a great opportunity in front of us to play for division title. For christmas the sixers have decided to rewrap an old gift. They trade a couple second round picks to new orleans from issue smith the guy that was here last year we let go. Sam hinkie could have signed him in the off season or picked him off waivers in october. Now he trades for a guy after finally realizing that he may need a guard, decent point guard to take care of this team whose one30 and probably going to break the League Record for being so so bad. They released tony wroten to make some room. Hockey fans want for christmas is a few good fights. A fight broke out between the bruins and blues and jack edwards decided to sing along. We wish i was Merry Christmas, we wish i was Merry Christmas, we wish i was Merry Christmas and a happy new year randall gets up. I love the holidays. Why else would you go to hockey game . Exactly. To watch the fight. Any time ive gone thats all the kids have been waiting to see. Absolutely. All right. Hey coming up in ex fox 29 special food bite. Then a full hour of entertainment news. Tmz followed by dish nation then tune in for chasing news and the simpsons. Were back here at 4 00 a. M. For fox 29 morning news and good day philadelphia. Before we go one last look at santa and his sleigh tonight. Hes in virginia and any kids still awake you better get to bed fast. Season at a is on his way. Happy holidays, everybody. Thank you so much for joining us for this fox 29 special. Im karen hepp. Im bill anderson. And when it comes to the holidays, so many of us think about food. Today weve got some menu ideas guaranteed to bring a smile to the faces of your family and friends. Do you cook or do you just ord order . I cook. Like so many you out there. We have great idea. What were going to do were going to make an entire meal in this special start with appetizers make the sads sides the entree through to desert. First up, lets get mac and cheese with an interesting twist. Today were making bacon mac and cheese with crispy pretzel topping. Start off by adding oil to our hot pan. We got some small bacon here add to hot oil in the pot. Add the bacon to the hot oil. Start to represent out some of that fat. Break it down and brown up a little bit the start to add onions and thyme. Well add our small diced spanish onions. And were going to also add picked fresh thyme leaves. Mix those onions and thyme in that rendered bacon fat with crispy bacon in there. Now well add 2 tablespoons of butter. 5 tablespoons of flour. Get the flour to mix in with that butter and thats going to thicken up our cream once we add that to the pot. Were going to start off with 4 ounces of cooper sharp american. 4 ounces of yellow sharp cheddar and well finish with 4 ounces of extra sharp white cheddar. Well let that melt a little bit. Onions and bacon add texture to the pasta at the add. Half a teaspoon of smoked pap prick today. You can usual regular if you dont have smoked. Two and a quarter cups heavy cream. Add a little bit of thyme. Use heavy cream to give it more body to the sauce. Ville interest tee. You can use whole milk or skim milk. Looks likeville tweet vote tam our sauce a nice and creamy add our at a. Eight cooks you have cooked off shells. Shells are the best for mac and cheese but the cups all that delicious sauce we just made. And now get rid of the whisk and use a spatula fold that sauce right around everything. Now well add our other three quarters cup of heavy cream that thin it out a little bit coat everything. And were going to add our salt and pepper to taste. Now that everything is nice and corporated and creamy well taste to make sure we dont need any more salt and pepper. Thats good. Well go ahead into our baking dish. Make sure its nice and packed down and even the edges. Well at this particular time off with some of our house made dried pretzel chips. You can use bagged thin pretzels and crumble up on top if youd like pretzel chip add crunch and bite give it extra something and just a something we do differe different. Topped off with diced cooper sharp american and into the oven we go about five to 10 minutes. How long it takes the cheese to melt. Now that our mac and cheese is nicely browned were out of the oven well sprinkle fresh parsley over top to garnish. Well take a taste to make sure we did it right. Thats it. Im chef joe frost and this is your fox food bite. Thats it. That looks amazing. Absolutely. All right. Weve got another side dish that your guests are sure to love. Lets take talk about or try out the acorn squash. I dont know that much about acorn squash but theyre telling us you can make that into a star. Today were doing an acorn squash with dried fruit and nu nuts. Aces a great fall item and its great as a side dish for any meal. Now, again this is a winter squash. So the schwinn is pretty thick you got to be very careful as you cut those. Cut in half first, im able to scoop the seeds out a lot easi easier. So you want to scoop the seeds out. Just keep turning it in your hands. Dig into the flesh a little bit. And there you have it. We want to quarter these squash. So well again cut them in half again. Here we go. The next step i want to do i want to just put a couple score marks on the squash. What that does, it allows the seasoning well put on next to kind of bake in and give it some better flavor. We want to get 2 tablespoons of melted butter, a tablespoon of brown sugar. Our curry pinch of salt. And we want to stir that in so it just melts. Get a brush baste the squash. Generously. Dont be shy here. This is a nice it will give squash the great flavor. Now well transfer these to the cookie sheet. And get them in the oven again you have a convection oven at home it might take shorter time. Now well make the fruit and apple compost. First well start with baking an apple. Peel it. You can use any favorite apple that you have. Im going to take skin off here. Im going to cut the apple in half and remove the core. Get the seeds out. Want to cut that in nice dice. Add quarter cup of dried cranberries. Quarter cup of raisins, quarter cup of pecans. Well add 2 tablespoons of molasses. 4 tablespoons of maple syrup. Zest an orange. Teaspoon of cinnamon and a couple sprigs of fresh thyme and take this, well mix this very gently. We want this so its all mixed together nice and even. Now well add the olive oil to the hot pan. Then well scrape out the mixture into the pan. We want to cook this for five minutes until the apples and stuff start getting tender. Whats going to happen this maple syrup and molasses will start to caramel lies a little bit thicken up a little bit. This is caramel liesing real nice much its been about five minutes. Add our orange juice and this is fresh squeezed orange juice. Our bourbon. Gives it a nice flavor. Let that cook for additional five minutes stirring. This is reducing very nicely starting to thicken the squash just come out of the oven its really tender and beautiful. Its ready to go. Generously want to scoop this compost on top of our squash. Almost like were stuffing it. These are ready to go back in the oven for about 15 to 20 minutes. Theyve been in the oven for about 20 minutes. Nice caramel lied and bubbling. Ready to go. Its tender. Lets give eight try. See how soft that is. Exquisite. Im chris, culinary direct at roselli market fresh and this has been your fox food bite. Im going to try that. That looks like a good balance you come out with pretty heavy i cant even talk because i got cheese in my mouth. Come out with pretty heavy cheese and you move to a nice somewhat healthy side. Lets talk turkey next. Can you make a turkey. Thats actually one of my favorite things to make. Lets take a turkey and put a twist on it and make ill a little bit different. Well make your mouth water with our turkey. Stay tuned. Weve got that for you up next. Grover cleveland here. Yes, the handsome gent on the thousanddollar bill. With cash4life, the great game from the pennsylvania lottery, you could win a thousand dollars a day for life you could invest it, or save it for a rainy day. Or you could buy a new car and with drawings every monday and thursday, that means 2 chances to win every week. Cash4life from the pennsylvania lottery. You could win a thousand dollars a day for life. All right. So weve got some of the sides set up. Okay. But in most houses its not really a holiday unless theres turkey. So forget roasting this turkey. Lets put it right in the deep fryer. The first thing you need to do is heat up your oil. When youre filling your pot with owl most turkey fryer lots have a phil line. Cook your turkey around 325 degrees to 335 degrees. So while your oil is heating up lets go inside and prep mr. Turkey. You have this 9pound turkey breast wings attached new york city leg. Well season it and inject ill turn him into buffalo fried turkey. Heres everything we need to make our seasoning for the turkey. Well rub him in a little bit. We need about half a cup papri paprika. Tablespoon of garlic, granulated garlic. About tablespoon of began lated onion. Tablespoon of kosher salt. Tablespoon of black pepper. My favorite lowrys seasoned salt. About tablespoon of that. Pinch of brown sugar. This is another favorite of mine, montreal chicken seasoning. Tablespoon or so. Another favorite of mine adobe ba. With pepper. Half a tablespoon of that. Mix it altogether. Make a nice handful now. Heres the secret get inside here. Okay . Youre going to throw seasoning in there. Youre going to rub it around. Loosen the skin a little bit. Little more rub. Season him up a little bit. The reason we rub the turkey inside all over make sure you have it all over to get the flavor equally balanced throughout the whole turkey. Now were going to april correct mr. Turkey with buffalo sauce. A cup of your favorite hot sauce. Cup of melted butter, mix them together, theres your hot sauce marinade. Well take the injector and fill it up. Here you go. Just stab him, and inject. Stab him and inject. Stab him and inject. Make sure you get the breasts, take the bottom mr. Turkey, inject him under here. You want the marinade throughout and tire turkey. There you go, guys. Well take a Little Buffalo sauce. Well rub him all over. Well take a little leftover rub and make sure that hes nice and seasoned and hes ready to go into the fryer. You have to scoop mr. Turkey right through the cavity take mr. Turkey pop him right in here. So now well get ready to fry mr. Turkey. Now that our oil is up to temperature well take mr. Turkey and put him very carefully and slowly. So how long do we fry mr. Turkey . About three to 3. 5 minutes a pound. 9pound turkey about half an hour should do it. Lets check him. He looks beautiful. Hes almost done. Couple of safety tips. Number one never ever ever fry a frozen turkey. It will cause a fire, could overflow. Number two, keep propane tank away from the fryer. Number three, bit a little bit of cardboard under your fry. Its been about 30 minutes. Mr. Turkey is ready. Lets take him out of the grea grease. He looks incredible. Give hame little shake, get the excess oil off. Lets go inside and carve him up. Heres mr. Turkey. Fried, golden, ready to go. Dont forget to take him off of his spit. Make sure hes not too hot. And there we go. Look at that. All that juice and that buffalo marinade. This turkey is cooked perfectly, but if you happen to see pink towards the bone, dont be afraid to throw him back in the fryer for a couple minutes. Not going to hurt him. Look at that. Best turkey you will ever ever eat. Cut a little piece off there. Perfect. I like it. All right now weve got the turkey. But coming up a green bean recipe that will wow your guests and having them forget all about that cold green bean casserole. So green beans are tape tell at so many of our holiday forums. You get out the onions you pet them on top and big casserole. Trying to be healthy, right . But you can get a little bit more creative. You can be healthy and have some fun like with this green bean recipe. Today were going to recreate mississippi green beans and ham. This used to be favorite side dish we had to take the off the menu. Very simple procedure really. And the end product is outstanding. First thing youre going to do, put in quarter pound of butter into your saute pan. Add garlic. Going to be half a cup of chopped garlic. Mix that up a little bit. Here we have pieces of ham. Fat jacks we actually use Hickory Smoked pulled pork but most of you dont have smokers at home so you can substitute ham. Next add your ham into the garlic and butter. Thats about three quarters of a pound of ham. So give this mixture a minute or two. Just want to incorporate it altogether. Now were ready to add our green beans. You can use fresh or frozen. I happen to like frozen theyre a little wetter, little moist for me. Feel free to use fresh. This is about 3 pounds or so of green beans. This may look like a lot of green beans but youll field feed your whole family. So lets give everything a little mix. Then well add the rest of our ingredients. There we government look really good. Everything is mixed together well. Now lets add the rest of our ingredients. About tablespoon of salt. About a tablespoon of granulated garlic. About a tablespoon of black pepper. The last ingredient and most important besides the water its ham base. Dont be afraid you can ham base. Chicken base will work just fine. Lets add a quarter cup of ham base. Mix that up a little bit and then well add our water. Mick it up really really well. And were going to add about a cup and a half or so of water. Now all we have to do is be patient and let it cook down it will take 10 or 12 minutes for these green beans to cook down. And they might get mushy. Thats okay much thats what you want. You dont necessarily need crispy green beans with the ham. You notice theres still a lot of liquid in here. Dont worry. That liquid in about 10 or 11 minutes will cook down and thats exactly what you want. You want just a little bit of liquid left and green beans will absorb all that liquid. You dont have to cover thumbs its easier to watch everything cook down. As the liquid cooks down, you dont have to stir quite as much because you want a little bit of crunchiness to these beans. All right . Its been 12 or 13 minutes, green beans are done, ready to o how about if we plate them up. This is an absolutely great side dish, everybody. So lets taste these bad boys mississippi green beans and ham from fat jacks barbecue. Smokiness of the ham base, ham flavor, garlic everything goes together well. Im pitt master glenn gross from fat jacks barbecue and this has best part. It is dessert time. Im excited about this. Lets get should we try short bread. Nothing wrong with butter and sugar all mixed in together. I love it. Lets go short bread. Im Robert Bennett of classic cake and this is your fox food bite. Today here at classic cake were going to make short bread cookies much this is a great recipe to make with the kids. We make hundreds and hundreds of pounds of these every week. Very simple. Well start off with 12ounces of unsalted butter, softened. This you let it sit out Room Temperature microwave the for about 15 seconds. When its nice and soft, this is when you want to get the kids involved. You dont even need a mixer. You just want it soft. You dont want it to melt. Once its nice and soft, add your one cup of confectioner sugar. One half teaspoon salt. Add one half teaspoon of vanilla extract. You dont need a mix kerr. Scrub up the kids hands let them get in there. Like theyre playing with play dough. At this point everything is homogenous. Three cups of owl purpose flour. Just about there. The mix will be nice and homogenous. Good oldfashioned cookie dough. See . All coming together. And the dough is finish. Now its ready for shaping. Once you get your short breads made, now the fun begins. I like to use a little scooper. This ensures that the cookies are going to be even shaped. Even sized. They bake evenly that way. Im scooping them. Rolling in granulated sugar. Put them on my cookie sheet. Take the same dough rolled it out on a floured bench, cut it into whatever holiday shape that you like, sugar it and here short bread presses. This is nice way to get a good variety of cookies. So you can differentiate them by sprinkling Cinnamon Sugar on one, you can top it with a little raspberries jam when youre done. And because this is a short bread, it holds its shape pretty well. Reheat your oven just conventional oven at 350 degrees fahrenheit. If you have a convection oven pre heat it to 325. Set your timer for about 12 minutes. Now that the oven is pre heated its time to bake. 12 minutes later, they came out nice. Nice and brown. I personally like to eat them while theyre warm. Hmm. Thats good. Isnt this when im supposed to be eating. Thats good. Just like did he. Let us know some of your very favorite desserts because i like my cookies but i need to have my bake pies and Everything Else what your favorite holiday traditions are. Cookie is like a side dish. Very good but cookies and cake. My favorite. All right. Quickly my dad makes a pound cake. Yum. Awesome. Homemade. I will bring you one. Im also a huge fan of sweet potatoes. Needs to be a part of my meal. I like the night of seven fishes. My mothers side italian. I love it. I love everything soup to nuts with all of the actually like the smelts little tiny fish and crunchy. Shrimp cocktail. All right. Pound cake and little tiny fish much this has been lot of fun. Weve got ideas of what you can do for your holiday meal. Share with us of course when you tune in the morning time you can always use our hash tag fox 29 good day but thank you for spending your evening with us. We really appreciate your time and have a wonderful, wonderful holiday. Good night, guys. Grover cleveland here. 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