Continuing between 7 00 and 9 00 oclock. Theres this heavy rain that continues to move through but it starts to taper off little bit by 9 00 oclock, say, 10, 11 00 oclock just light showers. Heaviest rain happening now. Tomorrow morning youll wake up to partly cloudy skies maybe just a sprinkle but a little cooler breeze. Temperatures right now are into the 60s theyll be dropping overnight tonight and continuing to drop tomorrow. See whats in store for the rest of the weekend. Ill have that in the seven day forecast coming up in little bit. Lucy. Talk to you then. Thank you today of. Happy holidays for local heroes. Veterans enjoying a true christmas feast this evening. The philadelphia veterans house opened its doors to christmas dinner. Fox 29s brad sattin joins us from west philadelphia. Brad . Reporter lucy, in the rain but the show must go on. Philadelphia veterans house helping Homeless Veterans for the past three years since 2012 here on baltimore avenue doing it again today really getting into this christmas spirit. As i step out of the way you can sigh folks waving maybe in the dark there. They served lunch earlier. Its dinnertime now. They are serving a nice christmas meal. Also, serve up it to let trees and showers and blankets and serving them today are veterans, non veterans even some kids we caught up with who are all just trying to get into the christmas spirit. Most of us may take for granted the slicing of that christmas ham or turkey today. But 63yearold carl miller chows down on a slice of pumpkin pie he says he just wants to kiss the chef. Carl served in the army back in the 1970s. Philadelphia Veterans Home didnt open its doors for him, he wouldnt have a family to share christmas with. Makes you feel like i have family again. Something about vets holidays feel lonely when they get together its like hey, we got family. Report rot the chef he jokily wants to kiss is marco who works at a restaurant in elkins park. Not today. He raised over a thousand dollars to help serve dozens of veterans. I was able to start gofundme and i got a lot of donations which helped a lot. So we able to buy all this food and hundred blankets and have them wrapped up so everyone could get a christmas gift. Reporter 13 year old ricky owens is the dish washer today. His 11yearold brother nate has the drying duties. Theyre in town visiting relatives but along with their dad thought it important on christmas to give back. Im a veteran myself, and so i have special place for vet plans my heart. Reporter is place his boys are now learning about. Thought it would be good idea to help people who are not so fortunate. Reporter folks like Sergeant MajorWallace Presley of vietnam veteran whose been living and working in this home for few years knows the obstacles. A lot of them get into this position because they feel as though people dont really care. Reporter he also nose people do care. They can come here any day of the week. If they need somewhere to come and talk to somebody to we can point them in the right direction to get the help that they need. And be advocate for them. Reporter even when necessary stay overnight. They have 17 beds here, of course, the goal is to get these folks into permanent housing but again the goal today a shower, a blanket and a really nice christmas meal. The dinnertime now. We see a few folks going in. Theyll continue to serve as long as veterans show up here. Lucy. That is wonderful thing. All right, brad sattin, thank you so much. Every year hundreds of people pack the cathedral basilica of saints peter and paul on the ben franklin parkway for Midnight Mass to usher in christmas. And this was the scene early this morning. The cathedral basilica held additional masses throughout the day. Talk about just a selfless gift. Instead of exchanging presents with one another, one family helped to bring smiles to 25 other families. Fox 29s Bill Anderson went to camden for a tiding of comfort and joy. Theater are your secret santas. Whoo most of us spent the day with friends and family, exchanging gifts, one new jersey family decided to give up their traditional christmas and dedicate this year to helping others. This year we felt we want to give, and the lesson is its bet to give than to receive. Reporter Jennifer Morris is a fire marshal in camden and after conducting an inspection at Ronald Mcdonald house she and her family decided that rather rather than Exchange Guests with each other, they would give them to the 25 families of sick and injured children living here. I can even describe it. Its the best feeling in the world to see that were making these kids happen. The smiles on their faces. Its incredible. Reporter Ronald Mcdonald house staff shared family information so the morris familiar do the shopping and from the response it look like the presents they got were perfect. I think today they are building their reservoir of goodness so that on those tough days when they feel that they cant take another step that theyve got a little bit of bad news they can look back in their minds eye and say, you know what, there are people that love me. I wish you get better. 22 members of the Morris Family gave up their hone christmas to give presents to the families here at the Ronald Mcdonald house and all of them agree, that it makes christmas this year a little bit more special. Appreciate what you have. Dont take anything for granted because you never know what could happen tomorrow. Thank you. Youre very welcome man. In camden, Bill Anderson, happy holidays from fox 29 news. Thousands of people gather at saint petes square to listen to pope francis. He prayed for an end to human suffering this christmas. The pope message include add prayer that a recent u. S. Back d piece agreement will bring piece to syria and libya. Pope francis also praised nations taken in refugees this year. Quiet Christmas Mass in a holy place sacred to christians worldwide. The town of bethlehem celebrated with somberness on Christmas Day as worshipers made their way to the church of the nativity for morning mass. Church built upon the site where jesus was born. Despite the winter sunshine, festivities had been low key this year dampened by months of Israeli Palestinian violence. Childhood home of former president bill clinton caught fire and investigators suspect arson. The fire broke out early this morning and left one side of the house burned with smoke and water damage on the inside. Investigators think kids may have intentionally set it. Because whoever did it left behind juvenile type of graffi graffiti. The home is a National Historic site oped by the National Park service. Coming up, it was one of the most important moments in our nations of the row and it happened on christmas. How some his historical enacts relived George Washington crossing the delaware and millions of people are traveling for the holidays. We go behind the scenes with the men and women keeping our country safe. This day is all about tradition for many. On the Delaware River today saw the annual reenactment of general George Washington crossing the river. Everything from the firing of cannon to soldiers dressed in uniforms. Today reenactment was true to what happened on this day in 1776. The crossing of the Delaware River is a Pivotal Point in the american revolution. On this day, Good Samaritans have been making sure christmas as cheerful as possible for as many as possible. Fox 29s Sabina Kuriakose headed to the sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission in center city. Reporter Christmas Morning joan white skipped the presents to drive up from delaware here to sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission at 13th and 59 in philadelphia. She says she wanted to give her three kids the kind of gifts that will long live in their hearts. I wanted to celebrate the real reason for the season and let my kids understand that its not just about gifts. Its about giving to others. Reporter Christmas Day staff and volunteers at the mission serving breakfast to about 200 people staying at the shelter and stopping by. Many with no place else to go for the holidays. The center also provide as christmas lunch and even gifts. To hopefully give them some hope that lives can be changed and sometimes that begins with a meal. Reporter Mission DirectorDick Mcmillan says donations year round make all of this possible. The gift of a happy holiday surrounded by people who care. Joan says its a present that touches both the receiver and the gift giver. Shes happy her kids got the message. They were all happy and willing to get up at 5 00 this morning to be out here. So im just grateful and theyre really putting an effort into it. I think this will be morey warding than what they get when they get home under the tree. Reporter in center z Sabina Kuriakose fox 29 news. To afghanistan now, where servicemen and women celebrated Christmas Day at bagram air base. Troops enjoyed a special christmas meal so far away from their family and friends. Even san tan his helpers brought some cheer. Its a tough time of course to be away from family and our men and women overseas know its tough for the folks back here at home as well. I miss them very much and i wish i was there having dinner with them. Its kind of sad cause im not with my family at this time. But i have a job i have to do. So sacrifices i make. Bagram air base is the largest Us Military Base in afghanistan where americans serve alongside nato forces. In california a group of muslims are helping serve christmas dinners. They served 1,000 people in ne need. The National American muslim voices foundation put all of this together. Wonderful thing. From the muslim they come in every year. They make it easier for us. We dont celebrate christmas but we feel like other people should get a good meal on christmas. They say they dont want today to be the only day to see feed the homeless as millions around the wolfed travel to be with family and friends it makes what happens at our borders even more hectic than usual. U. S. Customs and Border Protection have to double down to keep our country safe. Foxs Mike Emmanuel takes us behind the scenes with cdp. Reporter canines like this Beagle Hudson play major part in protecting the unfortunate s border the search and seizure operation particularly. That operation is being amped at airports across the country this month. It doesnt depend what country youre coming from, some foods are illegal. We dont have a natural defense from a predator to keep it from spreading. They Say Something as simple as bag of rice that could get you referred for secondary inspection. And land you in an hours long screening process. The bags will be opened up. They will be verified to see what kind of food they have. To see if admissible or inadmissible. Reporter Officials Say sausages are among the most common illegal Meat Products intercepted during inspection. They warn while it may be a popular holiday tradition foreign Meat Products can carry highly contagious diseases from countries affected with certain outbreaks. Intentional or unintentional entry of prohibited agricultural items can be devastating. If the wrapper or partial the i 10 sausage gets into circulation that can travel 170 miles a day. When you against that amongst our cattle that can be a ruinness to livestock. Reporter not everyone is attempting to illegally smuggle these items into the us. Some simply just dont know what is what is not allowed across the border. I would definitely suggest going on to cdp. Gov. You can type in know before you go. It will give you good great regulations on certain foods you should bring or avoid bringing. Reporter what happens to all that stuff that they seize. Take this downstairs engrain it up. Mike emmanuel fox news. Back to your fox 29 Weather Authority right now. And man on this Christmas Day, you are hospitalling day warren. Hopping it round all these storms. Youll have to get through flood waters here. This is very heavy rain even thunderstorms moving through the area now and will continue to do so till about nine or 10 00 oclock tonight. They are slowly pushing north and moving east. So were getting these areas of heavy rain going over the same locations. Thats where you getting flooding even flash flooding. This is a very heavy shower even a few thunderstorms. Right there in maryland about to move into New Castle County moving at 45 miles an hour to the northeast. This will be going over areas that already had very heavy rain. Watch the roadways there. Sun going down getting dark run into some flooding on these roadways especially ones with poor drainage. Right near vineland going right over the ac expressway, had lightning strikes here around Long Beach Island. This heavy area of rain is pushing off the coast. So its staying south of philadelphia now. Its all moving north and shooting off to the east here. This area my slowly try to drift to the north but its only going to be about the next hour or so and then all of this rain will push out to sea here. 64 degrees record high today 68. That set a roar. Tied a record. Our wind is calm here. Headlines the heavy rain happening now. Not going to be a happening all night. Just between now and 9 00 oclock. More records set today. Maybe few more in the forecast but we also have some more rain. Lets focus on this rain right now. There it is. And it moves out by 11 00 oclock tonight. So still a few showers. But the heaviest rain will be happening between about now and 11. Cooler air comes in tomorrow. Temperatures will drop a bit. May feel mile in the morning but it will stay right about the mid to low 50s there tomorrow. Then sunday, we warm right back up. Warmer air comes back. These are the temperatures that were seeing right now. We can see this return again on sunday. Well drop into the 50s here tomorrow. Heres warmer weather coming in sunday. Right now were into the 60s. Our highs into the mid to upper 60s on sunday. A little cooler tomorrow. But it does warm right back up overnight tomorrow night to early sunday. Record 68 we tied it here in philadelphia. Atlantic city 71 degrees. That broke a record set back there at 70 degrees. So tonight tonight to tomorrow, our temperatures are falling much when you wake up tomorrow morning, saturday planner, 55 degrees. It will be dropping down to 52 by lunch. 52 with clouds a few clouds around dinnertime. Eagles play tomorrow night, 52. Maybe a few showers return but the temperatures stay right about the 50 degrees mark and then climb on sunday. Warm right back newspaper the upper 60s. There will be a few showers coming in. Late tomorrow night and then through sunday. Now monday were right about 50 degrees. Gets warm again on tuesday. There could be few showers and maybe even steadier rain on tuesday. Then by wednesday and thursday, we will be right into the mid 50s heading into the new year. It does get a little colder. You have to throw a 35degree temperature in there. Well really strange. Tis the season for that, though, right. Right. All the rest of the stuff is nutty. A little crazy. Dave warren thank you very much. Coming up imagine leaving of living with six different families through your life and youre not even a teenager yet. Thats what life has been like for these children. Why christmas is extra special for them this year. Grover cleveland here. Yes, the dashing fellow 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 buy a new house or maybe even treat yourself to a trip to the islands. 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. Imagine living with six different families throughout your life and youre not even teenager yet. Thats what life was like for two local children until halloween and thats when the fogle family got a little bigger as our Lauren Johnson shows us, christmas, oh, christmas will never be the same. Reporter 11 years zach was an only child. I always want add brother and sister most al brother. Reporter his mother robin wanted something else. We wanted to help kids out. Reporter she and her husband had been foster parents for years. Foster care was not a good thing for me because it was hard to say goodbye. Reporter she thought adoption was a better option. When i got that call, i was like, yes so happy. Almost like a pregnancy, you know wahoo. Katie and ben a brother and sister set i didnt know i had a sister until i a visit with my mom. Reporter had been in the foster care system for years. Moving around, a lot. Um, for an estimate i think sick. Six different times. Thats lot. How was that for you . Hard. Where are we ever going to stop moving. It took emotional toll on 12yearold katie. Did you ever get scared sometimes you might get separated from your brother . That wept through your mind sometimes . Yes. Did you ever cry . Were you ever sad . I was sad. Do you know why you were sad . Because i didnt think we were ever going to get a family. Reporter robin was hoping she would be the last stop on their tough journey to find a forever home. All these kids wanted was love. Reporter she was ready to pour out all she had. I was a bundle of energy but in different ways. But flys and stuff like that. Reporter everyone was nervous but excited about what could be. I thought they were really fun. It was very quiet. And we wept from that to complete chaos. It was good chaos. Reporter after a year of adventures, it became official. Our awas finalized october 30th, and that was just an amazing day. Reporter just in time for the holidays. First christmas with adoption done. Reporter zach says they have big plans. Go to the nutcracker macys, hershey park probably and Christmas Lights in allentown. Reporter the christmas list. A tablet. More lego friends. Reporter long list of wishes for siblings who were short on traditions. It breaks my heart to think they were eight and 11 and they had never ever decorate add christmas tree. They did it and loved it. What has it meant for you guys . That we never have to move any more. Unless were moving to a different house but were still staying together. Reporter now the fogle family is finally complete. I think that puts a whole different spin on our christmas. Like we are a family and we are altogether. Lauren johnson with an mazing story. Great story. I love that. Weather not so much. Weather not the best here. Getting rain and a lot of green and red on the radar screen. Flooding will be an issue especially baltimore and south of 95. Okay. All right. Well have a lot of to talk about im sure at 10 00 and at 6 00 that. Does it for us here at 5 00. Well see you right back here in about 30 minutes. Have yourself a very merry christmas. 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. Stay tuned. Weve got that for you up next. Its here, the first gummy multivitamin. Stay tuned. Weve got that for you up next. From centrum. A complete, and tasty way to support. Your energy. Immunity. And metabolism like never before. Centrum multigummies. See gummies in a whole new light. 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. Come on in pop pop. Happy birthday. I just had a heart attack. And now i have a choice. For her. For them. And him. A choice to take brilinta. A prescription for people whove been hospitalized for a heart attack. I take brilinta with a baby aspirin. No more than 100 mg. As it affects how well it works. Its such an important thing to do to help protect against another heart attack. Brilinta worked better than plavix. And even reduced the chances of dying from another one. Dont stop taking brilinta without talking to doctor. Since stopping it too soon increases your risk of clots in your stent, heart attack, stroke, and even death. Brilinta may cause bruising or bleeding more easily or serious, sometimes fatal bleeding. Dont take brilinta if you have bleeding, like stomach ulcers. A history of bleeding in the brain, or severe liver problems. Tell your doctor about bleeding, new or unexpected shortness of breath, any planned surgery and all medicines you take. I will take brilinta today. Tomorrow. And every day for as long as my doctor tells me. Dont miss a day of brilinta. 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. 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. Holiday. Good night, guys. Fact. When emergency room doctors choose an otc pain reliever for their patients muscle, back and joint pain. The medicine in advil is their 1 choice. Nothing is stronger on tough pain than advil. 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Had some lightning strikes but really not seeing much in the way of lightning now. Heavy rain is the problem. Heres knife so its just to the south. These storms come up and then they make right turn going directly east going over the same areas so thats why were seeing flooding concerns now just to our west theres some flash flood warnings. Would not be surprised if we see more flooding here in the next few hours before all of this winds down. Heavy rain right around vineland and millville. This will be going over the ac expressway. Heres another band thats about to go off the coast of Long Beach Island where one went a short time ago. You can see where the focus of this rai