#Kringle Caper

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Keep the Holidays going with our review of The Kringle Caper from Grand Gamers Guild

The first game in the Holiday Hijinks series of escape room style games.

Take on the role of an elf who has to solve the case of the missing cookie at the North Pole.

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Advent Adventures: The Door to December Sixteenth, 2022

Advent Adventures: The Door to December Sixteenth, 2022

Advent Adventures: The Door to December 16th, 2022   “Christmas Memories, Christmas Reveries” Image Link     Dear Door Openers, Please enjoy a poem I put together for the season. CPH         Open…         “Christmas Memories, Christmas Reveries”   Kringle capers, Crinkling papers, Clanging choir bells.   Busy streets, Hanging wreaths, Roasted chestnut shells.   Jingle bells, Red…

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If you need help getting into the Christmas spirit, I will be your spirit guide. Check out The Kringle Caper from Grand Gamers Guild for a fun time!

https://youtu.be/bRS7so_ZN6E

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I was reading a post explaining how Halloween is an inversion festival for American society and it suddenly clicked -- Christmas is an inversion festival for me

Halloween is just another day ending in -y for me because, you know, pagan goth who likes dead things, la di da. but the Christmas season is when I can suddenly turn into a sparkly capering snow-dusted peppermint-scented eggnog-swilling carol-belting acolyte of the Janus-faced Krampus/Kringle godform who finds great and terrible joy in the depths of winter instead of, you know, being prone to seasonal depression and insanely desperate to see the colour green again

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🎄 PinkPossibly’s Christmas Movie Master Post!! 🎄

It’s that time of year again friends and that means a movie master post!!! Again, these links are totally safe as I use them myself. Make sure to always click out of pops up right away if any pop up!!

12 Tiny Christmas Tales A Charlie Brown Christmas A Chipmunk Christmas A Christmas Carol (Disney 2009) A Christmas Story (Hannah Barbera) A Christmas Story (Live Action) A Claymation Christmas Celebration  A Disney Christmas Gift  A Family Circus Christmas A Flintstone Christmas A Flintstone Family Christmas A Flintstone Christmas Carol A Garfield Christmas Special A Miser Brother’s Christmas A Muppet Family Christmas (1987) A Pink Christmas A Scooby Doo Christmas A Very Fairy Christmas Ahhh! Real Monsters! - Monsters Dont Dance/Gone Shopping Adventure Time - Holly Jolly Secrets Part 1/ Holly Jolly Secrets Part 2 A Sonic the Hedgehog Christmas Blast Alien’s First Christmas All Grown Up - The Finster Who Stole Christmas An All Dogs Christmas Carol Angela Anaconda - Secret Santa Anamaniacs: Wakko’s Wish Arthur’s Perfect Christmas As Told By Ginger - An Even Steven Holiday Special BC: A Christmas Special Barbar and Father Christmas Baby Looney Tunes- Christmas in July Bah Humduck!: A Looney Tunes Christmas Barbie in a Christmas Carol Barbie in the Nutcracker Barbie: A Perfect Christmas Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas Bob and Margaret: A Very Fishy Christmas Bob’s Burgers -  God Rest Ye Merry Gentle-Mannequins Bob’s Burgers - Christmas in the Car Bob’s Burgers - Father of the Bob Bob’s Burgers - Nice-Capades Bob’s Burgers - Last Gingerbread House on the Left Brandy and Mr. Whiskers - On Whiskers On Lola On Meryl On Cheryl Bugs Bunny Christmas Tales The Cabbage Patch Kid’s First Christmas Camp Lazlo- Kamp Kringle Casper’s First Christmas Casper’s Haunted Christmas Catdog - A Very Catdog Christmas Chalkzone - When Santas Collide Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales Chowder - Hey Hey It’s Knishmas! Christmas Comes to Pacland Christmas with the Kranks Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas Danny Phantom - The Fright Before Christmas Daria - Depth Takes a Holiday Doug - Doug’s Secret Christmas Donkey’s Christmas Shrektacular Donner Ed Edd N Eddy - Falalala Ed Elf Felix the Cat Saves Christmas Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends - A Lost Claus Fred Claus Frosty Returns Frosty the Snowman Frosty’s Winter Wonderland Goof Troop Christmas Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer  Hey Arnold - Arnold’s Christmas Holly Hobbie and Friend: Christmas Wishes House of Mouse: Clarabelle’s Christmas List How the Grinch Stole Christmas How the Grinch Stole Christmas (live action) I Am Weasel - Happy Baboon Holidays I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas It’s a Very Merry Muppets Christmas It’s Christmas Time Again, Charlie Brown Jack Frost Johnny Bravo- Twas the Night Johnny Test - A Holly Johnny Christmas Kim Possible- A Very Possible Christmas Lilo and Stitch The Series- Topper Love Actually Madeline’s Christmas Mickey’s Christmas Carol Mickey’s Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Alpha’s Magical Christmas Miracle on 34th Street Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol National Lampoons Christmas Vacation Nester, The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey Olive, The Other Reindeer Phineas and Ferb - Christmas Vacation Pingu - Pingu’s Family Celebrates Christmas Pinky and the Brain- A Pinky and the Brain Christmas Pinocchio’s Christmas Pippi Longstocking - Pippi’s Christmas Prep and Landing Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street Regular Show - The Christmas Special Rocket Power- A Rocket X-Mas Rocko’s Modern Life - Rocko’s Christmas Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Rudolph’s Shiny New Year Rugrats- The Santa Experience Santa Claus is Coming to Town Scooby Doo Haunted Holidays Scooby Doo Winter Wonder Dog Scooby Doo 13 Spooky Tales: Holiday Chills and Thrills Shaun the Sheep- We Wish Ewe a Merry Christmas Shrek the Halls The Smurfs- Baby’s First Christmas Spongebob Squarepants- The Christmas Who The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius - Holly Jolly Jimmy The Berenstain Bear’s Christmas Tree The Muppets - The Christmas Toy The Fairly Odd Parents - Christmas Everyday The Fat Albert Christmas Special The Flintstones- Christmas Flintstone The Forgotten Toys Series The Forgotten Toys Movie The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy- Billy and Mandy Save Christmas The Penguins of Madagascar in a Christmas Caper The Muppets Christmas Carol The New Super Mario Bros- The Night Before Cave Christmas The Nightmare Before Christmas The Oz Kids- Christmas in Oz The Polar Express The Santa Claus The Santa Claus 2 The Santa Claus 3: The Escape Claus The Simpsons- The Gift of the Magi The Simpsons- Skinner’s Sense of Snow The Simpsons- She of Little Faith The Simpsons- Tis’ the 15 Season The Simpsons- Simpson Christmas Stories The Simpsons- Marge May Not Be Proud The Simpsons- Miracle on Evergreen Terrace The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol The Wild Thornberrys- Have Yourself a Thornberry Little Christmas The Year Without a Santa Claus Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale Tom and Jerry: Santa’s Little Helpers Totally Spies- Evil GLADIS Much? Twas the Night Before Christmas We Bare Bears- Christmas Parties Yogi Bear’s All-Star Comedy Christmas Yogi’s First Christmas

[riddled-mind]

what are you gonna do while you ignore kringle and cobblepot?

Plot out a few capers. Honestly, I’ve been neglecting that. 

The Riddler has been out of Gotham’s spotlight a bit too long and I need to correct this error immediately. 

I’m debating between an art gallery … or taking over a news station for a few hours.

[akillerconundrum]

Draw, fire, or fill me; I'm still empty.

@featheredfiend

Edward tried to remember the last time he had had a guest over. Not counting Miss Kringle, of course, that was recent and the exception not the rule to his unintentional life pattern. He had, of course, tried to encourage possible get-togethers with coworkers over the years, all laughed off and stood up... that was fine, none of the thick headed detectives or coppers had any real interest in beer and video games. At least with him. He had attempted to tolerate study partners once or twice in school, which were generally short-lived... that was alright, he had preferred studying on his own, any way. 

Social matters were always a careful, calculated dance he couldn’t quite nail down the formula for. 

But this was a special guest. He knew exactly what had landed, bloodied and delirious, right into his hands. 

Unfortunately, the first few days had not gone according to plan. Entertaining a both physically and mentally broken man was not something he was prepared for. All things considered, it was going well enough. Too bad there had been the lulls of unconsciousness as Mr. Penguin had tried to mend in all capacities. Some more so than others. It was infuriating. 

It was probably not doing much for the maimed and fallen King Pin that every time he seemed conscious and coherent enough, Nygma had been at the ready for conversation.

Maybe he shouldn’t have loomed so close to the bedside while his guest was sleeping. 

Maybe Mr Penguin would like a sandwich when he woke next? Something with capers. 

Nygma hummed as he whisked to the kitchen, loving this idea. 

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The Twelve Capers of Christmas: Epilogue

The Twelve Capers of Christmas: Epilogue

The Twelve Capers of Christmas: Epilogue

Christmas Eve

Epilogue

2018/12/24

News Bulletin:

The business market has been turned on its head this morning as CEO of Noel & Kringle Enterprises has been arrested under charges varying from parking fines to homicide. Diane Egoorcs is to be represented by an assigned defence attorney as all of N&K Ent. lawyers have signed the overwhelmingly…

[jenguerrero]

I grew up in Wisconsin. People know about the cheese, beer, and bratwurst. Scandinavian bakeries are a really big deal there, too. Everyone’s got strong opinions about which bakery is the absolute best to get kringle and Danishes for holidays, gatherings, and weekends. Oh, I miss those bakeries! When I have a craving, I love to make them at home now. One of my favorite Scandinavian cookbooks is Scandinavian Comfort Food: Embracing the Art of Hygge by Trine Hahnemann. A huge thank you to Quadrille for letting me share her recipe for Poppy Seed Danishes with you! They are so delicious! (And yeah, she has a recipe for Kringle in there, too!) My review of the book is right after the recipe. Amazing book.

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Recipes excerpted with permission from Scandinavian Comfort Food: Embracing the Art of Hygge by Trine Hahnemann, published by Quadrille October 2016, RRP $29.99 hardcover. Photograph credit: Columbus Leth

Poppy Seed Danish

If you go to a bakery in Denmark and ask for a snail, you will get a Danish with a swirl of cinnamon filling. I can’t get enough of poppy seeds in any form of pastry, so I make poppy seed swirls instead. This is perfect in my world.

MAKES 18

For the dough: 25g/generous ¾ oz fresh yeast (If you’re not familiar with fresh yeast, it’s sold in little cubes in the refrigerated section, usually by the feta and blue cheese. -Jen) 150ml/ ½ cup plus 2 Tbsp lukewarm water 1 egg, lightly beaten, plus an extra beaten egg to glaze 1 tsp sea salt ½ tsp ground cardamom 1 tbsp caster (granulated) sugar 325g/11 ½ oz “00” flour, plus extra for dusting 300g/1⅓ cups cold butter, thinly sliced

For the filling: 75g/5 Tbsp soft butter 75g/scant ½ cup caster (granulated) sugar 100g/3 ½ oz raisins, chopped 75g/2 ½ oz poppy seeds

Crumble the yeast into the water, stir to dissolve, then add the egg, salt, cardamom and sugar. Stir in the flour and knead the dough with your hands until it is even and combined. Put it in a bowl, cover with cling film and leave to rest in the fridge for about 15 minutes.

Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface into roughly a 45-cm/18-in square. Arrange the butter slices in a square in the centre of the dough, at a 45-degree angle to the corners of the dough so it forms a smaller diamond inside the dough square. Fold the corners of the dough over the butter to encase it fully and seal the joins well. Roll out the dough again carefully, this time into a rectangle, making sure that it does not crack and expose the butter.

Fold a short end one-third over into the centre, and the other short end over that, as you would a business letter. Wrap in cling film and rest again in the fridge for 15 minutes. Repeat this rolling and folding procedure three times in total, remembering to let the dough rest for 15 minutes in the fridge between each.

Now make the filling. Mix the ingredients together until combined. Line 2 baking sheets with baking parchment.

Roll out the dough on a floured surface to a rectangle about 60 x 40cm/ 24 x 16in. Spread the filling evenly over the dough and, with the longest side facing you, roll it up like a Swiss roll. Cut the roll into 1.5-cm/ ½ -in pieces and place, cut side up, on the lined baking sheets. Cover with tea towels and let them rise for 30 minutes. Preheat the oven to 220°C/425°F/ gas mark 7.

Brush the snails with beaten egg and bake for 15–18 minutes.

  My review of the book…..

Scandinavian Comfort Food: Embracing the Art of Hygge by Trine Hahnemann Edition: Hardcover

This is an excellent book of Scandinavian comfort food! It’s beautiful! Her recipes are absolutely delicious! The recipes are very modern and surprisingly healthy. Well, with the exception of her very decadent baked goods. 😉 Lots of measurements are given by weight, so you need a kitchen scale to prepare these.

Pictured below: 1) Summer Frikadeller (meatballs with an herbed yogurty dip) – p67 and Classic Potato Salad – p163. We loved this dinner. Terrific meatballs and the best potato salad I’ve ever had.

2) Poppy Seed Danish – p278. Delicious! They’re wonderfully flaky and buttery. They make the house smell lovely. And they’re on the table in about 1 hour and 45 minutes. –It calls for fresh yeast. If you’re not used to that, those are sold in little cubes in the refrigerated section, usually by the feta and blue cheese.

3) Fishcakes with Herb Sauce and Mint Fried Potatoes – p68, with Cucumber Salad. Fabulously tender fishcakes, and we loved the unusual addition of mint in the potatoes. She advises to serve with cucumber salad, but doesn’t provide a recipe, so I just dressed them in white wine vinegar, salt and pepper, sugar, and fresh parsley. 4) Kale and Pancetta Tart – p194. Delicious! And there’s a huge bunch of kale in it!

5) Meringue Layer Cake – p246. Divine!

6) Nordic Quinoa Salad – p168. Delicious. The apples and honey mustard bring a lovely sweetness to the quinoa and kale. 7) Spicy Pumpkin Soup with Croutons – p134. Yum! Extremely flavorful!

8-9) Danish Burger – p 26. This is a delicious burger! Open faced on toasted sourdough with nearly a quarter pound of wilted lettuce under each burger. Then it’s topped with a spiced apple/onion/chile relish, onions, buttery capers, and fresh horseradish. The recipe didn’t mention salt and pepper in the relish or spinach, but I seasoned them anyway. I doubled the burger recipe for 4 of us. I did not double the relish. It made enough for 4 burgers and another quart to spare! Great flavor!

  10-11) Slow Juices – p 21. I went ahead and made them all since I was getting the juicer out. Left to right: Spinach and Pineapple Juice (with ginger), Root Vegetable Juice (beets, carrots, mint, apples, and lemon), and Cucumber and Tarragon Juice (with pineapple). These were all delicious. I’ll double the 1st and 3rd next time to make a quart of each. The root vegetable recipe already does.

  12) Roasted Chicken with Rhubarb and Tarragon – p 75. This is a great dinner. We all loved the addition of sweet tart rhubarb. The pop of red is so pretty, too. I just made herb and garlic roast potatoes and creamed spinach to go with it.

13) Beetroot Patties with Horseradish Cream – p 94. Great earthy taste and a lovely punch from the fresh horseradish. 14) Spinach Dumplings in Tomato Sauce – p 104. These are really delicate spinach and ricotta gnocchi. I felt like extra tomatoes, so I doubled the tomatoes in the sauce.

I can’t wait to try the rest!

— This book has me very curious about her Christmas and Baking books. They both have great reviews. If you have both, please leave a comment for me letting me know which you favor. 🙂

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Scandinavian Comfort Food: Embracing the Art of Hygge

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  Poppy Seed Danish recipe and Cookbook Review: Scandinavian Comfort Food: Embracing the Art of Hygge by Trine Hahnemann I grew up in Wisconsin. People know about the cheese, beer, and bratwurst. Scandinavian bakeries are a really big deal there, too.

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New Review on the Blog

The Kringle Caper Review, A Christmas themed escape room style game from Grand Gamers Guild

Help the elves solve the case of the missing cookie any time of the year in this small box, puzzle game that takes about an hour.

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New Ep! Holiday Gaming With Family: Tips and game recommendations. Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast Ep 226 In addition to family gaming tips, we also review The Kringle Caper from Grand Gamers Guild, talk about Bah! Humbug! and The Ghost in the Machine, and more! https://tabletopbellhop.com/podcast/ep226/

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Tonight we record the next episode of The Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast LIVE!

Topic: Holiday gaming with family, tips and game suggestions.

Review: The Kringle Caper from Grand Gamers Guild

We got live at 8pm EST at: https://www.twitch.tv/tabletopbellhop

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Advent Adventures: The Door to December 16th

Advent Adventures: The Door to December 16th

The Door to December 16th: “Christmas Memories, Christmas Reveries” Image Link   Dear Door Openers, Please enjoy a poem a put together for the season. CPH         Open…       “Christmas Memories, Christmas Reveries”   “Christmas Memories, Christmas Reveries”   Kringle capers, Crinkling papers, Clanging choir bells.   Busy streets, Hanging wreaths, Roasted chestnut shells.   Jingle bells, Red…

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Advent Calendar 2018: Day 14

Advent Calendar 2018: Day 14

Advent Calendar – Day 14

“Christmas Memories, Christmas Reveries”

Kringle capers,

Crinkling papers,

Clanging choir bells.

Busy streets,

Hanging wreaths,

Roasted chestnut shells.

Jingle bells,

Red pastels,

Frosted windowpanes.

Fire’s glow.

Hot cocoa,

Pulling reindeer reins.

Christmas memories,

Christmas reveries.

Standing under, mistletoe.

Christmas Evening,

Christmas Morning,

Santa…

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The Twelve Capers of Christmas: Day 11

Clara is ready but scared. Who will come to her aid to save Santa?

The Twelve Capers of Christmas: Day 11

Day 11

Reinforcements

2018/12/21

“Dear Legends

Time is running short. Tomorrow night I’ll be saving Santa or die trying. I would greatly prefer the former and that is why I have written you. I know you have not always gotten along with my grandfather or my family but I’m sure you can see the danger we face. If we allow a company to take the…

[jsfigment]

The Twelve Capers of Christmas: Day 9

Don't push people too far they may push back, and they may not be sweet about it.

The Twelve Capers of Christmas: Day 9

Day 9

Candy Canes and Confessions

2018/12/20

“What the…. ARRGH” the man said tied to his chair, “Really? Right in the eyes?” he whined as his assailant shone a light in his face.

“Where is Santa?” his captor whispered.

“Have you checked a mall? Or a street corner? Those fat guys are everywhere this time of year.” He chuckled. A large candy…