cranberry

Turkey, Cranberry and Cream Cheese Sandwich with Sprouts and Sunflower Seeds

I admit…I’m pulling something from the Archives to publish again. I’ll hope you’ll forgive me; pretty please? When I first started this blog I had 2 readers; me and my dog. Still, I transferred some of my best recipes from an older recipe website where they now languish in the archives and deserve better. This [...]

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Cosmopolitan Cranberry Sauce – Is it a Cocktail or a Sidedish?

Like so many, my childhood memory of cranberries is centered on the canned, jellied version of cranberry sauce. I can’t say I hated it, but I just don’t care for anything ‘jelloish’; preferring jam in a heartbeat to jelly. Still I was unprepared for how much I would LOVE cranberry sauce made from scratch. Talk [...]

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How to Make Cranberry Liqueur and the Perfect Champagne Cocktail for the Holidays

This is one of my favorite things to make over the holidays yet because I put it on my blog a couple of years ago, it has for the most part languished in the nether world of being there but no one knowing it. As I work to finish the batch for this year along [...]

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Cranberry Ginger Fizz Cocktail for #HappyHourFriday

I spied the original version of this cocktail in Bon Appetit magazine when I received their October issue in September of this year. Though clearly a fall cocktail, at that time we were having a hot streak and the notion of fall or cranberries seemed in the distant future. Fast forward and suddenly 95 degrees [...]

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Ginger Cranberry Shortbread Bars

My readers know that I often find myself deciding on a dish to make because I have an overabundance of something I bought at Costco! This week it was a large bag of cranberries, enough to make a double recipe of Merlot and Toasted Walnut Cranberry sauce and still have 7-8 cups left over (3 [...]

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Walnut Cranberry Brie

Ingredients: 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, toasted 1/2 cup raspberry preserves 2/3 cup sweetened dried cranberries 1 package (17 1/4-ounce size) package frozen puff pastry sheets, thawed 1 (8-ounce size) 4 1/4-inch diameter round Brie cheese 1 tablespoon milk 1 tablespoon water 1 egg Apple slices, if desired Crackers, if desired Directions: Heat oven to 400 [...]

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Cosmopolitan

1 oz. Cointreau® 2 oz. Vodka Cranberry & lime juice Shake with ice and strain into a Martini Glass

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Cranberry Relish with Orange Liqueur

A very simple type of cranberry side dish; I guess I consider it a relish instead of a sauce since it isn’t cooked. More importantly, it includes some Grand Marnier in place of orange juice! This recipe is listed on the Food Network as a creation of Tyler Florence; I don’t recall getting it there [...]

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Cristalino Brut Cava

Straw color, smooth and fresh aromas; fine and fruity palate with a dry aftertaste. Clean, dry and crisp with citrus and apple flavors. “Cristalino is always a solid go-to Cava. This brut is round, slightly yeasty and shows citrus aromas that veer toward lemon-lime. The palate is healthy and clean, with a narrow set of [...]

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