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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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French Toast with Toasted Walnut, Orange, Cranberry and Brown Sugar Compound Butter

Christmas seems to have come early for me this year. A ring of the bell, no one there but luckily I spy a package on the stoop. As I bent to retrieve the box and noticed it was from the Irish Dairy Board, I quickly looked up and down the street for Santa or even [...]

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Cranberry Glazed Orange Layer Cake

I make this cake every year for a holiday meal. This year it was for Thanksgiving but more often it’s for Christmas Day. The flavors are just fantastic and it is so beautiful. The combination of the orange flavored cake, the brown sugar/cream cheese frosting and the cranberry sauce make a spectacular presentation for this [...]

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Bon Appetit RSVP September 2010 – Lamb with Pomegranate Molasses Sauce

It’s time for my monthly recipe from the RSVP section of Bon Appetit magazine. Some of you may have seen me on Twitter talking up my new website RSVP Redux; a compilation of recipes from RSVP that are made by myself and other food bloggers. I love trying recipes from RSVP; feeling a certain sense [...]

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Blueberry Crepes with Orange Ricotta Filling

My sister Laura is visiting for a week; ostensibly to help with my recuperation after breaking my leg but we’ve had some fun too and yesterday was a good day. We wanted to cook together so invited my children and some of my friends over for dinner. I’ll never be able to repay them for [...]

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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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White Peach Sangria

I’ve often had Sangria made with red wine and not that it isn’t good, but my consumption of red wine seems to be limited to the winter; I find a white sangria more appealing in the summer too. A perfect drink for barbecues it’s a luscious mix of peaches, oranges, apples, brandy and white wine.

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