Few flavors say the holidays like cinnamon. My own personal holiday baking is about to commence in the kitchen and I had an inkling that yours might be as well. Enjoy Cinnamon Week!
Shortbread is unchartered territory for me, so I made it my mission to try some this month. This recipe for shortbread with Christmas spice sounds mouthwatering!
Tonight I’ll be baking this for my family’s annual dessert-off. Wish me luck! Tomorrow is one of the only “off” days of my year where I actually set the alarm clock so that I can watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. It’s been a tradition since I was a kid and I don’t plan on stopping any time soon! Then it’s off to my mom and stepdad’s for loads of grub.
I’ll be taking Thursday and Friday off in every way possible, but see you Monday to kick off the holidays!
Lots and Lots of Thankfulness for … … the very best friends and family and gal could ask for … the new(ish) roof over my head … my awesome job when so many are lacking even a crappy one … two fuzzy kitten-cats waiting for me at the door … my relatively decent health … candy
Ingredients: – 1 Macintosh apple, peeled, cored and sliced – 1 1/2 ounces Bulldog gin – 1/3 ounce simple syrup – 1 tablespoon lemon juice – 1 1/2 ounces spiced apple cider (preferably Reed’s brand)
Muddle 2 slices of the apple in the bottom of a cocktail shaker. Combine the gin, simple syrup and lemon juice in the cocktail shaker with ice. Shake vigorously. Pour into a Collins glass over ice. Add spiced apple cider. Garnish with more apple slices. If you like, rim the glass with cinnamon and sugar before mixing the cocktail. Serves 1.
Ingredients: – 3 oz gin – 1 1/2 oz apple cider syrup (see link) – 1/4 oz pomegranate syrup (see link) – 1/4 oz Tuaca
Shake gin and apple cider syrup together with ice and strain into a cinnamon-sugar rimmed cocktail glass. Stir Tuaca and pomegranate syrup together and pour into the center of the glass. Serves 1.
Ingredients: – 2 oz Partida Reposado Tequila – 1 oz fresh lime/lemon juice mix – splash of pumpkin puree – sesame seeds – lime wedge
Rim a cocktail glass with lime juice and sesame seeds. Mix ingredients in a shaker with ice and shake well. Strain into cocktail glass. Garnish with a lime wedge. Serves 1.
We had our office Thanksgiving today – all four of us – and it was a day-long event. Pumpkin bagels for breakfast, out for lunch, then pumpkin pie and topping with eggnog in the afternoon. And you know what? I feel like I could explode. Like I need to undo the button on my jeans. I always forget how horrible being really truly FULL feels. And all I can say for it is this: UGH. Oh, and that I’ll be having water for dinner. Thank you.
Sometimes it’s nice to realize I’m not entirely nut-zo. For the past few Christmases whenever I see a box of panettone I always think Pantone in my head. Apparently the designers at Purpose were on the same wavelength when creating at this piece for Greenford Printing!
By building on the familiar language of colour specification, Pantone swatches initiated the main theme for our concept. ‘Panettone’ created a colourful twist on the traditional Italian Christmas cake. The Panettone boxes arrive as a set of 5, featuring special dates from Christmas Eve to New Years Day, each one representing a different pantone colour.
White Chocolate Mousse with Cranberry Orange Compote sounds – and looks – amazing. And difficult. Let me assure you that it is only the former. A dessert that’s sure to make a lasting impression and be asked for again and again!
Few flavors say the holidays like cinnamon. My own personal holiday baking is about to commence in the kitchen and I had an inkling that yours might be as well. Enjoy Cinnamon Week!
