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Tangy Cranberry–Black Pepper Shrub Cocktail
Back in colonial days, a shrub syrup was the best way of preserving fruit without refrigeration. This autumnal cocktail gets its sweet-tart flavor from a shrub made with cranberries and spiced with black pepper. Its tangy flavor counterbalances a meal's richer flavors, and the shrub is great for parties, since it can be prepped in advance. For guests who aren't drinking booze, mix the shrub with chilled sparkling water instead of wine.
Spiced Cranberry Rum Fizz
Incorporating the classic flavors of cranberry sauce--tart cranberries, the warm spice of orange zest, and a kick of ginger--this drink re-imagines the timeless flavors of the season.
Cranberry Daiquiri
This Cranberry Daiquiri recipe is a festive rum cranberry cocktail perfect for Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years Eve, and all the days in between.
Cranberry Syrup
Cranberries make a versatile, sweet-tart simple syrup perfect for making holiday drinks.
DIY Cranberry Liqueur
When life gives you cranberries—which it always does this time of year—make cranberry liqueur. This bright red, tart liqueur can keep you in festive cocktails from Thanksgiving to Christmas and beyond.
Mulled Cider Shrub
The great thing about this particular shrub is that it's ready to consume immediately, as a lot of the vinegar's intensity is cooked out. It's a lot more mild and sweet than most shrubs, and doesn't require anything but a splash of soda or a shot of your choice of booze to make a tasty beverage.
Cranberry Negroni
Cranberries—a staple on the Thanksgiving dinner table—are a perfect ingredient for cocktails this time of year. Their ruby red hue brightens up any cocktail party and the juice brings a little life to familiar cocktails.
Spiced Cranberry Sauce
For this variation, add spices like cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, and cloves as well as orange juice and zest, then finish it off with a bit of spiced rum. The end result is incredible: a cranberry sauce that has a multidimensional array of seasonal flavors that fits seamlessly into any Thanksgiving meal.
Sweater Weather Punch (Scotch and Cranberry Cocktail)
This punch smacks you with tartness, with the drying tannins of cranberry. This punch whirls with spices: It's gingery and cinnamon-y, with hidden herbs and a cleansing bitter edge. This is a real cocktail, dressed up in festive garb.
Poinsettia Cocktail
This recipe is for "the world's fanciest cranberry juice cocktail." Matthew Ficke of the Columbia Room in Washington, D.C. serves this fruity, effervescent drink during the holiday season and now, so can you.
This warming and festive single-spirit drink recipe is perfect for wintertime entertaining: Make the easy cinnamon-spiced cranberry mixer far ahead of the last-minute chaos, add booze, and offer the drink in a pitcher for guests to serve themselves.
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Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Pomegranate Glaze
These easy Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Pomegranate Glaze are a delicious combination of fall flavors and textures. One of our favorite sides for Thanksgiving!
Browned Brussels With Maple Butter From 'Choosing Sides'
Brussels sprouts are a given on my Thanksgiving table, but I don't always give them much thought. Olive oil, salt, and a hot oven are my only requirements. While this method does produce pleasantly caramelized sprouts, it doesn't add much excitement to the table. This year, I'll take a cue from Tara Mataraza Desmond and toss my Brussels in brown butter and maple syrup as she does in her new cookbook, Choosing Sides.
Roasted Brussels Sprouts With Bacon
Brussels sprouts roasted in the oven with bacon and pecans are a perfect holiday side.
Roasted Sweet Potato Salad With Chutney Vinaigrette
This roasted sweet potato salad, adapted from Devon Delaney, is a welcome change from all those overly sweet holiday sweet potato recipes. Serve it warm as a side dish.
Glazed Winter Vegetable Medley With Chestnuts and Caper Berries From 'Feast'
The final savory chapter in Sarah Copeland's new cookbook, Feast, focuses on a few larger, celebration-sized meals. These recipes take a bit longer to prepare than those in the rest of the book, requiring more attention to detail, but they're worth the time—think paella, vegetable tagine, and silky (bread crumb-free) eggplant parmesan. Her glazed winter vegetable medley is the centerpiece of the chapter.
Make-Ahead Roasted Squash and Kale Salad With Spiced Nuts, Cranberries, and Maple
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Wickedly Delish Sweet Potato Salad
Wickedly delish Sweet Potato Salad with roasted sweet potato, baby spinach, wild rice, almonds, cranberries and feta and an incredible honey lemon dressing!
Fondant Sweet Potatoes (slow roasted)
Roasted Sweet Potatoes oven baked fondant style so the flesh becomes creamy and infused with savoury flavour. Excellent holiday side dish!
Baby Spinach Salad With Pears, Red Onions, Cranberries, and Toasted Hazelnuts
Tender greens, juicy pears, crimson cranberries, and toasted hazelnuts make a festive salad to start all those special holiday meals.
Roasted Frozen Sweet Potatoes With Whipped Crème Fraîche and Granola
Inspired by pumpkin pie, this recipe features sweet and silky sweet potatoes with a topping of tangy whipped cream and crispy granola.