I love the week between Christmas and New Year’s. I love the calm, quiet coziness that settles in after the mad dash from Thanksgiving to Christmas and I love that the week begins and ends with champagne. What I don’t love is an empty champagne glass. It’s always a sad thing to reach the bottom [...]
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Cherry Cocktails & Winter Compote Desserts
Posted in Recipes & Suggestions, tagged american spoon, brandied balaton cherries, brandied cherries, cherries, cocktails, dessert, dried tart cherries, entertaining, holidays, new years eve, winter compote on December 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fruit Butter Cocktails for Thanksgiving
Posted in Recipes & Suggestions, tagged american spoon, beverages, cocktails, cranberry butter, entertaining, fruit butter, pumpkin butter, recipe, thanksgiving on November 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Here are two things you may not know about fruit butters: 1) they don’t actually contain any butter and 2) they’re awfully good with gin. Or bourbon. Or champagne. I haven’t always possessed such encyclopedic knowledge of fruit butters. As I child I wrinkled my nose at the thought of apples mixed with butter and [...]
Easy Entertaining with Fig Conserve
Posted in Recipes & Suggestions, tagged american spoon, appetizer, autumn, cheese, entertaining, fall, fig conserve, fig preserves, recipe on October 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I spent last weekend in North Carolina visiting friends and family, walking barefoot on the beach, and eating Fig Conserve. I’d anticipated a weekend filled with shrimp and crabs and big game fish, and there was plenty of all that, but our late afternoon cheese and fig snacks were among the weekend’s culinary highlights. The [...]
