Tasty Thursdays: Thanksgiving Cocktails

Happy Thanksgiving! Hope everyone enjoys their day with family & friends. (:

To add to some last minute Thanksgiving additions, here are a few cocktail recipes from Martha Stewart to top off the night! Each recipe yields 1 drink.

(top right) American in Paris:
Ingredients:

1 1/2 ounces bourbon
1/2 ounce creme de cassis
1/2 ounce dry vermouth
1/2 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
Lemon slice

Directions:
Combine bourbon, creme de cassis, vermouth, and lemon juice in a cocktail shaker. Add ice, and shake. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a lemon slice.

(top left) Cider Smash:
Ingredients:

2 ounces bourbon
1/2 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
4 ounces chilled sparkling apple cider
Thin red-apple slice

Directions:
Pour bourbon and lemon juice into a tall Champagne glass. Top with apple cider. Garnish with apple slice.

(bottom) Cranberry Old-Fashioned:
Ingredients:

8 fresh or frozen cranberries
2 teaspoons sugar
2 dashes of Angostura bitters
1 strip (2 inches) orange zest
2 ounces bourbon

Directions:
Muddle cranberries, sugar, bitters, and orange zest with water in a medium glass until sugar dissolves. Pour in bourbon. Add ice cubes.

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Tasty Thursdays: Butter Pecan Pumpkin Pie

Now that Halloween is over, and the red Starbucks cups are back - it's time to countdown to the holidays! This week's recipe shows you how to make a Butter Pecan Pumpkin Pie (why not use some leftover pumpkin? ;)) from Taste of Home. The following recipes serves 8.
Ingredients:

• 1 quart butter pecan ice cream, softened
• 1 pastry shell (9 inches), baked
• 1 cup canned pumpkin
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon each ground cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg
• 1 cup heavy whipping cream, whipped
• 1/2 cup caramel ice cream topping
• 1/2 cup chocolate ice cream topping, optional

Directions:

• Spread ice cream into the crust; freeze for 2 hours or until firm. In a small bowl, combine the pumpkin, sugar, cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg; fold in whipped cream. Spread over ice cream. Cover and freeze for 2 hours or until firm. May be frozen for up to 2 months.
• Remove from the freezer 15 minutes before slicing. Drizzle with caramel ice cream topping. Drizzle with chocolate ice cream topping if desired. Dollop with whipped cream. Yield: 8 servings.

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