TIP OF THE DAY: Healthy Drinking On New Year’s Eve

Cheryl Forberg, James Beard Award-winning chef and nutritionist on NBC’s The Biggest Loser, has created a “Do List” for your New Year’s celebration. The top line: Wine is your friend, a wine spritzer is an even better friend. And some popular drinks are nobody’s friend because they’re packed with loads of calories and saturated fat.…
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RECIPE: Bacon Vodka & BLT Bloody Mary

[1] Make a BLT Bloody Mary with Bacon Vodka (photo © Bull And Bear Bar | Chicago [alas, now closed]). [2] Make a BLT Bloody Mary with Bacon Vodka (photo © Bull And Bear Bar | Chicago [alas, now closed]).   Sure, there will be eggnog and Champagne on New Year’s Eve. But what about…
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RECIPE: Christmas Sangria

Still looking for a smashing holiday drink? Get out the punch bowl or the pitcher and fill it with Christmas sangria. That’s pomegranate sangria with red and green apple slices, plus citrus. Get the recipe.   More tips: Freeze “Sangria ice cubes” so you can chill the drink without diluting it. Leave out the alcohol…
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RECIPE: Tequila Christmas Cocktail

Party drink or a “homemade gift” for a lucky someone. Photo courtesy Corzo Tequila. Another cocktail recipe? Well, it is the season to be jolly. Here’s something fancy that you can make and bring to a party. And you’ve still got time to make it! First, you infuse a bottle of silver tequila. (Corzo Tequila,…
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COCKTAIL RECIPE: True Grit & Bourbon

While Rooster Cogburn never missed a drink, we’re not certain that he’d cotton to mixing his whiskey with cinnamon schnapps and gold flakes. That’s more than a bit too fancy for the whiskey available in either rural Arkansas or the Indian territory that became Oklahoma. And nobody in Charles Portis’ novel, True Grit—or any of…
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