Last week we provided the recipe for a Tipsy Turkey pumpkin cocktail, followed by Thanksgiving-appropriate liqueurs.

But if your family and friends really enjoy creative cocktailing, here’s a more comprehensive Thanksgiving cocktail menu:

The Martini Group

The Mojito Group

 
The Warm Drink Group

Spiced cider and rum (make that spiced rum!) is one of almost 30 delicious Thanksgiving-appropriate cocktails you can serve. Photo courtesy National Honey Board.

 
What to do next?

Put together a cocktail menu of three specials to serve on Turkey Day.
  

Comfort food: peanut butter cookies and a
glass of milk. Photo by River Soma | THE
NIBBLE.

From Loveland, Ohio, we received a gift of Blue Chip Cookies from Chief Cookie Officer Donna Drury.

The company’s phone number, 1.800.888.YUMM, lives up to its promise.

The all-natural cookies are available in some 20 different flavors, including Almond Toffee, with or without chocolate chips; Black & White, a chocolate chip cookie with both dark and white chocolate chips; Blue Chip Joy, made with almonds, coconut and semisweet chocolate chips; Peanut Butter Surprise, with dark chocolate chips; Triple Chocolate, a combination of milk chocolate, semisweet chocolate and bittersweet chocolates; and White Chocolate Macadamia.

You’ll find all the classics, too, from oatmeal and plain PB to snickerdoodle.

If you know someone in need of a treat or need to send a thank you to your Thanksgiving hosts, a cheerful blue and yellow tin of Blue Chip Cookies will be most appreciated.

Want To Sell Cookies?

This year, the company established a Gourmet Cookie Licensing Program to partner with retailers to sell fresh-baked Blue Chip cookies. Check the company website for more information.

Trivia: Loveland is a suburb of Cincinnati, the “Blue Chip City.” Cincinnati got the name because it’s home to the headquarters of numerous “blue chip” corporations. The cookies can hold their own in the “blue chip” category.
  

Building on yesterday’s tip, mustard greens, you can create a spicy salad with no chiles or other “outside heat” whatsoever.

Just use the spiciest salad ingredients: arugula, mustard greens, radishes and red onions. Even with a plain or a lime vinaigrette* dressing, your salad will be spicy.

You can spice it up even more with:

A spicy salad: no chiles required! Photo
courtesy the Fat Radish restaurant | NYC.

The bright red radishes and emerald green leaves also make for a nice holiday-themed side dish.

SPICY VINAIGRETTE DRESSING RECIPE

Ingredients

 
Preparation

1. WHISK together the vinegar and mustard. Add the oil and whisk until fully combined. Taste and add salt and pepper.

2. ALLOW the flavors to blend for 15 minutes or longer. Whisk again before serving. Pour over salad, toss and serve.
 
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*Substitute fresh-squeezed lime juice for the vinegar in a 1:3 proportion with olive oil. Add salt and pepper to taste. Or, split the acid 50% lime juice, 50% wine vinegar, and zest the lime into the emulsion (best to zest before you squeeze the juice).