RECIPE: Christmas Peppermint Hard Candies

Use your holiday cookie cutters to make these fun mint shapes from conventional peppermint candies. Photos courtesy Reynolds Kitchens.   We love the recipe developers at Reynolds Kitchen, who often surprise us with their creativity. Just by looking at the photos, you can see what they’ve done with an everyday bag of striped peppermint candies.…
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Holiday Oysters With Cranberry Cocktail Sauce & More Recipes

[1] Make cranberry cocktail sauce for the holidays (photo courtesy Willapa Oysters, a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week). [2] A classic cocktail sauce with its favorite partner, shrimp (photo © Sheri Silver | Unsplash). [3] Oysters on the half shell with mignonette sauce. The recipe is below (photo © Whole Foods Market). [4] A…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Homemade Cranberry Vodka

Should you change your vodka for the holidays? Some vodka producers make seasonal flavors. Pinnacle Vodka, for example, has a portfolio of holiday flavors that include Caramel Apple, Pecan Pie, Pumpkin Pie and Peppermint Bark. Finlandia, Skyy and Smirnoff make cranberry vodka. Maybe you’ll be luckier than we’ve been in finding it. So here’s another…
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