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SUGAR ‘N SPICE and EVERYTHING NICE
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Celebrate the Holiday Season
December offers a wonderful opportunity for us to embrace our differences and enjoy our multicultural world. Festivals and holiday celebrations stretch across various cultures and religions as a joyous time to share new and exciting experiences.
Holiday Bits and Bites
Let us gather together those fun food nibbles, smallplates, or starters for surprise guests, informal get-togethers, merrymaking, or quick “let’s have a party” groups. Have a wonderful time and kick off your party with this stylish start. Here are some fun recipes that are sure to impress even Santa.
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Crab Bagel Chip Dippers
An appetizer with crab melt flavor and crisp chips
Crab Bagel Chip Dippers
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Spicy Cranberry Apple Honey Cake
Full of cranberry apple fruit flavor and glazed with sweet honey
Spicy Cranberry Apple Honey Cake
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Italian Beef “Sandwich” Pizza
Inspired by Chicago Italian Neighborhood Street Festivals
Italian Beef “Sandwich” Pizza
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Dorie Greenspan at the Spice House – Chicago
‘The Spice House in Chicago conducted a Dorie Greenspan Book Signing and Meet the Author Event on Nov 2nd, 2018
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Dorie Greenspan is welcoming the attendees to her book signing and providing insight into her development of the book and its recipes
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Dorie Greenspan’s World Peace Cookies
They have traveled the world and made millions of people happy
About the Recipe: The cookie is a chocolate staple, a French shortbread cookie., It has brown sugar, making it chewier. It also has a generous amount of chopped bittersweet chocolate and an immediately discernible amount of fleur de sel (salt).
Link to Dorie’s World Peace Cookies
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Around-the-World Peace Cookies
About the Recipe. -Dorie Greenspan published a recipe for World Peace cookies in several of her books. She had a book signing event at The Spice House in Chicago in 2018. I knew that Dorie loved when someone takes one of her recipes and makes it their own, I decided to surprise her and added ingredients from all 7 continents to her recipe and gave them to her to celebrate her birthday.
She was so surprised and delighted and asked what ingredients I added. The recipe then took on a life of its own – blending a world of ingredients in perfect harmony. It became the Around-the-World Peace Cookies.
pdf for Recipe -Around-the-World Peace Cookies
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Lake Park Bistro Dorie Greenspan Luncheon
The Lake Park Bistro in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Nov. 3rd
Dorie Greenspan speaking to group at the Lake Park Bistro in Milwaukee
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French Mini Almond Buttons
Pain De Genes Buttons taste like sweet marzipan cake-like cookies
French Mini Almond Buttons
About the Recipe: These little cake-like cookies are small, cute, and full of almond flavor. They are soft chewy cookies with a texture that’s like a combination of a pound and sponge cake. If you love marzipan or almond filling, you will really love these little buttons.
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Holiday Maple Mustard Brussels Sprouts
Packed with the flavors of maple syrup and mustard
Holiday Maple Mustard Brussels Sprouts
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Cauliflower Tabbouleh
Perfect side dish to serve at your next party
Cauliflower Tabbouleh
About the Recipe: The flavor of this tabbouleh made with cauliflower is so refreshing, seasoned with parsley and mint and sprinkled with crunchy almonds. It is a perfect dish to serve at a party since it has generous portions. Your guests will think it is really made with a grain and not only cauliflower. It’s a great way to serve more vegetables.
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Roasted Butternut Squash Soup
Oriental flavors highlight the natural taste of golden squash
About the Recipe: This squash soup is very different from the type served at many restaurants. Since it uses some Asian ingredients, it pairs well with a sprinkle of sesame seeds and fresh minced herbs and is a wonderful complement to Asian inspired entrée like Miso Glazed Salmon.
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Dutch Oven Brisket with Carrots and Sweet Potatoes
An easy dinner to make in an oven or slow cooker
About this Recipe: This recipe is inspired by Dorie Greenspan’s Slow Cooker Brisket and is the definition of comfort food as the smell of the red wine permeates your kitchen with anticipated goodness. The spices add a special gourmet touch to the roasted beef.
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Moroccan Spiced Chickpea and Noodle Soup
Add meatballs or make it vegetarian
Moroccan Spiced Chickpea and Noodle Soup
About the Recipe: The Moroccan soup or stew is simple and so satisfying, and like many dishes, it’s better when served the next day. Its roots are in Northern Africa and the spices add an exotic and delicious flavor. This Hariri traditional dish has several add-ins of pasta, chickpeas, and lentils.
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Candied Cocktail Nuts
Use fancy mixed nuts with sweet spices and maple syrup
Candied Cocktail Nuts
About the Recipe: It has a light herbaceous flavor that is mixed with a touch of maple syrup and brown sugar for sweetness. Add a hot tingly kick with some ground red pepper. Perfect for that snack bowl on the table.
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French Cheese Puffs with a Twist
Add zesty mustard and crunchy nuts for a great party
French Cheese Puffs with a Twist
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Denver Brunch Frittata
A new flavor idea for breakfast or an easy supper
Denver Brunch Frittata
About the Recipe: This frittata combines the flavors of a Denver sandwich with ease of preparation of a frittata by including sweet peppers, onions and ham.
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The Bethlehem Cake
Baked with Golden orange, warm balsamic Frankincense, and smoky
Myrrh flavors
The Bethlehem Cake
It inspired me to recreate this cake, highlighting the journey of the 3 Kings and adding flavors of golden oranges, sweet balsamic tang, and smoky almonds to the recipe. The finished cake has the added flavor of snappy ginger cookies.
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