FOOD & WINE Best Holiday Recipes: 100+ All-Time Favorites
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FOOD & WINE Best Holiday Recipes - The Editors of Food & Wine
Chapter One
Drinks & Starters
Dark and Stormy Death Punch
Tangerine Collins
Mother’s Ruin Punch
Blood Orange Screwdrivers
Citrus-Cinnamon Punch
Sparkling Pomegranate Punch
Georgian Brandy Punch
Mulled Red Wine with Muscovado Sugar
Platinum Sparkle
Sugar-and-Spice Nuts
Pumpkin-Pie-Spice-Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
Nutty Baby Kale Chips
Cheese Sables with Rosemary Salt
Mustard-Miso Pickles
Cranberry-Licorice Compote
Sunflower-Seed Brittle
Shredded Caesar Salad on Toasts
Maple-Soy Snack Mix
Wild Mushroom Crostini
Rosemary Flatbread with Blue Cheese, Grapes and Honey
Mixed Crudités with Green Goddess Dressing
Creamed Kale Toasts
Sesame-Ginger Chicken Meatballs
Blue Cheese and Walnut Dip with Waldorf Crudités
Shrimp Cocktail with Singapore Hot Sauce
7-Minute Salmon Caviar Sushi Bites
Charcuterie Cones
Sweet Butternut Squash Tart
Pork Satay with Sweet Coconut-Milk Glaze
Gingered Butternut Squash Soup with Spicy Pecan Cream
Mini Spinach-Feta Pies
Hogs in a Blanket
Grilled-Beef Summer Rolls
Dark and Stormy Death Punch
Total 35 min plus 4 hr chilling and freezing
Makes 8 drinks
This Halloween-inspired take on the Dark and Stormy, a classic rum and ginger beer drink, features eyeballs
—round ice cubes made with lychee syrup and lychees stuffed with brandied cherries—floating in the punch bowl.
One 20-oz. can lychees in heavy syrup, lychees drained, syrup reserved
¼ cup thinly sliced peeled fresh ginger
16 brandied cherries
¼ cup superfine sugar
½ cup fresh lime juice
1½ cups dark rum
3 chilled 12-oz. bottles ginger beer
Ice
1. In a small saucepan, bring the lychee syrup and ginger to a boil. Remove from the heat, cover and let steep for 30 minutes.
2. Meanwhile, stuff 16 lychees with brandied cherries. Set each lychee in the cup of a mini muffin pan or in an ice cube tray. Strain the lychee-ginger syrup and pour it over the lychees. Freeze until firm, at least 4 hours.
3. Meanwhile, in a pitcher, stir the sugar into the lime juice until dissolved. Add the rum and refrigerate until chilled, about 1 hour.
4. Unmold the lychee ice cubes into a small punch bowl. Pour in the lime-rum mixture. Add the ginger beer, stir gently and serve in ice-filled glasses. —Grace Parisi
Tangerine Collins
Total 15 min plus 1 hr chilling
Makes 8 drinks
Using tangerine juice in place of lemon juice turns the Tom Collins into a great seasonal cocktail. If tangerines aren’t available, you can substitute tangelos or clementines.
2 cups gin
1 cup fresh tangerine juice
½ cup simple syrup
Ice
1 cup chilled club soda
In a large resealable container, combine the gin, tangerine juice and simple syrup. Refrigerate until chilled, at least 1 hour. Cover tightly and shake, then pour into an ice-filled pitcher. Strain into ice-filled collins or rocks glasses; stir in the club soda. —Duggan McDonnell
NOTE To make simple syrup: In a small saucepan, simmer ½ cup of water with ½ cup of sugar over moderate heat, stirring, until the sugar dissolves, about 4 minutes; let cool. Refrigerate for up to 1 month. Makes about ¾ cup.
Mother’s Ruin Punch
Total 20 min
Makes 8 drinks
Classicist bartenders have resurrected the centuries-old ritual of the formal punch service. Here, star mixologist Philip Ward of New York City’s Mayahuel makes a potent concoction named after the old British slang for gin.
½ cup granulated sugar
¾ cup club soda
1½ cups gin
1½ cups fresh grapefruit juice, plus 3 thinly sliced grapefruit wheels for garnish
¾ cup fresh lemon juice
¾ cup sweet vermouth
Ice
2¼ cups chilled Champagne or sparkling wine
1. In a large pitcher, stir the sugar with the club soda until dissolved. Stir in the gin, grapefruit and lemon juices and sweet vermouth. Fill the pitcher three-quarters full with ice cubes and stir well to chill.
2. Strain the punch into a large bowl over ice. Gently stir in the Champagne and float the grapefruit wheels on top. Serve in punch glasses over ice. —Philip Ward
Blood Orange Screwdrivers
Total 10 min
Makes 8 drinks
I just want to make one drink for parties,
says actress and cookbook author Ali Larter. This pretty version of the cocktail classic is dressed up with a splash of Aperol and a jewel-toned orange wheel.
2 cups fresh blood orange juice
1½ cups vodka
¼ cup Aperol
Ice
8 blood orange wheels (optional), for garnish
In a pitcher, stir the blood orange juice with the vodka and Aperol. Pour into 8 ice-filled highball or collins glasses and garnish with the blood orange wheels. —Ali Larter
Citrus-Cinnamon Punch
Total 25 min plus 1 hr chilling
Makes about 2 quarts
Cinnamon flavors lots of holiday drinks, from eggnog to mulled wine. Here it appears in a tart-sweet punch that’s delicious on its own or spiked with Grand Marnier or Cognac.
ORANGE REDUCTION
2¼ cups fresh orange juice
Strips of zest from 2 navel oranges
Three 3-inch cinnamon sticks, broken into pieces
PUNCH
3 cups fresh orange juice
2 cups fresh red grapefruit juice
1 Tbsp. grenadine
2½ cups chilled grapefruit soda
Orange slices and ground cinnamon, for garnish
1. Make the orange reduction In a small saucepan, boil the orange juice, orange zest and cinnamon sticks over moderately high heat until reduced to 1 cup, about 8 minutes. Strain and let cool.
2. Make the punch In a large glass pitcher, combine the orange reduction with the orange and grapefruit juices and the grenadine. Stir well and refrigerate until chilled, about 1 hour. Just before serving, pour in the grapefruit soda. Dust the orange slices with cinnamon and serve in the punch. —Marcia Kiesel
Sparkling Pomegranate Punch
Total 15 min
Makes 10 to 12 drinks
3 Tbsp. sugar
1 cup pomegranate juice
2 chilled 750-ml bottles sparkling wine
¾ cup chilled late-harvest white wine, such as late-harvest Riesling
2 oranges, thinly sliced crosswise
1 cup diced fresh pineapple (½ inch)
¼ cup pomegranate seeds
Ice
In a punch bowl, dissolve the sugar in the pomegranate juice, stirring vigorously. Add the sparkling wine and white wine, then add the orange slices, diced pineapple and pomegranate seeds. Serve the punch over ice. —Shawn McClain
Georgian Brandy Punch
Total 10 min plus 3 hr macerating and chilling
Makes 10 to 12 drinks
Strips of zest from 3 lemons
¾ cup Demerara or other raw sugar
¾ cup fresh lemon juice
One 750-ml bottle VSOP Cognac
4 cups cold water
Ice, preferably 1 large block
Pinch of freshly grated nutmeg, for garnish
In a punch bowl, muddle the lemon zest with the sugar. Let stand for 1 to 2 hours. Muddle again, add the lemon juice and stir until the sugar dissolves. Add the Cognac and refrigerate until chilled, about 2 hours. Stir in the water, add ice and garnish with the nutmeg. —Dave Wondrich
Mulled Red Wine with Muscovado Sugar
Active 10 min
Total 50 min
Makes 10 drinks
This warm mulled wine spiced with fennel seeds and cinnamon makes excellent use of any leftover bottles of red wine.
2 tsp. black peppercorns, lightly crushed
1 tsp. fennel seeds, lightly crushed
One 3-inch cinnamon stick, broken into pieces
Two 750-ml bottles (or the equivalent) fruity red wine, such as Zinfandel or Merlot
3 bay leaves
Strips of zest from 1 orange
1½ cups muscovado sugar or other dark brown sugar
Put the peppercorns, fennel seeds and cinnamon in a large tea ball or wrap them in cheesecloth and secure them with kitchen string. In a large saucepan, combine the aromatics with the wine, bay leaves and orange zest. Cover and simmer over low heat for 10 minutes. Remove from the heat and let stand, covered, for 30 minutes. Remove the aromatics and orange zest strips. Stir in the sugar until dissolved. Serve warm, in glasses or mugs. —Marcia Kiesel
MAKE AHEAD Once cooled, the mulled wine can be refrigerated for up to 3 days. Reheat gently.
Platinum Sparkle
Total 10 min
Makes 8 drinks
For parties, star mixologist Kathy Casey premixes this festive drink in large batches. She then quickly shakes each drink with ice, strains it into a glass and tops with Champagne and a cherry.
12 oz. vodka
4 oz. maraschino liqueur
4 oz. Lillet blanc
4 oz. fresh lemon juice
Ice
4 oz. chilled brut Champagne
8 brandied or maraschino cherries, for garnish
In a pitcher, combine the vodka, maraschino liqueur, Lillet and lemon juice and stir well. For each drink, add 3 ounces of the mixture to a cocktail shaker, fill with ice and shake well. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass or flute, top with ½ ounce of Champagne and garnish with a cherry. —Kathy Casey
Sugar-and-Spice Nuts
Active 10 min
Total 1 hr
Makes 5 cups
I like to take something that’s generally ordinary and do it really well,
says New York City event planner Bronson van Wyck about this sticky cashew- and-almond mix.
¾ cup sugar
1 Tbsp. kosher salt
1 Tbsp. chili powder
2 tsp. cinnamon
2 tsp. cayenne
1 large egg white
2 cups raw cashews (9 oz.)
2 cups raw almonds (9 oz.)
1. Preheat the oven to 300°. Coat a rimmed baking sheet with nonstick cooking spray.
2. In a small bowl, whisk the sugar with the salt, chili powder, cinnamon and cayenne. In a large bowl, beat the egg white until frothy. Add the cashews, almonds and spiced sugar and toss.
3. Spread out the nuts on the prepared baking sheet and bake for about 45 minutes, stirring once, until browned. Let the nuts cool on the baking sheet, stirring occasionally, before serving or storing. —Bronson van Wyck
MAKE AHEAD The spiced nuts can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 2 days.
Pumpkin-Pie-Spice-Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
Total 45 min
Makes 1 cup
Seeds from 1 medium (10-lb.) pumpkin (about 1 cup)
1 Tbsp. vegetable oil
1 Tbsp. sugar
½ tsp. cinnamon
¼ tsp. ground ginger
⅛ tsp. ground cloves
⅛ tsp. freshly grated nutmeg
1. Preheat the oven to 400° and line a small rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. In a pot of salted boiling water, boil the pumpkin seeds for 10 minutes. Drain, then pat the pumpkin seeds dry on paper towels.
3. In a medium bowl, toss the pumpkin seeds with the oil, sugar, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and nutmeg. Spread the coated seeds evenly on the prepared baking sheet and roast for 20 to 25 minutes, turning the seeds every 10 minutes, until crispy. Let the pumpkin seeds come to