Fiery Sunshine

Stir together 1.5 ounces clementine juice, 1.5 ounces Fireball, and 1/4 cup ginger beer. Transfer to a glass garnished with clementine sugar and a giant ice cube or two. To make clementine sugar: Peel clementines. To dehydrate them, you have a couple of options. You can either let them sit out for a couple of…

Ginger Scallion Sauce

Eat this on everything. Tastes great on salmon, steak, and noodles of just about every kind. Finely slice 2 large bunches of green onions (white and green parts). Mince approximately 1/4 cup ginger. I’m going to level with you, I hate mincing things and use the food processor to chop all that ginger. It helps…

Sparkling Cider Muffins

For a variety of reasons, we open a bottle of Martinelli’s each holiday we host. The thing is, we never finish a bottle of it. This recipe uses up some of the leftover and some pureed pumpkin (for when I don’t use the whole can making puppy treats for Gibbs and Nugget). Combine 1/2 cup oat flour,…

Faux Pho Empanadas

I’d been toying with the idea of pho and empanadas for a while before finally getting around to finding the star anise and testing them out. I’d predicted correctly that they’d be delicious! For the dough: Mix together 2 1/4 cups flour, 2 teaspoons kosher salt, 1 stick cold unsalted butter cut into cubes, 1…