Fall Cocktail Part 4: Cider Sangria

 

Today’s post is the fourth and final beverage in my fall cocktail series each featuring my favorite ingredient, fresh fall apple cider. If you missed the first three installments you can read them here: 1|  Apple Cider Mimosas 2|  Cider Geniever 3| Spiked Hot Apple Cider 4| Cider Sangria (today’s post)

Okay, sangria is technically not a cocktail, but it is delicious so let’s agree to overlook technicalities, shall we? This is a colorful, festive beverage perfect for starting out any gathering (that’s right Thanksgiving, I am looking at you!) and it only takes about 5-10 min to prepare.

Fall Cocktail Part 3: Spiked Hot Apple Cider

Today’s post marks the third installment of the Fall Cocktail series featuring Apple Cider and it is a hot one! I probably should have come up with a more creative name, but for now, Spiked Hot Apple Cider it is. Did you miss the first two drink recipes? Don’t work, click HERE for Cider Mimosas and HERE to read about Cider Geniever. Okay, ready for a drink to help keep you warm in the cold months ahead?

Fall Cocktail Part 2: Cider Geniever

Okay, ready for the next installment in my fall cocktail series featuring New England’s own apple cider? Perfect, because today’s the day! If you missed the first post for Cider Mimosas you can see it HERE.  The Cider Mimosas are simple to make and only need two ingredients, today’s Cider Geniever are equally easy to create but you will need more than two ingredients. You will need three!

Fall Cocktail Part 1: Apple Cider Mimosas

This Thanksgiving will be my first Thanksgiving on my new diet. It is my husbands favorite holiday and we will be spending much of it with his family. I have decided to post a four part series of Fall Cocktails all featuring New England’s honorary fall drink: Apple Cider. It’s true, drinking alcohol is not Paleo but it remains a part of many people lives. Champagne is wine that had been carbonated by fermenting the wine a second time. If you choose to include wine into your Paleo lifestyle than you can certainly include a glass of champagne every now and then. Because: fermented! To sweeten the deal, I am pairing fermented apple cider with champagne to make a delicious fall beverage.

Paleo Classic Burger Updated

When you adopt a Paleo lifestyle there is a lot of cooking and planing involved. Sometimes you just don’t feel like cooking a big meal or have time to get to the store. Last week I was having one of those days… I looked in the fridge to see what we already had on hand and tried to come up with a meal. That is what inspired this simple update to a classic burger and fries. My husband said I hit it out of the park with this one and requested we keep it in a rotation so I made it again just the other day. Instead of onions, I used leaks. Instead of sweet potato fries, I used carrots to add a sweet flavor. The seasoning I came up with takes the place of your standard mustard… Check out the recipe and see what I mean!

Dairy Free Matcha Tea Latte

Welcome Fall! The air actually cooled down for a few days there. We were having nearly 90 degree days at the end of September, it felt like Fall would never arrive. But it did. Here it is. I love each season, especially the changing of the seasons so I didn’t hesitate to enjoy a Matcha tea latte on the first cool morning. While you can drink a latte in any season, I always associate them with fall. This is my first fall being dairy free so I knew I had some experimenting to do. I was first introduced to Matcha Tea when I was about 9 years old and enrolled in a Japanese brushwork class. The instructor started each lesson with her own mini-tea ceremony. All of the students would sit on the floor in a circle and mix our own tea our of the bright green Matcha powder and I loved it!

Paleo Fried Green Tomatoes

One of the perks of moving to the country is that there are farm stands everywhere! I love being able to buy local. It is nice to know where my food comes from while at the same time support local farmers. Another perk about buying local is that you are always buying what is fresh while it is truly in season. It can also be exciting (not in the same way that a roller coaster is exciting, but this is small town fun that we are talking about here) to see what is new each time you stop at the farm stand. The other day when I passed a local farm stand they had a bushel of green tomatoes!  Fried green tomatoes anyone?