Mulled Winter Punch from Belvoir Fruit Farms — Faith’s Daily Find 12.24.14

Mulled Winter Punch from Belvoir Fruit Farms

• £2.46 to $15

This sweet and spicy mulled punch is a welcome nonalcoholic alternative to cocktails and ciders. It’s made with a rich blend of fruit, including blackcurrant, which gives it a wine-like tannic body. And while it’s a great non-alcoholic drink, it’s also very good when mixed with warmed red wine. This and other Belvoir products seem easy enough to find in the UK, but they’re more expensive and rarer in the States; I’ve found this at Terrain.

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A Menu for a Hobbit Party — Party Menus from The Kitchn

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My family has a tradition of seeing a movie together in the week leading up to Christmas, and usually there’s much discussion beforehand, with arguments and advocates for certain films. But the last two years haven’t been contentious: we all knew we’d see The Hobbit, conveniently broken into (bombastic) pieces as it was.

And last year, as I was on Christmas Eve dinner duty, I thought I’d cook up a surprise after our movie experience: a full hobbit dinner! Here’s what I made, in case you might be inspired to do something similar after the final chapter of the trilogy.

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