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Boxed Wine Pitcher Cocktails: Red Wine, Blackberry & Ginger Cocktail — Out of the (Wine) Box Cocktails

This may be the easiest of this week’s boxed wine pitcher recipes to craft, as it’s based solely on purchased ingredients. If you have a box of light, fruity, or even sweet red wine, this recipe is the one for you. Basing a cocktail on this style of wine assures a vibrant, deeply hued sangria-like flavor profile.

Fruity, fresh, and tart, with a swift kick of ginger — this blackberry and pomegranate cocktail may also be the most crowd-pleasing of the pack.

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feta tapenade tarte soleil

tarte soleil

Fully preoccupied with coming up with fun new shapes for my favorite cookie a few weeks ago, I went deep into a YouTube cooking show rabbit hole and emerged somewhere in France, where a twisted pastry that goes by the name tarte soleil stopped me in my tracks, and zipped itself right to the top of the Must! Cook! Now! list.

make the red pesto-tapenade-ish filling
roll out

It looks like it would take tweezer-level pastry cheffing to pull off, or at least some advanced mathematics. You’d imagine that this recipe would begin with a bracket of instructions labelled “Day One:” and you’d close the tab immediately. But you, like me, be forgetting that most French home cooking is remarkably simple (intentionally leaving the souffles and quenelles for the white tablecloth-ed establishments) and if you can find puffed pastry worth eating in the freezer case and leave it in the fridge overnight, you could be bringing this to a party an hour later. Trust me, I leave everything to the last minute and still got this out of the oven and digitally recorded with available light before the sun set at approximately 3:22 p.m. yesterday.

cut into a circle

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The Kitchn’s Most Popular Posts of July 2015 — The Kitchn’s Best of 2015

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Boxed Wine Pitcher Cocktails: White Wine, Clementine & Vanilla Cocktail — Out of the (Wine) Box Cocktails

Don’t you especially love the parties and get-togethers that happen just after Christmas? I do. The stress is lower, the gifts have been given, and the vibe is all about hanging out with family and friends and welcoming in the new year.

I’ve already picked up a few boxes of wine for the holiday season — some for sipping, some to cook with, and some to use as a cocktail mixer. This white wine and clementine cocktail is the first of five posts this week that incorporate boxed wine as a main ingredient. I’ll keep the recipes pretty simple, and you’ll have an option, whether you have a box of crisp white, dry rosé, or bold red.

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We see a lot of gear — from handheld gadgets to countertop appliances — come across our desks and kitchen counters each year. There are some things that are worth the money, and some that fall flat. Plus, there are plenty of ways to save on the gear you need in the kitchen. Here are our best shopping tips and product reviews from 2015.

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10 Secrets of the Organized Kitchen — The Kitchn’s Best of 2015

We’ll take a guess that like every other year, you’re making a resolution to be more organized in 2016. It’s a goal we fully support. The more organized you are, the easier (and more fun) it can be to spend time in your kitchen and get dinner on the table every night.

Here’s some of our best advice from 2015 to help you make a fresh start in the new year.

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The Hearty Soups and Stews We Loved in 2015 — Recipes from The Kitchn

We’ll be the first to admit it — the number-one reason we would even begin to claim fall or winter as our favorite season is because of the soup. It’s soup season! Give us a bowl of warm broth and veggies, meaty stew, or bean-packed chili, and we’ll settle in for a meal that always delivers warmth and satisfaction.

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