Simple Chocolate Sauce - Tip of the Day
Tuesday Happy Hour: Christmas Cookie Cocktail
Since this month is Cookie A Day month here at Slashfood, and today also happens to be National Cookie Day, I think it's appropriate for today's Happy Hour post to be about a cookie you can have in liquid form.
It's the Christmas Cookie Cocktail, courtesy of the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC. As you can imagine, it includes chocolate in some form (in this case, chocolate sauce drizzled in the glass), but it also has Peppermint Schnapps, vodka, and Bailey's. This is one cookie that's definitely not for the kids (though maybe they can have the candy cane you're supposed to put in it).
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What I did with my cherry glut, part 2: Chocolate Pancakes with Cherry Sauce

Well, I told you about the cherry smoothie I made from the summer cherries I put into the freezer for safe-keeping. A lot of good those will be to me in the fall since I subsequently used them all for a liquid breakfast every morning thereafter until they were.
What I didn't tell you is what I did with the cherries I kept fresh on the counter. You, my Slashfood faithful friends, suggested clafouti to spare my fingers the chore of pitting cherries, as well as a multitude of recommendations for what I should do with the result of my gluttonous run at the market. I took the advice of a few and made...
...cherry sauce.
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