There are two celebrations I particularly look forward to at the end of November. Both owe their dates, on the third Thursday and last Thursday of November, to laws in their respective countries. I'm of course referring to France's Beaujolais Nouveau celebration and the United States' Thanksgiving. Thanks to some rather brilliant promotion from Beaujolais' PR people, the purple-pink Gamay wine is now often paired with turkey, stuffing etc. at tables across the country. This year, I decided to combine the two holidays in one festive dish: a Beaujolais Nouveau cranberry sauce. Since the recipe only requires about a cup of wine, it's a perfect way to finish off a bottle! For one 12oz pack of ...
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Celebrate Fall with Trader Joe’s Pumpkin Macarons
It's pumpkin season and that means the pumpkin macarons are back in Trader Joe's freezers, along with about a million other pumpkin flavoured items throughout the stores... (OK, apparently, just 40 according to Tech Insider.) Trader Joe's is very committed to the pumpkinization of fall that way ;-) I'm not a huge fan of frozen macarons, though I've had these before and they're not bad (for frozen macarons...) They're ready to eat in about 30 minutes after you've taken them out of the freezer (though my friend Kaoru likes to eat them frozen too, almost like French mochi) so that's an option as well.) They're a bit on the soggy side, could definitely use a little more crunch but the pumpkin ...
