Appealing post title, eh?

So in Men's Health, I came across a recipe for a Thanksgiving cocktail that sounded pretty darn yummy. It was a twist on a cranberry cocktail and consists of:

3/4 oz lemon juice

1 heaping teaspoon whole berry cranberry sauce

1.5 oz gin

3/4 oz triple sec

Shake with ice, pour into chilled 'tini glasses.

Tonight we had it paired with an Autumn Cranberry Beef Stew and it was pretty darn yummy. I think I put in too much lemon juice, but I like tart flavors, so you may have to adjust to your own liking. The best part is that the cranberry sauce takes a long time to de-gel so, at the end of the drink, you have drunken cranberry sauce to snack on (I'm a sucker for drinks with built-in snacks, like classic martinis and olives). Other uses? Well, it would be great for a Halloween mixer or a zombie-themed movie night, since the bottom of the glass resembles a cute lil pile o' gore. Men's Health suggested it for Thanksgiving, so I suppose it would be great for that too.

But what I think would make it super special is to make your own cranberry sauce. I was too lazy to do so myself, but if you try it, lemme know how it turns out. I bet it would be good, since I think canned cranberry sauce tastes like Jello gone bad.

I give it 2 1/2 cocktail glasses, but will rely on someone more talented than myself to come up with an actual image to represent this. Deal with it.