I’m sure you feel it; we’re on a rocket shot to Thanksgiving. In the meantime, though, breathe easy – or make something like what you see in the middle of picture above (Manhattan cocktail), and let’s have some fun with flavors.

Here’s a link to an Apple Cranberry Topping I posted here first around this time in 2021.

I just took off from Hickory, North Carolina, yesterday to spend Thanksgiving in the Northeast with family. Before leaving, I used some fruit in my fridge to improvise a fruit topping based on the apple cranberry topping above to take with me.

Here are the ingredients I pulled together to make a cranberry, blueberry & blackberry fruit topping:

First thing I did was rinse fresh cranberries, blueberries and blackberries right in their containers – much easier than using a strainer.

Then I fired up the pan, used a good chunk of butter, added a good shot ground ginger not pictured in the ingredient shot above. That’s a good part of what improvising is all about.

After a cold, wet but very fun walk through downtown Greenwich, Connecticut late this morning,…

…I put that topping over chopped pork, pears, cheese and more. Killer!

So, have it! Click this link or the picture below, pull up the apple cranberry topping recipe and either use it as is or use it as a springboard to improvise. All fun – and fully flavorful.

More Thanksgiving recipes real soon!