Old-Fashioned Comfort Foods
An easy homemade cranberry sauce recipe for a fall brunch menu or traditional Thanksgiving meal. Made with fresh cranberries, sugar, and cinnamon, it is a refreshing change from canned cranberries. If you cannot stand to look at canned cranberries anymore, you will be pleasantly surprised how easy it is to make your own. No more … Read more
A delicious cranberry muffin recipe made with dried cranberries and cherries and topped with cinnamon sugar. Serve these cranberry and cherry muffins warm for breakfast or brunch. What can beat having fresh cranberry muffins on your breakfast table? With the temperatures getting cooler, thoughts of fall baking have started coming to mind. All those wonderful … Read more
Cranberry orange bread is made with dried sweetened cranberries, orange juice, egg, and walnuts. This quick bread is a great combination of sweet and tart. Serve it for breakfast, brunch, an afternoon snack, or with tea. This is a recipe from my mom’s recipe collection and has been around for many years. One of the … Read more
A chicken salad recipe made with chicken, crisp fall apples, dried cranberries, celery, pecans, green onions, and mayonnaise. Serve this delicious chicken salad for brunch or a luncheon on a croissant along with fresh fruit and a mimosa. Everyone loves chicken salad, right? This is one of those recipes that became popular some time in … Read more
An easy bread pudding recipe made with cinnamon bread, cranberries, cherries, and raisins. This bread pudding has vanilla sauce in the recipe, making it rich and moist. You can also make your own vanilla sauce too. The roots of bread pudding go back many centuries. It was a way to use up stale pieces of … Read more
These mini apple tarts are made with chopped apples, brown sugar, cinnamon, jam, and dried cranberries and placed in a pre-made flaky pastry shell. They are fun bite sized treats to serve on a brunch buffet, as an appetizer, or for dessert. You might also try this recipe for mini-fruit tarts, which is similar and … Read more
A homemade cranberry bread recipe made with fresh cranberries, orange juice, and chopped nuts. Serve for breakfast, brunch, or a holiday dessert. This cranberry bread is full of flavor because of the fresh orange juice and grated orange rind. Sweet-tart cranberries make a delicious quick bread to serve for breakfast, brunch, part of a special … Read more
Cranberry scones are made with fresh or dried cranberries, buttermilk, sugar, and butter. The vanilla glaze on top makes this a sweeter scone and delicious pastry. Serve them for breakfast, brunch, or an afternoon tea party. Moist chewy cranberries add a bit of sweet and tart to this scone recipe and a sweet vanilla glaze … Read more
Country fresh cranberry bread is a quick and easy recipe made with plump fresh cranberries, sugar, egg, the juice of an orange and finely ground pecans. Serve this quick bread for breakfast or brunch. This sweet bread can be served warm or cold and with or without real butter. Sweet cream cheese or cream cheese … Read more
Poached pears with cranberry sauce uses fresh pears boiled in orange juice served with homemade cinnamon cranberry sauce. Serve for brunch or dessert. This is an easy and elegant way to serve those beautiful pears when they are in season. When you want to show off this beautiful fruit this is a nice recipe to … Read more