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well many of you are expecting visitors
this holiday season and if you're
looking for a way to take your party to
the next level well we have you covered
yeah joining us with some great
appetizers utilizing local foods is
becky Ellis from bubbly banette thank
you so much for coming on happy
Thanksgiving happy Thanksgiving so you
said we should be starting it off right
right away when our guests come right
absolutely
be ready for them but I don't know about
you all but I haven't even started
getting ready for Thanksgiving and I'm
tired already
okay but appetizers should be quick they
should be just fun to eat we don't want
to fill up everybody before they got
into the big feast and when I'm busy
with roasting a turkey and doing all the
sides I don't want to fiddle with a
bunch of appetizers so I found all kinds
of local foods in local foods anymore
you can find them in grocery stores wine
shops this is a great idea for
appetizers is today especially for
guests that are coming in from out of
town to kind of introduce them to some
local Virginia food because there's a
lot of history with Thanksgiving in
Virginia and for Virginia foods just
look for the check that says Virginia
finest uh-huh and that'll tell you that
that brand is actually a Virginia food
what's this one's okay season you wanted
to start off with sparkling wine is that
right mm-hmm
we have a Tabo janice in' which is a
sparkling wine from virginia and is
absolutely delightful okay a little bit
get it in the light so we can get a good
and that's a great way to welcome your
guests to hand them a glass of champagne
or sparkling wine whether this would be
from Virginia to say just because you're
here that is cause for celebration I
like the way you think yeah and we own
Virginia peanuts which hearth and plough
or plow horse rather they have nut mixes
and different flavors of Virginia
peanuts which are delicious all you have
to do is open a can
well I found these firecrackers and
these are just absolutely delicious and
I've been getting them for a while but
not realizing they're actually made in
Virginia and this is a cinnamon fire
hook cracker with a little piece of
white cheddar cheese and Virginia peach
goodness yes just Thanksgiving if you
can remember sweet and tart it's always
a good combination okay for Thanksgiving
sweet and tart so it has a little bit of
tart from the peach and the cheese and a
little bit of sweet from the cinnamon
and then I have a regular fire hook
cracker that have goat cheese and pine
nuts that have been toasted and this is
Virginia honey a little bear and you
just squeeze that over and you've got a
wonderful hors d'oeuvre that takes like
2 seconds to make oh man that's great ok
what do you have over here well that's
these are leaves were lucky to get here
because I love these things so much I
keep them in the freezer baby Natyam oh
these are sausage biscuits from snails
and you can order these ahead of time
mm-hmm they're going pretty fast these
days because they are absolutely
delicious okay I love this cut them in
half so they're just a little bite yeah
and then this is a again plow and hearth
which they have a wonderful selection is
a smokehouse bacon cheddar and I made a
little cheese ball out of it but you
just mix it with cream cheese oh and
it's so simple idea easy yes and then
what's here those are Alexis um she had
needful things of years ago and she has
continued to make some of her wonderful
cheese wafers
and these are very popular in front of
it mr. Bill's wine store you can find
them at tinel's
uh-huh okay and then they also have
these little cheese wafers that are made
enrichment and there's a lot of really
nice Virginia foods that are based in
Richmond what a great idea
yeah so much that you can find here out
of Virginia mm-hmm that's great all
right so we're when we come back with
you you're gonna share a couple cocktail
ideas really good
and bubbly banette for more information
on all of us thank you
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many of you are busy preparing for
guests this holiday season and one way
to step up your holiday parties is with
a great cocktail yeah we have Becky
Ellis back she's from bubbly banette and
you have a great recipe for us but first
you have the super secret recipe for
cranberry cocktail garnish why is this
super secret well because nobody knows
except for one other person and now
everybody knows cranberries are often
can be just a tiny bit bitter to me sure
so I like to get them to be sweet and
again tart and so I take cranberries and
I cook them in a little bit of orange
juice and then I kind of bury them in a
pomegranate liqueur and I'll put them in
the freezer so I keep them in the
freezer until I need to use them and
then I roll them in fine sugar and fine
sugar is perfect for cocktails because
just the right consistency and it
doesn't have those big granules so we're
just gonna take one of these little guys
and just it's already in the pomegranate
liqueur and roll it so it's all festive
and pretty and sugar order in the fine
sugar okay and then that makes a really
pretty little garnish for your drink
that's really or you can just put them
on the side of like with your turkey and
go around your turkey something like
that one honey - thank you
y'all can enjoy that can we eat this but
no I can use a disease it mhm
yeah well taste a little bit of the
liqueur in there that is delicious
that's really good oh my gosh oh yes
that is great okay so then you're also
sharing a cocktail recipe this is out on
Virginia apple brandy mimosa and what
you do on your little rim of your flute
is just put a little bit of Cairo soar
up and it might this might drip a little
bit but that's okay and some fine sugar
with cinnamon and that makes your rim
okay and then um this is a apple brandy
from Virginia okay and where did you
pick that up at the ABCs okay
okay yeah and then that one part of that
two parts that bull Drock inhale up will
drunk okay two parts of the hard apple
cider I got this cute little shaker that
is really adorable Ritchie's shake it up
a little bit and then you just strain
that into the glass and then you just
add your I'm doing a Prosecco today okay
but you could add any bubbly that you
like cava is also real good pro pro
right there oh my gosh well that was
really simple yeah and then you just add
a little bit of apple two for garnish or
you could add a cinnamon stick something
like that and that's your little mimosa
that's adorable
and really really easy enough it's a
rude girly drink but actually the guys
it guys like yeah yeah yeah this is
great so that was all with local
everything right mm-hmm it was some
local brandy then of course you can get
the local cider yeah and you could use a
the Virginia sparkling too for that and
make it all Virginia mimosa all right so
that was kind of local was kind of your
theme for this yeah I loved it too yeah
and then don't forget to and this
expires the cranberries in here of fresh
cranberries and this is infused vodka
and so often when I bought a big jar of
them or bottle of cranberry juice I
scoot it to the back of the refrigerator
and end up throwing it away and wasting
it so with this it's just fresh
cranberries a little bit of orange peel
it's a little bit of sugar and water and
just shake it out put it in the fridge
after a couple days they'll start to
infuse they'll be ready to drink you can
make cosmos you can make cranberry fizz
cocktails but you can have it in the
refrigerator ready to go and they don't
that'll take you all the way through you
know Christmas or December
Thanksgiving Day idea I love all of
these all right so if we want more
information we can go bubbly banette for
more yeah thank you thank you so much
Thanksgiving to you I'm just thankful to
be here