{"id":1823,"date":"2009-11-29T22:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T04:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/29\/merry-cranberry\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:40:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:40:44","slug":"merry-cranberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/29\/merry-cranberry\/","title":{"rendered":"MERRY CRANBERRY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official! The holidays are here! We started decorating the house today, went to a gl\u00f6gg party  and I &#8220;baked&#8221; the first cookies of the season. Using the term &#8220;baked&#8221; very, very loosely. My friend Debbie served these at a book group this past year and I&#8217;ve been badgering her for the recipe ever since. I decided they would be the cookie I&#8217;d take to the AWC Holiday Cookie Exchange, and when I called her a couple of weeks ago to remind her, she said, &#8220;Darn! I was hoping you&#8217;d forgotten about them, because I was going to make you a tin of them for Christmas!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But that&#8217;s okay,&#8221; I said. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to give these AWAY, so I&#8217;ll need MORE. Plus, when would I ever refuse cookies? Never! That&#8217;s when!&#8221; So she caved in and gave me the recipe, and I went grocery shopping yesterday (after cleaning and setting the table and before my pre-party NAP) and bought the ingredients. Except our local grocery store didn&#8217;t have one of them, so I had to drive into Lund to the big mega-everything grocery store to get them.<\/p>\n<p>SO GOOD. And SO easy! And I actually had enough that I can take some extras with me to give to the poor people who didn&#8217;t sign up for the cookie exchange, AND take some to work AND still have some for us at home. They&#8217;re so festive with the white, red &#038; green!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/198367_original.jpg\" width=500 border=0 height=375 title=\"Cranberry Bark\"  align=\"Middle\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/197719_original.jpg\" width=500 border=0 height=375 title=\"Cranbbery Bark\"  align=\"Middle\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/198069_original.jpg\" width=500 border=0 height=375 title=\"Merry Cranberry!\"  align=\"Middle\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Cranberry Pistachio Bark<\/b><br \/>\n500 grams quality white chocolate<br \/>\n250 ml. dried cranberries<br \/>\n240 ml. unsalted shelled pistachios<\/p>\n<p>Roast pistachios at 180C for 5-7 minutes. Set aside to cool. Melt chocolate in the top of a double boiler or on low heat (keep an eye on it so it doesn&#8217;t burn). Stir cranberries and pistachios into melted chocolate. Pour onto foil-lined (25 x 38 cm) edged cookie sheet. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour, then break into pieces. Makes about 750 grams.<\/p>\n<p>I made 2 batches, and used an extra small bag of pistachios and cranberries each, and another 100 grams of white chocolate. I had to make 72 cookies, but since this was broken into pieces like brittle, I had probably twice that. It makes a LOT of cookies! De-double-licious!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official! The holidays are here! We started decorating the house today, went to a gl\u00f6gg party and I &#8220;baked&#8221; the first cookies of the season. Using the term &#8220;baked&#8221; very, very loosely. My friend Debbie served these at a book group this past year and I&#8217;ve been badgering her for the recipe ever since. I decided they would be the cookie I&#8217;d take to the AWC Holiday Cookie Exchange, and when I called her a couple of weeks ago to remind her, she said, &#8220;Darn! I was hoping you&#8217;d forgotten about them, because I was going to make you&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,27],"class_list":["post-1823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-goodthings","tag-holidaze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7038,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions\/7038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}