The holidays call for special ingredients that you may not typically use during the rest of the year. Here are creative ways to use buttermilk, heavy cream, puff pastry, and fresh cranberries so you won't get stuck throwing out leftovers or living off the same boring meals for a week.
Keep your pantry in check with recipes that use ingredients you have on hand.
Lemon-Poppy Seed Buttermilk Pancakes
These light but chewy pancakes are loaded with lemon flavor and poppy-seed crunch.
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Buttermilk Chicken and Cornflake Bake
Could it get any better than chicken pot pie and buttermilk fried chicken?
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Roasted Lamb with Buttermilk Tzatziki
Buttermilk adds extra zest to fresh tzatziki and grilled lamb.
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Raspberry-Buttermilk Ice Pops
For those times when you're really missing summer.
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Dublin Bay Prawn Bisque
This creamy and spicy soup updates the Irish classic.
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Spaghetti Carbonara
Heavy cream complements the salty pancetta in this spaghetti carbonara — and grated Pecorino adds some bite.
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Provençal Goat Cheese Tart
With cream cheese and heavy cream you can be sure this tart is damn-freaking-delish.
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Harvest Pumpkin Soup
This rich soup will definitely warm you up on cold nights.
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Almond-Cranberry Quick Bread
It's just not the holidays without fresh cranberry bread.
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Brioche French Toast With Brown Sugar Cranberry Sauce
Cranberries make a surprisingly delicious substitute for syrup.
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Cranberry Hoisin Chicken Rice
Make use of fresh cranberries with this easy one-pot dinner, which blends sweet and savory flavors.
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Cranberry Cheer
Combine cranberries, whiskey, lime juice, and syrup for a holiday cocktail.
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Fig-and-Stilton Squares
Top puff pastry with sweet fig preserves and pungent blue cheese for a quick appetizer.
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Puff Pastry Cheese Straws
These cheese straws are best straight out of the oven, so use your leftover puff pastry in patches for fresh, hot appetizers whenever the mood strikes.
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S'mores Puff Pastry Mini Tarts
S'mores are not just for the summertime.
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Plum Puff Dumplings
Toss wedges of purple plums with sugar and cardamom, then pinch them into neat little puff pastry pockets and bake them. Easy as pie.
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Puff Pastry Pear Tartlets
Leftover puff pastry makes elegant mini tarts.
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Puff Pastry Cinnamon Rolls
It's the texture of a cronut in cinnamon roll form.
Get the recipe from Brown Sugar.
Cranberry Chocolate Chip Blondies
You know what goes good with cranberries? Chocolate.
Get the recipe from Averie Cooks.
Skillet Chicken with Mustard Cream Sauce
We'll make sure we have leftover heavy cream if we can make THIS with it.
Get the recipe from Cooking Classy.
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