*I have the most delicious apple hazelnut cocktail to share with you today!*
I’ve always known what a privilege is to call the Willamette Valley home. I mean, this place is truly beautiful. Rolling hills of farmland and vineyards with a river winding it’s way through the landscape. And I’m not saying that we really need anyone from the ‘outside’ confirming what we already know.
But, I gotta tell ya, it sure was nice to have the Wall Street Journal recently agree that this little slice of Oregon is truly divine.
And while there is beauty here in every season. In the fall? Well, in the fall it just glows. It seems like we always hear about the colors of Autumn on the east coast but my friends, Oregon in October is a force to be reckoned with.
Warm golds and oranges, deep reds that make the trees look like they are on fire against a bright blue sky. And everywhere is evidence of the season of harvest.
So, I decided to create a little concoction dedicated to Autumn in Oregon. It’s a celebration of the season in a glass.
Apple Hazelnut Cocktail
It took me many years to actually call myself an Oregonian. I’ve spent the last 17 years here so I think I more than qualify now. 😉
And after moving around for most of my growing up years, there is something so wonderful, so grounding, about finally feel settled.
To know that I’m home.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup apple cider plus 1 tablespoon for rim
- 3 ounces of Canadian whiskey
- 1 oz Hazelnut Liqueur
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1/2 tablespoon of ground cloves
Instructions
- Pour all of the ingredients into a cocktail shaker along with a handful of ice cubes and shake well until combined.
- For the rim: Pour 1 tablespoon of apple cider onto one plate. Then pour 1 tablespoon of sugar plus a half of a tablespoon of ground cloves onto another plate and mix together. Dip the rim of your glass into the apple cider first and then into the sugar and clove mixture. Pour cocktail into glass and enjoy! (recipe is for 1 serving)
You’ll have to let me know if you try this recipe!
And, as always, thanks for meeting me here today at the fence,
im coming to Oregon for a visit ….and that cocktail one day
You are welcome anytime my friend!! I would always have a cocktail ready for you. 🙂
And I’m coming with Laura!
Road trip!! 😉 Think of all the vintage stores you could hit up on the way!
I will pick up Laura and Kim on the way to Oregon!!!….Great cocktail recipe…a great one for a Fall get together!…Gorgeous table too!…Happy Fall Vanessa!
You ladies are seriously cracking me up!!! Oh how I would LOVE to have you all in my home. Thank you so much my friend! 🙂
I have been here for 18 years in Oregon City and love Oregon. I like the color of your drink but since do not drink alcohol, will not use the recipe.
I to live in oregon ! I am loving the fall weather to !
I recently bought your book I am enjoying reading it !
FALL in a glass!!! Love it. I will live vicariously through your posts as I miss Oregon desperately. We went wine tasting two weekends ago and it was DIVINE.
Congrats on the book Vanessa. I’m giving copies to my mother and mother in law for Christmas.
xoxo