It’s a special night! I’ll be making my primetime debut auditioning for The Taste, ABC’s reality show cooking competition looking for the best undiscovered cook in America. Will I get on a team? Watch and find out! In the meantime, I’ll be calming my nerves by sipping tonight’s cocktail of choice, a Manhattan. My version includes the traditional ingredients of bourbon, sweet vermouth, and bitters but swaps the maraschino cherries for cranberries in my own seasonal twist on the classic. Check it out!

And don’t forget to check back soon for the recipe on how I roasted up those gorgeous little Vaccinium macrocarpon. (That’s nerd-speak for cranberries.)

Thanks for watching!