Recipes for a Merry Mazeltov From the Coast-to-Coast Lowes Hotels

Shalom Santagria

Serves 41 bottle Manischevitz wine1 cup Diet Sprite or Seven-UpI lime, sliced1 lemon, sliced 1 orange, sliced1 cup cooked cranberries1 cup white grape juicePlenty of iceFill a large pitcher with ice. Add the sliced citrus, wine, grape juice and cranberries. Stir well. Just before serving, stir in the Diet Sprite or Seven-Up. Serve in a chilled glass.

Christmukah Cheer

Serves 11 oz. Sabra Liqueur1 oz Peppermint Schnapps1 oz Crème de Menthe2 oz. Half and half cream1 each peppermint stick1 each mint sprigFill a shaker with ice and add all the liquors. Add the half and half, and then shake, strain and pour into chilled martini glass. Garnish with a peppermint stick and a mint sprig.Serves 43 Granny Smith apples1 cup dried cranberries, chopped6 oz flour1 egg1 oz orange juice1tsp cinnamon1 oz brown sugara pinch of salt1 cup canola oil4 mint sprig4 scoops of Egg Nog ice cream4 chocolate cigarettesPeel, core, and shred apples. In a bowl, toss apples with orange juice and add cranberries, Mix in the cinnamon brown sugar, flour, salt and egg. Mix together until it is well blended. Heat the canola oil in a sauté pan. Drop 2 oz spoon full of the mixture into the pan, flatten with back of spoon and cook one side until brown. Flip pancake and let other side brown. Place on paper towel to drain. Serve on plate with ice cream. Garnish with chocolate and mint. Over the years, I have enjoyed Lowes Hotels' many innovative travel programs in their twenty hotels, from the Regency Hotel in the heart of New York City, to the west coast's Lowes Santa Monica Beach Hotel in California and South Florida's Lowes Miami Beach. Their programs include Loews Loves Kids for families, Generation G catering to the growing "grand-level grand parent travel" market which my grandkids, Maris and Bradley Wasser, have participated in with me. Their discerning pet "Gennie" appreciates the Lowes Loves Pets accommodations and special doggie treats.Lowes has another great hotel promotional package for the Regency Hotel this December. It includes double occupancy in a luxury one bedroom suite, two tickets to the New York City Ballet's production of Ballanchine's "The Nutcracker" at Lincoln Center, a keepsake "Nutcracker Dreams" doll by the famed Madame Alexander' Doll Company and a private behind-the-scenes tour of this venerable 82 year old Alexander Doll Company and the Madame Alexander Heritage Gallery. This promotion starts on December 15 through January 1, 2006. For additional information, you can call the Regency at (212) 759-4199 or visit www.loewshotel.com© Copyright by Marcia AbramsonE-mail:mascribe@verizon.net