smells like Christmas

Make this to keep on your stove during the holidays. It has a wonderful, warm, & inviting scent that takes over your apartment and fills it with holiday spirit

There's an unfortunate thing that happens when you are cooking cauliflower... your house smells weird. Not a good weird. A smelly, sulfury weird.

And since I OD-ed on cookies the other week, I can't fathom making more cookies just to make my apartment smell like Christmas normal.

Solution: heat up this Christmas potpourri and let it simmer all day

Result: a wonderful, warm, and inviting scent takes over your apartment and any evidence that you were cooking cauliflower earlier all but disappears.

The great thing about this is that you can use it for days.

Just keep adding more water to the pot. {But just so you know, it starts to look weird. That's ok. It definitely doesn't matter what it looks like since it keeps smelling delicious}

And you don't need any ingredients that you can't find at Walmart or any other grocery store.

It's a really flexible recipe too, so you can use whatever. Add more cinnamon if you really love that; leave out the cloves if you don't have them, etc.

Cinnamon sticks {or ground cinnamon}, ground cloves, some nutmeg, cranberries, and oranges are all you need

Side note: I don't recommend tasting this. It's really strong and it needs some serious amounts of sugar to palatable. But now that I just told you not to taste it, I bet $5 you're going to do it anyway...

Stove-Top Christmas Potpourri

Make this to keep on your stove during the holidays. It has a wonderful, warm, & inviting scent that takes over your apartment and fills it with holiday spirit

Print Rate

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 15 minutes

Author: Meme

Ingredients

• ▢ 12 ounce bag fresh or frozen cranberries
• ▢ 3-5 cinnamon sticks or 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• ▢ peel from 1 orange
• ▢ 1/4 tsp ground cloves
• ▢ dash of ground nutmeg

Instructions

• Put everything in a medium or large saucepan and cover with water.
• Bring to a boil over medium high heat. Reduce temperature to the lowest possible setting on your stove.
• Check occasionally to add more water or to stir.
• This lasts for up to 7 days. Just keep filling with water as needed.
• Make sure you do not leave this on while you are not at home or sleeping! {turn it off at night, leave it on the stove, and turn it back on in the morning}

Did you try this recipe?Be sure to leave a comment & recipe rating below. Bonus points for tagging @memeinge & #livingwellkitchen on Instagram! THANK YOU! xo

This is shared on

Meme