Blast the winter blues

If you're feeling anything like me today, you could probably use a drink to warm up and decompress from the post-Thanksgiving blustery entrance of winter. This one from the mixological mad scientists at Ideya Latin Bistro updates a summer staple and personal favorite (the Brazilian Caipirinha) for the chill of winter by adding cranberries. Bonus points for the fruit's immune-boosting antioxidants. So long, swine flu!

Ideya’s Cranberry Caipirinha

1 or 2 lime wedges (to taste)
1 small orange wedge
10 cranberries
1 tbs. brown sugar
1 oz. fresh lime juice
1.5 oz. aged cachaça

(1) Place the lime, orange, and cranberries in a mixing glass. Add the sugar and muddle with the fruit. Fill a rocks glass with cracked ice and transfer the ice to the mixing glass.

(2) Add the lime juice and the cachaça, and shake well.

(3) Pour everything, including all the muddled fruit from the shaker, into the rocks glass and serve.