Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 End-of-summer blackberries give this cocktail a unique seasonal pizzazz. For this drink, I especially like a flavored vodka with subtle notes of citrus and floral, but you can use plain...
Cocktails
A Sloppy Rita with Butter-Griddled Pineapple
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 Do you get the feeling I am pushing the quarantine cocktails? You would be correct! I didn't bother pouring this version of a Margarita into anything more than a...
An Iced Apricot Bourbon Fizz
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 A chilled summertime bourbon cocktail using fresh muddled apricots, simple syrup, and elderflower liqueur. Guaranteed to aide in keeping you chill during this, the summer of quasi-continued self quarantine,...
A Summertime Sherry Colada
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 Sherry, an idiosyncratic Spanish wine whose tradition spans 3,000 years. I am just going to refer to it as a Summertime Sherry Colada because I really do not know...
A Perfect Margarita Cocktail
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 A Perfect Margarita Cocktail quenches the thirst like no other. The weekend is nearing so I ask, ‘what is your cocktail plan?’ A Perfect Margarita Cocktail begins with a...
The Manhattan Cocktail
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 The American 1860's Tincture Fashionable Still The Manhattan Cocktail is the 1860s tincture, fashionable still, the architect however remains of rumored origin. Regardless of its maker, New Year's Day celebrations...
A Polynesian Snow Angel
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 A rum-based grog such as this is reserved for the most exhausted of hosts and hostesses, and is deservedly dispensed from a tropical partner in crime, the Tiki. A...
The Soul Train, A Tequila And Cardamom Cocktail
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 The Soul Train is a tequila and cardamom cocktail that yields an unexpected but astoundingly refreshing combination. The Soul Train is a tequila and cardamom cocktail that yields...
A Sunsational Hard Peach Tea Cocktail
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 I’m stirring up a batch of WOW, and you’re going to be in on it! You will want to grab THE BIGGEST pitcher you’ve got in the house for...
Orange Simple Syrup
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 A simple syrup is just equal parts granulated sugar and water. It can be used to sweeten iced tea and cocktails, and add moisture to cakes and other desserts. Making...
Strawberry Rhubarb Soother
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 The Strawberry Rhubarb Soother came out of visiting a local distillery, engaged in some sampling, bought a bottle, and returned home inspired. I still had a bevy of fresh...
Pirates Punch
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 Pirates Punch is the epitome of what it means to take a refreshment. Sweet and fruity, it tastes just like the tropics. On a recent trip down the coast to...
Say Hello to The Spiced Blood Orange Sour
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 And here it is - Southern front porch 'sipping' at its best, the Spiced Blood Orange Sour. Normally, I'd shrill at the thought of mixing a decent Scotch (anything...
