One of the things we have missed most during this pandemic is frequenting our favorite restaurant bars. We miss sitting at the bar, chatting with the bartenders about their craft and specialty liquors, and sampling their works of art. We have been making cocktails at …
It’s been a while since we posted a cocktail recipe…not that we haven’t been drinking them 😉 We love to experiment with new combinations of flavors and spirits. This time we created a riff on the Celebrity Crush Cocktail by using rye whiskey instead of …
Easter and Passover are fast approaching and with them come all the brunches, lunches and dinners. Do you want an easy and delicious cocktail to serve at your springtime soiree? Our Blackberry French 75 cocktail is just the one! Blackberry simple syrup along freshly squeezed …
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, you need to have your sweets and drinks all lined up and ready to go! Today we are sharing our drink suggestion with you…the Spiced Grenade cocktail. It’s the perfect, pretty hue of red to celebrate the day …
We had our first-ever spiced old fashioned several years ago at our favorite bar in town, The Shady Lady Saloon. It was the ultimate taste of fall…our favorite time of year!. We immediately went home and tried to recreate it. We present to you our …
It’s happy hour somewhere right now, isn’t it?! Today we’re toasting with our fig and raspberry shrub. Figs are in season for such a short time but making them into a shrub will allow you to enjoy them beyond their season. We still have figs …
Sangria is summer and the perfect beverage for a hot day! We have tried many, many sangria recipes and we always return to this one from Sunset’s Mexican cookbook, circa 1969. Judy found this Sunset cookbook (along with several others) at a garage sale while …
Are you familiar with shrubs? They have had a resurgence in popularity over the last several years. They are known as “drinking vinegar”, or in our case, sweet, vinegary syrup we make to use in our cocktails. They came about as a way to preserve …