Tag: cocktails
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What’s So Hard About Being a Lemon?
You know the saying: When life gives you lemons… But why stop at just plain old lemonade? Why not bring lemonade from the stand to the shaker and beyond? When you hear “Hard Lemonade” it probably brings to mind the bottled malt beverages that come in a variety of flavor options. To make this sort…
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Jello Shots Get Classy
Behold, the lowly Jello Shot. Generally relegated to college parties and other youthful excess, they’re a good way to consume quite a bit of alcohol without realizing just how much. But let’s look at just the Jello for a moment. Gelatin’s been used in a number of quite grown-up recipes for centuries (various meats and…
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A Touch of the Irish
Most people who have encountered Irish Cream liqueur have done so favorably and come away fans. While it does well as a single spirit, over ice or neat, it also pairs with a whole laundry list of others. There are some notable exceptions, however: like the lime juice that tops it in a Cement Mixer…
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Harvey & Hillary
Have you ever picked up a bit of seemingly useless trivia and wondered when it was ever going to be useful? Believe it or not, sometimes it actually does. Case in point: many, many years ago (could be a decade or more) I vaguely remember someone telling me that when a cocktail has the word…
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Bogey’s Bar & Restaurant, Defuniak Springs, FL
As part of our impromptu weekend away to visit the local winery and stock up on some favorites, Todd and I enjoyed a night at the Hotel Defuniak and dinner at their on-site restaurant: Bogey’s. In the looks department, the restaurant is decorated very nicely, lots of sage green with white trim, draped windows and…
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Gin!
Growing up, the only gin I was interested in was the card game of the same name, which Mom and I would play in the evenings on a regular basis. When I reached the legal drinking age, it was one of the liquors I figured I’d never like. After all, it smelled like the tree…
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Fruit[y] Cocktails
I’m not a girl who likes her liquor straight. On the contrary, I prefer mine well-mixered and my favorite class of mixer is fruit juice. Frou-frou umbrellas are not necessary and the blender can usually stay in the cabinet, but a good juice-to-booze ratio makes a happy camper of this cocktail chick. I went flipping…
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The Daiquiri
Why is the rum always gone?!?! I did have that thought tonight as I realized I was almost out of white rum. But I’m getting a bit ahead of myself… The little town I grew up in (Ponchatoula) may now be an antiques mecca but when I was small it was mostly known for it’s…
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Nice Ice!
As the weather heats up, it’s only natural to be thinking about ways of keeping cool. Maybe that’s why ice seems to be a very popular topic (because there’s no such thing as coincidence!). I loved shaped ice cubes. They’re fun. I started with a set of flexible square cube molds just for something a…