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As a child, my siblings and I left our California home every two summers to visit relatives in Skopje, Macedonia. I remember when I was […]
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As a child, my siblings and I left our California home every two summers to visit relatives in Skopje, Macedonia. I remember when I was […]
Continue reading »I am, to quote my favorite show , the most exhausting I have ever been in my life. There is no real reason for this, […]
Continue reading »Whipping your own cream is not difficult, but it requires a certain amount of equipment, and that equipment requires washing, which makes whipping cream a […]
Continue reading »In recent days, you may have seen a new lemonade recipe popular on social media. It’s called whipped lemonade . It is made by whipping […]
Continue reading »Thanks to a very detailed and helpful explanation that was recently posted on this very site , I started brewing my own kombucha. As a […]
Continue reading »Tomato paste is a kitchen staple that adds vegan umami and depth to sauces, rice dishes, stews, and any seasonings or dressings you accidentally add […]
Continue reading »It’s hot outside … at least it was. I can’t keep track. I’m going to agree with you: this week has had a bad effect […]
Continue reading »A couple of weeks ago I picked a Hood strawberry flat . The hoods are cute, delicate and often go bad before you can handle […]
Continue reading »Fruit liqueurs don’t have the best reputation. As with flavored vodka, most of the options available for purchase are sugary and artificial. But homemade fruit […]
Continue reading »I’m not a big baker, so my favorite ways to ” use up ” a berry or two usually involves eating them with whipped cream […]
Continue reading »Apart from Bellini, there are not many well-known stone fruit cocktails. But peach and nectarine puree is very tasty, albeit a little viscous, and sparkling […]
Continue reading »When was the last time you had a super-tenacious rum? Most likely, it was either during the heady binge of Spring Break with the Recharge […]
Continue reading »Drinking on weekends is a little different from drinking on weekends. Whether you smoke that meat or chill out on the beach, you want the […]
Continue reading »If you are reading this, you probably already know that there is Kombucha, but you may not know what it is if you know what […]
Continue reading »For some reason, the words “shaking hands with the bartender” give me goosebumps. I don’t mind this concept – I really like the idea of […]
Continue reading »Last night, I invited a few vaccinated staff members to drink wine, eat pork, and shoot arrows with my new compound bow . Everything went […]
Continue reading »Last Monday night, I prepared a fully conscious, deliberate cocktail for someone else . Considering my boyfriend is sober and no one in my COVID […]
Continue reading »Even though I lived in Mississippi during the first part of my childhood (and came almost every year after we moved to California), I did […]
Continue reading »Of course, there is all this nice local news about how the pandemic “brought out the best in people,” and while it can sometimes be […]
Continue reading »I don’t drink gin and tonic in winter, but it’s already winter. G&T is a garden drink that is best drunk while lounging among beautiful […]
Continue reading »The beauty of highball lies in its simplicity: booze is paired with non-booze, which usually takes the form of a popular soft drink. Some people […]
Continue reading »I have a tendency to get hung up on aggressive, bitter tastes. When I drank beer, I was looking for the hoppyest IPA, but now […]
Continue reading »If you are familiar with even half of my deal, then you know that I really love corn. I’ll eat it off the cob of […]
Continue reading »I’ve said this a few times before, but I really think maple is an underrated cocktail syrup. It is sweet and full-bodied, and thanks to […]
Continue reading »Like any millennial who grew up littered with space camp ads (but never walked), I have a lot of respect for freeze drying. Dippin ‘Dots […]
Continue reading »While I love the good Bloody Mary, I tend to think of her as a liquid snack that is best eaten before eggs. And the […]
Continue reading »I’ve only been living as a homeowner for a few months, and let me tell you this house is just full of surprises. Some of […]
Continue reading »Portland and many other cities are currently experiencing the first wave of artificial spring, which seems to work wonders for the collective mood. For me […]
Continue reading »For some, drinking is a science. They know exactly how much to drink, what to eat, and when to go to bed to minimize hangovers. […]
Continue reading »I love drinking martinis – all kinds of martinis, but the salty, icy dirty martini is my first gin based love. They are especially great […]
Continue reading »I don’t know exactly when this happened, but somewhere along the way, the word daiquiri has become a generic term for any sweet rum-containing beverage […]
Continue reading »Old-fashioned ones are usually dark drinks made with brown liqueurs, but the basic format – booze, sugar, bitters, ice – can be applied to any […]
Continue reading »It’s snowing in Portland, Oregon, and I’m thrilled (so far). As someone who was born in Mississippi and later lived in Los Angeles and Florida, […]
Continue reading »One of my favorite parts of moving to a new area is finding all my new “places”. A new bar, a new coffee shop, a […]
Continue reading »It seems that I always have something wrong. Today I was planning on making you a bourbon cocktail called Game Set Match , but that […]
Continue reading »I love trying new cocktails, and nothing annoys me more than having almost all the ingredients needed to make one. Unfortunately, that was exactly the […]
Continue reading »My alcohol tolerance plummeted during the pandemic. It turns out that my interest in cocktails is directly related to my ability to pay a skilled […]
Continue reading »“Dry January” – like its sister month “Sober October” – is marked by a sudden influx of annoying letters from the public. Seltzers, sodas, teas, […]
Continue reading »Last night when I was making three bottles of homemade Irish Cream (for gifts) I decided one of those bottles should be Kentucky Cream and […]
Continue reading »Peppermint is one of my favorite seasonal flavors. I usually love it with chocolate, but a recent batch of candy cane syrup made me pair […]
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