Category: Drinks

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

I love drinking martinis – all kinds of martinis, but the salty, icy dirty martini is my first gin based love. They are especially great […]

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 […]

Old-fashioned ones are usually dark drinks made with brown liqueurs, but the basic format – booze, sugar, bitters, ice – can be applied to any […]

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, […]

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 […]

It seems that I always have something wrong. Today I was planning on making you a bourbon cocktail called Game Set Match , but that […]

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 […]

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 […]

“Dry January” – like its sister month “Sober October” – is marked by a sudden influx of annoying letters from the public. Seltzers, sodas, teas, […]

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 […]

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 […]

There are two genres of coffee lovers: purists and whimsical people. I am (obviously) second and will drink almost any coffee, even the gasping one, […]

I expected the pandemic to have many unexpected ramifications, but one thing I couldn’t predict was how my alcohol tolerance would plummet. It turns out […]

Aside from Cherry Coke, which is best enjoyed in the cinema (sigh), I only like Diet Coke, but I really like it. Fortunately, my professional […]

Apart from ethanol, Irish Cream and Fernet have nothing in common. One of them is sweet and sweet, creamy and will please the tastes of […]

A preference for wine can say a lot about a person’s taste in every way. Do you like roasting red meat over an open fire […]

There are two types of people in this world: people who will be put off by the question, “Have you ever drunk Bailey’s out of […]

Everyone focuses on the sad and bad sides of not having a proper Big Thanksgiving, but fewer people in a Thanksgiving meeting means fewer people […]

I didn’t plan on making this drink today. I was planning on making a drink that has a lot of Campari because I love Campari. […]

How is everyone doing ? Me myself? I am very tired. I also had a mild headache throughout the week because I keep drinking and […]

Look, if coffee is one of the little daily habits that brings you true joy, we’re not here to tell you to cut back or […]

Last Wednesday, covered by a dull despair, I came to live in Instagram and mix a few cocktails for an audience of 10 people. I […]

I think I am pretty good at martini and its variations, so I am always pleasantly surprised when someone can introduce me to a new […]

Marmite is a condiment that forces you to exercise restraint, and people hate it for it. It is a thick yeast paste that tastes like […]

Autumn is a season with an aggressive theme. Of course, there are holidays that have an equal number of themes, but fall food and drinks […]

Apple cider can take many forms. Hot or cold, still or carbonated, hard or soft – all of these words can and have been used […]

Sometimes the drinks I make for this article are inspired by some classic cocktail. In other cases, they are created in chaos and contain everything […]

If you’re a coffee lover, dessert drinks are no better than affogato, an Italian caffeinated treat made by pouring a shot of espresso onto a […]

One of the most pathetic and painfully nostalgic songs ever written is “That Summer Feeling ” by Jonathan Richman. It’s not really a summer song; […]

Orange juice is a surprisingly complex drink. So complex that its molecular composition is used in early chemistry lessons to demonstrate how even the simplest […]

One would think that after a whole week of terrible, dangerous air, I would be full of all the smoke, but something about the change […]

Three days ago, early in the morning, I received a message from a friend notifying me of the existence of Devgarita, a margarita made from […]

This is not the cocktail that I was going to make this morning, but in the end it turned out to be exactly the cocktail […]

Well, okay, if this isn’t just another ‘holiday weekend’, it doesn’t really feel like a holiday because we are in the midst of a lot […]

Anise is a dark, dangerous, nihilistic scent. Maybe it’s because I’m used to drinking and seeing others drinking absinthe at a local goth bar, or […]

“What’s the matter with you and the corn lately?” my boyfriend asked me this morning, rather rudely. It was not yet nine o’clock, and I […]