12 Drinks of Christmas: The Pinkston For the third drink of Christmas, my true love served to me … the Pinkston. It’s our third of 12 drink ideas to make your holiday parties and quiet nights by the fire merry and bright. The Pinkston is our very slight variation on an old, but little known and-to our minds inexplicably-much disdained classic, the Pink Lady. While it would be perfectly enjoyable anytime, we...
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12 Drinks of Christmas: Cat’s Collar Welcome to the Twelve Drinks of Christmas. Over the next two weeks and change, bringing us to the very edge of Christmas Eve, we’ll be giving our top twelve suggestions of cocktails to make your holidays merry and bright. Some of them are good pitcher drinks, perfect for your Christmas party; others are best enjoyed with a friend or two by the fire. Feel free to drink along. But...
Read MoreFall Five: Fall Ginger Smash Other fun fall drinks | Rosemary Bourbon Sour | Apple Margarita | Apple Manhattan | Spiced Rum Old Fashion | Pumpkin Pie Shooters A few weekends ago, we spent the weekend at a truly unbelievable house with an even more incredible group of people, saying goodbye to summer and hello to fall together. It was a quiet weekend full of winery visits, walks and rides along the cart paths of a closed golf course...
Read MoreTemperatures have hovered in the upper 80s this past week in DC. And my friends in Boston did a beach day on Saturday. And let’s not get started about the year-round summer weather my family in So Cal experiences [though I did hear to everyone’s surprise that it rained for 2 whole days, straight(!) in July]. Septummer is clearly a real thing; don’t tell me it’s not. And in case you thought yesterday, September...
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