12 Drinks of Christmas: Aztec Eggnog For the eleventh drink of Christmas, my true love served to me … an Aztec Eggnog. It’s the 11th of our 12 ideas to make your holiday parties merry and your nights by the fire bright. There are a handful of food and drink recipes in our lives that are so good that we must have them, and so rich that we must limit how often we consume them. Turning them into a holiday tradition is a...
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12 Drinks of Christmas: Mid-Winter Margarita For the seventh drink of Christmas, my true served to me … a Mid-Winter Margarita, shaken in a Mason Shaker. We know that the old Mason jar has become aggressively hipster recently (even The Atlantic, of all places, is talking about ‘the hipster vessel of choice.’ Of course, the article is thoughtful as always). Count us with the hipsters on this one. We got a cocktail...
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Drink(s) of the Week: The Last Word(s) We’ve mentioned the concept of variation on a theme as one solid way of creating a cocktail. Cocktails are very seldom created from a blank slate; instead you start with a known quantity, and tweak until you find something new and great. Our Drink of the Week illustrates this idea in a couple of delicious ways. First, while I have no way of proving it, the basic pattern for our drink, The...
Read MoreFall Five: Apple Margarita & The Manhattan’s Apple Other fun fall drinks | Rosemary Bourbon Sour | Fall Ginger Smash | Spiced Rum Old Fashion | Pumpkin Pie Shooters Boots, puffy, vests, and leaves in every hue. That-plus the site of flannel (everywhere)-means that fall is here, and maybe ponchos are for awhile as well? I grew up in Southern California and my only real notions of fall was that was when school...
Read MoreThe weekend is here! Has this week felt long to anyone else? Ours has been full, but of entirely good things So who’s to complain (except our distant friend, Sleep)? The Pope. The subsequent one time only Federal Pope Holiday as half the city had to ‘work from home’ given the number of road closures. Friends in town. A newly engaged sister. See all good things. One of the highlights, and some news that we’re...
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