Chamomile Cooler Cocktail Recipe In our last farm share, along with the expected greens, peppers, tomatoes, and berries, we got a bundle of chamomile. While of course it is, we never thought of chamomile as an actual farm product; as far as our experience told us,...
Marseillaise Cocktail Recipe We mentioned earlier this week that we recently had a few rounds of drinks with fortified wine importer Leith Shenstone. While drinking Nido's excellent, vermouth-centric drinks, we swapped recipes for some of our favorite low alcohol cocktails. We shared one of Leith's, The Fortunate...
The Fortunate Mistake Cocktail Recipe We mentioned last week that, having corresponded by e-mail quite a bit, we finally felt it was about time to sit down for some drinks with fortified wine importer Leith Shenstone. His company, Fasel Shenstone, has introduced us to a whole...
The Ocean Spray Cocktail Recipe Welcome to Thanksgiving Week. If you're like Martha Stewart and have the meal and all the other Thanksgiving logistics firmly in hand, have an impeccable table setting planned, and are looking for a sophisticated cocktail for the appetizer hour to really...
Patio Date Spritzer Cocktail Recipe We haven't yet used a sparkling wine during our attempts to spritz our way trough the current heat wave. Perfect as sparkling wine is for summer drinking, that seems like a gap that has to be filled. However, since sparkling wine...
Drinking in the French Style As you may have noticed from our 2-week gap in posting, we had the enormous privilege and pleasure of spending the first half of July in France. It was our first trip there. We, of course, went into the trip with...
Watermelon Tequila Mint Popsicles w. a Champagne Float Exactly one year ago, a friend texted me a picture from her trip to NYC. What was the picture you ask? Generous pours of champagne in wide, stemless glasses, garnished with boozy-filled, ice-cold popsicles. I was literally drooling....
Cocktail Recipe: Mom Look What I Made! Have you heard that Mother's Day is this coming Sunday? I have. All of the podcasts I listen to keep telling me that Mother's Day has snuck up on me. At first I dismissed them because Mother's Day was...
Pitcher Drink: the Negroni Spagliato We mentioned on New Year's Eve that substituting sparkling wine for the spirit immediately transforms a cocktail into an excellent brunch drink, and turns declamations of, 'Oh, that's way too strong for me,' into exclamations of delight. We've also mentioned before...
cover photo copyright W&P Design New Year's Day Brunch Cocktail: Satsuma Champagne Cocktail Champagne cocktails have the reputation of being not quite legitimate: light, bubbly, often a little lazily constructed with some cheap sparkling wine and a bunch of juice. We've found, though, that the right champagne cocktail...