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treats & a trick – truffles
Send Halloween party guests home with these terribly tasty and sinfully simple to make truffles. The trick – rather than going to the trouble of toiling over a double boiler, make use of the...
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rose & cardamom sparkling apple cider
With an election wedged in between a hurricane and a nor-easter snowstorm, it’s been an intense couple of weeks here in New York and New England. Time for a cocktail to take the edge off and celebrate...
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touchdownton cocktail
As a nod to this week’s super bowl match up, we thought of mixing up a Black Eyed Susan, the official drink of Baltimore’s Preakness or a Bloody Brigid, invented at John’s Grill in San Francisco. Then...
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some like it hot – bananas foster
To wrap up this NOLA related week, we were planning to post a Mardi Gras befitting cocktail, such as a Herbsaint Sazerac or Hurricane. Then came Nemo. What you want during a blizzard is some fire with...
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can’t contain our excitement cocktail
Yes, that is a key lime. But no, we’re not in Florida. Note the snow in the background. The fruit of Jacque’s indoor gardening efforts, her container-grown, likely mutant but much adored tree produced...
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boozin’ it up with La Newyorkina
La Newyorkina came to our rescue on The High Line with a chunky guava paleta on a particularly hot summer’s day a few years back. Hit. the. spot. Now that the mercury is on the rise and we’re in the...
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spring shower
This post has been on the drawing board for an embarrassingly long time. It was a busy year, full of many fetes! But we figured with Mother’s Day being around the corner, we’d wrap it up and share...
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new to us – old Austin cocktail
You know we don’t throw a party without some kind of mixed drink making an appearance. In our bacon induced fervor yesterday, we forgot to mention the cocktail that we chose to serve as a welcome : an...
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dill us in – moonbrine mary
We first heard of MoonBrine brewer Stewart Golomb’s pickling prowess from edible Boston. That was a few years back and he now handpacks his all natural, fermented cukes in Portland. Cross country moves...
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tuesday tip – hot toddies (and flips)
from the inside out ~ from Famous New Orleans Drinksand how to mix ‘em, by Stanley Clisby Arthur, 1937
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