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I have not had a chance to post for a few days. We have a 2nd kid heading off to college in August and he and I were away at his orientation for a couple days. My husband held down the fort here and made some really delicious jerk chicken while we were away thatContinueContinue reading “21st Century Cocktail”

I have so much mint growing in my little garden planters right now, so I wanted to use some up making mint juleps 🙂 The mint julep is a bourbon cocktail that could not be more simple, yet somehow is really delicious. All you need to make these is some bourbon, some fresh mint, andContinueContinue reading “Mint Julep Cocktail”

This week’s cocktail is one I made up with stuff I had around 🙂 We got some cherry vodka that is the type that isn’t sweet, just flavored, so I wanted to make something with that. I also had some tart cherry liqueur from Michigan left (you can use Heering also as a substitute). IContinueContinue reading “Cherry Citrus Vodka Punch”

I know my photo here doesn’t really match the name of this drink 🙂 This is in fact the green eyes cocktail, which normally is a lovely pale green color… I had some ripe cherries from my sour cherry tree that I thought would go great with the flavor of this drink, and they haveContinueContinue reading “Green Eyes Cocktail (with Cherries)”

This tequila sunrise (ish) cocktail is roughly based on a tequila sunrise, but with some changes. I had a bottle of tequila and a bunch of fresh oranges I needed to use up, but I wanted a less sweet, more mature version of a tequila sunrise. This drink does in fact have tequila and orangeContinueContinue reading “Tequila Sunrise (ish)”

This week’s drink is a fun, bright, tasty cocktail using gin, aperol and elderflower liqueur, as well as lemon juice. It is a little sweet, a little sour, a little foamy… If you haven’t had aperol before it is an Italian bitter apéritif made of gentian, rhubarb and cinchona, among other ingredients. It has aContinueContinue reading “Aperol Negroni Sour Cocktail”

This week’s cocktail comes from the Drinking with Chickens book, which is a cocktail book with cute pictures of chickens posing with the drinks 🙂 This is a sort of rum punch drink, made with grapefruit, lime, cherry and pineapple juice. I still had some tart cherry concentrate from my cherry muffins and my tartContinueContinue reading “Planter’s Punch”

In addition to the tart cherry ricotta muffins I made this week, I wanted to use some more of the tart cherry concentrate I had leftover so decided to make this sparkling tart cherry vodka limeade. There is a link to the concentrate in the muffin post if you are interested in getting some. ThisContinueContinue reading “Sparkling Tart Cherry Vodka Limeade”

I love the name of this cocktail and I love gin and citrus so couldn’t wait to try this one. This drink is mainly gin, with a bit of Cointreau and some lemon and lime juice. I also added some clementine juice for a bit of extra flavor. I used my Tinkerman’s citrus gin forContinueContinue reading “The Dumpster Fire Cocktail”

Our drink in the picture was a *slight* variation on the actual trato hecho cocktail which uses pineapple infused mezcal, which I really want to try but didn’t have time to make, so will do in the future. We happened to have a little pineapple vodka around that we had made as an experiment byContinueContinue reading “Trato Hecho Cocktail”