A beautiful, simple, and delicious cherry-raspberry Halloween cocktail invoking a Phoenix rising from the ashes.
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Continue ReadingA rich and delicious chocolate Halloween cocktail, served hot or cold with your choice of Irish cream or Coffee Liqueur.
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A glorious golden Harry Potter-inspired elixer: this swirling felix felicis potion, also known as liquid luck will make you lucky—lucky you’re the life of the party with a good cider drink in your hand!
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Delicious caramel apple cider sangria, festive for fall, but delicious all year round! – – Who doesn’t love apples? Who doesn’t love wine? Who doesn’t love putting the two together? If the answer is you, I’m not entirely sure why you’re reading this, but who am I to judge? First things first, chop some apples! I really liked having the mix of red and green apples for some extra color, so for this recipe I used red delicious and granny smith. If I had to pick one though, I’d go with the granny smith. I like the little bit sour…
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Yup, I said it. Apple. Pie. Moonshine. I’m putting this warning up-front and center: BE CAREFUL. THIS STUFF DOES NOT TASTE LIKE ALCOHOL. In the best way possible. It’s made with spyritus vodka, which is about the most alcoholic thing you can buy. Like period. It’s so alcoholic in fact, that you can’t buy it in VA, MD, or DC, but we had to travel up to NJ/NY area to find it. This recipe actually came from my sister’s friend Jesse, whose parents host of all of us crazy folk when we go to the PA bloomsburg fair (event review) every year! Which was perfect,…
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Do you ever have one of those nights where you want to relax with a drink, but all of your go-to drinks and cocktails don’t feel like they’re going to cut it? Well here’s where this pineapple party punch comes in! It’s that classy tropical drink that will whisk you away to paradise…am I overselling this? It’s good, but it’s no week-long vacation that’s for sure. But it might be just what you need for a mini stay-cation! Or you can just be like T and me and make this on a typical Friday night while making a drinking game…
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From the lady that brought you strawberry shortcake vodka slush, here’s the pineapple cousin, pineapple vodka slush! It’s pretty much the exact same thing, but swap out the strawberries for pineapple. Or even combine the two! Make a strawberry-pineapple vodka slush! Be sure to stock up on your friend Cake Vodka, because that ish is delish! I suggest approx. 3 c. cubed pineapple, 3-4 shots of cake vodka, and 2 c. of ice. Add more ice if it needs to be thicker, add more vodka to thin it out (or for fun), or add more pineapple to make the texture smoother.…
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So…I made this cocktail by accident! You can thank my lazy Sunday. The past few weeks have been a bit crazy, and even Saturday this weekend was crazy! Fun crazy, but crazy nonetheless. Friday we went to grab drinks before seeing Captain America! It was good, and T and I had a nice walk back chatting about our thoughts about the movie! And then Saturday, T went running (he’s training for a marathon) for 6 miles, and I actually got my butt to the gym. Then we had to take Kenichi on a long walk to tire him out a bit…
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So, as in my other drink post: strawberry shortcake vodka slush, this isn’t really a full-blown recipe, but more just a conglomeration of ingredients in which eyeballing is the key to success. The reason is that for alcoholic drinks, I don’t presume to judge you. You can put as much or as little tequila as you’d like for this one. Basically you grab some triple sec, tequila, limes, and ice! For my guestimates for two it should be about 2-3 shots of tequila, the juice from 1 lime (you can zest it if you’re feelin’ classy, but I don’t usually…
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The weather’s getting warmer, and we’re getting closer to the time when we break out the mixed cocktails, the wine tastings out in the summery vineyards… It makes me a little sad that I don’t enjoy winter as much as I used to. When I was little, winter meant staying inside by the fire, or staying home from school, or playing in the snow. Now it means brushing off the car, going into work in the cold, and dealing with the extra icy stupidity that overtakes the NoVA area. And even though it’s not actually that warm out yet, I decided to…
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Here’s a new one for the books! Who would have thought–cold cider floats! I sure wouldn’t have. You can thank Cornell’s Grad students for this doozy. I was up in Ithaca visiting a friend this past weekend for “galentines” day, and their “TGIF” (Read: thank grads it’s Friday) served cider floats! Now I’ve only tried it specifically with McKenzie’s seasonal hard cider, and I will say that it would take some convincing to get me to try another. That’s for a couple reasons. Firstly, the winter seasonal (as I am assuming it is) definitely has some Christmas-spice notes that really…
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The mimosa bar for our New Year’s Eve Countdown Bash came out super cute! I decided that four was the perfect number: four fruits, four juices, four champagnes! Champagne Now we decided to use Andre as the champagne. It’s not classy, but if you’re going to mix with super sweet juices and mix the champagne, no need for the good stuff. We did reserve a bottle of “good stuff” for the actual midnight toast though! For champagne varietals, we had: (1) Brut, (2) Extra Dry, (3) Spumante, and (4) Blush. We also had some sparkling cider which is a perfect non-alcoholic varietal!…
