No Halloween party is complete without some of these spooky halloween cocktails! With plenty to choose from, plus some ideas to make them extra festive, check out this compilation of Halloween cocktails sure to make your next party a scream!
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Continue ReadingA beautiful, simple, and delicious cherry-raspberry Halloween cocktail invoking a Phoenix rising from the ashes.
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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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Halfway through the 30 days! Wooo! For anyone who’s interested, or just starting, or wants to know what it’s all about, I’m here to share my personal experience. I’ll give a quick overview of the diet in case anyone is unfamiliar, but if you want the full details, check out the whole30 website. Basically you avoid the following groups: (1) sugar, (2) alcohol, (3) grains/processed carbs, (4) dairy, (5) legumes. In addition to completely cutting these food groups (again, I’m not getting into the nitty gritty–visit their website for that), there’s a couple of other principles that I took to…
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While most of the wineries we typically go to are out toward western Virginia, occasionally we’ll make the trek up to Maryland! There’s some nice places up there too, and specifically some unique places. The Orchid Cellar Meadery is one (post to come!) and Ciderworks is another! It makes the Antietam Wine Trail perfect to do a little tasting of all your favorite alcoholic beverages! I’ll save the mead and wine for other times, but Ciderworks is one of my favorites because it’s so unique. It reminds me a little of Great Shoals actually (read the review), because it’s not made…
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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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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…
