It’s sweet. It’s smoky. It’s the kind of drink you want on a hot summer day. Or in your cold Brooklyn apartment pretending like you’re drinking it on a hot summer day. Whatever floats your fancy. However you decide to…
Honey Lemon Gimlet Cocktail Recipe
So it was Friday—last Friday, to be exact—and I was in the mood for a cocktail. I wanted something simple to sip on that would be relatively low in calories while I cooked dinner, but I wasn’t totally feeling a…
Sparkling Apple Sangria with Kettle Brand Chips
Being a writer isn’t the easiest job in the world. While it is fun to research and write about all kinds of topics in the world of food, the rounds of critiques (and endless hate emails) you receive can be…
Dad’s Mahia Mojitos
Life has been fairly busy lately! I admit, it’s been hard to keep track of all the things, like getting my blog post out. But I knew that this Mahia mojitos recipe was one that needed to be shared before…
Peach Bourbon Smash Cocktail
Peaches and bourbon just make sense. I’m a huge bourbon drinker and if I get a good one my hands, I love to pour a glass and sip on it straight. But I admit, it’s not exactly my favorite drink…
Grandma’s Amaretto Sour
When someone asks me what I want to drink, I start to stress out. What do I feel like having? What am I in the mood for? And why don’t I just have a signature cocktail? But that’s not the…
Old Glory Cocktail
It’s Friday, and for the last day of Fourth of July eats, it felt appropriate to send you off into the weekend with a cocktail recipe. And obviously, this cocktail has to don those patriotic colors to reflect the holiday…
A Refreshing Rosé Sangria Recipe
This rose sangria recipe is a celebratory one. Why? Because it was the first drink I made with my parents after so many months of not seeing them because of quarantine. They came over last Saturday and we enjoyed a…
How We Stock Our At-Home Bar
Friday means cocktails, yes? I’ve always been a wine gal, but as we’ve started to collect different kinds of liquor and toys for our at-home bar, my eyes were opened to the creative world of cocktails. And, naturally, that means…
The Easiest Margarita Recipe
Do you go through cocktail phases? For a while, I was really obsessed with any cocktails made with sparkling wine—like this white sangria. Then it was my orange whiskey sour. And now, well, it’s margaritas baby. I can’t stop making…
Heavenly Lemonade Cocktail Recipe
After posting my orange whiskey sour on the blog, I very quickly learned something: ya’ll like to drink! That cocktail recipe is probably one of my most popular on the blog right now, and since posting it I’ve had numerous…
Orange Whiskey Sour Recipe
My in-laws are in town for the long weekend, and I wanted to make my mother-in-law a margarita. The two of us bond over margaritas, and particularly love to make these strawberry margaritas in the summertime. As I proceeded to…