Drinks

There is nothing better on a cold January day, after shoveling the driveway or helping the kids build a snowman, than sitting in front of the fire with a piping hot cup of cocoa. That call-back to childhood never gets old, unlike the motivation to …

I recently celebrated my (gasp) 40th birthday. As the oldest grandchild on both sides of my family I am quite used to being the brunt of age-focused jokes. Still this one hurt a little. By most definitions I have entered the dreaded ‘middle aged’ era …

Necessity is so often the mother of invention. For obvious reasons I have been ordering my groceries online this year and using curbside pick-up. For the most part this has worked out well. But there are always hiccups, like the time I received 5 individual …

Quarantine has combined with horrible weather to make this winter feel like the longest winter imaginable. It has snowed 3 times in May. I know I live in Canada, but come on! For the first time all year it was marginally nice out. I’m not …

I have served this variation on the classic margarita on a few occasions, most recently Father’s Day dinner. There is nothing wrong with the classic margarita (I will post it at one point!) but this one adds a little spice and gives it a more …

While this recipe may sound like the title of a depressing french revolutionary novel, it is actually a delicious cool cocktail that everyone needs to enjoy on a hot summer evening.  The red refers to strawberries and the black is pepper that is ground and …

There are enough blogs out there devoted to the cocktail that I probably don’t have much to add.  Every hipster and anyone over the age of 30 knows how to make a great cocktail, I know.  But an Old Fashion is near and dear to …