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Irish Sour – St Patrick’s Day Cocktail

Perfect for St. Patrick’s Day, or anytime, this Irish Sour is a tasty Irish whiskey cocktail!   When Saint Patrick’s Day rolls around everyone wants to be Irish for a day! Our Facebook feeds and Instagram accounts are filled with green clad folks and equally green drinks. While the occasional green drink can be fun …

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The French Tart – Elderflower Cocktail

We used a unique gin in this elderflower cocktail, but any gin and grapefruit juice will do!   We occasionally run across recipes that immediately pique our interest, many times from some of our fellow food bloggers. Usually we end up putting these interesting recipes on our list of things to make! This is usually …

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The Garnet – Blueberry Martini

Orange, pomegranate and blueberries combine to make this beautiful Blueberry martini.   Like the sparkling gem that is this cocktail’s namesake, this drink is sure to add a bit of sparkle to your night! The Garnet combines fresh blueberries, pomegranate and citrus to make a cocktail that is elegantly simple and beautiful. We were inspired …

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Drunken Apple Pie Milkshake – An Amaro Cocktail

A boozy fall shake, ice cream, boozy apples and amaro in this apple pie milkshake!   The old saying “Good things come to those that wait!” gets floated around quite a bit, and for this recipe the saying holds true! But never fear, even if it takes a bit of time, you get two really …

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The Superlative Juvenile – Pomegranate Cocktail

A refreshing light cocktail, perfect for sipping, is this gin and pomegranate cocktail!!   In an earlier post, I talked about how my exposure to some of the incredible craft cocktails at places like The Boiler Room and J.Coco’s inspired me to want to learn more about the art of the cocktail.  About this time …

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Cranberry Orange Shrub Cocktail

Shrubs are usually in summer cocktails, but we loved this flavor combination for the holidays in this shrub cocktail!   The holidays bring lots of great seasonal flavors, one of the best being the fresh tart flavor of cranberries. Lots of classic Thanksgiving and Christmas dishes use cranberries, but we always have had a cranberry …

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Pumpkin Harvest – Fall Cocktails

A perfect fall pumpkin and bourbon cocktail! One of our great fall bourbon drinks!   Living in Nebraska gives us a unique opportunity to experience harvest time as our state is still quite closely connected with the farms where the produce comes from.  Even living in Omaha, we see fields being harvested on the edge …

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Aperol Spritz – A Perfect Italian Cocktail

A classic Italian cocktail, perfectly refreshing is this Aperol Spritz!   In these waning days of summer coming, we are still enjoying warm weather drinks, so we figured we better share another classic, the Aperol Spritz. The Aperol Spritz, is bubbly and refreshing and just the right amount of bitter and sweet at the same …

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