An Italian Amaro Cocktail, very herbal and light. We recently had an evening to catch up with some friends and were sitting on the deck enjoying cocktails! We were trying to figure out how to make one of these evening happen in a far away location like Napa, when one of our friends mentioned …
Cocktails
A fantastic cranberry cocktail. Sweet and sour cocktail with the flavors of apple and cranberry! With October being right around the corner, like trips to apple orchards and pumpkin patches competing for time on our calendar! We definitely are feeling that fall is in the air. While we were looking at the calendars we …
An herbal bourbon shrub peach cocktail. With labor day coming and going, and the kids back in school, we officially can say its really fall! In our house, fall means a lot of great nights out by the fire pit and nights watching football. Anytime we get together with friends, we love to have …
Summer flavors in this ice cream – peach and bourbon. And it’s no-churn bourbon ice cream! The end of summer doesn’t mean we stop having ice cream in our house, especially when in our house September is peach season, thanks to the peach trees in our back yard. Needing lots of ways to use …
A perfect combination of flavors, it screams summer! Cheers to this peach Moscow Mule! For most people, Labor day marks the end of summer, but in our house, Labor Day marks the beginning of peach season, thanks to a couple of peach trees that are growing in our back yard! Once it is time …
We love the flavors in this classic gin cocktail, light and herbal with the lavender, perfectly citrus-y with the lemon! Cheers to summer with this Lavender Bees Knees! One of the our garden herbs we have been really enjoying is our lavender, its purple flowers fragrantly floral in the summer sun. Make this Lavender …
Alcoholic Popsicles? Oh yes we did make icepops! Everyone loves a good popsicle on a hot summer day, cool, sweet and tart and definitely refreshing. What might make a popsicle even better? How about a pair of popsicles with a little adult twist!? With the end of summer quickly approaching, we decided we finally …
A Smoky pepper Hatch Chile and Raspberry twist on the classic Mule! This one is a favorite of our hatch chile recipes! Every year near the end of August, signs start popping up in grocery stores proclaiming the return of the Hatch Chile. A staple of Southwestern and Tex-Mex cuisine, Hatch Chiles are grown …
A beautiful color cocktail made from the fresh raspberries, the Clover Club cocktail. When most people see a pink cocktail, they automatically think it is a ladies’ cocktail. This is because it’s delicate and pink and super sweet. However, in the case of the Clover Club, this pink drink has a roots in a …
A super interesting rhubarb and fennel combo cocktail! Also, a home bar essentials collection. Way back when we first started exploring how to make cocktails, we essentially had an old souvenir shot glass and an old juice glass that came home with us from college years ago! Our setup worked for the simple cocktails …