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 …
Cocktails
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 …
An interesting flavor Aronia berries, we loved trying them out in this whiskey sour egg white Cocktail! We love working with locally grown and produced products to develop our cocktails. Whole Foods Market approached us to develop a summer cocktail promotion for their cafe. They wanted to feature locally grown produce and products from …
These are great in a dessert, or even just by themselves (we won’t tell!). Bourbon gives a sweetness to these tasty pecan recipes, and the spices make it very fall! Almost every weekend in the summer we take a trip down to the Omaha Farmer’s Market to load up on fresh produce, locally produced …
A moonshine and herbal cocktail! This combination of moonshine drink and the herbalness of a thyme cocktail marry well together! When you hear the word moonshine, you tend to get visions of good ole boys up in the hills, right? They might be distilling their white lighting out of a homemade still. Then they …
A twist on the classic salty dog cocktail, we added hibiscus syrup! In the heat of the summer, we love to sip cocktails by our swimming pool (and a lot of times in the pool too!) Nothing is as good as a crisp tart drink on ice, especially cocktails with fresh citrus in them, …
A Campfire Mule topped with toasted marshmallows! This Moscow Mule is a great variation of the classic drink! This Campfire Mule is perfect for when you are at a cabin or camping and you probably have marshmallows anyway! So toast those babies up and garnish your mules! Nothing shows the beginning of fall quite …
A perfect classic cocktail, check out the Boulevardier recipe! Last week we posted a cocktail for Negroni Week called the Concord Negroni Flip, which was our twist on the classic cocktail the Negroni. Our next cocktail is another variation of the venerable Negroni, but this time a classic variation from 1927 Paris, France. …