One of our favorite cherry cocktails with ginger liqueur, fresh cherries and mixed with gin! This Cherry Smash cocktail is perfect for spring! When our kiddos were little one of their favorite things to sip on a hot day was a cherry limeade. This tasty combo of sweet red maraschino cherry syrup and limeade …
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A great combo of rosemary, tequila and grapefruit! Tequila is one the spirits that we have a real love and hate relationship, because a lot of the experiences with tequila were those we had back in our college days when we were drinking cheap tequila in badly mixed cocktails or shots. Recently, we have …
A whiskey forward classic cocktail, the Ward Eight! While sitting around watching the news and all of the political craziness that comes with an election year, we decided that we needed a drink to help make sense of it it all. While it is fun to come up with original cocktails, every now and …
One of our favorite summer cocktails, a Blueberry Cucumber Moscow Mule Cocktail – a great combo of fresh blueberries and cucumbers with vodka and ginger beer! We have a whole bunch of spring birthdays, and with our family and friends never missing a chance to throw a shindig, we get tasked with bringing the …
An interesting combo of flavors, we encourage you to try this Calvados cocktail! Certain ingredients invoke a seasonal feel, and while they may be perfect for that season, exploring other ways to use a flavor outside of its seasonal time is a great way to try new things. One of these ingredients is apple …
Some great spring cocktails to celebrate the warming weather! Those first warm days of spring always feel so wonderful, the warm sun, twittering birds and spring plants bursting into flower makes you want to sit outside and just enjoy shaking off the winter doldrums. What better way to celebrate these glorious days than to …
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 …
A twist on the classic, the flavors are fresh and clean in this blackberry and bourbon Kentucky Mule! The Moscow Mule is one of those classic cocktails that is super refreshing, very tasty and easy to make. Originally concocted back in 1946 as a way to help market the struggling Smirnoff vodka and Cock …
This elderflower cocktail is a great flavor combo with floral notes of of elderflower liqueur, gin and grapefruit juice! We occasionally run across recipes that immediately pique our interest, many times from fellow food bloggers. Usually we end up putting these interesting recipes on our list of things to make! This is usually because …
An earthy combination in this truffle cocktail is earthy and wonderful! It’s a mushroom cocktail! A few years ago we took a trip to Napa and Las Vegas to celebrate our tenth anniversary. We made the most of the great restaurants and bars. One of the places in Las Vegas we were very excited …