A very unusual cocktail, this was made with what we had on hand, this peach pie cocktail is fabulous! One of our favorite times of the year has arrived, Peach Season, and with the wonderful fuzzy globes of goodness! We are lucky enough to have some beautiful peach trees that are loaded with peaches …
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Root Beer Whiskey flip with an egg! A twist on a classic whiskey flip cocktail. One of our daily activities as food bloggers is to look for new and fun ingredients that might make for some good blog posts. Recently we were checking out different whiskeys when we ran across Uncle Bob’s Root Beer …
This Pisco cocktail is a lovely fruity and gingery combination! This drink was inspired by a cocktail we had on a trip out to California last summer where we had this fantastic drink made with fresh blackberries and pisco. We had stopped for lunch at a spot in San Fransisco where this drink was …
Railcar Modern American Kitchen Restaurant, a great west Omaha dining spot, is train themed. In the heyday of rail travel, one of the ways that railroads competed for customers was to offer the best in customer comforts and that meant that the dining car cuisine soon rivaled the meals found in fine dining restaurants …
A great, tart lemon juice and pisco in this Pisco Sour Cocktail! For this post we are going to go back to the classics with the Pisco Sour Cocktail. Reputed to have been invented in Lima, Peru back in the 1920’s, the Pisco Sour is the national drink of both Chile and Peru and …
A Spicy Peach Margarita recipe, this frozen margarita one is a great combo of sweet and heat! A good cocktail is a study in melding contrasting flavors into a combination that pleases your senses. One of the most fun flavor combinations is taking sweet and heat and letting those two flavors play off of …
Is there any better combo than a strawberry and rhubarb dessert? We don’t think so! Check out this strawberry rhubarb galette! The end of May means its rhubarb and strawberry season. Sweet strawberries temper the tart rhubarb to make a seriously delicious team. On one of recent sojourns to the Omaha Farmer’s Market, we …
Need a Kentucky Derby cocktail? We have you covered with this classic Mint Julep recipe! In honor of the Kentucky Derby horse race, we celebrated by making our own Mint Juleps! The Mint Julep was first prescribed in 1784 for stomach issues (best medicine ever!), and in 1803 was described in a book in …
A tart and sweet combo of flavors in this whiskey blackberry smash, this is a very refreshing twist on the Bramble Cocktail. We love the combination of blackberries and bourbon, and when a surplus of blackberries from a brunch found their way into our possession, it was only a matter of time before they …
A classic British drink, the Pimm’s Cup Cocktail is a perfect spring and summer tipple! You might have noticed that we are obsessed with gin. Had anyone told us this 4 years ago before we really became focused on cocktails we would have laughed at you. As we discussed in our post on the …