An icy summer treat, with the summer flavors of coconut and strawberry we made an adult beverage! Creamy coconut and sweet strawberry syrup combine for a delicious, easy to sip, strawberry coconut cocktail. We tend to try to make cocktails featuring ingredients that are in season. While cruising the aisles of the grocery store …
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An interesting mix of flavors, this rye whiskey and red beet shrub cocktail makes for a great drink! With the weather getting warmer, the season for the classic way to beat the heat, the shrub. Shrubs are a combination of sugar, fruit and vinegar that historically has been a way to preserve fruit and …
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 …
A Spicy twist on the classic whiskey cocktail with this Peach Old Fashioned. This drink is is a twist on one of the most popular classic cocktails, the Old Fashioned, by adding grilled peaches and a spicy kick from Hot Sauce. The grilled peach gives a fresh summery sweetness that combines with the mellow …
A root vegetable salad that uses all the fresh spring vegetables! One of the best parts of our weekly trips to the farmer’s markets is the ever changing variety of produce that we have a chance to explore. This week we ran across a new kind of beet for us at one of the …
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 …
An Easter dessert, a carrot cheesecake perfect for Easter brunch or any spring celebration! With spring in the air, we wanted to make a dessert that would reflect the fresh start of the seasons. This carrot cheesecake was new to us, so in the spirit of something new, we decided to give it a …
An easy boozy dessert, this one hits all the flavors of the classic Old Fashioned cocktail, but in Panna Cotta form. We always talk about how bitters are a valuable ingredient in making cocktails, but they can also be used to add flavors to food as well. Wanting to use our newly made Coffee …