A Blackberry Margarita with fresh homemade blackberry syrup. Easy and homemade, this tasty margarita is a must make! For a fruity twist on a classic cocktail, try out this fresh blackberry margarita! Made with blackberry simple syrup, this refreshing margarita is bursting with late summer flavor. Margaritas are a simple yet tasty cocktail to …
This Lavender Margarita is the perfect herbal margarita for all year long with fresh lavender simple syrup. Easy to make, this twist on a classic margarita is delicious! You know we love using lavender in cocktails, and we also know you either love it or hate it. So if you are one of the …
This grapefruit bourbon cocktail is a rich and tasty cocktail made with Coopers’ Craft Barrel Reserve. A great spring cocktail with tropical flavors. That is what inspired this cocktail using Coopers’ Craft Barrel Reserve, Brown-Forman’s newest bourbon in 20 years — which is available in Nebraska! Make sure to read our Walnut Pear …
We featured the sweet and spicy flavors flavors of Dorothy Lynch, pineapple, tequila and mezcal to create this unusual, delicious cocktail! We love a good challenge, and when we were asked to work with a classic Nebraska flavor, we couldn’t pass up the chance to play around with something sweet, tangy, and found on …
National Bloody Mary Day is January 1! Make sure to celebrate with this spicy bloody Mary recipe! So with January 1st being the start of a new year, people are making lots of new resolutions to make the next year better! One resolution we think we will be making (and actually keeping!) will be …
Two fantastic seafood recipes for you to try! And of course, they are boozy! Bourbon Shrimp and Fried Cod Tacos with boozy pineapple! Seafood isn’t something that is normally associated with living in Nebraska, but every spring in the weeks before Easter, Fridays become “Fish Fry-days” as folks around here observe Lent and have …
A great Asian Chicken Wings Appetizer made with original Smirnoff Ice! We love a great appetizer during the holidays as we do a lot of entertaining, and we are always looking for something new we can make to share with our guests. Smirnoff Ice contacted us to create some holiday appetizers using Smirnoff Ice, …
What a better way to warm up than with cinnamon rolls from scratch with bacon AND bourbon! Yeah, I said bacon cinnamon rolls! When the weather starts turning cooler and the leaves start changing colors, we get a hankering for some fresh baked goods! Here in Nebraska, one of the most popular baked goods …
Boozy homemade chocolate marshmallows with some added chocolate! Being cocktail bloggers, we are used to being sent samples of different spirits and alcoholic products to try, but rarely do our friends hand us a bottle and ask us to do something with it! We have a friend who loves all kinds of flavored vodkas, …
A great classic Calvados and green chartreuse cocktail, of French origin. We love exploring classic cocktail books and revisiting classic cocktails. This week we head back to one of our favorite books, Harry Craddock’s Savoy Cocktail. It might be the definitive collection of Pre-Prohibition era cocktails. One cocktail that caught our eye was the …