Category: Beverages
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The French Blonde: For Your Sophisticated Cocktail Sipping Era
Recently I read that when Taylor Swift goes to her favorite Kansas City restaurant, her cocktail of choice is a French Blonde. (You can also read this life changing news story here.) With some investigation I found that the French Blonde is a fresh fruity and herbal cocktail with grapefruit juice, Lillet Blanc, gin, elderflower…
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Lemon Cold Brew Tereré with Mint
What is tereré, you might ask? It’s South American iced tea made with yerba mate, and usually there is some lemonade added in. It’s delicious but unlikely to ever experience popularity in North America for one reason: You serve it in a gourd or a small glass with a specialty straw called a bombilla (Google…
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Elderflower Margaritas
Are you familiar with elderflower liqueur? I had no idea what it was until I tried a French 77. Once I tried it, I was hooked. I became richer in experience but poorer in, well, finances because I had to pay for the St-Germain. While I 100% recommend that you try the French 77 if…
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Rye Chai Cocktail
How crappy is your weather right now? As a Michigander, my weather is unfortunate, but not shockingly so. We are a resilient people, accustomed to bouncing between winter and spring weather for months. I’m also very lucky. Many of the surrounding areas have had power outages for days due to a recent ice storm, but…
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Port Old Fashioned
This recipe was inspired by a port old fashioned I had in Columbus (possibly Dublin, OH?) when I was in Ohio visiting my fabulous cousins. I wish I remembered the name of the restaurant, which was cute and had delicious food. This is a great recipe for an Old Fashioned (or Manhattan) drinker who wants…
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Cinnamon Fig Old Fashioned
I’m fully in fall recipe testing mode here. Some of it–like this fig old fashioned–is delicious and while others need tweaking. (We won’t speak of the muffins I attempted this week. Too many “healthy swaps” for an edible muffin.) I have decided that this is what we grown ladies need to drink while watching Hocus…
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Strawberry Watermelon Frosé
In August, you can feel summer being rationed. The warm days and nights are no longer endless, and you can feel that the last vacation, the last dinner enjoyed outside, and the last barefoot days will come far too quickly. Did we experience enough? Did we travel? Did we enjoy the flowers and vegetables the…
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Food and Wine Pairing: Provençal Rosé
The Provence wine region of France is known for their fields of lavender, their location on the Mediterranean, and their crisp, fruity, dry rosés. Provence rosés are as beautiful as the region where they are cultivated. The wines are the palest of pinks and dangerously drinkable. Flavors you can expect from this style of rosé…
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Food and Wine Pairing: Albariño
In the northwest region of Spain, in Galicia, grows a white grape that is used to make the perfect summer wine. Albariño is a crisp white wine with flavors of citrus, honeydew, nectarine, honeysuckle and just a hint of salt. It is light in color and body, dry, and acidic. The white wine that Albariño…
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Cherry Amaretto Sangria
What is your favorite summer cocktail? Are you a margarita fan, always ready for a taco and a top shelf margarita? Or are you all about the frosé? I’m a sangria girl, but I rarely ever have it. It’s a large batch drink if you make it at home, and so many restaurants make shortcut…
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