A late-20s sort of cocktail. (Go-to cocktail: Leslie’s Americano)
I had a pretty good birthday weekend, you could say.
It involved this:
That’s a jar of lard. I made it.
Posts from the ‘Beverages’ Category
Sep 6
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Jul 31
Summer cocktails: Blackberry fizz
I admit it. The number of recent cocktail posts might be a little over the top.
But let’s be honest – that’s kind of what summer is all about, right? Everything is fresh and I approach the kitchen with a sense of relaxation that finds me throwing all kinds of things into a cocktail shaker with a bit of ice, sitting in the backyard in my favorite lawn chair with only the beginning glimmer of an idea of what to make for dinner. Read more
Jul 20
Summer cocktails: Front porch lemonade (with bourbon, ginger, and mint)
Here are some things I like: lemonade; fresh mint; front porches; bourbon; my husband.
Being a woman of action, here’s what I do about that:
Jul 15
Summer cocktails: Improvisation! Grapefruit margarita spritz
This summer has been particularly good – life has been slower than normal, full of relaxed meals and time outdoors and good time with friends. Food has been fresh, simple, and flavorful, and evenings have been slow, relaxed, and full of great conversation. While things here keep getting warmer and warmer – soon it will be too warm to spend time in the yard while the sun is still up – we’re getting everything we can from these evenings.
In fact, there’s not much better than sitting in the backyard after work, on a warm evening, with a cocktail in hand and a tasty, fresh snack nearby. A perfect image of summer.
Jul 9
Go-to cocktail: Sparkling wine with bitter orange
Let’s talk about sparkling wine with Aperol. Let’s talk about how pretty it is, when it’s warm outside and there’s a lawn chair in the middle of the backyard. Or when it’s on a table at a fancy restaurant on a tiny side street in Vienna, when you’re celebrating two years of marriage with your love.
While we were in Germany and Austria, we couldn’t walk into or by a restaurant or cafe without seeing about 1,000 bottles of Campari or Aperol lining the shelves behind the bar. These bitter orange liqueurs are not nearly as common here in the United States, but almost every menu we saw had a sizable selection of simple cocktails with one or the other – as straight-forward as Campari and soda up to four- and five-ingredient cocktails.
