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Late summer cocktail: Aviation

Aviation

First: Welcome to all new readers who have found this site through the Capital Times article published yesterday! I’m excited to make contact with a new audience in Madison, and would love to hear about things you’re interested in, either for new classes or new site content. Stay in touch! I look forward to meeting many of you as I settle into this new part of the country. (Also, know that I don’t usually post recipes with such uncommon ingredients … this is a slight diversion from my normal sort of recipes. Stay tuned for a simple smoked salmon frittata recipe, coming soon!)

First Second: I can still post a “summer cocktail” recipe, right? I’ve started organizing my photos into a “Fall 2013” folder, as I usually do after my birthday, but here in Madison the intense heat of the end of summer is only now threatening to break, and I know Southern California is still feeling the heat.

Second Third: I generally do a pretty good job of picking recipes to post here that would be easy enough for most people to make at home, whether it’s a matter of finding the ingredients or of the complexity of the techniques involved. Today, however, I’m breaking that rule.

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Summer cocktail: Herbed citrus radler (or shandy, should you prefer)

I hope I haven’t been holding out on you. I’ve talked about radlers before, right? I’m sure I have. I must have. In our house (I suppose I should say “house,” these days) it’s a pretty clear line from the first hints of warm weather to a glass filled with lemonade and beer.

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You might know this as a shandy, which is acceptable, but in either case I don’t know how we’ve gotten this far without me talking about one of my all-time favorite go-to summer drinks, fizzy and cold and completely replenishing. Read more

Summer cocktail: Basil gimlet

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We were able to revel in a few blissful weeks of real summer before heading out on the trip we’re currently on (look at me, posting from other states! I’m going to make a t-shirt that says: Not a blogger who writes posts ahead of time and sets them to publish later to look impressive.). A real, though excessively short, summer of barbeques, dinner parties, gardening, and cocktails in the backyard before diving head first this last weekend into wedding season and the start of the schoolyear for both Brett and I. Read more