The Red and Black (Cocktail)

For many Junes, this was my favorite cocktail. Yes, I realize that I sound particularly like a weird food writer person and not a person who...

Apple Cider Sangria

For about five minutes — before we remembered that we have  an infant, a 6 year-old , two full-time jobs, a not very big apartment, an inter...

White Russian

On New Year’s Eve, we attempted to do the reprehensible and take a 6 year-old who usually goes to bed at 7:30 and a pajama-clad infant who w...

Homemade Irish Cream

Look, we all have to draw the line somewhere. I have over the years insisted that making some things from scratch were just crazy, best left...

Stovetop Americano

Post navigation Last December, I announced to I’m sure at least ten thousand well-deserved eye rolls that after 10 years of food blogging an...

Bourbon Peach Smash

Most conversations about shrubs go like this. “Wait, like the green bushy things that grow in the ground?” “No, it’s a drink.” “A leafy drin...

Pomegranate Grapefruit Paloma

All January and early February, as glacial winds smacked us in our face on the walk to school — and somehow back too (uphill, both ways, etc...