{recipe} Strawberry Popper Cocktail
I am kind of on a cocktail kick these days. Fresh off the success of my Dolores Park-inspired drink, I decided to take another stab at creating a sweet, spicy, tart cocktail. A sweltering...
I am kind of on a cocktail kick these days. Fresh off the success of my Dolores Park-inspired drink, I decided to take another stab at creating a sweet, spicy, tart cocktail. A sweltering...
It’s finally raining steadily here in California, which is great news because we are in a terrible drought! The silver lining of the drought is that no one is complaining about the rain; in...
The Sazerac is a traditional New Orleans cocktail, and it’s a doozy. Strong and sweet; I can only drink one. But boy, do I enjoy that one. To make a proper Sazerac cocktail, you...
What could be more refreshing than a mint julep on a summer evening? Add some of the season’s best blackberries, and you’re really in for a treat. Since juleps are always served over a...
Some best-laid plans for a rhubarb pie never came to fruition, so I found myself with some less-than-fresh, semi-flaccid rhubarb in the fridge. It was headed for the compost pile, but I got the...
Yesterday, we closed on a beautiful new house in the Castro, so we’ll be moving from our beloved flat off of Dolores Park. The new place needs about a year’s worth of construction before...
I have a friend and I am very proud of her – because she is celebrating three years of being sober. For this special occasion, I wanted to make a very special non-alcoholic drink...
This month, I’m trying not to drink any alcohol – mostly just as a personal challenge. (You’ll notice I picked the shortest month of the year for this endeavor.) I have found something interesting...
After my recent success with blueberry mojitos, I decided to try something in the same vein and made these raspberry margaritas. Swoon. Get yourself some fresh raspberries and bust out the cocktail shaker! I...
I don’t like blueberries so I can’t explain how I came home from the store with a huge container of them, but I definitely wasn’t going to eat them raw so I figured my...
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