Archive for the 'Drinks' Category
Blood Orange Prosecco Cocktail
February 12th, 2010by Lisa
I had gone to BevMo to find Orange Flower Water, to recreate the Gin Fizz I had at the Moss Room, but they were out.
Then I saw Blood Orange Bitters, which immediately reminded me of our road trip and meal at the Hotel Del Coronado last summer.
There, I had a lovely drink of champagne [...]
The Real Thing
February 12th, 2010by Lisa
I have never brought a bottle of soda into the house. Occasionally when my father or father-in-law are visiting, they buy their own diet soda, but I can safely say that nothing with corn syrup has ever been brought into my house by me or my husband.
This is not to say the kids haven’t [...]
Pomegranate Clementine Kidtini
January 22nd, 2010By Lisa
We have continued our tradition of kidtinis on these winter weekends, even though MadMen is no longer sustaining us. The kids love them, and think their dad is famous because if you Google “kidtini drinks” the first hits are the recipes on this site: The 7Up Kidtini, the Pomegranate Kidtini, and the one that [...]
Milk Punch
December 21st, 2009by Lisa
One of our favorite holiday traditions is Milk Punch. While the boys in the family could survive on Egg Nog and pumpkin pie from Thanksgiving until New Year, the girls here prefer Milk Punch, which is actually a traditional New Orleans drink. We are not in the least bit southern, but more than a [...]
MadKids
October 16th, 2009By Lisa
It’s no secret that my husband and I are shameless fans of MadMen, and I’ve written about the cocktails we enjoy on our own and and with our kids. For that matter, Caroline and her kids are also fans of a little mixology in the home.
But over the last weeks, the Kidtini has become [...]
Peel Me a Pomegranate
October 15th, 2009By Lisa
The title of this post is a blatant homage to Nina Finci’s, as yet unpublished memoir Peel Me a Pomegranate about emigrating from Croatia to America age 15, shortly before the Yugoslav war changed her family life forever. Check out her blog(s). As for the pomegranate, in one section of her memoir, she [...]
Cocktails
September 23rd, 2009by Lisa
When we got married, a good friend, who had more foresight than we knew at the time, gave us as a shower gift a lovely glass cocktail pitcher and two martini glasses. Over the years, it saw some use, but never on a regular basis. We drank plenty of cocktails, but I just didn’t [...]
Nancy Hour
August 20th, 2009by Caroline
As Pete Wells recently wrote, our generation matured into a sad time without cocktails. It was all wine and beer. I participated, but aside from my junior year in England I’ve never really been a beer drinker, and red wine, sadly, gives me headaches.
But slowly, happily, the world has started to swing back to [...]
Making Drinks (kid version)
August 19th, 2009One of the first things my husband Tony and I learned about each other on our first (blind) date was that our fathers both made wine. His dad actually used grapes. A regular event during Tony’s childhood involved taking delivery of a load of zinfandel grapes, stomping them into juice in the backyard and then [...]
Only in NJ
June 27th, 2009By Lisa
Only in NJ because we literally can’t buy Yoo-Hoo where we live, but also because, well, it’s so full of crap and so unhealthy and downright gross that I would never buy it if we weren’t on vacation. But buy it I did, and a six pack at that, for my son, and his [...]