Archive for the 'Drinks' Category
Full Stop: Slow Cooker Red Sauce
January 25th, 2012By Lisa One of my resolutions this year is to do only One Thing At A Time. This is very, very hard for me. Somedays, when I have 12 things on my to-do list, including writing, teaching, errands, chores–it’s physically painful not to do that one extra thing. The commitment has meant, among other things, [...]
Christmas Kidtinis
December 20th, 2011by Lisa This weekend we went to a holiday party where a friend was mixing a drink he calls The Grinch, which really is anything but (unless maybe you’re around the person who drank them the day after…) A Grinch is basically a Grasshoppper made with vanilla ice cream instead of cream and garnished with [...]
Tropical Blizzard
January 13th, 2011By Lisa This is an unlikely and unpractical post for the middle of winter if, like me, you’re cold in any state but Hawaii. But it’s not wholly inappropriate if you’re like my kids, and are not ever bothered by the cold, even in the middle of blizzard. In an effort to keep my hungry [...]
A Christmas Cocktail
December 22nd, 2010by Caroline If you type the word “cocktails” in the search box up to the right there, you’ll find about a dozen posts and recipes, mostly by Lisa, though my family makes good use of cocktail hour ourselves. This time of year, while most folks are stirring up jugs of eggnog, Lisa and I are [...]
Time to Slow Down
November 18th, 2010By Lisa Part of last week went like this: party, school, party, no school, faculty meeting, teacher conference, mother/daughter date, soccer, soccer, soccer, birthday party. We barely had time to breath much less cook something new for dinner. In between all this? Final edits of the page proofs were due for my book. We’ve been [...]
Lemon + Honey
November 10th, 2010by Caroline It has been six days now since this cold clamped its vise grip on my head and chest, six days of trying to wash it way with gallons of tea, at first, and then just hot water with lemon and honey. Usually by this point in a cold, I’m tired of the drink [...]
Root Beer Float x 2
September 7th, 2010by Lisa We have a great debate going in our house: which goes in a root beer float first, the ice cream or the soda? This has been an ongoing experiment all summer long, since we discovered Trader Joe’s has a good bottled root beer (& a caffeine free cola that’s pretty terrific, too.) We [...]
Frozen Hot Chocolate
August 24th, 2010By Lisa One of the magical things about trips to New York as a kid were trips to the whimsical Serendipity 3 after seeing a show or going to a museum. We went with family, we went with friends, and now, when we’re back east (which is not so often), we take our own kids. [...]
Fizzes for the Family
March 26th, 2010by Lisa A few months ago, I had a gin fizz at the Moss Room in San Francisco and fell in love. You might remember my first unsuccessful search for orange flower water . I did find it, however, at Whole Foods, and a few weekends ago I whipped (or shook) a couple up for [...]
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 [...]