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Category: Cocktails

  • 09 Dec. 2025: Roasted Carrot Hummus

    We enjoy a transition period from working to relaxing at the end of each day. Even as retirees, we’ve kept up this habit which in French culture is called Cinq à Sept. Throughout COVID, when we were isolating, we got pretty darn good at mixology (spirit-based or mocktail) thanks to some YouTubers and books (shoutout…

  • 30 Jul 2025: A Spanish Margarita 43

    I’m not generally a Margarita drinker. Too many ice chips makes it less of a cocktail and more like shave ice or a slushy. Not my thing. But, when I spotted this concoction from Licor 43, the Spanish liqueur, I thought I’d give it a try to make use of a couple of open bottles.…

  • 31 October 2018: Exploring Apéritif

    Apéritif – just the word by itself sounds elegant and refined. We could all use a little elegance these days, so after discovering an entire book dedicated to this (nightly) ritual in a recent New York Times article (The 19 Best Cookbooks of Fall 2018), it was time to start expanding my pre-dinner horizons.  The…