Category: Booze
How To Make the Best Bloody Mary!
Sunday brunch and football season seem to be almost inseparable. Provide both of those at your local drinking establishment and you can just about guarantee you won’t spend the day at home. Add a Bloody Mary bar and it’s a lock. Whether your favorite team… Continue reading
Cooking with Saltware™ – Winner Winner Chicken Dinner
(video via youtube.com/golbsalt) Chicken is one of the most commonly cooked dinner proteins and chicken recipes are most sought in web searches. It’s rare to see new and unique approaches to a simple chicken dinner without making the entire process overly complex. Two weeks ago… Continue reading
Simple. Easy. Mojito.
Ernest Hemingway is credited with making the drink famous, but as with most things Caribbean, it’s probably the locals that should be given all the credit. There’s a little bar in Havana now called La Bodeguita del Medio (very little bodega of the way)… Continue reading
The Best Margarita Recipe? You Decide!
It really is the simple pleasures that make life enjoyable. A warm summer afternoon, a comfortable chair to lounge in and an adult beverage. Today it’s a margarita… There are literally thousands of recipes for margaritas. Most of them don’t technically even qualify as… Continue reading
More Martini Madness!
Most often, it’s the combination of oblique items that makes the most memorable dishes and drinks. Today’s new breed of mixologists are proving the truth of this as well. But, you need not venture out to your favorite swanky watering hole to enjoy an… Continue reading
Cocktails Anyone? – Martini Madness!
(note the frosty bottles & shaker!) With word last week that James Bond was trading in his signature martini for a bottle of Heineken (really? Ian Flemming liked beer too, but…REALLY?) we felt obligated to redress our appreciation for martini’s with a post devoted… Continue reading
Feeling Saucy! – Filet w/ Grilled Asparagus & Brandy Mushroom Cream Sauce
Do you know the difference between mother and daughter sauces? Should you? Does it really matter? Probably not. But for the sake of a brief education (no, you can’t claim any continuing education credits for this one) we should review the five mother sauces.… Continue reading
Squeeze Me! – Blood Orange Chicken
Knock! Knock! Who’s there? Banana Knock! Knock! Who’s there? Banana Knock Knock! Who’s there? Orange you glad I didn’t say banana again? (Yes, we know… it’s a terrible joke. But it got your attention, and that was the idea!) Arizona is home… Continue reading
Rare Breed French Toast
Monday morning. Ugh. The weekend is over. It’s back to the grind – off to work, or get the kids to school. Fight traffic, encounter grumpy rude people and try to rely on the memories of less stressful weekend mornings gone by to get… Continue reading
