Every year around the holidays our family makes frozen whiskey sours.  The recipe is written on an old 3×5 card, smudged, folded, with bent corners.  The jars used to freeze the mix are old peanut butter jars – at least 25 years old – with …

My friend Shannon (who I have mentioned here before) recommended this tea to me a week or so ago as being a fabulous afternoon “pick me up” drink. Her food and drink advice is always good, so I immediately ordered a tin of the sachets …

Yesterday was my birthday. No, I’m not going to tell you how old I am, but I will share one of my presents with you; some cheap red wine. Really. Seriously.

See, I told you!

What better post to follow an article on healthy eating, than to jump right into one of my favorite alcoholic drinks: the bloody mary. Supposedly the drink was created at Harry’s Bar in Paris – one of the hangouts of Ernest Hemingway, among …