A few weeks ago I spent a long weekend with my sisterfriend Cathy at her place in Birmingham. We planned some cooking, some shopping, some hanging out. Her wonderful hubby helped lubricate our weekend by providing some quality adult beverages. It started out with a recipe that came with the gin, but we found that [...]

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 wide mouths, sealed with wax paper under the lids.  These [...]

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 (the triangular design of the sachets allows the tea leaves [...]

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 others. Wherever it was created, it’s one of the few adult beverages [...]