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A lovely summer cocktail with tangy Hibiscus, sweet blueberries and refreshing margaritas! Here is the Blueberry-Hibiscus Margarita recipe: Blueberry-Hibiscus Margaritas for a Crowd 1/2 cup hibiscus tea (recipe follows) 1 cup freshly squeezed lime juice 2 cups tequila 3/4 cup […]
This is summer, summer! And the drink of summer is the gin and tonic. Fill a 12-ounce collins glass with ice. Pour 2 ounces of gin over it. Top with good tonic. Garnish with a lime. Do not squeeze the lime. […]
Julep season is upon us, friends. Days of Derbys (and birthdays) can’t be far off. This recipe for Mint Juleps for a Crowd serves four and you can double or triple it, even. Mint Juleps for a Crowd 1 big […]
After browsing the Saveur drinks Tumblr for a while, we headed on over to the Friday Cocktails section on the Saveur website. There, we discovered another twist on a cocktail called the Ginger Gold Rush. We liked the thinking of […]
We stumbled upon a Tumblr recently that is just up our alley: Savuer Drinks. While browsing, we found the Baltimore Bang cocktail from Saveur magazine. A drink from Hunna’s hometown! Though the drink is usually made with apricot brandy, Saveur decided to […]
Inspired by food52, we put a sugar cube and some bitters in a glass and splashed in a bit of water. We muddled and to that added two ounces of rye. A nice orange twist and there you have it. […]
Greg found Meyer lemons at Whole Foods. A seasonal specialty, these lemons are known for having a thinner skin than regular lemons, and their juice is a bit sweeter. According to Wikipedia, the meyer lemon comes from China and was […]
A long time ago — so long that I did not even have a blog — there was a failed attempt at Tom and Jerry cocktails. After the recent article in the New York Times, I felt I needed vindication. […]
At Irene’s Ugly Flowers party for Carol, we had an Ugly Flowers Cocktail. Natch! It is not, truly, an Ugly Flowers Cocktail, though. It’s actually something called a French Blonde that Irene found in Saveur. But we will rename it […]
Salty Dog season has arrived! Our package of the most delicious grapefruits int the world arrived today, and we immediately set about making our favorite grapefruit cocktails: Salty Dogs. These are not the same as Greyhounds, which are made just […]
We used to like bourbon Manhattans. We have seen the err of our ways. Now we only drink them with rye. Yes, for one thing, our tastes have matured. Bourbon is sweet. I mean, it has its place, certainly. Mint […]
Irene, Kris and Tom came over with some tomato water martinis. I don’t have any photos from the evening on the porch, but as usual with the five of us, it was a bunch of fun. I mean, how can […]
I am a bigger fan of the Negroni than Greg. But that said, we enjoyed a nice version on the porch, made according to David Wondrich, of course. I tried to thank him via Twitter, but alas, did not get […]
Greg was making some bruschetta with tomatoes from the garden. He salted them and let them be for a while. As he was draining them, he realized he had a magical elixir on his hands. We mixed the tomato water […]
Hemingway is associated with lots of drinks, including the regular ol’ daiquiri, which is made, as you know, with rum, lime juice and simple syrup. This version adds complexity with maraschino liqueur and grapefruit juice. It’s a nice drink to […]
Normally we don’t go for vodka drinks around here anymore. (We’re into amaro lately.) But this drink, which we found originally in Bon Appetit, looked so refreshing (and seasonal!) that I couldn’t pass it up. When I went to pour […]
This photo got a lot of comments over on Facebook, so I thought we’d better share the recipe here, too! Yummy refreshing minty rummy drinks, after the jump. Related posts: Watermelon-Basil Mojitos Cocktail Recipe: Mint Juleps Gin Gin Mules Cocktail […]
Liz originally found a similar recipe in Gourmet while lying on the beach on Long Beach Island. Greg immediately rose from his chair on the sand and proceeded to buy a melon, slice it up and throw it in the […]
We muddled the mint and squeezed the limes, and wouldn’t you know it, with a little gin and ginger beer — we had ourselves a highball. The recipe, from Audrey Saunders, can be found here: Cocktail recipe: Gin Gin Mules […]
Another look at the cocktail, which we posted the recipes for earlier this month. Greg had this one. I had the Aviation. Related posts: Cocktail Recipe: Maple Old Fashioned Cocktail Recipe: Applejack Old Fashioned Cocktail Recipe: Criterium Cocktail Recipe: […]
You can never have enough posts of Aviations, in my humble opinion. Recipe post of the Aviation is here. Related posts: Cocktail Recipe: Aviaton Aviation Cocktails with Karen Christmas Cocktail: Perfect Parallel Cocktail Recipe: Criterium
After making our Applejack Old Fashioned this fall, we decided to see how maple would play with bourbon. Of course it plays well. What did you think? Greg is working on an article for The Valley Table magazine about maple […]
I want to start off this post by saying that these “Shit that” whoever “says” videos flying around YouTube are hilarious. “Shit New Yorkers Say” is especially funny (“Where’s the train?” “All I had to eat today was a bagel.” […]
As a toast to Christmas, we present the Perfect Parallel. The cocktail is a play on the Perfect Manhattan, which uses equal amounts of sweet and dry vermouth along with bourbon or rye. In this case, we substitute Laird’s Applejack. […]
Our shipment of grapefruit from Red Cooper in the Rio Grande Valley arrived on the porch this morning. So our cocktail of choice this evening? Salty Dogs of course! Related posts: A Tree Comes Down in Nyack An Easy Supper: […]
An old Jerry Thomas recipe we found in the brand new PDT Cocktail Book, which calls it “the grandaddy of the Sidecar.” Well, you know how we do love a Sidecar. We now also love a Brandy Crusta. The recipe, […]
Out of the many, many cocktail recipes that Ed and I tried for our story on New York State spirits, our favorite was the Applejack Old Fashioned. Photo by Xavier Mascareñas/The Journal News. The recipe: [amd-zlrecipe-recipe:70] Applejack Old Fashioned […]
My good friend and colleague Ed and I got together on a Saturday night to work on a story about New York State spirits. We researched and wrote about several local distilleries, and now we’re developing cocktail recipes that people […]
Come Derby Day each year, we’re muddling, shaking and stirring. The mint in the garden has grown enough that it’s ripe for the picking, and there’s nothing no recipe we like better for showing it off. The recipe, after the […]
Irene first served this cocktail at the book club’s discussion of “On the Road.” We’ve since requested it at bars and made at home. Several times. It’s adapted from David Wondrich, cocktail historian and writer extraordinaire. According to Esquire, for […]
My husband, Greg, and I are co-founders of SCF, which chronicles what we eat, drink and grow as we raise our daughter on a tiny plot of land in the Lower Hudson Valley.
