Year: 2010

  • Mamay Taylor

    It’s been radio silence here for the last few days.  Sorry about that.  Things have been busy.  I haven’t been completely lazing around, though.  While looking through some of my old books for more recipes I stumbled upon the Mamay Taylor.  Which, interestingly, in this spelling isn’t mentioned much on the internet at all.  In…

  • Foodista Featured Drink Blog of the Day

    Cocktail Hacker is Foodista’s Featured Drink Blog of the Day today! :)  Cruise on over to the site and check out some of the other great food & drink blogs and features.  Very cool site.

  • Mamie Taylor

    Whiskey!  Whiskey!  Whiskey! Guess what I’m craving?  It starts with whis and ends with key.  Okay, so my riddle skills need work but I really have been craving a new whiskey cocktail to try.  And as happenstance should have it, in leafing through Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails I found a tasty sounding recipe I…

  • Milk Punch – Fallesque

    I’ve been drinking a lot of Milk Punch these last couple weeks, as has nearly anyone that came over.  Fall is in the air here and the flavors in this drink fit very nicely into my current state of mind.  There is the warmth and sweetness from the rum and brandy.  There is the warm…

  • Vanilla Extract

    Vanilla extract is one of those ingredients that we all have sitting in our cupboards and, I would venture to guess, most of us don’t know the first thing about it.  I certainly didn’t.  That is, until I started learning digging in to the facts about vanilla a year or so back.  But let me…