Category: Recipes

  • What I’m Drinking Now: Meyer Lemon Southside

    We were hanging out on Sunday enjoying the snow and I got to thinking about how long it had been since I put on my cocktail thinking cap and started pondering what I’d like to mix up.  I had meyer lemons left over from a recipe we made on New Year’s Eve and I wanted…

  • What I’m Drinking Now: Where the Buffalo Roam

    Tonight’s cocktail comes to us from Vesta Dipping Grilling in Denver, CO.  Elisabeth found the recipe in their email newsletter and we decided to give it a go.  Very, very good call.  The drink strikes a great balance between sweet and sour with the flavor of the sage giving a really cool earthy quality to the cocktail.…

  • What I’m Drinking Now: Maple Mule

    Shortly after I posted a tweet two weeks ago about having won the Crown Maple shot competition, one of my best friends sent me a text with a picture of what he was drinking that night. More than apropos, it was a Crown Maple based Moscow Mule.  A Maple Mule, if you will. The drink…

  • Crown Royal Maple Finished

    Elisabeth and I need guitar lessons, stat! But, more on that later… Crown Royal is the classic Canadian whisky.  Think about it.  There are others, but I dare you to name three.  Okay, thought experiment over.  I’ve always viewed Crown Royal with a slight air of mystery.  You see, as a kid, my grandfather always…

  • What I’m Drinking Now: Clementine Whiskey Sour

    Winter is here and that means it’s clementine season.  Clementines are one of my favorite citrus fruits and I almost always have them on hand this time of year.  Wanting to mix up a quick drink to go with our New Year’s Eve dinner I came up with the Clementine Whiskey Sour.  It’s simple, tasty…