Shake It Up!
I admit it: I'm a fairly thirsty person.
Normally I'm a red wine drinker. I love the good—and even some of the bad. Give me a Cabernet Sauvignon, a Brunello, a Bandol, and I couldn't...
Mayan Hot Chocolate
I can't stop thinking about hot chocolate today.
Maybe it's wishful thinking that August will be more forgiving than July—and less oppressively hot and wet. Maybe it's that the AC in my office is set...
Infuse Your Booze: Making Fruit-Flavored Liquors
Fresh fruit + vodka = summer in a glass, all year round.
I've been making fruit-infused liquors for about 10 years. I get it from my mother, who makes jars of lemon verbena liquor and...
Peach Ratafia
First off, what the heck is a ratafia? (The short answer is a really, really yummy drink, but that probably doesn't help much.)
Merriam Webster defines a ratafia as "a liqueur made from an infusion...