Drink Recipes

I was standing in my kitchen last Tuesday morning, staring at a half-empty carton of heavy cream and wondering if I had finally lost my … Read more

The neighborhood cookie swap was in three hours and I’d completely forgotten. Everyone else would be bringing those perfectly layered bars, the kind with homemade … Read more

“Why can’t we just toss the peaches and basil straight into the sparkling water and call it a day?” my friend asked one lazy Saturday … Read more

My roommate had sworn off watermelon cocktails for years. “Too sweet, too watery,” she’d say, waving away any suggestion with a smirk. That was until … Read more

“I never thought I’d go for a frozen strawberry daiquiri,” my friend Mark declared for years. Seriously, for nearly a decade, he claimed to hate … Read more

It was 11:37 PM on a quiet Tuesday, and the heat of the day was still clinging stubbornly to my small apartment. Honestly, the usual … Read more

Introduction “Why don’t you just toss the basil in with the peaches and muddle them together?” my friend asked one humid Saturday afternoon while I … Read more

Last Saturday afternoon, my neighbor watched me wrestling with a blender full of melting ice and some half-thawed popsicles, and didn’t say anything at first. … Read more

“The summer I turned thirty, my neighbor wasn’t making a big deal of it. I’d stopped by to borrow some sugar, and before I even … Read more

There used to be a cozy little beachside bar called The Salty Seahorse in Key West that made a drink called the Firecracker Margarita. When … Read more