Our birthdays are almost back to back — mid-April and early-May — and that has meant a lot of celebrating… and a lot of eating and drinking. We have had incredible meals out and some delicious accompanying cocktails. A few notable ingredients to our current [...]
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Gin Linfection
Z was a big basketball fan growing up. Sunday triple headers meant spending endless hours in front of the TV watching game after game, hoping that it was true that simply watching something done right could help you master a skill (maybe that’s why he [...]
Z’s Citrus Cocktail
When we moved into our apartment, we opened two bottles of wine with a bunch of friends and decided that we would start a line across the top of our bookshelves to commemorate the memories that were created with each bottle we consumed. It has [...]
When your parents give you plums
Make cocktails. First of all, Val and Doug deserve praise for growing the plums. The plums we were sent home with were fresh out of their yard. We tried them pre-cocktail and they were delicious. But a little alcohol never hurt anything, so we went [...]
The Bee’s Knees
If the Gods give you lemons, find new Gods. Or squeeze the lemons, combine with lime juice, honey syrup, and gin, and try a drink that reminds you just how good you’ve got it. (Killer) Bee’s Knees Makes 6 drinks 2 oz lemon 4 [...]












