If you have a few hours to prepare a cooling summer lemonade, this is the recipe for you! July is blueberry month and the berries are prolific in the grocery stores as well as local farmers’ markets.… View Post
Watermelon Jalapeño Cooler Watermelon speaks of summer! It is de rigueur for the 4th of July, to enjoy on the beach, or on a newspaper-lined picnic table outdoors. Watermelons are available year round, but the… View Post
Summertime, summertime-I’m so glad you are finally here, but you have definitely cut into my blogging on a regular basis! I’ve missed the Secret Recipe Club and since it is summer, I’m posting an adaptation of Fresh Herbed… View Post
To me, Sangria just screams summer! Instead of using my favorite – red wine, the backbone of this lovely pink libation is an off dry fruity Rosé d’Anjou from the Loire Valley, along with homemade… View Post
The cocktail king, El Rey de los Coteleros, better known as Constante Ribalagua, presided over the bar at the famous La Florida restaurant and is said to have squeezed over 80 million limes and to… View Post
In the The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, the quintessential book on cocktails by David Embury, he states that the Side Car cocktail is basically a daiquiri with with brandy or Cognac in place of… View Post
The small village of Daiquiri, 14 miles east of Santiago de Cuba, was the site of the US invasion of Cuba in 1898. The Spanish American War was a 10 week war fought for Cuban… View Post
