Thirsty Thursday
As early summer tries to elbow spring out of the way, around our various camps we’ve been kicking about the idea of crafting home-brewed Kombucha – the ever-so-lightly effervescent, fermented, slightly sweetened black (or green or other) teas that have been part of the alternative beverage and health scene for some time now. Purportedly originating […]
This week’s tasty adult beverage comes via Jeff in Tucson, who noted that as we barrel towards early summer in some parts of the country, it’s not too early to enjoy this unusual combination of cucumber and ginger – The Lotus. And while summer is in sight, it’s worth mentioning that late-spring May is a […]
In a tip of the adult beverage hat to Cinco de Mayo coming up on Saturday, EH sent up this Grapefruit Tequila Slammer cocktail from his basecamp down along the Laguna Madre in far South Texas. EH has long been the champion (among our compadres anyway) of using fresh grapefruit in a variety of adult […]
For those possessing a Southern bent, it’s Mint Julep Month over at Garden and Gun and they’re featuring several different and quite interesting takes on the classic mint julep during the month of April. This Fourth Turn cocktail has been unashamedly pilfered from said list, and while we’re saving it for a special occasion upcoming, […]
In praise of almost shameful simplicity, here’s a quick recipe for the Gin Rickey, one of the most effortless cocktails to stir up and savor on the porch as spring rolls into your neighborhood these next few weeks. We’re having one of those crazy runs around our camp this week, in fact as this post […]
This week’s tasty adult beverage comes from Eli in Driggs; he wrote – …Here’s one I don’t think you guys have posted before – the Scofflaw. We picked this one up from my father-in-law who grew up just outside of “Atlanna”, and who like all dyed-in-the-wool Southerners seems to favor good bourbon above all other […]
Jake is just back this week from spending 10 days in the Bahamas on a work shoot for his creative office; they were fishing, diving, snorkeling, generally having fun while much of the country was still shoveling snow and scraping ice off their car and truck windows on cold mornings. Damn. Another buddy (Jimmy) was […]
A couple of days ago an email popped up from Kacey in NOLA, thanking us for our support over the years of the fine folks at Zatarain’s, and suggesting we take a look at this Fully Loaded Cajun Bloody Mary (she’d seen our posting of this Blue Smoke Bloody Mary). Kacey happens to supervise a […]
With St. Patrick’s Day coming up on Saturday, in lieu of green beer and other kitschy attempts at (gaaack) green cocktails, our thoughts often turn to some version of what lots of folks call an “Irish Coffee”. There’s probably some genuine history to the term (I’m sure there is, actually, I believe related to the […]
Stumbled across this very interesting looking West African Peanut Punch here on Garden and Gun a few weeks back, and haven’t yet gotten around to trying this one. Any of our Southern compadres out there whipped this one up to try recently? (We have some chile honey infusing right now…) Cheers.
In honor of today being National Margarita Day, here’s a big serving of some rather arcane history of what many identify as our county’s most popular cocktail – the Margarita. Attempting to track down the history of the Margarita cocktail, as with just about any and everything these days, leads to host of information, not […]
With National Margarita Day coming up a week from today (if you try hard enough, you can hear cheering in the background), we’ve had a few damned interesting looking margarita recipes come in lately, including this Margarita Picante. I’ll admit that digging up a honeydew melon this time of year ain’t easy (a high roller […]
