Last weekend, I gathered with a group of other bloggers to make and drink cocktails (#workishard). Barb Keibel of Creative Culinary shared her cocktail making expertise (she posts a new drink on her blog every Friday — definitely check it out for new cocktail ideas!) and we all made variations of margaritas. It was amazing — […]
Sweet Peach Lemonade Makes a Tasty Summer Treat
Once upon a time, I lived in a faraway land (called “California”) where I had three lemon trees. One was the size of an oak, and my husband would occasionally put on his bike helmet, go out back, and hit the lemons off with a broom so they wouldn’t fall on the heads of our visiting […]
Try This Tasty Sparkling Bourbon Cocktail
Today’s bourbon cocktail recipe is brought to you by a guest contributor, the Resident Bartender of this humble house — my husband. He’s a bourbon guy. He can appreciate all the different kinds of bourbon, and can sip it straight, and can actually tell the difference between brands and the way their made and…other bourbon […]
The Hot Chocolate Bar
Usually, after school, we have a tight schedule. The kids have a snack and get to work on music lessons/homework/practice/whatever else is going on that afternoon. But every once in a while (usually on Fridays), it’s good to be The Fun Mom. The Non-Nagging Mom. The Homework Skipping Hot Chocolate Embellishing Mom. So we recently […]
Banana Chai Smoothie
How to esplain the banana chai smoothie? I’m a smoothie girl, but in general I’m a 3-ingredient fruity, yogurty, juicy kind of smoothie girl (unless, of course, you can put some chocolate in it. Then I’m that kind of smoothie girl.) But I’m not a complicated, spice-putting kind of smoothie girl. Until now, I mean. Until. Now. […]
Kale Smoothie (for people who hate kale)
I don’t diet. I try not to go too overboard, and I try to eat foods I can pronounce but I don’t weigh or measure anything (including myself. So there.) A few years ago, when my husband and I both realized I need my Alone Time or I get cranky and scare him a little, […]
The Most Delicious Candy Cane Hot Chocolate Recipe You’ll Ever Try
We still have a ton of candy canes around here. The kids got a bunch at every party and concert and in the hierarchy of treats they got, the candy canes were pretty close to the bottom. So they ate everything else, and the candy canes are still left and there’s no way we’re actually going […]
The Best Recipes of 2015
Ohhhh, goodness! I know everyone says it, but I can’t believe it’s a new year already. Wow, that was fast. Did you go somewhere fabulous for New Year’s? I went to a friend’s, and just as I was bemoaning having to put on pants, she texted and reminded me it was a pajama party. Hallelujah […]
Cranberry Cider
You hear all about cranberry cocktails and sparkling cranberry drinks this time of year (confession: I might be working on one myself to share soon). But you know what you rarely hear about? Cranberry cider. You should, though. I don’t know how apples cornered the market on hot cider, because the humble cranberry is quite tasty […]
A Tasty, Easy Coffee Hack
My husband gets up for work at 2:30am. I get up at 5. And neither of us has super-powers (if I did, I think the ability to function on no sleep would actually be a really useful power. But flying would be more fun. Oh, this is hard).