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The Best Recipes of 2015

January 3, 2016 By Laura Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Cranberry Cider

November 16, 2015 By Laura 5 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: 31 Days, recipes Tagged With: autumn, drink, drink recipe, fall, recipe, winter

Pumpkin Milkshake

November 1, 2015 By Laura 1 Comment

Pumpkin Milkshake

=Honestly, I didn’t think this would work. I wanted a drink with tastes of fall — pumpkin and spices and things like that. But I wanted a cold drink for once, instead of all the warm drinks I normally have about now. A milkshake seemed like the way to go, but I didn’t know if […]

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Summer Cocktails

April 17, 2015 By Laura Leave a Comment

Summer Cocktails

Ohhhh, so close I can taste it. Those warm summer nights, sittin’ on the deck, watching the kids play and sipping on a wee summer cocktail and chatting with my husband. We. Are. Almost. There. Except today, though, it’s snowing. We’re in that mid-spring weather that tricks you for like a week with warm sun and […]

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Thin Mint Milkshake Recipe

February 12, 2015 By Laura 1 Comment

Thin Mint Milkshake Recipe

Ohhhhhh, yeahhhhh. It’s Girl Scout Cookie Time, people! Which means that while our neighborhood will be full of up-and-at-em, go-and-get-em girls knocking on doors and sweetly demanding you buy some cookies, I’ll be here with my daughter all, “Oh. Yeah. We’ll go out cookie selling in just a bit,” and then I’ll panic and buy […]

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Bourbon Apple Cider

November 20, 2014 By Laura 1 Comment

Bourbon Apple Cider

I’ve really been into red wine lately. I finally bought us some grown-up red wine glasses last weekend, which we haven’t owned since our wedding presents broke like 10 years ago so we’ve been drinking it out of tiny cheap thrift store wineglasses because we break everything around here (kids. I blame the kids. Even though they […]

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Festive Family Holiday Drinks

November 17, 2014 By Laura 2 Comments

Festive Family Holiday Drinks

No question about it — we’re a hot drink family. We started with our holiday drinks the minute it looked like fall around here, and since the weather’s been especially bad lately, both kids and grown-ups here have been warming ourselves with gallons of hot cocoa (for the kids) and coffee (for the adults).

Filed Under: recipes, seasonal Tagged With: drink, drink recipe, kids

Grapefruit Bourbon Cocktails

July 9, 2014 By Laura 2 Comments

Grapefruit Bourbon Cocktails

It’s no secret we’re prone to mixing our cocktails in mason jars around here. So you’re not really surprised, are you, that we’re the kind of classy people who make martinis this way? No. You are not.

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Mango Jalapeño Cocktails

May 1, 2014 By Laura 2 Comments

We come up with these cocktails…and then spend all kindsa time thinking up fancy names for them. My husband suggested this one be called The Spicy Sailor, because it involves jalapeños and rum. A saucy name, to be sure, but none of you are going to know to search for it, and so I’m always […]

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Mango Lemonade

April 23, 2014 By Laura 5 Comments

It’s mango season! I discovered recently that my picky-non-fruit-eating child actually likes mangoes…so we’re currently all about the mango recipes (side note: one of the best, most ridiculous kitchen gadgets I don’t regret spending money on is my mango slicer. I’m not much for one-use gadgets but that thing is a miracle and I no longer live […]

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