November 1, 2023
by Ashley
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These may be easy drinks, but for some reason I can never remember the measurements.
Ingredients
1.5 oz Gin
4oz Tonic
Garish – Lime Wedge
Pour Gin over a large ice cube or in a rocks glass with ice. Top with tonic and a lime wedge. Done!
October 18, 2023
by Ashley
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3 oz Tequila
1.5 oz Triple Sec
1/2 oz lime juice
1/2 oz lemon juice
Fill a shaker with ice and pour all ingredients over. Shake until chilled. Serve up in a glass with a salted rim.
August 29, 2023
by Ashley
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Ingredients
1 oz Gin
1/2 oz lemon juice
1/2 oz Simple Syrup
3 oz Champagne (or Prosecco)
Garnish – Lemon Twist
Shake gin, lemon juice & simple syrup together with ice and shake until well chilled.
Strain into a champagne flute. Top with Champagne. Garnish with lemon twist.
August 22, 2023
by Ashley
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Perfect for a summer day, or a day you want to feel summery.
Ingredients
1.5 oz light Rum
3/4 oz lime juice
1/2 oz Simple Syrup
Add all ingredients to a shaker filled with ice. Shake well. Pour into your preferred glass and serve with a lime wedge.
August 15, 2023
by Ashley
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This was one of our favorite cocktails to go out for when we were first dating. We used to get them from the Opus Lounge in Madison, which is now closed sadly. Recreated years ago, but sharing now so I can find my recipes easier.
Ingredients
1.5 oz Vodka
3/4 oz Simple Syrup
1/4 oz lime juice
Champagne
1 brandy cherry
Shake first 3 ingredients together. Pour into a chilled martini class with a cherry in the bottom. Top with Champagne (or Prosecco).
August 8, 2023
by Ashley
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1 oz fresh lime juice
1 – 2 tsp superfine sugar
12 mint leaves
2 oz Rum
Sparkling water or club soda
Ice
Stir sugar into the lime juice until dissolved. Lightly muddle the mint in the bottom of a cocktail shaker. Add the rum, lime juice and ice and shake.
Strain into a glass filled with ice. Top with a splash of sparkling water and garnish with a lime and more mint.
July 12, 2023
by Ashley
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Ingredients
1 1/2 tsp kosher salt
2 cups arepa flour (pre-cooked white corn meal)
2 1/2 cups warm water
Vegetable oil
8 oz Mozzarella cheese, shredded
Preheat the oven to 350oF.
In a large pyrex, heat the water in the microwave for 1 minute. Add in the kosher salt. Pour in the flour and whisk together. Let sit for 5 minutes to absorb all of the water.
Divide the dough into 9 even sized balls, about 2 1/2 tbsp each. Use your fingers to press a hole in the center of the ball, and fill with cheese. Carefully reform the ball around the cheese. Press the balls out to about 3 – 4 inch discs.
Heat a skillet with 2 tbsp of vegetable oil. Add in three of the arepas and cook for 5 minutes on each side. I usually set a timer so I don’t forget them. Once they have cooked, place them on a cookie sheet and continue cooking the remaining arepas. Once all arepas have been cooked, place the cookie sheet in the oven for 10 minutes to bake until golden and crisp.
Can be served by themselves, with fajita meat and vegetable toppings, with guacamole. They can be reheated in the oven if you have leftovers.
July 11, 2023
by Ashley
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1 cup water
1 cup sugar
Boil these two ingredients together until the sugar has disintegrated. Let cool and then pour into a squeeze bottle.
If you are reserving the leftover Simple Syrup in the fridge, consider adding a teaspoon or so, of vodka to the squeeze bottle to preserve and keep longer.
July 7, 2023
by Ashley
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A fun dessert we found recently with three ingredients and a mint garnish if you wish.
Ingredients
1 small scoop Orange Sherbet
1 small scoop Vanilla Ice Cream
Prosecco
Mint leaves for garnish
Scoop the sherbet and ice cream into a wine glass. Pour Prosecco over and serve with mint leaves on top.
July 6, 2023
by Ashley
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I was looking through some cooking websites to see if there were any good suggestions for desserts for a large group. I came across these bars, which I love.
Ingredients
½ cup unsalted butter
1 ½ cups graham cracker crumbs
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup butterscotch chips
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
1 ⅓ cups shredded coconut
Directions
Preheat the oven to 350o F.
Melt the butter and pour into a 13×9 baking pan. Swirl to coat the bottom and sides with butter.
Crush the graham crackers in a plastic bag. Evenly spread them on the bottom of the buttered pan. Layer with chocolate chips, butterscotch chips and walnuts. Sprinkle the coconut on the bars and then pour the can of sweetened condensed milk over.
Bake for 25 minutes or until the edges are golden brown.
Cool and cut into 36 bars.