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November 26, 2023
by Ashley
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Monkey Bread

This is an easy recipe using refrigerated biscuit dough. I use Aldi brand buttermilk biscuits but you can use name brand as well.

Ingredients
2 cans biscuit dough
3 tbsp brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 cup granulated white sugar
1 stick butter

Directions
Preheat the oven to 350oF. Grease the loaf pan.

Open the biscuit dough and cut each biscuit into 1/4th. In a small bowl, mix the granulated sugar and cinnamon. Roll the dough into the cinnamon sugar mixture and add until one layer has been completed in the bottom of the loaf pan. Sprinkle over 1 tbsp brown sugar. Continue each layer 2 more times.

Sprinkle over whatever is left of the cinnamon sugar mixture over the top of the loaf pan. Melt the butter in a pyrex and carefully pour over the dough. Bake for 45 minutes.

You can choose to transfer the bread out of the pan onto a serving tray or leave in the loaf pan. You can also choose whether you would like to make a simple frosting or not.

November 1, 2023
by Ashley
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Gin & Tonic

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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Margarita

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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French 75

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 15, 2023
by Ashley
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Champagne Cocktail

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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Mojito

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.