#Stayathome means I can stay at home and play with my food! I’ve been creating cocktails and cocktail garnishes and taking photos of them in my garden in the beautiful sunshine. My friends at Ladles and Linens Kitchen Shop have a facebook cooking school group where I am finding lots of fabulous recipes and cooking…
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Vintage Spirits And Forgotten Cocktails ~Fabulous Cocktail Recipes And The Fascinating Stories Behind Them
The year 2020 is the 100th anniversary of the passing of prohibition. In recognition of this historical date, Ted Haigh aka “Dr. Cocktail” gives us 100 handpicked delicious cocktails rarely made today in his book: Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails. Not just another cocktail recipe book, it reads like a novel you just can’t put…
Prosciutto ~ The Perfect Comfort Food
Baked Prosciutto is one of my all-time favorite comfort foods. Crunchy, salty, crispy, it adds flavor to most any savory dish. It is easy to bake: Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Place slices of prosciutto on the rack of a baking sheet (baking sheet with a rack fitted on top). Bake 10 – 20…
Pimento Cheese Deviled Eggs ~ Eating Well
I love cooking magazines! One of my new favorites is “Eating Well”. Their mission is to “make healthy happen every day”, but the magazine does not use weird or hard to source ingredients and we actually eat the food we make from their recipes (and enjoy it!). They include lots of cooking and ingredient tips…
Welcome Vinho Verde Season!
Welcome Vinho Verde Season! March 19, 2020 begins the season of Spring and what I like to think of as Vinho Verde Season! From Portugal, Vinho Verde wines are known as “green wines” with lots of fruity flavors and a tiny bit of effervescence that makes for easy sipping. The region where these grapes are…
Parés Baltà Wines ~ Grapes Grown So Close To The Sky
One of my favorite wineries in Spain is Parés Baltà . Read more about Parés Baltà on my blog post about their fabulous cava: https://bubblybee.net/celebrating-cava-at-pares-balta-winery-in-spain/ We visited the Parés Baltà winery in 2018 and always look forward to when they host wine tastings in our local wine shops. During their most recent visit I purchased several…
Buffalo Chicken Dip Recipe
Monday, February 24, 2020 is National Tortilla Chip Day! To celebrate I made my friend Mary Ann’s fabulous Buffalo Chicken Dip. As much as I love the thin and crispy Restaurant Style tortilla chips, I serve this dip with a hearty tortilla chip so the chips don’t break when we dive into this creamy, cheesy…
Rosé Bubbly For Valentine’s Day ~ $30 Or Less
If you’ve spent a lot of $ on a special Valentine’s gift for your sweetheart, there may not be a lot of dollars left in your pocket to splurge on a fabulous bottle of bubbly. Don’t worry! There are lots of lovely rosé sparkling wines to celebrate your love with that special someone for $30…
Winter Citrus Spice Cocktail Recipes
When the weather outside is frosty, I love a cocktail with warm spicy flavors…cinnamon, cardamon, star anise and cloves paired with bourbon, vodka, orange liqueur and pears. I always keep a mason jar with Winter Spice Simple Syrup in my refrigerator so I can make a cocktail to warm me down to my toes on…
‘ Tis The Season for Citrus Cocktails Featuring Clément Créole Shrubb Liqueur d’Orange
Shrubb is well known in the beautiful island of Martinique in the Caribbean. Shrubb from Martinique — with two B’s —is not to be confused with the infused, vinegar-based shrubs that many bartenders use in modern cocktails. Martinique’s Shrubb is an orange liqueur more closely related to Cointreau or Grand Marnier. Large spiral zests of…
