16 Refreshing Rhubarb Cocktails To Drink This Weekend. Rhubarb mojito + a giveaway. Intro CONTEST IS CLOSED. A winner was selected and contacted. Thanks to all who entered! It was a joy to introduce so many of you to Noonday Collection. Sometimes you take baby steps and sometimes you leap. There are times when a task feels like a mountain and other times you jump over them like molehills. There are mornings when getting out of bed seems impossible and others where you are so excited for the day you can’t sleep.
At times it rains and others when the sun warms your face casting a rosy tint to your cheeks. Sometimes the words are plentiful and eloquent, other times they are bulky and incoherent. There is a time to selflessly serve and a time to humbly ask for help. There are seasons of planting and pruning and times when the harvest is fruitful. The challenge lies in finding the purpose and joy in it all. This is a lesson that I’m currently learning or I should say re-learning. This pleasantly pink brew is the perfect accessory for spring. Image from noondaycollection.com. Grapefruit + rosemary cocktail.
March 16th, 2012 Hellloooo Friday! It’s time for a refreshing cocktail, don’t you think? Well, let’s just get to the point and start sipping. This week I whipped up a simple cocktail that’s super fresh and earthy. It’s a combination of fresh grapefruit juice, rosemary syrup to sweeten it up and gin to enhance that herbal notes. I’m still warming up to grapefruit (and bitter things in general), but in small doses I’m enjoying it, especially when it’s sweetened up a bit. I hope you like it as much as I do. Cheers! Grapefruit and rosemary cocktailmakes 1 cocktail for the rosemary syrup:1 cup sugar 1 cup water 2 sprigs fresh rosemary for the cocktail1 ounce fresh grapefruit juice 1 ounce rosemary syrup 1 1/2 ounce gin, like hendricks splash of seltzer to make the rosemary syrup:Combine the water, sugar and rosemary in a small saucepan over medium heat.
To make the cocktail:Combine the grapefruit juice, rosemary syrup and gin in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. How To Make A Boozy DIY Shamrock Shake. Chocolate Chip Cookie Bailey’s Milkshakes. This is a story all about how I put giant chocolate chip cookies into a blender. With homemade Bailey’s. Again. Because it wasn’t too long ago that I did nearly the same thing… again. With kahlua. It’s just that… I made the homemade irish cream over the holidays and obviously when you have a giant pitcher of something like that in your fridge, it calls out to you.
I’m serious. But even before I made that elixir of the gods I knew that if I was going to attempt something like that in my kitchen, I would be putting it in these milkshakes. Then I went to grab some of those brown butter chocolate chip cookies I made and uh, they were gone. I think I ate them all. Anyhoo, I was lucky enough to be making these spiked shakes at noon on a Sunday, which fortunately meant I could pick up some of my favorite chocolate chips ever. Print Save Chocolate Chip Cookie Bailey's Milkshakes Yield: serves 2 Total Time: 5 minutes Ingredients: Directions: Yeah. Foodbuzz 24x24: Get Fresh with Citrus! At this time of year, the farmer’s markets can be a bit bleak in the way of colorful fruits and vegetables, unless you want to eat rainbow chard with every meal, which I don’t. (Sorry chard lovers, but I don’t really even want to eat it with one meal. And yes, I’ve tried. Many times. You can have it all.) So in the meantime, while I’m longing for the days of juicy tomatoes and sweet nectarines, I distract myself with some amazing varieties of citrus that are only available in the winter months…nature’s way of throwing us a bone, I guess.
Lemons, limes, oranges and grapefruits are available year-round, but blood oranges, Cara Cara oranges, and Meyer lemons are the gems of the winter season. This month I was selected to participate in the Foodbuzz 24x24 dinner event (24 different meals taking place within 24 hours). Any good dinner party starts out with a cocktail, and this one sets the citrus tone with blood orange and Meyer lemon juices. Sweet and Sour Champagne Mojitos Makes 4 champagne. The Brooklyn Beauty. There is a cocktail bar in Williamsburg that Kramer and I sometimes have a drink at when we are dragged there by friends called Hotel Demano. The cocktails are really interesting and the food is good, but the place is always packed and the tables are so small that it’s hard to balance your drink on it if you’ve got more than two people in your party, not to mention every time we go, even if the place has empty tables, the host always says he “has to check” to see if there is space to be seated.
It’s all a little pompous and annoying to be honest, but I will put up with it on occasion because their drinks really are fantastic. One of them is a summer favorite of mine called The Brooklyn Beauty. I’m sure that theirs is a bit fancier than my version here, but this certainly does the trick for me. Seeing as how we’ve been having abnormally warmer weather here in New York (in between dreary rainy days), I figured that it’s about time that I shared this cocktail with you. Your ingredients. Pink Champagne Punch: Recipes + Menus. Makes8 servings Active time: 10 minTotal time: 1 1/2 hr This pretty-in-pink punch is a festive and delicious way to kick-off your holiday celebration. If you prefer a punch that’s less sweet, use fresh squeezed pomegranate juice instead of bottled (see Cooks’ Notes). 1 1/4 cups water 1/4 cup sugar 2 (4-inch long) strips lemon zest 1 cup chilled bottled pomegranate juice 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 1 750 ml bottle chilled pink sparkling wine or champagne lemon twists Bring water, sugar, and lemon zest to a boil in a 1-quart saucepan, stirring to dissolve sugar, then boil 5 minutes.
Transfer to a bowl and add pomegranate and lemon juice, then chill until very cold, at least 1 hour. Syrup can be made 2 days ahead and kept chilled. The Oscar Buzz Cocktail Recipe | Aida Mollenkamp. Nothing says celebration like something bubbly so I’ve got two champagne cocktails to share with you today and tomorrow. First up is this blood orange and pomegranate champagne cocktail I’ve coined The Oscar Buzz. It’s made with seasonal ingredients, as bright red as the red carpet, and balanced enough that it can pair with a variety of finger foods.
This is also the cocktail I developed for this year’s Oscars for Moët & Chandon so the key was to make it flavorful yet not so bold that it overpowers the champagne. It pairs fabulously with all the food I’ve shared this week as part of the Oscars Viewing Party though it’s versatile enough to match with a variety of foods. Of course, it’s also quite fabulous on its own so don’t feel the need to throw a whole party just for an excuse to mix one of these up. Makes: 2 cups base (enough for 10 cocktails)Total Time: 10 minutes plus 2 to 12 hours for cooling of baseHands-On Time: 10 minutes Ingredients Instructions For the blood orange base: The Mint Icicle | Intoxicology 101 | Drinks Made Better. Peppermint White Russians. Though I've never seen it, I hear that White Russians are the drink of choice in the movie The Big Lebowski. In fact, one night in college some friends decided to have a Big Lebowski party and watch the movie while drinking White Russians.
We ended up just drinking them and hanging out instead of actually watching the movie. So the moral of the story is - I love White Russians. My neighbor shared some Peppermint Mocha Kahlua with us a few weeks ago, and Joey and I immediately fell in love. After we got a bottle of our own, we started dreaming up drink possibilities for it: drink it on the rocks, mix into hot chocolate, mix into coffee (though not in the morning. We're not that big of lushes), use it to make a martini.... but in the end we decided on Peppermint White Russians. We went out and bought our Christmas tree over the weekend, and these were the perfect drink to sip on while we decorated and made the house merry. 13 Cozy Cocktails To Warm You Up. Vermontucky lemonade. This is how I’ve decided to prepare for summer this year: 1.
Buy tiny madras shorts and aviator sunglasses for the toddler. Like I could resist. 2. Let fear of bathing suit season convince me to let a friend drag me to my first Pilates class, ever, and not even a beginner class. Ow. I’m pretty sure I should have resisted. 3. Allow myself the purchase of a single purpose, space-hogging (well, not for a normal sized kitchen but definitely for mine) appliance I have coveted for more than a decade, just because it will take us from lemons to lemonade in under 5 minutes. Logically, to celebrate the fact that I finally accepted that the joy an electric citrus juicer would bring me* would outmatch the inconvenience of storing it, the recipe that I’d share today would be for lemonade. Amusingly enough, our current favorite cocktail sprang out of our quest to find a perfect version our previous favorite cocktail, the Manhattan. Vermontucky Lemonades Fill a glass with ice.