Making Pizza Dough at Home – Recipe
Making Pizza Dough at Home Making your own pizza dough at home is really not that complicated. It just takes a little ahead-of-time planning. If you are planning pizzas for dinner, you will need to start your pizza dough in…
Fig and Goat Cheese Pizza – Recipe
Drynuary for Hungry Again
This January, I tried something that I haven't done since I was pregnant with my last baby. A month of sobriety. It's known as Drynuary, but let's just call this my Month of Drinking Club Soda. Why Drynuary? Drynuary is…
Fall Spice Apple Brandy Punch
Fall Spice Apple Brandy Punch Serving a Fall Spice Apple Brandy Punch is a great way to make drinks ahead of time using the flavors of fall - apples, pears, cranberry and cinnamon. 1 cup Apple Brandy (Laird’s)1 1/2 cups…
How to make a shrub syrup
If you are into making cocktails at home, you have probably tried and mastered some of the classics-the Margarita, the Martini, the Manhattan. But if you've stretched your mixology skills beyond that, you've, no doubt, played around with various mixers…
Tiki classic – The Zombie cocktail
In the great pantheon of classic tiki cocktails, the Zombie has to be one of the best. The Zombie Cocktail is a blend of rums, citrus, pineapple and spice. Invented by Don the Beachcomber, or Donn Beach as he was…
Ruby Red Martini
Even as the summer feels like it's winding down, it is hot as heck outside here in Atlanta. The Friday night cocktails have to still be something cool and refreshing. This week, I'll pour a mix of Campari, vodka and…
Piccalilli Pepper Relish
There is an American tradition of pickling and canning that goes back to the early settler days. Because of the seasonal uncertainty of food sources and the lack of refrigeration, it was really important to extend the bounty of the…