by gwenzez | Dec 26, 2015 | boozy, cocktails, Drink, liquor
Christmas scotch in a glass from Santa. I must have been a good girl.
Christmas shopping was so wonderfully simple this year.
In my family there is only need for presents for the people who believe in Santa. In this house, that amounts to a seven year old and a four year old and a couple of cats. Shopping was done before I knew it and then it was time to relax.
Ack! I suddenly realized that if mama didn’t get something from Santa as well the kids might think I was on the naughty list and we can’t have that no matter how true it might be. A quick peek into a local vintage shop, and $3.50 later I was the proud future recipient of an awesome little tumbler from the fifties. Santa knows just the kind of things I like. Tonight I am christening it with a splash of single malt.
by gwenzez | Oct 21, 2015 | boozy, cocktails, Drink, liquor
This year tradition was messed with.
This year I was informed that I was in charge of cocktails for Thanksgiving dinner and that someone else would bring the pie… Wait what?
I love making cocktails but I always bring the pie! Grandma Monique’s recipe! Every year!
Humpf. Well fine then. I’ll bring cocktails but they’ll have pie in them.
Introducing homemade pumpkin pie spice infused vodka.
I put dried cloves, cinnamon sticks, and chunks of fresh ginger root into a glass decanter of vodka and let it sit in a dark corner for a week. I tasted it every couple of days and once the vodka tasted like pie I strained it.
Pie in a glass makes me almost as happy as Grandma’s pie in my belly.
by gwenzez | Jun 25, 2014 | boozy, cocktails, Drink, liquor, notboozy
Our matriarch was coming up on 70 good years and I was charged with developing some custom cocktails for her surprise party. It was a job I took on with glee.
I wasn’t sure where I was going to go with it but the first custom cocktail would be developed around a wild blueberry simple syrup.
Frozen blueberries, sugar, and water boiled, simmered, strained, chilled, and stored in an enormous old pickle jar.
This delicious and sweet syrup inspired Mamacita’s Mojito. Baccardi rum, fresh squeezed lime juice, fresh mint, and of course wild blueberry simple syrup, garnished with frozen blueberries served over ice. A delicious cocktail for a wonderful woman at a fantastic party.
