• Sangria de Jamaica

    Summer is upon us and B and I decided today to relax on the patio after a day of helping to pot some plants…

  • Leap Year Cocktail

    Certain cocktails just seem timely, if perhaps obvious.  The Leap Year Cocktail seems to fit that description.  It’s an odd sort of cocktail for,…

  • The Edgewood

    In looking over our list of possible cocktails, I ran across one we had been considering for quite a while.  Today’s entry is actually…

  • Patricia Anne

    Today’s post concludes a tetralogy base on the Imbibe Magazine article “Simple 4 Ingredient Cocktails“.  But before we have a go at the cocktail,…

  • Satan’s Whiskers

    With the start of the new year, it’s time to resume blogging.  Last year was not an epic year for the blog, though we…

  • 2015 in review

    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people.…

  • Caipirinha

    Labor Day has decide to turn up the heat here and I decided something need to be done (and hopefully in a way that…

  • The Liberal

    Devotees of the blog will doubtless know the esteem in which I hold the Manhattan, which is why we rather assiduously avoid frivolous knockoffs. …

  • Champagne Whiskey Punch

    Summer is the season for festive and refreshing (if slightly frivolous) imbibing with great friends.  I originally made this frivolously festive tipple a couple…

  • Django Reinhardt

    It has been a bit hot here lately.  And by a bit, I mean “cook you brain/even the cactus looks PO’d hot”.  So when…