Blah blah blah.As you can see I am somewhat at a loss for words these days.    The fellow Food bloggers I’ve been running into this weekend at the Food Buzz Festival have been telling me that this is normal and I shouldn’t get too concerned. “Its perfectly normal!  It happens to everyone!” No man […]

Website renovation and reinvention really worked up quite a thirst for the French 75. Since we are nearly finished with our new Sis Boom “look and feel” I thought it was time to celebrate with a bit of champagne. If you know me you know that I rarely require arm twisting to open a bottle. […]

I need a drink. Yes, it has been awhile since I’ve featured a cocktail in this bloggie thingamabob and you must know it isn’t because I’ve stopped drinking! Oh no. Our summer cocktail season was a real bust around here wasn’t it?In fact, it barely got off the ground after we kicked it off with […]

  [Blog silence.] Sorry about that. I just didn’t have the words for blogging this past week and even though I was still cooking, eating, and drinking, I just didn’t have much to say about it all. That situation did change after just a couple of hours with my in-laws watching The World Cup. OMG! […]

“The Mojarita” is, of course, the near-holy union of a mojito and a margarita. I’m not sure if I am the first to coin the term mojarita but if I am not I’m sure I will get threatening emails from some corporate attorney. I will certainly ask Ms. Barrister to defend me if I do!) […]

After years and years of Tequila being king (or queen) of summer in our house, things are changing a bit. At least for me. My best friends, The Casadores Sisters, might be a bit alarmed to hear this but I’ve been enjoying the refreshing taste of rum lately as my summer beverage of choice. We […]

I think you are allowed to begin wearing white pants and shoes now. Also, and perhaps more significantly, it is now time to kick off our Summer Cocktail Season. We had a preview with The Diablo but that was just a warm-up born out of necessity and an early LA heat-wave. Now its time to […]

First I was going to do it, then I wasn’t, then I was, then I wasn’t, now I am. I’m going to blog about a Manhattan on the very day I arrive on the island it is named for. Sup just posted last week on the Manhattan’s European cousin, the Boulevardier cocktail so I was […]

Tequila, lime, creme de cassis, and ginger beer! The Diablo is Californian in origin first listed in The Trader Vic’s Book of Food and Drink. That is a good enough pedigree for me! Tequila at its summery best!

I would probably entertain a whole lot more and serve a lot of Watermelon Martinis at those parties if the proper cocktail party format was revived again. Back in the quintessential heyday of cocktail parties (and by that I mean the 1950’s) the expectation was that the cocktail party would be no more than a […]

Summer Cocktail Series Greyhound Cocktail Last week there was an abundance of grapefruit in my CSA basket so I thought another CSA cocktail was in order and decided to go simple with this Greyhound Cocktail. On OneBoxAWeek.com I posted about the two best things to do with grapefruit. Of course, one is this cocktail perfect […]

When life gives you vegetables you should make a Pimm’s Cup! I’ve recently joined a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program with several of my office mates. (We are blogging about the organic fruit and veggie experience at OneBoxaWeek.com but I don’t know if they would appreciate me posting about a cocktail over there!) The sometime […]