Month: September 2009
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Blueberry Dumplings
It’s (technically) Fall now, and that means various group pot-lucks or company get-togethers will be starting, soon. Maybe it’s school fundraisers or church socials, but at some point you’re going to be asked or expected to bring something yummy to share somewhere. Even if it’s not expected, this is a quickly put-together dish that will…
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Sangria
A fruited wine beverage, Sangria has as many variations as it has makers. The downside, generally speaking, is that to make good Sangria you need time. Namely, time for the fruit to mix and meld with the other ingredients. But what if you want Sangria now, and you’ve got all the parts but you’d rather…
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Essence of India, Tallahassee, FL
This is actually one of our favorite local restaurants except for one thing: it’s almost never busy. Now, I know, you might think that’s a good thing but think about it: if a restaurant isn’t busy when you go at 7pm on a Friday night, it might not be there the next Friday night you…
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Support the tWINs!
See that new button on the sidebar? How can you miss it: it’s pink and has a bra on it. Click on it or the tWINs link in the header and you’ll see an opportunity to help “support the twins” and get a special thank-you gift from me for doing so.
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Why is the Rum Always Gone?
Because there are so many yummy ways to drink it! When flipping through the index of an extensive beverage reference it became quite apparent that I have many fond memories associated with rum, in one form or another: When I was just a child, about 4 or 5 I’d say, my Aunt Marie was a…
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Banditos Lobster Shack, Costa Maya
While on our cruise in January we didn’t eat in port very often–why when, after all, the meals on the ship are already covered and many of the ports featured less than authentic cuisine or bar atmospheres that we weren’t very interested in. Still, while wandering the port in Costa Maya we got a bit…
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No Malaria Here!
This post was brought to you by the letter Q, not exactly an easy one to match in the Alphahol so I went with a tried and true favorite: Tonic Water, which is flavored with (among other things) quinine. Apparently, the Gin & Tonic habit began as a way for the British of the East…
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The Oil Can
Pausing in my back-log of restaurant experiences and pseudo-reviews, I want to talk about a neat little thing I picked up for the kitchen not too long ago: an oil can. No, not the poppa-poppa-sounding one they used to keep the Tin Man from freezing up, a cute little can to store and pour my…
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Pomegranate Snark
A while back–maybe a year or so, that’s pretty long in Internet-years–I was part of a conversation among friends which resulted in the following question: If you had a drink named after you, what would it be called? Now, this was back when I was a bar novice. I stuck to rum & Cokes, Kahlua…