By Nick • February 11, 2010
Shockingly, when snowed in, people want to get drunk. At least that’s what the results of the last poll indicate. An overwhelming amount of people (51%) wanted me to make something with booze in it! I actually already made something with booze in it this week, but I know that you guys were expecting a [...]
Posted in The Drink | Tagged apples, cocktails, food and drink, ginger, ginger ale, juice, juicing, lime juice, orange juice, port, port punch, punch, punches, sangria, wine
By Nick • December 29, 2009
We are now in what I call the Holiday Donut Hole, which is the brief period of time between gorging yourself at Christmas and gorging yourself for New Year’s. Personally, I’m taking these few days to do some healthy eating, but it’s definitely worth starting to plan for New Year’s, especially if you are throwing [...]
Posted in Holidays, musings, The Drink | Tagged booze, drinks, New Year's, parties, punch
By Nick • November 18, 2009
One of my favorite movies of all time is The Big Lebowski. I went through a phase where I watched it at least once a week. Most of the time I watched it with my college roommates with a few White Russians (the choice drink of The Dude.) If I had a dollar for every [...]
Posted in Easy Stuff, good food, The Drink | Tagged alcohol, coffee, coffee liqueur, how to make coffee liqueur, sugar, vanilla, vodka
By Nick • October 26, 2009
Halloween is one of my favorite holidays and so I’ve decided to do a series of posts this week with fun recipes and treats for the upcoming weekend. To kick things off, I thought I would put together some great recipes for cocktails and drinks. Especially given that Halloween falls on a Saturday this year, [...]
Posted in appetizers, Easy Stuff, The Drink | Tagged alcohol, candy corn, drinks, Halloween, happy hour, vodka
By Nick • September 3, 2009
Have you ever stayed up all night drinking awesome sangria and playing Risk: The Game of Global Domination? I have and let me tell you that it is completely awesome and not dorky at all.
I confirmed a few things last Saturday night:
1) Never, ever start a land war in Asia. You will LOSE THE GAME.
2) [...]
Posted in The Drink | Tagged apples, fruit, grapes, peach brandy, peaches, plums, sangria, vodka, white sangria, white wine
By Nick • August 25, 2009
I really like iced coffee. There just isn’t much that’s more refreshing on a hot summer day than a really good iced coffee. I have a major issue though with iced coffee from most chain coffee places. They tend to… what’s the phrase… mutilate it.
They take their normal coffee which has been brewed and probably [...]
Posted in Easy Stuff, The Drink | Tagged breakfast, coffee, cold-brewed cofffee, drinks, iced coffee
