Let’s Get Some Good Food and Drinks Started!

  • Espresso Martinis with Screwball Whiskey

    Espresso Martinis with Screwball Whiskey

    Screwball Whiskey, Kahlua and Espresso Coffee create a wonderful Espresso Martini!

  • Universal Balsamic Vinaigrette

    Easy universally acceptable balsamic vinaigrette that can be used for so many things !

  • TJ’s Pepperoni Flatbread

    TJ’s Pepperoni Flatbread

    Flatbread Pizza is a quick and easy way to fix any pizza cravings!

  • Large Batch Cosmopolitans

    Large Batch Cosmopolitans

    It’s time for another fancy shmancy drink! This one will make lots of friends, I promise! I should also warn you that it will make those friends tipsy if they don’t watch how much they have! Because this is a “messy” drink to make, I always make it by the batch and store in a…

  • Lemon Chicken Rice Soup

    Lemon Chicken Rice Soup

    If you live anywhere in the Midwest, you know this soup. However, it’s normally very gelatinous, you know, jiggly like jello or even a custard. I wanted mine to be creamy, not solid or even thick. But I also didn’t want it to be brothy. I know, I’m difficult. I did have a few issues…

  • Mimosa Sunday!

    Mimosa Sunday!

    Sunday mornings are a little different around here … we don’t get up early and go to church or out to breakfast. I’m not sure just how it started. Pretty sure it was after Mark passed since I was kind of lost for a while there with no routine and a new environment and was…

  • Balsamic Marinated Tomatoes

    We went to a local Italian café a few weeks back and had this delicious tomato salad that they called “Insalata Salad” … sounded fancy but delicious so we coughed up the $16 and ordered it. Yeah, it WAS an appetizer and it was pretty damn good. Then I said, wait! I knew I had…

  • Whiskey Sours

    Whiskey sours got a bad rap for a while there, all because of the sour mix. There are favorite restaurants that I will not order this because they use crappy sour mix. So I set out to make the perfect whiskey sour myself! And guess what? It wasn’t that hard. We are not talking about…

  • Alfredo Sauce with Fettuccini

    Our favorite little Italian place is closed for “remodeling” at the moment. Come to find out, they are CLOSED and a new place is coming in. So disappointed. Therefore, we must make our own favorite dish, right?? This would be Sis’s go to for Italian … I would say it’s fairly safe to say it’s…

  • Opening Wine with The Rabbit

    This is by far, the BEST kitchen / bar gadget around!

Got any adult beverage recommendations?