Beverages

Mediterranean Mule

[heart_this] · Mar 13, 2016 · 30 Comments

Hello, you gorgeous people!

It’s been too long, hasn’t it? By that, I don’t mean since I last wrote to you. That was last week, silly! I’m saying it’s been too long since I shared a damn good cocktail recipe with you. And you know what? I’m super thrilled to finally share this recipe with you today.

Behold: THE MEDITERRANEAN MULE! *choir starts singing, sun shines brightly, dogs are BFFs with cats, cats are BFFs with mice*

This delicious beverage is made with fig vodka, limoncello, and ginger beer. I first had one in Disney Springs when I was down there for vacation a couple months back and I was hooked. The sweetness from the fig vodka, the zest from the limoncello, and the spice from the ginger beer was an amazing combination. I couldn’t wait until I made it myself when I got home!…

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42 Super Tasty Summer Cocktails

[heart_this] · Aug 23, 2015 · 11 Comments

August is almost over, but that doesn’t mean that summer has to be! I don’t know about you, but when it comes to lounging outside during this season, I love to have a good cocktail within reach.

My more recent obsession is the blueberry basil bourbon smash, which I’ve made a few times now with fresh Greek basil from my garden. Sweet basil can also be used; there isn’t really a taste difference when used in the cocktail. Either way, it’s a great, refreshing drink!…

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Strawberry Banana Smoothie

[heart_this] · Aug 16, 2015 · 22 Comments

Updated on August 16th 2015: I first posted this strawberry banana smoothie on April 2nd, 2014, which was a couple of months after I started this blog. I’m slowly going through older posts to update them with new photos, content, and recipes (if necessary)! 🙂

Yay for smoothies! I made a strawberry banana smoothie this past Saturday for the first time in months! I’ve been on a huge blueberry kick lately, so I’ve been making lots of smoothies with blueberries! Sometimes, a blueberry oatmeal smoothie and sometimes I’d mix it up with other fruits and juices depending what was in my fridge.

When I decided to make the classic strawberry banana smoothie, I came to look at this old blog post from April ’14 and I decided it was time to update this post. For one, the photo was very plain, but I was very new at food photography at the time, so that was to be expected. I also had a boring blurb going on about how I was cheating on paleo by having a bowl of cereal. Definitely not paleo anymore, so yeah. Time to update this post and make it prettier!

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Blueberry Basil Bourbon Smash

[heart_this] · Aug 13, 2015 · 44 Comments

I love bourbon. I do. <3

I recently went on a cocktail-making shopping spree on Amazon and it was the best decision I’ve made in forever, I’m pretty sure! I’ve been wanting to make more cocktails at home for a while now. Especially when I have one I really enjoyed at a bar somewhere, but I just didn’t have the proper tools and I almost always made a mess using two drinking glasses as my cocktail shaker.

Well, no more messes! And yes to more delicious cocktails! My recent obsession? The one you see here today: blueberry basil bourbon smash.

You might say I’ve been on a huge blueberry kick lately, between the blueberry oatmeal smoothie I shared with you a couple weeks back and the blueberry mascarpone pie just last week, I just can’t help it. I love blueberries! So why not continue making delicious things with these blueberries, right!?…

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Blueberry Oatmeal Smoothie

[heart_this] · Jul 24, 2015 · 2 Comments

I’m going to be honest with you. I don’t actually love the photos I took for this post. I kinda want to retake them. I’m learning more about photography as I go and I don’t exactly see what’s wrong with the photos until the photo session is way over. But I’m starting to notice composition issues and how I could have fixed them, how to balance the light better, etc. and I know now what I could have done to make these photos look even better! Though there are lots of photos from older posts that look way worse that are on my radar to fix first. I’m a bit nit-picky when it comes to my own work.

Okay, that’s all! Thanks for letting me share that with you. I feel much better now.

Jason and I are really bad about having breakfast during the week. It almost never happens. It’s something we’re trying to work on and one step we’ve taken to get towards that is having smoothies!

We don’t have a good reason as to why we don’t do the breakfast thing. It’s straight up laziness. We pretty much stay in bed until we have to get up most days. And making smoothies only takes a quick couple of minutes and we can just have it on the way to work!

I’ve been making green smoothies, strawberry banana smoothies, my favorite: chocolate peanut butter banana smoothie, and as of recently, my latest obsession: blueberry oatmeal smoothies!…

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