Living in New York City is a bit of a bummer when you find yourself in a prolific pottery phase while enduring a kitchen the size of Harry Potter’s bedroom. Thankfully it is really fun to make cheese boards on the wheel because they’re flat and easy to store! Also helpful that cheese plates double as cocktail trays. 🙂…
Had this at the dog-friendly Battery Harris bar in Williamsburg, BK and tweaked a recipe to taste just like it. Roasting fruit or peppers adds a wonderful smoky flavor that makes common cocktails new and complex!…
Summer dinners on the NYC balcony. This city can be a stinky, loud, overwhelming place which makes finding those quiet spots even more special. Add a wiggly puppy butt into the picture and you’ve got ?✨?. ??? ? Garden Wine Spritzer ? We drank ours with some Blue Apron turkey meatballs. 🙂…
In terms of balcony garden report cards, I get a C- in strawberries this year. Got about 10 good berries before the plants went into full-on plant mode. Got some good cocktails out of those hard-earned berries, though! 🙂 Recipe from NYTimes Cocktail Book!…
Generally I’m not a huge fan of drinks like Appletinis or anything Dr. Dorian from Scrubs would drink… ??? But when you throw a golfball-sized hairy fruit into a drink like that, all is forgiven.…
I’ve got this giant metal bucket of basil on my balcony growing in that summer sweet spot right now. It’s unruly and ambitious enough in its growth that I am eating basil at almost every meal, but not crazy enough that I come out in the mornings and find those dreaded basil flowers. (When they flower the basil is shutting down its growth mode and switching to reproductive…