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Sweet tea is my husband's beverage of choice. But he doesn't like how I make it. He likes how his mom makes it. She is southern, I am not. I can't compete with that. I do not have tea making in my blood. I am a Yankee through and through. But I happen to know that Yankees can make great tea too. My friend Kim's mom made the best iced tea ever. I remember many a summer afternoon in NJ being at her house after a day at the beach and guzzling her iced tea. I do not know what made … [Read more...]
Last weekend, we were lucky enough to be invited to a brunch. The thing about being an okay cook is that people rarely never invite us over. We have people over all the time. I love cooking and entertaining other people. At this point in my game, I have gotten pretty good at it. I will definitely share my tips for throwing a good party in a later post. But imagine my delight when someone invited me and my family over for a meal! I was giddy for days leading up to it. Really … [Read more...]
This has been the craziest week. It is very late on Sunday night and I still trying to figure out where the week went. But I wanted to share this recipe with you before I went to bed. As you know, lemon and I are very good friends. I love Limoncello to drink and to cook with so I figured I would try to use up some of the lemons that I had around to make a batch. It really could not have been any easier. But you must be patient, this takes at least 2 weeks from the time you put it … [Read more...]
I am brewing a batch of limoncello as I type this, but it needs two weeks until I can work on the next step! That is a long time to wait for a delicious lemony cocktail don't you think? So with the lemons that I had leftover from the first stage of my limocello, I decided to make myself a little afternoon cocktail. This may not be a true lemondrop, I don't know a lot about cocktails other than I love to drink them, but it tasted pretty good to me. I squeezed all of the lemons that I had … [Read more...]
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