It’s Week 3 of Very Merry Holiday Cocktails! Time to get treacley sweet, with this round-up of Candy Bar Cocktails, aka Sweet Tooth Sippers. (Christian and I couldn’t decide between the two names, so I’m using both.) The first drink like this that I ever had was named “The Candy Bar.” It was hot cocoa, butterscotch schnapps […]
Who Hash: A Cinematic Christmas Feast
This is a Cinematic Christmas Feast with your hosts The Mind of Schmid and Hungry Enough To Eat Six! This is our first co-blog event, dedicated to famous foods from our favorite Christmas specials. One Christmas parody song refers to these holiday programs as “stale TV specials.” But come on, Christmas movies and TV specials […]
Very Merry Holiday Cocktails! Week 2: Fruity Cocktails
Very Merry Holiday Cocktails! Week 2: Fruity Cocktails Here is Week 2 of Very Merry Holiday Cocktails, and this week’s round-up is of fruity libations. If we here in Vermont can’t be on the beach enjoying a Corona with lime, or a Strawberry Daiquiri at a swim-up bar we can instead get our “fruity” on with […]
Beer Cocktails: A Very Merry Holiday Cocktail Roundup
Happy December everyone! I’m so excited about the holidays. I do my best not to stress and I don’t grumble when I hear Christmas songs over and over. I love the giddy, excited anticipation, lights strung on houses and trees, spiced cookies, stockings by the chimney, and especially holiday parties. Last December I shared in a […]
Cranberry Eggnog Muffins
Warm and soft from the oven, tender Cranberry Eggnog Muffins. This Cranberry Eggnog Muffins recipe is featured in the Taste of Home Christmas 2015 Cookbook. I made these muffins shortly after New Year’s Day, because unbelievably we actually had leftover eggnog and cranberry sauce! Homemade muffins will quickly make a hero of you in the eyes […]
7 Beautiful & Delicious Holiday Cocktails
There are so many creative, beautiful, delicious cocktail recipes out there just waiting to be shaken and stirred for our stylish and decadent holiday gatherings! And yet, typical last-minute me will scramble, end up at the mini-mart and have to settle for a lukewarm six-pack of something as guests are en route to our house. […]
Eggnog & Chocolate Petits Fours
Eggnog & Chocolate Petits Fours My darling sister (she makes deliciously sinful cupcakes…see them on her Facebook page here!) gave me a 5lb. half-block of Callebaut semi-sweet chocolate! And chunks of white chocolate and dark chocolate to boot. An overabundance of chocolates… that’s a good problem to have. So that I would not resort to just gnawing on […]