C – This is one of my favorite Mexican restaurant drinks. I always buy it when it’s offered at a restaurant. I end up drinking it really quickly and feeling so sad that I finished before my meal even arrives. I love it when I find a restaurant that allows … Continue reading
C – I am loving the refrigerator at Be Mindful. Be Human. this week. The bottom row is filled with plastic bags full of all kinds of lettuce wrapped in paper towels. It’s a great way to preserve lettuce so it keeps for a week or two. I love our … Continue reading
Update and Redux: C – Can’t have a fancy breakfast without a Bloody Mary. This homemade spicy tomato juice will make a great one. I have been seeing some crazy Bloody Mary’s out there. Ones with bacon, hamburger sliders and entire meals, even. With this tomato juice, the toppings won’t … Continue reading
C – One of my favorite drinks to order at a Thai restaurant or Asian tea shop is a Thai tea drink. I couldn’t figure out how they made it taste so good. For years, I have been trying to make the perfect concoction. I wasn’t successful. Now, I figured … Continue reading
J – Blood oranges are so seductive. Just the name alone makes you think, well, a little playfully. Keeping with the Valentine’s theme and wanting the evening to get off to a romantic start, we wondered what adult beverage would go well. “For both the boys and the girls,” Luke … Continue reading
C – It’s grapefruit week! Why is it grapefruit week? Simple … because there was a sale and I had to have an excuse for buying as many as I could. I think you would too if you found a deal on grapefruit that was 5 for $1. I even … Continue reading
C – Tumeric is the “new” thousand-year-old fad. I always laugh when I see “new” trends that have been around for a long time in other countries. Like coconut water and coconut milk. Stuff that I have been drinking since I was a kid. Tumeric has also been in my … Continue reading
C – Happy New Year!!! I can’t believe it’s a new year already. It just seems like yesterday when I was making a resolution about eating healthy. Yeah, I broke it. It’s OK, though. I just needed to do it again. Hopefully, with more motivation this year. This year we … Continue reading
J – Creating this New Year’s toast drink went just about like our year … We started out with one idea and ended up in an even more interesting place. The original drink idea was to have small globes of cranberry “lava” bouncing up and down in Prosecco. Luke had … Continue reading
J – Eggnog and I have a sketchy history. I really needed to learn how to make great eggnog. It can be so tasty during the holidays. Long ago, I tried making it from scratch … it was a bunch of work and not very good. Since then, I have … Continue reading