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Muddle lemon wedges and mint, drop in ice cubes optionally, pour in cold Mountain Dew, top with Southern Comfort, stir and enjoy your cocktail drink.
Bring a little sunshine to your New Year’s Eve party with this fresh and bright pineapple grapefruit coconut rum cocktail! No bartending skills required.
Whether you treat them as cocktail food or drink, it doesn’t matter. It’s a punch, if you ask me. These tipsy melon balls are infused with...
If you like veering away from the traditional, try making kaffir lime juice mimosa and be amazed at how three ingredients can be transformed into an...
The key to a perfectly blended kiwi daiquiri is to get the ideal proportion between the diced fruit, rum, Triple Sec, lime juice cordial and simple...
Take a so-so red wine, infuse with wedges of fresh fruit, add simple syrup and brandy, then top with sparkling juice (forget club soda!). Voila! Kickass...
Tips and tricks for a fun, creative and elegant cocktail party with minimal stress. After all, the host and hostess deserve to enjoy the party too.
A cocktail drink made with cachaça, orange, lime juice and grenadine, Brazilian Crush is tangy and sweet at the same time, and very potent. It is...
If you’ve read the Harry Potter books, you would have come across a drink called butterbeer. When Hogwarts students visit Hogsmeade, they go to The Three...
I’ve always wanted to try serving eggnog on Christmas and New Year’s Eve but the inclusion of raw egg yolks in the drink scares me. So,...
If you’re not a wiz at mixing cocktails but you’d like to serve an apéritif over the holidays to help stimulate conversation among your guests before...
Story has it that the drink we know as Cuba Libre was born in Havana in the aftermath of the Spanish-American war. In August 1900, while celebrating...
Most of us think that we’re buying fresh fruits in the market in the grocery, but let me say this: you haven’t experienced fresh until you...
Made with gelatin dissolved in lychee syrup, this jello shots have gin and lime cordial. The eyeballs are whole lychees stuffed with olive slices. If you...
Kate Sedgwick in Matador Nights sums up nicely what Cinco de Mayo is about: “Really, it’s an American holiday, and we celebrate it the way we do...
I'm Connie Veneracion, retired lawyer and columnist, wife for 28 years and mom of two.
CASA means house, but it is also an acronym for the first names of the Veneracion family.
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