Let’s Get Blitzen: Cocktail Advent Calendar – Day 8 – Raspberry Snowdrift. How did we make a full seven days without even a single drop of gin? I don’t know what’s gotten into me but we are kicking off week 2 with a serious rectification of that issue. This is a slight variant on a…
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Raspberry Mango Smoothie
You know what they say, “health is wealth,” so make a deposit first thing in the morning with this delicious, tropical smoothie. Frozen mango, raspberries, lime juice, coconut milk, almond milk, shredded coconut and plenty of ginger make for a flavourful return on investment. Maybe one of your new year resolutions was to have more…
Raspberry Whisky Bramble
Day 2 of the Let’s Get Blitzen: Cocktail Advent Calendar brings us this Raspberry Whisky Bramble. This is a very easy drinking cocktail that elevates the standard “rye and ginger” that you might have enjoyed ordering from Pier 21 when you were in undergrad, and brings it to a much more respectable place. If…
Eastern Mess
I recently spent the weekend in one of my favourite cities: Montreal. As always, the trip was full of new epicurean discoveries. As I was killing time before a lunch reservation at Park, I came across the bookstore of my dreams. Appetite for Books is a bookstore that deals exclusively in cookbooks and food-related…
