Let’s Get Blitzen: Cocktail Advent Calendar – Day 14 – Candy Cane Hot Chocolate. A boozy hot chocolate is an essential contributor to a cocktail advent calendar. Yes, peppermint hot chocolate might seem predictable but this is the more mature version – made with two different kinds of amaro for an herbal, pleasantly bitter counterpoint…
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Sparkle & Shine
Let’s Get Blitzen: Cocktail Advent Calendar – Day 13 – Sparkle & Shine. It’s Sober Sunday again friends and I’m serving up this zero-proof sparkling wine cocktail that adds tartness with freshly squeezed grapefruit juice and cinnamon syrup. Few things are more celebratory than a glass of sparkling wine for the holiday season, luckily there…
Black(berry) Christmas
Let’s Get Blitzen: Cocktail Advent Calendar – Day 6 – Black(berry) Christmas. For the first time ever, I’m introducing Sober Sundays to the cocktail advent calendar and on this first Sunday of the month I’m delighted to shake up this zero-proof version of the classic gin bramble with Søbrii 0-Gin from Stratford, Ontario. Today’s post…
Blood Orange Tea
Let’s Get Blitzen: Cocktail Advent Calendar – Day 2 – Blood Orange Tea. This seasonal concoction is a play on the classic Blueberry Tea Cocktail that is made with Grand Marnier, Amaretto, and black tea, usually orange pekoe. If you’ve been reading the blog for some time, you’ll know I love blood oranges. I simply…
Clover Club Cocktail
With over 105 episodes of Virtual Happy Hour under my belt, one thing I’ve learned is that people love a gin-based cocktail with egg white. Aside from the fan favourite Earl Grey Sour, the Clover Club has risen up the ranks to be a podium finisher. This pre-Prohibition era cocktail comes to us from the…
Upscale Frozen Cocktails
I was on CTV Ottawa Morning Live this morning showcasing these two upscale frozen cocktails. Given that we would be in peak Fall Fair season were it not for the current global health crisis, I thought it would be fun to create adult takes on some of my favourite Fall Fair treats. These two icy…
Snowcone Sophisticate
Well friends, I have some exciting news: I entered my first-ever cocktail competition. That may come as a surprise to you given how many drinks I’ve whipped up over the past three years. The truth is, I often struggle with impostor syndrome. I worry about what “professional” bartenders will think of me, will they sit…
Tea-Infused Cocktails
I am overjoyed to tell you that I made my national television debut this morning on Breakfast Television! You can catch the whole segment below where I shook up two tea-infused cocktails for summer! Here are the full recipes below, plus a third cocktail that we didn’t quite get to on the segment: Earl Grey…
Midsummer Gin Dream
A friend reached out and asked if I could feature some easier cocktails that don’t require any hard-to-find ingredients, days of infusing, or an array of bar tools that you don’t own. So, here is the Midsummer Gin Dream, a simple, build-in-glass cocktail that is a subtle riff on the standard gin and tonic. Because…
Tequila Surprise
I have returned from my extra long weekend in Austin with my limbs and dignity intact, although I may have put back on some of the weight I’d lost in my Whole30 Challenge. I ventured on this indulgent four-day trip of eating and drinking with my friends and coworkers Kayla and Josie. In advance of…
