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Day 5 of the Let’s Get Blitzen: Cocktail Advent Calendar - Feliz Navidad. Making tequila seasonally appropriate with the help of pomegranate juice, clementines, and cactus string lights. 🌵 .
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Feliz Navidad
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- 2 oz reposado tequila
- ½ oz Triple Sec
- 2 oz pomegranate juice
- Juice of half a lime
- Squeeze of a clementine
- Lime wedge and coarse sea salt for rimming
- Clementine twist
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- For each cocktail, shake tequila, Grand Marnier, pomegranate juice, lime and orange juices over ice and then strain over fresh ice into lowball glass that has been rimmed with lime and dipped in salt. Garnish with a clementine twist.
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Day 4 of the Let’s Get Blitzen: Cocktail Advent Calendar - Kumquat Toddy. Yes, I finally found kumquats in Ottawa. Bless up to the Metro in the Glebe. Let me assure you, this winter warm was worth the wait and the rant from last December.
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Kumquat Toddy
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- 2 oz amber rum
- ¾ oz Kumquat Syrup recipe follows
- ½ oz strained fresh lime juice
- 1 dash Angostura bitters
- 4 oz boiling water plus more for warming mug
- Candied Kumquat on cocktail pick
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- Fill a glass coffee mug with boiling water. Let stand 30 seconds. Dump water and dry outside of mug.
- Place rum, kumquat syrup, lime juice and bitters in mug. Pour in boiling water. Garnish with kumquat slices.
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Day 3 of the Let’s Get Blitzen: Cocktail Advent Calendar - Frosty the Barista Snowman. The only kind of slush you should consume this season. Chilled coffee and Kahlua frozen into ice cubes and blitzed with vanilla vodka and cream. Get the recipe and the story of how impossible my name is for baristas on the blog. .
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Frosty the Barista Snowman
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- 10 oz coffee cold and strong
- 4 oz Kahlúa
- 1 oz vanilla vodka
- 2 oz milk or cream
- Cocoa
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- To a pitcher, add cold strong coffee and Kahlúa. Stir to mix. Pour into a 14-cube ice cube tray (approximately ¾ oz to 1 oz per cube). Freeze for at least 2 hours, or overnight.
- To a blender, add vanilla vodka, milk or cream and 5 cubes. Blend until slushy (about 10 seconds).
- Pour into a Martini glass rimmed with cocoa and sprinkle with cocoa, if desired
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Welcome to the 2019 Edition of the Let’s Get Blitzen: Cocktail Advent Calendar. Kicking things off with this easy-drinking holiday sipper - the Sleigh Girl Sleigh.
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Sleigh Girl Sleigh
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- 1½ oz rye whisky
- ½ oz lemon juice
- ½ oz cinnamon syrup
- 1 oz apple juice
- 2 oz pomegranate juice
- 3 apple slices, for garnish
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- In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, add rye whisky, lemon juice, cinnamon simple syrup, apple juice and pomegranate juice. Shake and strain into a rocks glass with ice and garnish with an apple fan.
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Hair of the dog. .
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#breakfastinbed #breakfast #brunch #tea #teacup #gin #sunday #mypinterest @pinterest #britstagram #instadaily #ottawabloggers #canadianbloggers #beautiful #hangovercure #mimosa #hangover #robe #pinkaesthetic #midcenturymodern #cute #wallpaper #ginstagram #coffee #coffeelover #coffeetime #myanthrophoto #myanthrohome

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Gingerbread waffles with whisky-barrel aged maple syrup alongside a little breakfast in bed photo shoot. Head over to the blog for more snaps from the shoot and my hot tips on how to become a top fashion model. Link in bio. .
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May the rest of your week look as bright as the bottom of this Peachy Keen Boulevardier! .
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Peachy Keen Boulevardier
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- 1 oz RinQuinQuin à la Pêche
- 1 oz Canadian rye
- 1 oz Aperol
- 1 slice peach, for garnish
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- Add RinQuinQuin, rye, and Aperol to a mixing glass. Add ice. Stir with a barspoon for 30 seconds. Strain into a chilled coupe and garnish with a peach slice
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After eating and drinking my way through Calgary, I’m sharing my hot takes on the best places to indulge in big sky country. Head over to the blog for all the details and make your next trip to Calgary the most delicious yet. Link in bio.
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Easy like Sunday morning. .
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Today on the blog: this Pumpkin Pie Fizz in honour of upcoming American Thanksgiving and to help my wash away the recent memory of my latest spin class experience. Head over to the blog for a good laugh and a great drink. Link in bio.
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Pumpkin Pie Fizz
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- 1½ oz aged amber rum
- ½ oz Averna Amaro
- ½ oz lemon juice
- ½ oz maple syrup
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 tsp pumpkin purée
- club soda
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- Dry shake all the ingredeints (except the club soda), then shake again with ice. Strain into a fixx glass and top with club soda
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I’m delighted to announce the introduction of home decor content to the blog! You asked for it, and after keeping you in suspense for many months, I’m finally revealing my mid century modern bedroom makeover! Swipe ⬅️ to see the BEFORE photo. Head over to the blog to get all the product details and read about my process! .
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Big sky country. .
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Move mountains.

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Lake Louise did not disappoint.
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You’ve waited long enough. My annual round-up of the year’s best advent calendars is here. Very excited about some new additions - including a WHISKY advent calendar that you can get right here in Ontario from the @lcbo . Head over to the link in bio to see the full list - spanning from spirits to skincare. Counting down to Christmas has never been more fun. .
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📸: @davidstea .
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This Quebec 75 is a riff on the classic sparkling cocktail, the French 75, that swaps out simple syrup for Quebec maple syrup. Get the recipe and the full story about that eye surgery I’m having today over on the blog, you’ll want this drink after reading it. Link in bio.
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Quebec 75
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- 2 oz @spiritofyork gin
- ½ oz lemon juice
- ½ oz Canadian maple syrup
- 1 dash @mister_bitters Honeyed Apricot & Smoked Hickory Bitters
- 1 oz dry sparkling wine
- 1 dried blood orange wheel, for garnish
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- Shake all the ingredients (except the sparkling wine and dried blood orange wheel) with ice, then double strain into a coupe. Top with sparkling wine. Garnish with blood orange wheel
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Phyllo-wrapped baked Brie with Cranberry compote, a.k.a. the best way to use up your leftover cranberry sauce. Serve with crackers or fresh baguette and watch as a hush falls over the conversation as your guests stuff their faces with this. Get the recipe over on the blog. Link in bio. .
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In case you haven’t noticed, plants are the new pets or, at least, starter pets. I have a Thai basil plant that my friends gifted me in early summer. Against all odds, it’s still alive and now I’m mixing it into cocktails like this Thai Basil Gin Gimlet. .
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Thai Basil Gin Gimlet
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- 2 oz @sipsmith London Dry Gin
- ¾ oz lime juice
- ¼ oz lemon juice
- ¾ oz @les_charlatans Lime and Pepper Syrup
- 4 Thai basil leaves
- 1 Thai basil leaf, for garnish
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- Shake all the ingredients with ice, then double strain into a coupe. Garnish with one or two Thai basil leaves
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I made this Four-Cheese Chicken, Kale & Sweet Potato Cobbler, topped with Herbed Parmesan Biscuits for my last book club meeting and it received rave reviews. Get the recipe and learn more about my book club - @unputdownablebc - that celebrated its 9th anniversary this month! Link in bio.

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