Category: Cocktails & Spirits

RECIPE: Bacon Vodka & BLT Bloody Mary

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[1] Make a BLT Bloody Mary with Bacon Vodka (photo © Bull And Bear Bar | Chicago [alas, now closed]). [2] Make a BLT Bloody Mary with Bacon Vodka (photo © Bull And Bear Bar | Chicago [alas, now closed]).   Sure, there will be eggnog and Champagne on New Year’s Eve. But what about…
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RECIPE: Christmas Sangria

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Still looking for a smashing holiday drink? Get out the punch bowl or the pitcher and fill it with Christmas sangria. That’s pomegranate sangria with red and green apple slices, plus citrus. Get the recipe.   More tips: Freeze “Sangria ice cubes” so you can chill the drink without diluting it. Leave out the alcohol…
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RECIPE: Tequila Christmas Cocktail

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Party drink or a “homemade gift” for a lucky someone. Photo courtesy Corzo Tequila. Another cocktail recipe? Well, it is the season to be jolly. Here’s something fancy that you can make and bring to a party. And you’ve still got time to make it! First, you infuse a bottle of silver tequila. (Corzo Tequila,…
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COCKTAIL RECIPE: True Grit & Bourbon

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While Rooster Cogburn never missed a drink, we’re not certain that he’d cotton to mixing his whiskey with cinnamon schnapps and gold flakes. That’s more than a bit too fancy for the whiskey available in either rural Arkansas or the Indian territory that became Oklahoma. And nobody in Charles Portis’ novel, True Grit—or any of…
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Cooking Video: Low Calorie Cocktails

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  You can still enjoy a few drinks on Christmas and New Year’s Eve, without breaking the calorie bank. Registered Dietician Elizabeth Somer provides tips that help you to “drink this, not that,” to borrow a phrase from the popular book by David Zinczenko and Matt Goulding. In fact, the book series that includes Drink…
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