by Brian | Aug 22, 2019 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes, TBT
This week’s TBT recipes is primed for peach season. The peaches are here and they are ripe. They are quite sweet and, thankfully, they have some legs: they do not ripen and then rot in the blink of your eye. But do, after you have purchased your peaches, get...
by Brian | Sep 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
You can still find summer peaches, now decidedly sweet, in stores and farmers markets. With that final push of sweetness, the peaches are lovely in pies and other desserts or in beverages. Now is the time for that peach margarita you’ve been craving. But, wait, there...
by Brian | Jul 19, 2018 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes, TBT
This cocktail gem is from a few years ago. I always look forward to the fresh and ripe fruit of summer. Real fruit, local, juicy and demanding that you consume it. Or, as in this case, drink it. I am a rum and tequila person. Those are the spirits that move me....
by Brian | Jul 2, 2018 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
It is peach season and from your farmers market you can bring home fresh, ripe, aromatic peaches by the bushel. But what to do with them? They can be this pretty one minute and then deteriorate on you the next. Once mushy, the only place for a peach is your blender....
by Brian | Jun 14, 2018 | Recipes, TBT
Now is the time to make pavolvas for dessert. We have fresh fruit, the days are warm, but not too humid. Humidity is the enemy of meringue and meringue is what we have here. You can add the fruits of your choice and certainly top this dessert with a layered of whipped...