| A treasure of drink recipes | | Posted Tuesday, January 31, 2006 11:24:32 AM by Kate Grant | You can mix almost every drinkable element with alcohol. Cream, coffee, fruit of all kinds, vegetable juice and tomato juice, you name it, there's a recipe for it. From simple as poring some brandy into your coffee or tea on a stormy night, to complicated as fancy cocktails. 
The amount of mixed drink and alcoholic drinks recipes is huge. The number of websites offering recipes for every occasion will overwhelm you.
What ever you like, from tropical drink recipes such as Sea breeze or Tequila sunrise, to frozen drink recipes that'll chill you on a hot summer day, From what to drink on Halloween to drinks suitable for a party, and so on.
With so many recipes out there, it is hard not to get mixed up (pardon the pun). We suggest that you focus on the alcohol you like, let's say, Vodka, and find related recipes. Here's one, for Apple Martini.
Pour one part vodka, one part sour apple schnapps and one part apple juice into a shaker. Shake well and strain into a martini glass. There are many other recipes waiting for you, so start looking...
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| | | Easy menu, drink ideas help set scene for fab at-home Oscar party | | Posted Saturday, February 10, 2007 12:54:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | Even the most dedicated movie buffs probably won't find their mailboxes jammed with invites to hip Hollywood parties. So the trick to hosting your own buzz-worthy Academy Awards party is to make your home and guests feel as glam as the real thing. A little planning and a few simple recipes and party tips from Oscar party veterans are all that's required. For foods for the big event, which takes place Feb. 25, think finger-friendly. Wolfgang Puck has catered Oscar parties for more than a decade and keeps a couple of easy-to-eat items on the menu year after year, including mini-cheeseburgers, smoked salmon and caviar pizza. To simplify that approach for home, consider making mini-grilled cheese sandwiches with pineapple or ham. And small pizzas are easy with purchased dough.... | |
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| | | Red hot lovers | | Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:52:57 PM by Blog57 Team | | Sweets for the sweet? Maybe that formula worked for you in the past, but this Feb. 14, you might give your valentine something a little more daring. Sweet, yes, but with a dash of spice and a rush of heat. A taste to make your tongue tingle, your cheeks flush and your heart race. In short, to make you feel the same way love does.High-end chocolatiers and gourmet chefs are creating this sensation by adding a little chile to chocolate."We're seeing it more and more, especially with chipotle, which has a very smoky flavor that plays really well with chocolate," says Alexander Morozoff, publisher of Cocoaroma, a new, San Francisco-based magazine for chocolate connoisseurs. "I find it to be really interesting that they are making a connection with the origins of chocolate."Chocolate, you see, wasn't always the sweet confection it is today.... | |
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| | | Safe Holiday Tips | | Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 2:53:29 PM by Blog57 Team | | Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) offers some tips and non-alcoholic beverage recipes for safe holiday parties during the holiday season.*Designate a driver*Make sure all of your guests have a designated driver*Serve festive non-alcoholic beverages*Drink lots of water*Limit yourself to one drink per hour*Serve food and eat*Do not let drinking be the primary focus of the party*Stop serving alcohol one hour before the end of the party*Do not serve alcohol to anyone under 21.*Have alternative transportation available such as taxi's, limousines, driving services, etc*Have cash available for a taxi. Usually $35-$40 will be enough for a ride. *There should be a designated driver for every 4-6 people*Remember that the best gift is having you and your loved ones arrive home safely for the holidays.Southern Style Eggnog4 eggs, separated cup sugar teaspoon of salt3 cups milk1 cup whipping crme'2 teaspoon vanilla extractNutmegWhip crme' to garnish.... | |
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| | | Caribbean cuisine: An excursion through the traditional and the ... | | Posted Sunday, December 17, 2006 12:55:07 PM by Blog57 Team | | Baked eel and crapaud soup are two interesting foods which we will not find on many Guyanese menus. The recipes for these and many other interesting dishes are in the book An Adventure in Caribbean Cuisine produced by the Caribbean Association of Home Economists (CAHE). CAHE was founded in 1972 and has membership from among home economics educators, health educators, nutritionists and dieticians from the English-speaking Caribbean, Puerto Rico and the USA. This book is a product of the Research Committee of CAHE, and it is intended also to serve as a guide through "the romance of the traditional, and the excitement of the contemporary in Caribbean cuisine." The book is organised into two parts. The first part presents some of the traditional recipes from 17 Caribbean states.... | |
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| | | Future kitchen will suggest menu | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 2:56:39 AM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK - In the future, we'll still run out of milk, drip globs of egg on the countertop and have trouble remembering recipes. Instead of resorting to low-tech solutions such as sponges, shopping lists and hand-worn cookbooks, some predict the kitchen itself will respond to our every need. At this year's Wired NextFest - a sort of high-tech world's fair featuring hundreds of interactive exhibits that wrapped up recently at the Javits Center in New York - GE unveiled the Kitchen of the Future, a shiny, humming unit that's still only conceptual, although GE designers say in two or three decades it will be the norm. The device is self-aware enough to know when it's running low on essential ingredients, and it can suggest recipes using items it does have. Ask it how to make something - the shiny unit responds to voice commands - and then a recipe pops up on the display.... | |
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| | | Reader s cookbook has recipes for the heart | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 11:04:22 PM by Blog57 Team | | After reading your column on Sept. 27, I ordered the cookbook from The West End Baptist Church. I wanted it because Chubby Lamb was my father-in-law, and I have only one of his recipes. I have asked many where I might find more recipes or even a cookbook with some in it and have come up with nothing. I was very excited to be able to get the ones that are in the cookbook you wrote about. If you have any other readers who have any of his recipes, I would love to have more. The recipe I have from him is marinated shrimp. If you want it, I will send it to you. Thanks for your column. Sarah Lamb Sarah, You are more than welcome and thank you for reading! It always warms the cockles* of my heart to hear this column has helped someone! *Cockle: A bivalve mollusk with a heart-shaped shell.... | |
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| | | Where To Eat Now | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 12:59:42 PM by Blog57 Team | | Mama's Hot Tamales Café. On weekends, a line of wooden tamale carts runs along the eastern edge of MacArthur Park, each run by a vendor from a different part of Latin America selling his or her particular kind of tamale: banana-leaf-wrapped Oaxacan tamales oozing black mole sauce, wet chicken tamales from Honduras, green-chile tamales from Acapulco, densely sweet little torpedoes from El Salvador and grainy tamales from Michoacán. The driving force behind the vending district is Mama's Hot Tamales Café, a sprawling, brightly painted complex across the street from the park that provides the kinds of curatorial services and logistical support to the district's tamale masters and also happens to sell a rotating selection of the handmade tamales in the restaurant itself. 2124 W. Seventh St., L.A., (213) 487-7474.... | |
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| | | Tips for diabetes prevention HEALTHY EATING | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 11:07:03 PM by Blog57 Team | | Choosing healthier foods and reducing the amount of food you eat will be very helpful in managing your weight loss and preventing Type 2 Diabetes. Here are some helpful tips: 1. Keep meat, fish and poultry servings to about 3 ounces (a deck of playing cards). 2. Try to eat three sensible meals per day. 3. Try not to snack while cooking. 4. Eat more fresh fruit, veggies and whole grains. 5. Be sure to eat breakfast every day. 6. Limit fried foods. Baking, broiling and grilling are much healthier ways to prepare meats and vegetables. 7. Drink six to eight glasses of water per day. 8. Use cured meats and broth in small amounts. They are very high in sodium. 9. When dining have a vegetable salad (with low- calorie dressing), then split the meal with a friend or have the other half wrapped to go.... | |
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| | | How to Be an Uber-Gifter This Holiday Season | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 6:53:37 PM by Blog57 Team | | New York, NY (PRWEB) November 7, 2006 -- We all have them on our gift lists -- those hard-to-please people for whom we want a stunning gift instead of one that says I couldn't think of anything else. Rather than worrying over sizes and colors, why not wow them with something that will tempt their taste buds instead? .... | |
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| | | This week on DVD | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 2:53:18 PM by Blog57 Team | | WATCH THIS FIRST! Wordplay (2006, PG, $25) Taking a page from hit feel-good documentaries such as Spellbound and Mad Hot Ballroom, this engaging look into the focused, sometimes obsessive, world of crossword puzzle workers might not have the heart of those films, but it's still a welcome way to fill in your blank time. At the center of the doc is New York Times crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz, a degreed "enigmatologist" (that's a 14-letter word for "puzzle pro") who plays host to a parade of oddballs each year at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. Like Spellbound, Wordplay introduces us to several wannabe champs, each of whom comes with his or her own set of quirks -- from the redheaded college kid who plows through puzzles on his computer while his buds drink beer, to the gay ex-champ who combs through massive and dusty antique dictionaries for unfamiliar words.... | |
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