So apparently this is just basil and grapefruit week over here. Well, in fairness it's because I had leftover grapefruit and basil simple syrup from the Basil Rathbourbon and I didn't want that to go to waste. We were already having a few friends over earlier this week and I'd promised to have a dessert on hand, so that seemed like a promising potential vehicle for my leftovers. I thought at first of doing our family recipe for a Grapefruit Chiffon Cake, but I'd just used tha

Happy Tipsy Tuesday! And a happy Galentines Day too, to all you Leslies and Anns out there. We know who we are. As promised in an earlier post (I know, it took me a lot longer than I said it would), this week's Tipsy Tuesday is the first of three original cocktails I invented for Aaron's birthday party last month. This was my favorite of the trifecta, both because I am a grapefruit fiend and because its name is taken from my favorite childhood actor. Yes, we can all take a mo

As I mentioned in the last post, I put together a birthday party for Aaron this past weekend. The party he threw for me back in September was incredible and I wanted to at least partially return the gesture. I know it isn't a comparison game, but I really wanted to make sure he felt as loved and celebrated as possible this year. So I schemed a bit and tried to sketch out what an "Aaron" birthday would look like. What I came up with was roughly as follows: - A small group of p

So first off, my apologies for being a bit MIA lately. Last week was quite a hectic one and I got rather behind. But I'm back now. Hi! I missed you all. Part of the hecticness in the past week was preparing for Aaron's birthday party on Sunday. He threw me one pretty unmatchable 30th back in September, so I really wanted to up my party game a bit from the last few, which were mostly just having a couple friends over for cake. This one needed to be something a bit more special