How Not To Make A Piña Colada

Did you know that you don’t use coconut meat to make a pina colada? The recipes I’ve found online call for cream of coconut or coconut milk, with no coconut meat involved at all. However, having a coconut on hand, I decided to blatantly ignore this fact and make up my own recipe. To crack [...]

Chai tea smoothies with boba are entirely too delicious for my own good

Since having acquired insta-boba, I’ve had an increased desire to make bubble tea smoothies. The instant-style boba takes five minutes max on the stove before they’re soft and squishy and all sorts of other adjectives desirable for boba to possess. (All this while my “thirty+ minutes to cook” boba sit stoically in the cabinet, awaiting [...]

It’s A Great Day For Blueberries

The sort of fruits I choose to buy are sometimes rather dependent on the price tag. For example, I have lately been buying near-excessive quantities of blueberries, because it’s hard to say “no” to $2.00 per container. There are near-infinite possibilities regarding what one can do with blueberries, so I’ll cover a few here that [...]

Goodbye Sparks, You Shall Be Missed

Today is a day of mourning. Sparks, the delightful concoction of energy drink plus alcohol, shall be no more. As of today, MillerCoors (the company that produces Sparks) will discontinue manufacturing and marketing Sparks as it currently is made, and will remake it into an alcohol-only drink. Let’s just say I’ve stocked up. Nothing ridiculous, [...]

Delicious Raspberry Smoothies

And now for something completely out of season! Back in the long days of summer, Drew and I were out hiking and happened upon legions upon legions of raspberry bushes, all offering their fruits to us. We accepted their offerings graciously, and they have been snoozing in our freezer for quite some time, their slumbers [...]

Pumpkin Spice Hot Milk

The real tragedy with this particular time of year is the lack of sunlight. Not only does it make more then a few of us entirely more depressed then we would rather be, but it also does a depressing number on some of our photography skills. Sunlight is a beautiful thing. I can place something [...]