by Brian | Jul 11, 2018 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Mixology, Recipes
If you read this blog often, you know I have a passion for lemonade. Perhaps too sweet but made with economy. In my method, you don’t have to squeeze a dozen lemons to get that 1 cup of lemon juice you find in many recipes. No, I’ve been suggesting that you...
by Brian | Aug 3, 2015 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
In Brown Sugar Kitchen, Tanya Holland describes the intense Southern food offered in her Oakland, California restaurant. Located on an industrial street, Brown Sugar generates lines out the door. For good reasons. This beverage is one of the treasures at the...
by Brian | Jul 16, 2014 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
This is supposed to be a blog for Brian’s Cucumber Lemonade #2, following yesterday’s #1. I got a little side tracked. I was looked for 6 lemons and found only 3, but I had a lime and 2 oranges. So, this drink is not “lemonady” at all....
by Brian | Jul 15, 2014 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
I was driving back home on Sunday afternoon and got to the point east of Boiceville where the road starts down a long hill, one where the trees fall away faster than the road. So for a couple of hundred feet, you have “The View.” There are three ridgelines...
by Brian | Jul 6, 2014 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
Tomorrow is the Fourth of July. Red, white, and blue day. Red is for strawberries, to be consumed in cake, pie, and beverages aplenty. This post is really about two things: the lemonade pictured above and puree, which has multiple uses over and above mere lemonade....