Margarita may refer to an island in the Caribbean, a controversial doctor who dispenses advice on sex and sexuality, or it can be the name of one of my favorite cocktail drinks. Triple Sec, and citrus juice. It can be served on the rocks, blended, or straight. In making a margarita drink, the most common…
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Despite the name, there is no marijuana in this drink. It is green because it contains a green-colored ingredient Midori, a Mexican melon-flavored cordial, in the original recipe. Speedy had to substitute though after getting a shock at the price of Midori P1,200 a bottle. So, he bought and used Orchid melon liqueur instead. We…
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When I first saw a recipe for Black Forest coffee and it was described as almost drinking a black forest cake, I wondered why the beverage recipe contained no liquor at all. Although American versions of the Black Forest cake are almost always alcohol-free, in traditional German recipes, Ergo, when I made two cups of…
I have very fond memories of the mudslide cocktail drink. It was a sweltering November afternoon and my friends and I had just boarded the cruise ship after stuffing ourselves with Thai food on the beach and in a flea market in Phuket. Instead of going straight back to our cabin, my friend Osang and…
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Chai means tea in several South Asian languages. Masala (literally, a mixture of spices) chai means spiced tea although many people associate masala chai with spiced milk tea. The addition of milk is a British influence. Tea has been grown in some South Asian regions for thousands of years but tea was used as an…
The very first coffee recipe that I posted on this blog is the chocolate mint coffee plain coffee in which two bars of Andes mint chocolate were dropped and stirred. That was almost three years ago and I have become acquainted with a whole lot of ingredients since. This newer version of my chocolate mint…
Tea has always been part of our household even when I was very young. Just as much as coffee was. My mother always had bags of Lipton tea around but it was my father who introduced me to dried loose tea leaves that he bought from Chinatown. Although I do keep tea bags for those…
According to Wikipedia, there are at least three theories as to the origin of the name of the Bloody Mary cocktail drink. The first is that it was named after Mary, Queen of England (1516-1558). The second is that it was inspired by actress Mary Pickford. For me, there is only one Bloody Mary a…
I would learn much later that the phrase consists of two lines from a song by Rupert Holmes entitled Escape but which became more popularly known as The Pina Colada Song. Pina colada is considered the national drink of Puerto Rico. The story has it that the captain of a pirate ship used to serve…
We’re running on a different schedule in the house these days. Both kids now have half-day classes as the school year draws to a close. That means lunch is around 2.00 p.m. when the school bus drops them home. So, instead of cooking lunch for myself, I postpone breakfast until around 9.00 or 10.00 in…
