*If you like, pin, comment, whatever to this post you are acknowledging that you are legally allowed to drink alcohol in whatever country you inhabit!* I updated the pictures for this post in August 2018 but the recipe is still the same as it was in 2016! [Jump to Shiso Simple Syrup Recipe] [Jump to Drink Recipe] I used to be a bartender between college and graduate school. It taught me three things: 1. I am not a late night person,…
[Jump to Recipe] The CSA has broadened my cooking horizons immensely. I get excited about certain produce I never thought would excite me before. The produce that falls in this category are greens of plants you usually don’t see in the produce section of the grocery store: cauliflower, broccoli, radish, turnip, and carrot greens. I don’t remember ever seeing carrot tops growing up. I must have, my mom planted carrots a few times, but I really only remember the topless ones…
[Jump to Lilac Syrup Recipe] [Jump to Lilac Sugar Recipe] It is spring in Colorado, finally. I don’t know what is normal weather here but I have never lived in a place where it snows on the first day of May or where it is 70° F one day and then 30 the next. I guess you can still call that time spring, but spring for me was always flowers and shoots and green all over the place. One of…