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Hot Toddy Recipe Basics: Warm Up With This Medicinal Cocktail

The hot toddy has a reputation as a medicinal, go-to-when-you’re-sick kind of beverage. While it can still be great for that (it’s sort of history’s version of NyQuil -- but...

Hot Toddy Recipe Basics: Warm Up With This Medicinal Cocktail

By Ciaran Keast

Feel the Fizz: Sparkling Tea Spritzers for Back Porch Sipping

Ciaran Keast

We’ve discussed homemade soda here before, but not with tea in it! Okay, sure, you could buy tea soda at the store. But why do that when you can whip...

Feel the Fizz: Sparkling Tea Spritzers for Back Porch Sipping

By Ciaran Keast

Get Fruity With It: Simple Fruit Syrups for Sublime Flavor

Krista Bjorn

With the bounty of spring and summer fruits only a couple of months away, now is a great time to use up the last of the frozen fruit still tucked...

Get Fruity With It: Simple Fruit Syrups for Sublime Flavor

By Krista Bjorn

Piece of Cake Cocktails

Sandy Smith

Craving a cocktail but saving your calories for dessert? Girl, stop -- life’s too short! You can kill two birds with one delicious stone by making up some of these...

Piece of Cake Cocktails

By Sandy Smith

Tea-Infused Hot Drinks, 3 Ways

Krista Bjorn

On a cold day, there's nothing quite so comforting as a hot drink to warm your fingers while it warms your insides. Traditional fall beverages include coffee, hot chocolate, cider,...

Tea-Infused Hot Drinks, 3 Ways

By Krista Bjorn

Spice Is Nice: Three Perfect Chai Cocktails

Ciaran Keast

It’s my favorite time of year: chai season! Actually, if you know anything about me you know I think any time or season is perfect for chai, but the crisp...

Spice Is Nice: Three Perfect Chai Cocktails

By Ciaran Keast

Cocktail DIY: How To Make Your Own Flavored Vodka

Ciaran Keast

Vodka has the uncanny -- and rather well-known -- ability to leech flavor and color from anything steeped in it. And flavored vodka is good for a great many things,...

Cocktail DIY: How To Make Your Own Flavored Vodka

By Ciaran Keast

How to Make Iced Tea with Loose Leaf Tea

Ciaran Keast

Few things feel so good during warm weather as a nice, cold glass of iced tea. Just sipping it brings back memories of my mom’s sun tea, which was brewed...

How to Make Iced Tea with Loose Leaf Tea

By Ciaran Keast

Twice As Nice With Ice: How to Make Perfect Iced Coffee

Krista Bjorn

As the snow finally disappears and temperatures surge from chilly to warm to downright hot, the need for a steaming cup of coffee mid-afternoon is replaced by a craving for...