Drink Recipes

My brother-in-law, Mark, had claimed to hate Halloween punch for years. “It’s just sugary Kool-Aid with floating gummy worms,” he’d announce every October, crossing his … Read more

My neighbor Sarah asked why I couldn’t just use evaporated milk instead of sweetened condensed milk for the creamy layer. I started to explain why … Read more

My neighbor, a retired baker named Margaret who grew up in a tiny village outside Dublin, watched me wrestling with a carton of store-bought eggnog … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a random Tuesday in October, and I had a very specific craving for something that felt like fall in a … Read more

My neighbor, a retired special effects artist named Leo, watched me struggling to untangle a string of Halloween lights last October. He didn’t say anything … Read more

My cousin Maria asked me why I couldn’t just toss everything in a big pitcher and let it sit overnight. I was in the middle … Read more

There used to be a tiny cider mill tucked off a winding road in upstate New York called Holloway’s. They pressed apples right there in … Read more

I did not trust cranberry juice in sangria. Honestly, I thought it sounded like a mistake until last October. I was hosting a small gathering … Read more

I assumed that mixing three different green sodas would result in a chemical experiment gone wrong. It took about five minutes for that assumption to … Read more

It floats. That is the first thing you notice, honestly. A thick, pale beige cloud that refuses to sink, hovering above the dark espresso like … Read more