I admit I've been scared to try putting greens into my smoothie. I read that you can't taste them at all, but I still the thought of spinach in my smoothie freaked me out a bit. I finally chose to take the plunge and give it a try though. I decided I wanted to make a strawberry and banana smoothie with a Greek yogurt and almond milk base. I also...

What do you do when the mint plant in your garden is overflowing with fragrant leaves? Make mojitos, of course! We made classic mojitos in the past, and we've definitely learned to appreciate the art of mojito making. It's definitely a skill to properly muddle the mint; it's not a drink to order at crappy bar for happy hour. This drink requires...

Summertime is officially here in Seattle! The sun is finally out, and we are hitting temperatures in the mid to high 70s on a regular basis, the perfect summer weather, especially compared to what the rest of the country has been experiencing. I guess all we had to do was wait 10 months to get it. In celebration of summer I made freshly...

Dustin and I like our margaritas traditional, on-the-rocks. But sometimes when it's warm outside a nice frozen margarita really hits the spot. Personally I can't decide if I like mango or strawberry blended in. I guess it depends on my mood. This particular evening we made frozen mango margaritas because we had a bag of frozen mangos in the...

It baffles me how a Corona can help make a margarita be damn tasty, but somehow it works. You don't taste the beer at all (or really even the tequila for that matter), just the sugary sweet lime and cherry flavors. Traditionally, this recipe uses plain lemon-lime soda, but if you use a lemon-lime soda with cherry flavoring added you can change...

No, not that. Get you mind out of the gutter. A Dirty Banana is a banana milkshake-like alcoholic beverage with a hint of creamy coffee flavoring that we were introduced while honeymooning at the resort in Jamaica. I don't even want to think about how many of these I drank (and how many calories I consumed in doing so). It goes down so smoothly,...

We are officially back from Jamaica, and back to real life after wedding festivities in Texas, a mini break in Washington,  and our honeymoon in Jamaica. Everything about the wedding was such a blur, it seems as though it didn't really happen. But indeed now we are married, which is pretty cool to say. We were told we would feel different, but...

It's the Friday before our wedding! Time for a drink! We've discussed our affinity for coconut creme pie as it relates to our engagement, so we recently created our own at-home cocktail version of the dessert. We combined equal ratios of Malibu coconut rum, Bailey's Irish cream, and coconut milk, shaken over ice and poured into a cocktail glass...

The perfect accompaniment to cake batter bark? A cake batter milkshake? We used a little less cake mix and added some frozen banana to make it a smidgen healthier. There's really nothing better than drinking your cake.

Fun fact of the day: jelly beans became associated with Easter in the 1930s because they look likes eggs, just like the Easter Bunny brings to symbolize new life. And what better way to celebrate the holiday than with a jelly bean infused cocktail. We tried our hand at a Jelly Bean Martini, which requires a little bit of prep and patience, but...