Apple Cider Bourbon

I sit at the far end of a long table.  I make eye contact with the patron at the other end and simply ask if it’s okay that we share the last lone table available at the cafe/bakery that we are both indulging in on this fall day. From the looks of the weather channel, it

A Manhattan in Cleveland

Tonight (Wednesday) is the biggest bar night of the year.  So they say. The Wednesday before Thanksgiving.  When most or a majority of folks are staying with relatives.  Traveling some sort of distance to spend a day or the whole weekend (4 entire days) with loved ones.  In close quarters with brothers and sisters.  Niece

Bourbon Raisin Bars w/ Cinnamon Glaze

This post will find us about half way through 1/3 of the month of September.  Or 1/6th of the way through the ninth month of the year, which makes us 3/4th of the way through 2012.  Which when I put it in terms of fractions…it kinda boggles my mind.  And it isn’t the math (

Mint Julep…

Saturday is Derby Day. Horse Racing. Betting. Big Hats Little Jockeys.  They are SO tiny. Horses. Oh the anticipation!  The race always makes me anxious and I have never placed a dollar on a horse.  I have nothing to lose, but I just get so darn nervous.  I can’t explain it.  Imagine if I had money