From Faith: While I was fast at work trying to create a frozen Dark & Stormy, our frequent cocktail contributor Anthony DeSerio was mixing, shaking and tasting to create his own cocktail using ginger beer. (Not just any ginger beer, but our very favorite, made by Fever Tree. There are no artificial colors in it so […]
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Cooking Dockside for Boaters
Planning, that’s the key, say boaters Michele Carney of Granby and Kurtis Denison of Hartford. They whip up parties in their small kitchens on board motor boats they have moored at The Guilford Yacht Club. It’s gourmet pot luck, the pair say, and they party with boating friends at the dock or at a mooring […]
Sexy Pesto-Filled Ravioli at L’Orcio in New Haven
The pesto sauce is not on top of the ravioli at New Haven’s L’Orcio Restaurant, it’s nestled inside each delicious pillow, bathed in a light and lovely tomato sauce. I could not stop eating them, despite that I knew a salmon entree was headed my way. (Salmon delicious!) Whether you sit in the outdoor garden […]
Easy Cocktail: Faith’s Frozen Dark & Stormy
Feeling whimsical, and in the mood for a cool cocktail one very hot afternoon, I began dreaming of a Dark & Stormy, a cocktail usually made with dark rum, lime and ginger beer. Why isn’t it ever served frozen, I wondered? The experiments began, one involving a Key Lime sorbet I discovered at the snappy […]
Cocktail Invention: The Mellini
From Faith: Every so often, thanks to human creativity, cocktail-makers invent something new. That’s what Anthony DeSerio did, with help from a chef he worked with years ago, who knew he’d come up with something original… The Mellini, as Anthony calls it. What’s truly original about this drink is that the liquid is made from the […]
The Pain Killer
When my husband, Matt, and I are on our sailboat, we visit Nantucket, hang out with Faith at her vacation home at Orient Point, on the North Fork of Long Island, and gorgeous Shelter Island, just off the North Fork. Our tradition is to tie-up and jump in our dingy, aiming for land and cocktails […]
