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Category Archive: Beverages

Chocolate Azteca Hot Chocolate

Chocolate Azteca Hot Chocolate

One of the benefits of being a food blogger (or really any food writer), has to be the little perks.  Sure, after you’re done cooking, …

 

Absinthe

Absinthe

“Arrr, what’ll it be matey?” growled the soon-to-be Pirate friend in Pirate’s Alley, New Orleans. “2 Absinthes please!” Only in New Orleans does a “real life …

 

Watermelon Juice with Basil

Watermelon Juice with Basil

“A watermelon is my favorite thing to juice.  Mostly, because it’s all juice,” my friend Tara (of Toutes Directions)  said smiling one day in May. A …

 

Hello New Orleans, I Kind of Maybe Love You

Hello New Orleans, I Kind of Maybe Love You

“Oooh, Helana.  Look at how beautiful the quarter looks.  Take a picture!” Michael (the one from Clearly Delicious) says to me. Turning around in my …

 

Bloody Marys (The Louisiana Way)

Bloody Marys (The Louisiana Way)

One time in college, I drank so much wine that I declared, “wine glasses are eye glasses for 3:00 a.m. blogs!” Yes,  I was blogging …

 

(Smiling) Lemon Drop Ice Cubes

(Smiling) Lemon Drop Ice Cubes

“Is that martini smiling at me?” one of my girlfriends recently asked as she took a sip of the sweet, citrus-inspired cocktail. At a recent …