cocktails, island style, stories & beautiful blue water
Welcome to our recipe series blog hop ~ the Ultimate Recipe Challenge ~ and this time we’re sharing some amazing drink recipes. Now you know I am onboard with that! 🙂 We are in the heart of summer, and the heat that goes with it, so I thought it a great time to share some bluwaterdrink favorites. Here’s a six-pack round-up of summer… Read More
Welcome to our fun recipe blog hop ~ the Ultimate Recipe Challenge ~ and this month we’re all about summer and strawberries! I used beautifully ripe, local berries in Strawberry Sangria ~ two ways, traditional and frozen! I love strawberries. Cakes, pies, shortcakes, ice cream, jams, ~ even sliced over cereal. And now I have to say this strawberry sangria is moving way up… Read More
How about an easy refreshing cocktail that is perfect for the summer heat? An original Pimm’s Cup is one of our favorites! A tradition at Wimbledon, it’s also nice for our US summer holidays. We decided to have a festive cocktail hour with Pimm’s and some tea sandwiches just because. It’s all in fun and a good excuse to gussy… Read More
Welcome to our annual tiki bar tailgate at the Jimmy Buffett concert! Neither rain, nor heat, nor 60 hour work weeks will keep us from cranking up the blender and getting our parrot head vibe on ~~~ We arrived in an afternoon thunderstorm and waited for it to pass, before we were able to set up. It cleared off pretty… Read More
We’ve enjoyed such a nice Thanksgiving holiday with Bluwatermom. And we tried a new bluwaterdrink, dubbed the Holiday Moscow Mule ~ which got the thumbs up from all of us! I found the recipe here from Serena Bakes Simply from Scratch, and shared it on the bluwaterlife Facebook page as one of the weekly #ThursdayNightSocial posts. Bluwaterguy plays bartender when we… Read More
Ahh, the power of suggestion! After sharing this cocktail from foodfanatic.com on the bluwaterlife Facebook page last Thursday, I had to have a watermelon cocktail. 🙂 I gathered up some ingredients and ended up with a frozen Watermelon Margarita! I’ve written before about creating a sort of watermelon sorbet and freezing it in 8oz. Ball Freezer Jars ~ you can read more here… Read More
Here’s a super easy ~ and super smooooooth ~ summer sangria. I call it Summer Sunset Sangria for the color! 🙂 We enjoyed this pitcher last weekend at Bluwatermom’s ~ and will be making more all summer long. Mix up a pitcher for your weekend and enjoy the sunset! Summer Sunset Sangria ~~~ 1 15oz bottle Pinot Grigio 1 cup… Read More
How do you motivate yourself to push through a rough patch or to complete a tough project? Little treats along the way, and a promised reward at the end help me over the hump. 🙂 I’m in the middle of a big room re-do at home, and it’s consuming MASSIVE amounts of time and energy. As an “attagirlandkeepgoing” diversion, I added a new… Read More
Zombies scare me. I don’t watch them on television, or at the movies. Well, I did make it through Zombieland, but just because of Bill Murray. But I finally found a zombie I like ~ my version of the Zombie cocktail. According to tiki lore, the Zombie was created by Don the Beachcomber as a hangover remedy for one of his customers…. Read More
