Happy New Year! May 2021 be better for all of us.
Here are five things I'm loving this week:
The days are getting noticeably longer. I was driving home yesterday around 4:30 p.m. and it was still light out.
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My new puppy, Gustav aka Goose.
The freshness of a new year and its traditions. I'm making Hoppin John this afternoon.
This is my traditional recipe.
But I'm trying a variant from Lisa Fain at The Homesick Texan. I adore her recipes and this one looks delish. You can't go wrong with bacon, jalapeno and garlic.
Did I ever tell you that if I could, I would live in a Tex-Mex restaurant? Definitely.
Bitters in a martini glass filled with icy-cold seltzer water.
I got these sugar cubes containing grapefruit and cardamom essential oils at a new liquor store I checked out. They have a larger selection of bitters than most stores. These cubes are really good and I went back to get more and they were sold out. The story of 2020.
I also got a bottle of Peychaud's.
One goal I'd like to accomplish in 2021 is making my own bitters. I think that would be fun. It would be even funner if I could make a batch using herbs that I grew myself.
We shall see. Right now I'm only growing the basics, rosemary, thyme, sage, lavender and basil. Oh and rue.
Finally, these pink lemonade thumbprint cookies round out my list of five things for this week.
They are from this cookbook and they are my new favorites.
There's a Kindle edition if you've made a resolution to not fill your house with so many books this year. You get a credit toward your next Kindle book purchase when you get Martha's Cookie Perfection.
Did you know that you don't need a Kindle to buy Kindle books? I read them using the Kindle app on my iPhone.
Or you can read a Kindle book on your computer or tablet.
What are you loving this week?
