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tonight’s mad men cocktail

By On April 1, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Shameless Behaviour, The Mix

I won’t spend a lot of time debriefing the Season 5 Premiere of Mad Men except to say that I felt a lot better about my result on the Mad Men Personality Test (you’ll remember that I ended up being Roger Sterling) after listening to his one-liners during the episode.  Beyond that, I’ll leave it to the Culture Desk [...]

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montreal and winter mojitos

By On December 13, 2011 · 4 Comments · In Been there, Done that, The Mix

I hate it when posts go like this.  A post about my weekend past.  Posted late on Tuesday, a full 48 hours (plus) after my jaunt to Montreal.  I have had this post in the works since Sunday night, and here it is…finally.  But before I start, let me warn you:  there’s a first over here [...]

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dark and stormy (reprise.)

By On October 30, 2011 · 6 Comments · In The Mix

There has been a LOT of ‘research’ going on in the R&D lab over here at martinis for breakfast:

And ‘we’ are ready to pass it on to you!

I know that you all remember back to this post about the Dark ‘n’ Stormy – one of the only cocktails that is actually trademarked!  The basic ingredients [...]

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dark and stormy

By On September 9, 2011 · 11 Comments · In The Mix

Well, I needed something to drink while the pizza dough was rising.  So, still thinking about the ’Dark and Stormy’ Caroline had a couple of Fridays ago, I decided that this was going to be it.  So I googled a recipe for it and wham!  Controversy.

According to this article in the New York Times, [...]

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