Designing in Life

Lemon Drop

Late in the afternoon on Mother's Day, we decided to sit out back on the deck, enjoy the green of spring and sip a lemon drop martini.
You'll find many recipes for this, but the following is how I made it.

1 1/2 ounces Absolut Citron
1/2 ounce lemoncello (but you can use grand marnier if that's what you have!)
1/2 teaspoon Agave nectar
3/4 ounce freshly-squeezed lemon juice and some grated lemon zest (preferably with some sort of microplane zester)
Ice cubes
Organic sugar for dipping

Mix and shake the first four ingredients, wet rim of glass and dip in the sugar, put ice cubes in glass and pour vodka mix into your glass.

A perfect late afternoon cocktail on a perfect spring day!

 

A Little Bit of Spring

I have a hard time not picking little flowers that I find.  I have the smallest little vintage glass that sits on
my windowsill in back of the kitchen sink, that I love to put flowers in.  Sometimes it sits empty for weeks on end during the winter, until I make myself buy something to put into it.  Starting in the spring, however, it is filled with something all the time.

Little violets are blooming everywhere outside.  I wanted to pick a few white ones, but they were just too teeny-tiny.  Two clumps of grape hyacinths were certainly calling my name, although they are almost on their way out.  Not to worry though, I see all kinds of things starting to poke their sleepy heads up out of the ground these days.

Cinco de Mayo

Admittedly, when I was young, I thought Cinco de Mayo was the person who freed Mexico.  Every May 5, I think about that, and have a good laugh at myself.

I saw instructions on how to make Pull-Open Pinatas in Family Fun magazine, and think they're a great little Cinco de Mayo treat, not to mention something kids would love at a birthday party.

So get those tacos cooking, margaritas chilling and whip up some of these for your party guests.