Czech Foods Recipes

Peaches are a hit on the menu right now. Peach and goat cheese salad. Peach salsa on fish tacos. Peach and Brie quesadilla s. It simply goes on. So why not drink your peaches? Hailing from the most excellent American state of Wisconsin, I've learned that the Old Fashioned classic can be slightly toyed with by replacing the whiskey with it's grape-based cousin, brandy. This week, having some bourbon in cupboard after the maple-bourbon muffin glaze experiment , I decided to use this, and to introduce another variation - peaches. An Old Fashioned traditionally consists of whiskey, sugar, bitters, and lemon. More or less depending on your maraschino cherry predilection. Here, the sugar is replaced by honey and smashed peaches, and the lemon with lime. Some mint is added in, so it takes on a Mojito-Old Fashioned vibe. Whatever the drink tradition may be, it hits the spot on Friday afternoon. Continue to Recipe.... Recipe: Peach Bourbon Old Fashioned Serves 1 1/2 peach juice of 1/2 ...

The week finishes. The weekend arrives. Sometimes as early as Thursday. When we are lucky. Sometimes not. This week finished with an abundance of watermelon in the kitchen. One glance at the stacks of deep red triangles on the plate and I heard the sound of ice clinking in glass. Watermelon-basil mojitos were made. There was still more melon. What better to do while sipping our drinks than make watermelon sorbet? The blender was already out, just a bit more blitzing, mix with strawberry yogurt and the same simple syrup that was used in the bevvies, and homemade sorbet was in the works. No ice cream maker, no problem. Freeze in a shallow metal pan for five hours, then blend again with a bit of milk, and creamy sorbet was gracing my spoon by midnight. I hope to post more weekend chill ideas using a single seasonal fruit for both cocktail and frozen treat. One moment of post-work blitzing, two very lovely ways to keep cool over the week end. Continue to Recipe... Recipe: Watermelon-Basil ...