Gin and Tonic

Gin and tonics are my favorite summer cocktail. The key to a good G & T is to use good quality tonic.  The supermarket brands are blah and flat tonic is frankly gross.  I suggest buying your tonic in small bottles and drinking it the same day you open it.  The gin, on the other […]

Couscous Salad Southwest Style

This is my favorite salad to bring to a summer potluck.  It tastes great (of course), holds up well in the heat and serves a ton of people.  By the end of each summer I suspect my family and friends are sick to death of this salad but that’s just too bad for them! I […]

Summer Magic

What do you get when you combine 2 bored kids, a rope and some sticks? Magic. We adults thought the rope was for climbing gym-class style.  The kids had other ideas. The lower stick was for standing or sitting.  The upper stick was for grasping.  A variety of configurations were tested before the right one […]