Drink Recipes

I swore I hated sangria. For years. The overly sweet, boozy fruit punch served at chain restaurants—the kind that leaves a sticky film on your … Read more

My neighbor Carmen watched me wrestling with a stubborn pomegranate on my back porch last October, juice splattering everywhere like a crime scene. She didn’t … Read more

My sister-in-law, Clara, wasn’t trying to be the star of the Halloween block party. She was just trying to keep her kids from drinking all … Read more

My brother-in-law Mark asked why I couldn’t just dump everything in a slow cooker and walk away. I started to explain why that wouldn’t work … Read more

The lady who runs the corner store near my house watched me grab three different bottles of green soda one October afternoon. I was holding … Read more

I was standing in the frozen foods aisle of a grocery store last October, trying to decide between two bags of mixed berries, when a … Read more

It was 11:23 PM on a random Wednesday, and I had this specific, almost embarrassing craving for that fancy coffee drink everyone was talking about. … Read more

I was standing in line at the hardware store—of all places—waiting to return a paint sprayer that I’d clearly used wrong, when the woman behind … Read more

The microwave beeped at me like it was personally offended. I’d been staring at the coffee maker for a solid minute, watching the clock tick … Read more

I used to think brunch cocktails were a bit of a hassle, honestly. For years, I stuck to the same old routine—maybe a standard mimosa … Read more