Kir Royale

For our summer solstice celebration I was feeling sentimental and so decided to lean on history. Earlier this year we tried the Kir cocktail, which is crème de cassis with white wine. The Kir Royale ups the ante by using Champagne in place of wine. In the communopoly, however, we tend to prefer cava to…

Raspberry Inspiration

Happy Father’s Day! — belatedly, since this post will go up after the event is over. We were three instead of four, and two of the three have been away on an extended trip. So Sunday dinner was a fairly casual event with an equally casual cocktail. Truth is, I’d done very little planning! There…