Tag: Old Fashioned

  • Book Club Booze: April Showers Old Fashioned

    Book Club Booze: April Showers Old Fashioned

    As Zelda has written on here before, we here at Zelda and Scout participate in the time-honored tradition of the book club. On a regular basis, we gather our friends together to (ostensibly) discuss our tome of choice, usually over a meal of some kind. Our particular book club meets roughly every six weeks, alternates…

  • The Old Fashioned Way

    The Old Fashioned Way

    We all have that one drink: the cocktail standard that we order when we’re feeling fancy, and we want a little more than Blank & Blank. I’m talking about the go-to when you’re dressed up for the night, and you want to feel like your drink made as much effort as you did to be…

  • September Round Up

    September Round Up

    Where oh where did September go? In a swelter of lingering summer, the weeks have positively flown by, and now we find ourselves facing down October and all the leaf crunching, hot coffee drinking, and birthday celebrating (for Scout) it entails. This month was all about settling in for us. Zelda got (mostly) unpacked and…

  • Eat This, Drink That: Cobbler and Old Fashioneds

    Eat This, Drink That: Cobbler and Old Fashioneds

    Our lives have been increasingly busy as of late. Zelda is settling into a new home with new roommates and a new commute. Scout is settling into a new (additional) job and juggling three side projects. So we have to schedule our lives pretty far in advance, including our Eat This, Drink That cooking ventures.…

  • 15 New Things: Whoa, We’re Halfway There

    15 New Things: Whoa, We’re Halfway There

    Greetings, dear readers! With June officially coming to a close, we have reached the halfway mark in 2015 (crazy, I know). And so this seemed like an apt time to check in on my resolutions/goals/new adventures for the year. I started this year off with a list of 15 new things I wanted to do,…

  • Our Talent Really Lies in Drinking: A Derby Cocktail Guide

    Our Talent Really Lies in Drinking: A Derby Cocktail Guide

    Derby time, as you surely know already, is not complete without a little alcohol-induced depravity (for those of age, of course). So as resident Chief of Appropriate Inebriation for Zelda & Scout, I am here to provide you with some cocktails with which to make your Derby celebration (wherever it may be) properly lubricated. Now…