Haamonii (harmony) ShochuLow calorie cocktails – only 35 calories per serving

I was recently reminded that I adore Shirley Temples, a childhood favorite of mine that I haven’t thought of in years. I quite impulsively went out and immediately purchased the necessary ingredients for Shirley Temples: 7-Up, Grenadine, and Maraschino cherries.  I anxiously mixed up this concoction and dove in.. unfortunately to be disappointed in a [...]

Spring has officially sprung in San Francisco. Everything is green instead of brown, flowers are blooming, and it’s 60 degrees outside instead of 40. Berries are also coming into season, which means walking past the corner produce market is torturous, due to the ripe berries sending out their tentacles of delicious smells to hook the [...]

This week’s cocktail is inspired by my current fight against an upper respiratory bug and scratchy throat. It’s not so bad as to be completely debilitating, but plenty bad enough to be damn irritating. Being sick/not running at 100% makes me endlessly grumpy (I readily admit to it). So I was trying to decide what [...]

This week’s cocktail was inspired by the gorgeous weather in San Francisco and the possibility of a picnic in the near future. My friends requested a cocktail that would be appropriate for a picnic, and so I went looking for something interesting. I came across the “Harvard Cooler,” a brandy-and-lemon concoction that is apparently rather [...]

Today’s cocktail was inspired by a recent trip with friends to a favorite Mexican restaurant of mine. I was seated on the patio, and for the first time in months, the weather was nice enough to not need a scarf, gloves, jacket, boots, etc. I had a delicious, smokey grapefruit cocktail that I adored, and [...]

I love Mimosas. Actually, I adore Mimosas. Does that make me a 67-year-old woman out to brunch? Absolutely not. I’ve always been of the opinion that the very limited availability of the Mimosa is entirely unfair to those of us who actually enjoy drinking these delicious, simple concoctions on a pretty regular basis; most certainly [...]

This week’s cocktail was inspired by a trip to an awesome new restaurant over the weekend. Namu, a Korean-New Californian fusion place, was an awesome experience for all 5 senses and featured some delicious flavor pairings that I wouldn’t have even dreamed of trying together.  Until I came here.  I learned many new things, but [...]

This week’s cocktail was inspired by a weekend full of random tomfoolery and general misbehaving, with a solid dose of acting like a college frat boy thrown in (weekends like this are few and far between, but sometimes you just can’t resist that Irish pub’s beer pong tournament). I also noticed that my past few [...]

This week’s cocktail is pretty awesome, I’m not going to lie.  I was very pleased by the result, especially after the pain I underwent (in true San Francisco style, details follow) to make it happen.  I’d mentioned in previous posts how I try to get inspired for Haamonii cocktails by fresh produce, and this week’s [...]

..is caffeine.  At least for me.  If I have to be up anytime before noon, I need me some coffee/tea/energy concoction ASAP or I quickly devolve into shuffling-zombie status. In my unending quest for my next best morning pick-me-up, I stumbled upon a pretty awesome non-profit coffee roaster out of St. Louis, called Three Avocados.  [...]