Everyone knows that water is the absolute best thing you can drink. So, what do you do when you just aren’t in love with the taste of plain water. Yeah, I know that sounds weird but I just think water is so boring. So, the solition: make your water taste better by adding {healthy} items to it.
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Chocolate Salted Caramel Milkshake
Last month, I shared this chocolate salted caramel milkshake over at Sugar Bee Crafts! It is so delicious that I wanted to make sure you didn’t miss out either!
I went out to lunch the other day with a co-worker and had the most amazing milkshake. It was a blend of salted caramel and chocolate…delicious! Of course, I wanted to try and create the milkshake at home so I could enjoy it anytime I wanted. And thus, this chocolate salted caramel milkshake was born.
Yummy Salsa Verde Recipe
The love for Tex-Mex and Mexican food in our house is pretty obvious! You can see it week after week in my What to Cook Wednesday weekly menus. Plus, we’re regulars at our local Mexican restaurant and you’ll always find salsa in the house.
Typically, I focus on more traditional salsa and guacamole {although, I have been known to make the guacamole with bacon!}, but I decided I wanted to try my hand at a salsa verde recipe for something a little different.
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More Boozy Baking: Strawberry Prosecco Cake Pops
We are taking boozy baking into the cake pop realm. Strawberry cake mixed with prosecco buttercream frosting makes the perfect cake pop idea!
Ok, this is the last boozy baking post for awhile. I hope you’ve enjoyed this {unintentional} series that started with Orange Riesling Whoopie Pies. For this post, we’re going to use the recipe for strawberry prosecco cupcakes to make these delicious Strawberry Prosecco Cake Pops.
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Cinco de Mayo Drink Recipes: Passion Fruit Margarita
Today, we are going to round out your Cinco de Mayo celebration meal. Cinco de Mayo drink recipes are so easy to come by {think margaritas, mojitos and beer} but this one offers something a little different from the regular old margarita.
How about a delicious combination of passion fruit juice, agave syrup and a little spice from jalapeno infused tequila?
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Boozy Baking: Red Wine Cupcakes with Wine Cream Cheese Frosting
The boozy baking continues here at Just Us Four. I couldn’t just stop with the whoopie pies so I decided to try out some cupcakes too. After all, cupcakes are where my love of boozy baking originated.
After a few {dozen} texts with Liz, I settled on trying red velvet cupcakes first. She was very supportive and assured me that I couldn’t really mess this up. I mean…I was using wine and nothing is bad with wine 😉
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Cinco de Mayo Drink Recipes: Jalapeno Infused Tequila
Cinco de Mayo isn’t a real celebration without a drink to enjoy with your meal {especially if that meal is a southwestern style turkey burger}. of course, all good Cinco de Mayo drink recipes have one important ingredients: tequila!
Back when we were visiting New York, we ate dinner at a fantastic Mexican restaurant with amazing {seriously, ah-mazing} margaritas. They weren’t your standard margaritas though and my favorite one prompted me to head home and make one of the key ingredients for future drinks.
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Cinco de Mayo Recipes: Turkey Cilantro Burgers with Tomatillo Sauce
So, I was born in a Virginia…rural Virginia…where fried chicken, corn on the cob and biscuits rule. Sweet tea…it was my equivalent to milk/juice most kids drink. I didn’t have sushi or a million other “ethnic” foods until I was well into my teens. There were definitely no Cinco de Mayo recipes made in our house growing up either!
BUT, I am convinced my mother must have lived in Texas or Mexico for some portion of her pregnancy because my love of Tex-Mex and Mexican food runs deeps. Like…I’ll drive an hour each way in traffic to get to my favorite Mexican restaurant without so much as a complaint. Once I started to fall in love with cooking, it is all Tex-Mex…all.the.time. Hence the reason, I felt the need to take a traditional “American” dish and take it South {and a little West}.
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Boozy Baking: Strawberry Prosecco Cupcakes
By now, I am sure you guys are all thinking that I am some kind of super wine-o with all of the boozy baking going on around here! I mean, we’ve had boozy whoopie pies and now I am bringing you a new cupcake with wine!
These cupcakes are different though…it is sparkling wine after all 🙂
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Salted Caramel Sauce
I have a sweet tooth…a big one. Some days, I think all my teeth are sweet because my cravings are that strong. One of my absolute favorite things is salted caramel sauce. I love it on ice cream, in desserts…with just about anything sweet.
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