Grilled Cheese

I love diner food. It's a genuine, life long affection. It feels like home and childhood, it's solid and unfussy and you know exactly what you're getting when you order it. There's not too much skill involved in making it but you're never disappointed. Unless you burn it, which yes I've done. Life is distracting. Anyways, serious question: ketchup or no ketchup? This is a sensitive debate I know, it tears families and marriages apart. I vote ketchup, it sounds gross but sorry I just do.

Mums Mums, go well with a grilled cheese! They're a Swedish treat sort of like Viva Puffs without the jam and, dare I say it, better. Less cookie, more chocolate and marshmallow.  

And finally homemade chai tea. It was chilly out and we love chai! Chai recipe

Little Bitty Pretty One - Thurston Harris

Furnishing My Kitchen With Etsy

Some autumny etsy finds I'm wishing for today!

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The Bee's Knees

This is a  gin cocktail from the Prohibition era and it's not for the faint hearted!  The honey was added to mask the smell of liquor (should we thank Prohibition for the evolution of the cocktail?). One of these will have you Charlestoning on the table, but who ever said that was a bad thing? 

Bee's Knees Cocktail

• 2 oz gin
• 1/2 oz lemon juice
• 3/4 oz honey*

Shake vigorously in a cocktail shaker with ice and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a curled lemon rind.

*substitute honey syrup for easier mixing; made by mixing equal parts honey and warm water

The Charleston