What’s Cooking This Weekend? — Weekend of June 14-15, 2014

Happy weekend everyone! Are you at home, with cooking plans? Or traveling on a summer vacation? I’m away in France (my husband had a work trip so we’re here all week) and I’m pretty pumped to eat good baguette and cheese every day. What about you? What’s making you happy in the kitchen right now, and what’s on your weekend menu?

And here are a few posts I especially loved from this past week, in case you missed them.

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Classic Cocktail Recipe: The Hemingway Daiquiri — The 9-Bottle Bar

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It was at El Floridita that Ernest Hemingway conducted his love affair with the daiquiri. During his many stints in Cuba, where he escaped to and from his home in Key West, Florida, the writer was known to post up in a favorite corner of this Havana watering hole and quaff glass after glass of barman Constantino Ribalaigua Vert’s simple, sublime concoctions of rum, lime, sugar, and ice.

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