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What Is a Chelada? Mexico's Three Ingredient Beer Cocktail

A chelada is beer, fresh lime, and salt over ice in a salted glass. What separates it from a michelada, the regional name flip, and the classic recipe.

Bloody Mary Gazpacho

Bloody Mary gazpacho is the closest thing there is to a Bloody Mary you eat with a spoon. It is a cold, no-cook tomato soup built on the same flavors as the drink, and it is one of the best things ...

Bloody Mary Ketchup Recipe: 2 Ingredients, 3 Ways

Stir Stu's concentrate into your favorite ketchup. Get the two-ingredient recipe, batch quantities, and three flavor options for burgers, fries, and brunch.

Bloody Mary Butter

This is the laziest, highest-payoff trick in the whole kitchen lineup. Melt butter, stir in Stu's Bloody Mary Concentrate, and brush it on whatever is hitting the grill. Wings, shrimp, corn, a stea...

Bloody Mary Chicken

Bloody Mary chicken is exactly what it sounds like. Chicken marinated in the flavors of a Bloody Mary, then grilled or roasted. The tomato, brine, and spice soak into the meat and char at the edges...

Cocktail Sauce Recipe

Store-bought cocktail sauce is fine until you taste it next to a batch you made yourself. Homemade takes five minutes, uses five ingredients you probably already have, and tastes brighter and sharp...

Real Estate Closing Gifts: 30 Ideas for Buyers and Sellers

A good real estate closing gift does two things. It says thank you at the moment your client gets the keys, and it keeps your name around the house long after the closing table. The ones that work ...

House Warming Gift Ideas

By the end of his first month in the new place, he'll have five candles, three bottles of wine, two decorative trays, and a monogrammed cutting board he'll use twice and put in the cabinet. This is...

Gifts for Dad Who Wants Nothing: 25 Ideas for the Dad Who Grills and Pours the Drinks

You've asked. He's shrugged. He doesn't want a watch. He doesn't need another tie. The drawer is full of socks. He keeps saying "nothing" and meaning it, which is somehow worse than if he'd just ha...

Summer Cocktails

Every summer cocktail guide on the internet has the same twenty drinks. Aperol Spritz. Mojito. Margarita. Moscow Mule. A watermelon something. A frozen something else. By the time you finish scroll...