Even when all of the days run together, by Thursday, I’m still ready for some kind of break.  Or at least a respite from Zoom calls.  So what are we drinking this weekend?  The kind of cocktail that I should probably drinking on a boat, but my patio will do.

No, these cocktails do not include coffee.  But if you have a French Press hiding in a dusty corner of your pantry, clean it up, because this cocktail trick is genius.

Yesterday, we had a Zoom happy hour with some congressional staff alumni and it was really fun to see everyone again.  Because I’m on the West Coast, I still had a couple of hours left in my workday, so I could dive into Happy Hour with as much abandon as I would have liked.  But I have big plans for my grad school happy hour …

One of my favorite cocktails is the Italian Greyhound , but the ingredients list is incompatible with our current predicament.  So last weekend, I decided to recreate it with just two ingredients.

Like many people we’re down to one grocery run every 10 days.  So ingredients for fun cocktails are not a priority, but it feels like they should be.  Here’s a cocktail you can make with things from your cupboards.