Recipe by Paula Garner aka @thebitterfairy I had saved this recipe a while ago, and waited until now to make it. I actually made a trial run last night with friends around for dinner, but didn’t post it as my chief photographer was away in London for work. This is a vibrant cocktail in taste…
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The Turnbuckle
This was drink #3 of 3 for the night. A brilliant drink created by Nathan Robinson.This drink uses Cynar, definitely one of my favourite ingredients. I have yet to taste a bad drink that uses Cynar as a forward flavoured taste. It matched up well with the New York Sour, but overshadowed the Suzette,Next time,…
Suzette au Bal (Suzette at the Ball) – Drink #2
Unfortunately this drink was served after the New York Sour, and before The Turnbuckle. And while it is a great drink, it was lost between these two. The New York Sour is a powerful Bourbon forward drink, tempered by the Red Wine float. And The Turnbuckle is a very forward drink, dominated by Cynar and…
New York Sour
Recipe from Mixel-Michael Madrusen/Zara Young- A Spot at the Bar 22.5ml fresh Lemon Juice22.5ml Simple Syrup 1:11 Egg White30ml Red Wine, to top. The recipe states the egg white is optional . Add all ingredients, except the wine, to a shaker and dry shake, without ice. Then shake again with ice, and strain into a…
Suzette au Bal (Suzette at the Ball)
Dance like no one is watching! A revisited drink.Suzette au Bal (Suzette at the Ball)Recipe by Alexandre Girard, La Queue du Coq, Annecy, France. This drink, very Suze forward, goes along with my liqueur and aperitif forward cocktails, I’ve had a bit of a thing for lately. Suze is a French apéritif made from gentian,…
Nonna’s Biscotto
Another amazing recipe from Imbibe Magazine, this time byJessica Maria of Hotsy Totsy Club, Albany, California. I had a grandmother of Italian descent, and thought this reminded me of her. I also love biscotti, so double blast from the past. As imbibe says, liqueurs seldom form the foundation for cocktails, but why not really?The subtle…
Great Silence
Recipe by Isaac Shumway via Imbibe Magazine. There is an article from the May/June issue, highlighting fruit flavours for summer.Well, it’s definitely not summer here, in downtown Amsterdam, and there’s no dry January here in this house either. But we can long for the balmy summer days again now the Solstice has been over us….
Royal Hawaiian Cocktail
Michael (An internet friend) just posted this recipe, and it inspired me to make it. He said his Bay Area had received scorching 40°c temperatures today. Here, in downtown Amsterdam it’s high 20°’s. Blistering for us, kinda 😉 However, I had some fresh pineapple in the fridge, so whipped out my juicer. Pineapple is always…
Watermelon & Black Pepper Margarita
I made a watermelon syrup, using by weight, half the amount of sugar, that I had of watermelon.So as an example 250gm of sugar, to 500gm of cubed up melon. I let this macerate in the fridge for about a day (mine was probably 28hrs). I mashed it and mixed it till I made sure…
The Surrender
Inadvertently an ode to Big Head Todd and the Monsters.Rob started playing his guitar just as I was mixing this little delight up.I had made a sour cherry Shrub with my Morel cherries. I had to beat the Blackbirds to them. The sneaky little beggars. I love their song, not so much their foraging in…
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