ok, look. strawberries are in season, and the market shelves are buckling under the weight of fine local product. they are a perfectly delicious fruit, and i need to stop hating them. hate is really just a perverted form of love. hate = love + weaponry.
so i thought i’d [...]
i suggested to jp that since she was nice enough to ‘let’ me go out the other night, she should get her night out also. she opted for luka’s because their fries are her fave. (2nd place: a cote) one thing pretty rad about lukas is, at least tonight, they had five, [...]
problem: you want to booze it up at an establishment not walkable from your house. some solutions: drive drunk (morally questionable), public transportation (time consuming), cab ($$$ consuming), designated driver (a drag for the driver/i dont have enough (teetotaler) friends).
i figured out (took me long enough) another solution: sober up before [...]
went to adesso with stuntman b. verdict, awesome. tasted/drank three cocktails:
- billionaire cocktail (whiskey, grenadine, absinthe bitters, lemon)
- fragola coppa (pimm no. 1, creole shrub, cucumber, strawberry, mint, limonata)
- pisco sour
all delicious. yes, they came up with a strawberry cocktail that bore only the faintest resemblance to a tgif-style daiquiri. and [...]
from this tablehopper knockoff newsletter, we learn of a bourbon and branch drink called elephant eyebrows which sounds like a basis for a good syrup: gin, garam masala, honey, lime, nutmeg.
hit sidebar oakland for lunch today. foodwise: burger, asparagus with egg, fried fishwich. not bad, worth another try. cocktail, the aviation-locavore. i tasted all lemon and gin, nothing sweet, nothing spicy, nothing fruity. but i’m intrigued by the classic vs modern concept of the cocktail list (designed by jonny raglin). [...]
2 oz dark rum
1/2 oz lime
3/8-3/4 oz falernum (depends on sweetness, my last batch was pretty dilute)
1 coin ginger
3 drops angostura bitters
muddle ginger, combine remaining ingredients, shake with ice, double strain.
minor story from cocktail night, one bartender (male) greeted another (female) with “hey, mama!” despite not being billy dee williams, he totally pulled [...]
wednesday i hit cuesa.org’s spring farmer’s market cocktail night at the ferry building. had a good time; the food was awesome this time around: 4505 pork rinds, burgers from market bar, nduja from boccalone, pate from absinthe (jamie lauren in the hizz-whuuut?), and pork belly bao from heaven’s dog.
i was a little disappointed with [...]
sigh, still haven’t learned.
i must forge ahead with my notes, through pain and shame.
– shiso leaf is really strong, don’t go hogwild
– fruit juice syrups: start with good fruit. for example, something other than a bland-yet-slightly-funky honeydew.
– also: be careful with sweetening. start with 1/2 the amount of tart. [...]
pops is turning 70. the fam is rallying to put together a sushi party which is one of his favorite family activities.
i’m on drink detail and trying to come up with some sushi-appropriate cocktails.
idea one: vodka, cachaca, lime, honeydew syrup, shiso. maybe a drop or two of luxardo maraschino
idea two: vodka, gin, lemon, [...]
lotta cocktail cats round the blogosphere have a disdain for vodka on account of its neutrality. for example, the rad jeffrey morganthaler says that vodka is “a boring liquor for boring people”.
and that’s how this article starts. but then concludes with a notion i’ve been chewing on lately:
Consider the sublime RTR Classics on [...]
