last week, my brother requested some recipes for easy cocktails. i wrote up a thing, then thought i would expand and post it here.
i tried to follow some rules:
very tasty!
easy to make, not too many ingredients, no difficult techniques needed; infusions and homemade syrups optional.
easy to find and inexpensive ingredients and brands
no exotic ingredients [...]
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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, [...]
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 [...]
more experiments inspired by the alinea cookbook. both received very high praise from drinking partner stuntman b as well as from b’s wife (aka my sister) and from jp-mom.
the sesame orgeat i made (1/2 C almond milk, 1/4 cup seeds) was a little too overpowering of sesame, i also wish i’d used plain water [...]
this drink is a blatant ripoff of the kaffir fling, by david wolowidnyk of west restaurant in vancouver, bc. his version includes cinnamon sprinkled through a blowtorch which looks and smells pretty awesome.
my mom loves this drink. qed.
thai kamikaze
2 oz vodka
1 oz lime juice
0.75-1 oz orgeat
2-5 kaffir lime leaves
2 coins ginger
muddle lime leaves [...]
nothing ruins a good cocktail like a mouthful of salt. the practice must have originated in a time or place where the prevailing culinary issue was how best to obscure the taste of rotting meat with eucalyptus leaves and fish guts.
we are beyond that now…so let’s act like it!
if you are going to rim [...]
from a recipe by scott beattie (”beau regards”), he makes a special syrup. as usual, i was too lazy to do such a thing. i also only used five berries (frozen from back in the season) which yielded a distinct, but shallow, blueberry flavor, and a beautiful magenta color.
beau retard
2 oz vodka
1 oz lemon
1 oz [...]
balance
the key to a good cocktail is BALANCE. here’s a basic cocktail recipe, from the “sour” family (eg, margarita, cosmo, sidecar, daiquiri, etc) to illustrate that point.
basic cocktail 1
2 oz base spirit (approx 80 proof)
1 oz acid (usually lemon or lime)
1 oz 1:1 simple syrup (that is, 1 part water, 1 part sugar, shaken [...]
i’ve been mining the alinea cookbook for drink ideas, here’s my first attempt. dad likes almost all of my concoctions (which i assume because he keeps asking for them) , but this is the only one he’s specifically praised.
ginger-mango alignment
2 oz hendricks gin
OR cucumber-infused gin
OR gin plus one thick cucumber slice
1 oz [...]
