i bought some ‘just blueberry’ juice from trader joes and found it fairly lame. so i (over) reduced it 4:1 with some sugar and ginger and its pretty rad.
2 oz vodka
3/4 oz lemon
3/4 oz rich blueberry-ginger syrup
5 mint leaves
gently muddle mint, combine all other ingredients, shake.
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japanese cocktail at pizzaiolo. delicious. [...]
as mentioned in a previous post, cuesa has a farmer’s market cocktail night every quarter/season. tonight was their night of summer cocktails. overall, the drinks this time around were much better than last time; nothing was bad, many were very good.
favorites:
green and orange (jackie patterson) – green chartreuse, lime, carrot, honey, cantaloupe, cilantro [...]
in defiance of my previous ‘realization’, i decided to not be a penis-flavored drunk-driving pox on society and instead rely on public transportation.
well, it might have less to do with an ethical epiphany and more to do with the discovery that ac transit runs more frequently than they did in my youth. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
