made some rangpur caipirinhas for a thing at my brothers house. i thought i would try swapping out some regular lime for the rangpurs. that was a mistake. lime pith is bitter and nasty. i should have just used the juice.
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jp asked for a light cocktail the other day. i [...]
the owner of the rangpur lime tree said i could harvest to my heart’s content. i think i took down about three pounds today, there’s about 20 times as much left on the tree.
2 oz cachaca
half a rangpur lime, sliced
2 tsp sugar
muddle limes with sugar, add cachaca, shake with ice, double strain.
this is awesome. [...]
stopped by pizzaiolo after running some errands as i “just happened” to be in the area.
sfizio alla pesca – rum, lemon, peach, lemon verbena syrup
andina – pisco, lime, drambuie + something else i forgot to write down, maybe orange bitters
of note, cate used a half a peach per drink. that’s commitment!
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as per [...]
2 oz rum
1 oz red grapefruit
1/2 oz lime
version #3: 1″ x 1″ x 2″ very ripe pineapple core, cut into pieces
version #4: 1/8th of a small ripe peach
1 tsp sugar
short drizzle maraschino liqueur
4 drops grapefruit bitters
muddle fruit with sugar. combine remaining ingredients, shake without ice for 20 seconds, shake with ice for 20 seconds. [...]
awhile ago i went to the zig zag cafe in seattle (where i had a corn n oil for the first time–goddamn, murray kills that drink) and ended up in conversation with a couple of catering chefs each with a taste for high-end scotch. i asked if they’d ever had any of murray’s cocktails [...]
