Underhill-Lounge

Whenever Mrs. Underhill Lounge is away or out for the evening, it is traditional for me to make a big pot of Jambalaya.
I’m not quite sure how I decided Jambalaya would be my bachelor dinner of choice.
In any case, I’ve been making versions of this Jambalaya for almost as long as I’ve been cooking.
The recipe [...]

Sometimes it’s nice to get away from cocktails involving liquor.
The Champagne Cocktail is a very nice aperitif cocktail which involves no liquor at all.
Champagne Cocktail
Put into a wine glass one lump of Sugar, and saturate it with Angostura Bitters. Having added to this 1 lump of Ice, fill the glass with Champagne, squeeze on [...]

There’s so much bullshit, myth, and just plain wrong information surrounding Absinthe, that it is hard to know where to start.
If you’re interested in Absinthe at all, I first must recommend stopping by the Wormwood Society or La Fee Verte Absinthe House for much more information than I can possibly include here.
First off, Absinthe is [...]

Absinthe Cocktail
1/2 Absinthe (1 1/2 oz Absinthe Verte de Fougerolles)
1/2 Water (1 1/2 oz Water)
1 dash Syrup (Rich Simple Syrup)
1 dash Angostura Bitters

Absinthe (Special) Cocktail
2/3 Absinthe (1 oz Absinthe Verte de Fougerolles)
1/6 Gin (1/4 oz Beefeater Gin)
1/6 Syrup of Anisette or Gomme Syrup (barspoon Rich Simple Syrup)
1 dash Orange Bitters
1 dash Angostura Bitters

Instructions for both [...]

Rosey Fizz
1 Rose Scented Geranium Leaf (nice; but, optional)Rose Hip Granita*
2 oz Apple Brandy (Laird’s Bonded)2 oz Blood Orange Juice (juice 1 small moro blood orange)1/2 tsp superfine (caster) sugar1 egg white
Sparkling Dry Rosé Wine (Louis Boillot Perle d’Aurore Cremant de Bourgogne)
Rose Flower Water
Muddle Geranium leaf in the bottom of collins glass. Fill glass 1/3 [...]