Underhill-Lounge

Why, the subtitle of this blog is “Cocktails, food, and gardening…” and I have yet to put up any garden pictures!
Today we did a bit of a cleanup of our community garden plot and planted some herbs we got last weekend in Paso Robles.

This guy I rescued about 2 years ago in the discount section [...]

Weird things happen in Bar Land.
Normally I’m kind of a stay at home kind of guy. Wife, cats, small groups of friends.
But, last night I met up with an acquaintance to chat at a bar.
We had a couple of drinks, and there was a woman sitting next to us at the bar, I guess [...]

Ahem, Mrs. Underhill was giving me a bit of a hard time about my “spicy” language in the previous Whip It Out post.
So, I suppose I should explain.
The name is actually an allusion to a Mothers of Invention song called, “Ian Underwood Whips it Out.” The song begins with a little narration where Ian [...]

A quick trip to Portland, Oregon, this last weekend.
I’d read about Bailey’s Taproom on some Portland forum or another. It recently opened across the street from the restaurant we were dining at later in the evening, Saucebox. A nice selection of what I would call “Extreme” beers. Beers from Stone, Russian River, [...]

Since I mentioned the Bloodhound cocktail in the previous post, figured I should put up that recipe.

Blood-Hound Cocktail
1/4 French Vermouth. (3/4 oz Dry Vermouth)
1/4 Italian Vermouth. (3/4 oz Sweet Vermouth)
1/2 Dry Gin. (1 1/2 oz)
2 or 3 Crushed Strawberries.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
This is a great cocktail when strawberries are in season.
Some [...]

For some reason, since trying the cocktails at the bartender’s competition, I’ve had an idea to try a cocktail which combined strawberries and the St. Germain Elderflower liqueur.
After a couple tries, we thought this one pretty good. It’s basically a riff on a classic cocktail called the “Bloodhound”. Haven’t thought of a name [...]