Cocktails, Food, and Gardening South of the hill in Bernal Heights, CA
In older cocktail books there are many cocktails for 4-6 people.
I guess these are intended for dinner parties and the like.
In “The Savoy Cocktail Book” these are almost always measured using the “glass” measure. In the parlance of late 19th and early 20th century cocktail bar the “glass” or “wineglass” amounted to approximately 2 [...]
Alaska Cocktail
3/4 Dry Gin (Generous 1 1/2 oz Dry Gin. A milder classic gin like Beefeater’s or Boodles will work best here.)
1/4 Yellow Chartreuse (Generous 1/2 oz Yellow Chartreuse)
(Dash Regan’s Orange Bitters)
Shake (Stir, Please! - Erik) well and strain into cocktail glass.
“So far as can be ascertained this delectable potion is NOT the staple [...]
The Rogue Dead Guy Ale is a good Halloween beer of the week for obvious reasons. According to the Rogue website it was originally created to celebrate the Day of the Dead and is a German-style Maibock. In practice it is a fairly sweet, malt forward strong ale. Very drinkable, though, I have [...]
One of my favorite annual events!
October 27, 2007
Wet Hop Festival
Description:
A selection of wet hop beers made from hops that
have not been dried , which imparts a different
aroma and flavor profile than normal. The lineup of
beers will include:
Deschutes Hop Trip
Drakes Brewing Co. Harvest Ale
Bear Republic Confiscation
Beach Chalet Hop Patootie
21 st Amendment Harvest Moon
Half Moon Bay Green [...]
A nice quick pasta for a weeknight.
Put a pot of salted water on to boil your pasta. Peel and dice an eggplant, chop an onion, and 4 cloves of garlic.
Brown the eggplant in batches and reserve.
Saute the garlic for a couple minutes, add the onions, oregano, thyme, and pepper flakes. When onions are [...]
1/2 Apricot Brandy (1 oz Vedrenne Liqueur de Abricot)
1/2 Curacao (1 oz Rhum Clément Liqueur Creole Shrubb)
4 dashes Lemon Juice
OK, this is still really sweet; but, it is also really tasty.
Of the three “After…” cocktails, this is my favorite formulation. Yum!
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all [...]
Woo!
How great is it when you don’t go to WhiskyFest and get, (birthday,) swag!
Wife treks all the way to Brooklyn to bring back Amaro and Whiskey. Friends give you home made liqueur and vermouth. And another friend you met through the Internet gives you a copy of one of Irwin Cobb’s books.
Plus, enjoying [...]
A wonderful wife, a glass of wine, and a beautiful sunset.
Mrs. Underhill came back from her trip to New York with a nasty cold.
The best thing it seemed I could do would be to make her a nice Chicken Stew.
Boiled the chicken.
Various root vegetables.
Cooked chicken removed from bones.
Mmmm… Chicken parts boiling.
Mirepoix.
I really should save that schmaltz…
Roux.
Properly cooked roux.
Diced root vegetables.
Stock goes into the roux.
Boiling [...]
…Mr. DeMille.
Resurrecting spirits, Camper English
“Last year, Erik Ellestad, a cocktail aficionado and systems administrator at UCSF, decided to drink his way through a classic recipe book.”
Yet another chapter in my absurd life…
