Cocktails, Food, and Gardening South of the hill in Bernal Heights, CA
Field trips to unusual locations…
…Tropical Islands where pagan gods hold sway…
…Mysterious Elixirs…
…Madness I tell you, madness…
…Traffic when Island hopping surely sucks…
…late night noshing options are limited…
…and oh, yes, I really needed that last beer.
Dulle Teve Tripel is brewed by De Dolle Brouers in Esen, Belgium.
“Dulle Teve” apparently translates to, “Mad Bitch,” in English, and the two brewer brothers who run De Dolle claim it is named in honor of their hard working mother who greets visitors and leads tours at their tiny micro-brewery.
I’m not often a fan of [...]
Oddly, Genevieve makes a pretty tasty Julep type thing. I mean, you do have to like the flavor of the gin to start with. Also mint goes well with the odd Italian herbal liqueur Strega. As always, I am thinking, why not put these tastes together?
1/2 oz Strega
Sprigs Mint
2 oz Genevieve
In the [...]
One of my favorite fish preparations is baking it in a spicy tomato sauce with olives and capers.
Unfortunately, the only decent looking fish at our local market was Pollack, the world’s most tasteless fish. There’s a reason some Asian genius decided to use this as a base to create artificial crab.
Pre-heat your oven to [...]
Sometimes Jon Carrol writes about cats, and sometimes children.
Sometimes he is right on, as in this column he published last Thanksgiving.
Gratitude
“Gratitude is the antidote. It is useful in combating a variety of diseases, from something as vague as the discontents of civilization to something as specific as personal grief. Thanksgiving is the holiday of gratitude, [...]
Allies Cocktail
1/2 Dry Gin. (1 1/2 oz Beefeater Gin)
1/2 French Vermouth. (1 1/2 oz Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth)
2 Dashes Kummel. (1 dash Linie Aquavit, 1 dash simple syrup)
Shake (stir please! - Erik) well and strain into cocktail glass.
Not really much to say about the flavor of this one. Mostly it just tastes like [...]
So, I suppose this post should have gone up around Halloween, instead of Thanksgiving!
I belong to a beer club, and we get around $15 worth of beer a month, whether it is 2 six packs, a few bombers, or a couple Belgians. I enjoy it, as we get to try beers we wouldn’t normally [...]
