Cocktails, Food, and Gardening South of the hill in Bernal Heights, CA
Atta Boy Cocktail
1/3 French Vermouth. (3/4 oz Noilly Prat Dry)
2/3 Dry Gin. (1 1/2 oz Plymouth Gin)
4 Dashes grenadine. (2 barspoons home made Grenadine)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
The Atta Boy isn’t as sweet as you would imagine, when made with homemade grenadine, and isn’t a bad cocktail. Still, not super amazing, either.
This [...]
Saturday we didn’t have much planned, beyond dinner and attending a performance by the Upright Citizen’s Brigade.
One of Mrs. Underhill’s goals for the trip was to get to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
After a most delicious brunch at Upstairs at Bouley, we headed uptown to the Met.
We spent much of the day looking at cultural [...]
Kind of a day of missed opportunities mended.
Another person I’ve met electronically through my various dealings on eGullet is Audrey Saunders. Last year some time she’d been in town for a Gin Syposium and we had just missed one another.
I really wanted to go to the bar she runs, The Pegu Club, as Mrs. [...]
Astoria Cocktail
1 Dash Orange Bitters. (Regan’s)
2/3 Gin (1 1/2 oz Beefeater’s Gin)
1/3 French Vermouth. (3/4 oz Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass. Serve with stuffed olive.
Yer basic Dry Martini. Get used to it, there are about a million of these in the Savoy Cocktail Book. Interesting to note [...]
Artist’s (Special) Cocktail
1/3 Whisky. (3/4 oz Sazerac Straight Rye Whiskey)
1/3 Sherry. (3/4 oz Lustau Solera Reserva Dry Oloroso Sherry “Don Nuño”)
1/6 Lemon Juice. (1/3-1/2 oz lime juice)
1/6 Groseille Syrup. (bar spoon D’Arbo Red Currant Preserves)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
This is the genuine ‘Ink of Inspiration’ imbibed at the Bal Bullier Paris. The recipe [...]
As you can well imagine, Thursday morning started a bit slow.
Between being out of sync with the time change and being out late drinking, I was a bit slow getting out of bed.
We were staying in Tribeca, and Mrs. Underhill, having gotten there a bit earlier had already researched the breakfast situation. She had [...]
I have met a couple folks via the food and cocktail forums on eGullet over the years.
A couple guys I knew from their foodblogs and cocktail posts were John Deragon and Don Lee. Serious foodies and tech workers who moonlight as bartenders at PDT, I dropped them a note to see if they would [...]
Mrs. Underhill was called away to work in New York last week.
After going over our options, we decided it would be more fun for me to travel there and meet her, than for her to quick fly back for Valentine’s day.
Before I get to the details of the trip, I just have to say how [...]
Artillery Cocktail
1/3 Italian Vermouth. (3/4 oz Carpano Antica Vermouth)
2/3 Dry Gin. (1 1/2 oz Beefeater’s, Tanqueray, or other London Dry Gin)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass.
The two ingredient cocktail is kind of tough, so pick things you know you enjoy and that you think will combine well, before attempting.
A lower tier vermouth [...]
Apricot Cocktail (Sweet)
(6 People)
Dilute a teaspoonful of apricot jam (1/2 teaspoon Bonne Maman Apricot Jam) in a glass of Abricotine (1 oz Vedrenne Liqueur de Abricot). Add a teaspoonful of Peach Bitters (1/2 teaspoon Fee’s Peach Bitters), slightly less than two glasses of Gin (2 oz Beefeater’s Gin) and 2 1/2 glasses of French Vermouth [...]
