Cocktails, Food, and Gardening South of the hill in Bernal Heights, CA
Well, that isn’t Soup Noodles, it’s a Fourth Degree Cocktail:
2 oz Junipero
1/2 oz M&R Sweet Vermouth
1/2 oz Dolin Vermouth
Dash Absinthe
Lemon Peel
Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Squeeze lemon peel over drink.
I just love how you can see the little droplets of lemon oil on the surface of the drink.
The original drink from [...]
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 [...]
Affinity Cocktail
1/3 French Vermouth. (1 oz Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth)
1/3 Italian Vermouth. (1 oz Cinzano Rosso Vermouth)
1/3 Scotch Whisky. (1 oz Compass Box Asyla)
2 Dashes Angostura Bitters.
Stir well and strain into cocktail glass. Squeeze lemon peel on top.
Now, I haven’t really ever been much of a Scotch fan.
I know, I know, great world class whisky [...]
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 [...]
The first Monday of every month Jon Gasparini and Greg Lindgren of Rye bar in San Francisco host a competition for bartenders.
An ingredient is chosen, usually working with a spirits company, and the bartenders create original cocktails featuring that ingredient. The winning cocktail goes on the menu at Rye.
This month I was lucky enough [...]
“The moment, now, had arrived for a Daiquiri: seated near the cool drip of the fountain, where a slight stir of air seemed to ruffle the fringed mantone of a bronze dancing Andalusian girl, I lingered over the frigid mixture of Ron Bacardi, sugar, and a fresh vivid green lime.
“It was a delicate compound, not [...]
When I was growing up, my Mother would tell me stories of her parents when they were younger.
She thought my grandfather was the best dressed and most handsome man she knew. Apparently he was quite the snappy dresser, as she always remembered his spotless spats.
My grandmother, I’m told, was a bit of a flapper.
They [...]
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 [...]
