Cocktails, Food, and Gardening South of the hill in Bernal Heights, CA
One of my favorite New Orleans cocktails, after the Sazerac, is the Vieux Carré Cocktail.
According to Stanley Clisby Arthur in his book, “Famous New Orleans Drinks and How to Mix ‘Em,” the cocktail was invented by, “Walter Bergeron, head bartender of the Hotel Monteleone cocktail lounge,” and especially to honor the Vieux Carré, or old [...]
Since trying Armazem Viera’s Esmeralda Cachaca, I’ve gotten a little obsessed with making a cocktail with it. I really enjoy the flavor of the spirit.
The other week I think I wasted probably a good 8 ounces of it trying to make my favorite kinds of drinks. That is, those involving vermouth and bitters.
The [...]
It’s been a while since I last tortured you with a culinarily inspired original cocktail with at least one difficult or nearly impossible to obtain ingredient.
Since this is a sort of “variation” on the Bull-Dog Cocktail, I thought I’d put it up.
I was paging through the February, 2008, Gourmet magazine. You know, looking for recipes [...]
Sometimes I feel so happy
Sometimes I feel so sad
Sometimes I feel so happy
But mostly you just make me mad
Baby, you just make me mad
My friend Lance from My Life on the Rocks reminded me that for a Blue Curacao drink challenge I made another cocktail based on the Blanche.
Pale Blue Eyes
2 oz Plymouth Gin
1/4 oz [...]
I have wasted so much cocktail time this week avoiding the obvious with this cocktail.
I had an idea to create a cocktail that featured the Death’s Door Gin. When I was thinking about it, the interesting fact that the Bernheim Wheat Whiskey was also made on a Wheat base piqued my interest so I [...]
Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Cherry Bomb
1/4 Cherry Brandy (Massenez Creme de Griotte)
1/4 Cointreau
1/2 Aged Rum (Rhum Barbancourt 5 star)
Use liqueur glass and pour carefully so that ingredients do not mix. Serve with 1/6 lime on top and squeeze into glass before imbibing.
When I was making all those Pousse-Cafe type “Angel” cocktails, I was trying to think of some version [...]
Winter In California
2 oz Germain-Robin Fine Alambic Brandy
3/4 oz Hachiya Persimmon Puree*
Juice 1 Satsuma Mandarin
1/2 oz Orgeat
1/4 oz Pimento Dram
Shake in an iced cocktail shaker to chill. Strain into cocktail glass.
I was looking through the search terms folks were using and happened to notice that among the more predictable terms, (”Absinthe!” Surprise, surprise!) that a [...]
A while ago I posted the series of Alexander Cocktails: Alexander Cocktail (No. 1), Alexander Cocktail (No. 2), and Alexander’s Sister.
I didn’t post an original cocktail of my own, that I liked best of the bunch. Sorry, Mr. Craddock, we always love our children the best.
But, since Marleigh over at Sloshed! is posting about [...]
I’ve been intrigued by Juleps lately.
The confluence of Derby Day and Cinqo de Mayo this year, allowed some interesting variations, including a Tequila Julep on the eGullet cocktail forums.
On the DrinkBoy forums, a person who calls themself “Theurbanbartender” documented an inspired sounding Pineapple Julep.
“In a julep cup take a hand full of fresh mint leaves-muddle [...]
