Cocktails, Food, and Gardening South of the hill in Bernal Heights, CA
Dandy Cocktail
1/2 Rye or Canadian Club Whisky. (1 oz Rittenhouse Bonded Rye Whiskey)
1/2 Dubonnet. (1 oz Vergano Americano)
1 Dash Angostura Bitters.
3 Dashes Cointreau. (1 tsp. Cointreau)
1 Piece Lemon Peel.
1 Piece Orange Peel.
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass.
First, I find Dubonnet, at least as we have it here, made in the good old [...]
One of the drinks included in “Food & Wine Cocktails 2008″ is Martin Cate’s version of the classic Trader Vic drink the Fog Cutter
Taking the opportunity of a friend’s band (The awesome Project Pimento!) playing at Forbidden Island, I stopped by to try the drink in question.
Le Fog Cutter. Tasty! I’d not [...]
Cape Cocktail
1/3 Dry Gin (1 oz Boodles)
1/3 Caperitif (1 oz Dubonnet Blanc)
1/3 Orange Juice (1 oz Fresh Squeezed)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Again experimenting with Dubonnet Blanc as a Caperitif replacement.
The cocktail is pleasant enough; but, significantly improved by the addition of a few drops of Regan’s Orange Bitters.
This post is one in a [...]
Calvados Cocktail (6 People)
2 Glasses Calvados (1 oz Germain-Robin Apple Brandy)
2 Glasses Orange Juice (1 oz Orange Juice)
1 Glass Cointreau (1/2 oz Cointreau)
1 Glass Orange Bitters (1/2 oz Aperol)
Add plenty of ice and shake carefully
Turned this into a single serving drink.
Two main puzzles here.
First, I would expect something called “Calvados Cocktail” to be a Calvados [...]
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 [...]
Bull-Dog Cocktail
Put 2 or 3 lumps of ice into a large tumbler, add the juice of 1 Orange, 1 glass (2oz Boodles) Gin. Fill Balance with Ginger Ale (Reed’s Ginger Brew).
Stir, and serve with a straw.
Rollin down the street, smokin indo, sippin on gin and juice,
Laid back, (with my mind on my money and my [...]
Bronx (Silver) Cocktail
The Juice of 1/4 Orange
The White of 1 Egg
1/4 French Vermouth (3/4 oz Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth)
1/4 Italian Vermouth (3/4 oz Cinzano Rosso Vermouth)
1/2 Dry Gin (1 1/2 oz Boodles Gin)
Shake well and strain into large wine glass.
Haven’t quite decided what I think of the Boodles.
It was on sale, so I figured I [...]
Bronx Cocktail
The Juice of 1/4 Orange (Juice 1 Page Mandarin)
1/4 French Vermouth (1 oz Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth)
1/4 Italian Vermouth (1 oz Carpano Punt e Mes)
1/2 Dry Gin (1 oz Beefeater’s Gin, 1 oz Tanqueray Gin)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Ahem, this did end up a bit on the extra-large size. But, really, the [...]
