Useless Whiskey & Pear cocktail
Why useless, you say? Well, how often do you get pear cider from Ikea AND Rogue whiskey? It is tasty though: 20 grams Rogue whiskey 80 grams Ikea pear cider (I suppose another, better cider would be fine, too) splash Angostura aromatic bitters Just put them all in a glass and stir. Ice if you...
Korean Superbowl Chili
This dish has origins basically nowhere. Standing in a Korean market yesterday, my girlfriend said “let’s have chili.” I said okay, and put some garlic sambal and gochu chang in my basket, and here we are. This stuff is awesome. It’s meaty, warm and spicy with a background sweetness that makes it very hard to...
Apples and Bourbon are kind of distracting
This is my first cocktail recipe in a while. In part that’s because of Thanksgiving and the associated craziness, in part it’s because of visiting people and throwing parties and not being at home to invent things, and in part it’s just because my prior recipe for bourbon and non-alcoholic apple cider is just so...
It’s that orangey bourbony thingy!
Hello drinkers of cocktails. I’ve been mixing this for a while, and Victoria Nece seems to quite like it. Occasionally she asks me to make her one of these, but it turns out I can’t remember the proportions. Sometimes even the ingredients escape me. She’s trying to vote now, so I thought I’d work out...
This is not a grapefruit
But you wouldn’t know it. More fun with gin and vinho verde: 50 grams Tanqueray 50 grams vinho verde 5 grams lime juice 15 grams simple syrup 1 splash Angostura bitters 25 grams tonic Add everything but the tonic to a shaker with ice. Shake. Pour out into a martini glass. Put it back onto...
Gin plays well with vinho verde
I’ve seen a lot of gin and sparkling wine cocktails, frequently balanced with some sugar and bitters. A lot of times there’s the fashionable bitters-soaked sugar cube in the bottom of a glass with gin and then wine on top. You can even go up the price scale for both gin and champagne to show...
Okay, okay, I’ll start blogging my recipes
And yes, I’m doing this partly so I don’t have to remember how I did it for next time. Also, it just seems the thing to finally get around to doing this week. (And don’t forget this thing.) Let’s start with a dead simple apple cider and bourbon drink I’ve been making a fair amount...
Employees Must Wash Haiku
Journeyman is a fantastic restaurant. If you haven’t, go eat there. In the bathrooms at Journeyman you won’t see signs that say “Employees must wash hands”. You’ll see some pretty damned funny haiku nicely framed on the wall which meet the same legal requirement. When I read these haiku I thought one thing: Classical music...
Cucumbers & Gin Cocktail Round-up
We’re done! We’ve created seven different custom cocktails each featuring cucumbers and gin for awesome our Kickstarter backers. It was harder and more rewarding than I expected. Both ingredients have very distinctive flavors, and coming up with seven different recipes that a) aren’t horrible and b) aren’t identical wasn’t easy. We created a lot of...
Final Cocktail: the Shoot My Brother
Shoot my brother. please! Basically, I’m morally obligated to taunt Dennis with his custom cocktail. He’s my brother – I have to. The name of the drink is one thing, but my favorite part is that he has to cut fiddly grapefruit supremes and wrestle with obnoxious plating requirements! This petty triumph, dear reader, is...
The Emilicious
Emily H is one of those brilliant people who winds up running the government (and she’s got a recipe blog!). She’s a civil servant, working for the NSF, NASA, and now the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, so just remember: she’s on your side, and she’s good at it. This spring, though, every couple of weeks...
The Greg Fizz
Greg put us over the top on December 13th, and to a great extent he’s still largely a mystery to us. His Kickstarter profile lists him only as Greg D., but also shows him to be a prolific supporter of a huge range of creative projects – they’re really quite fascinating if you want to...
