by Brian | Jun 11, 2017 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
Yesterday I posted how to make a mint sekanjabin, a Persian delight of honey and vinegar with embedded mint tones. You can use this syrupy concoction to eat: dipping in lettuce leaves or other veggies. But the best way is to use this as a “super syrup” in cocktails,...
by Brian | May 27, 2017 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
I had gin. I had Aperol. I wanted to combine them. A quick search found this recipe on Epicurious. There it is called Gin and Aperol for the Win. I’m calling it Lively instead because I am leaving out the curry leaf and salt the Epicurious recipe calls for. And I find...
by Brian | May 21, 2017 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary
My wife Suzi has 100 to 200 people a week come into our kitchen and cook meals. She runs the hands-on cooking school Cooking by the Book and teams visit here to have fun, learn, and enjoy a perfect meal. That perfection comes in part from our ingredients. We use the...
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by Brian | May 20, 2017 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
Suzi and I have a few obsessions, like peony soap. We’ve searched endlessly for a successor to a bar we bought twenty years ago. We’ve come close, but a few dozen bars down and still more to go. And so it is with the other obsession: a really good Bloody Mary. We’ve...
by Brian | Apr 16, 2017 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
Yesterday I posted a Blackberry Purée which you could drizzle over ice cream or pound cake. But I like to drink my blackberries. In a martini that is cold and that floats a raft of flavors. This drink is neither too strong nor to weak. It’s lovely to simply sip, but...
by Brian | Mar 31, 2017 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes, Uncategorized
A couple of weeks ago I reviewed a wonderfully brilliant cocktail book, Wild Cocktails by Lottie Muir. The concept of this book is simple: go outdoors, into your garden or the forest, pick some elements of nature, and use them at home to make components:...
