Category: Recipes
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Irish Coffee
I’ve enjoyed my week off and my eyes are nearly fully healed so I’m ready to dive back in to cocktail hacking. Since this Tuesday is St. Patrick’s Day it seemed only logical that I had to do an Ireland themed cocktail of some kind for this week. But what to choose? I already covered…
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Lemon Drop – Mmmm…Lemony
Let me start with a sincere apology for the delay in wrapping up the Lemon Drop. Early in the weekend I decided I wanted to experiment with a couple things I hadn’t had a chance to. In addition, I decided I was going to not feature a cocktail this week. So, that delayed this wrap-up.…
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Lemon Drop
I haven’t spent much time covering vodka cocktails as yet. Some of my fellow cocktail enthusiasts are vehemently opposed to vodka and while I can’t say I fall in to that category, I will say I don’t find myself reaching for it particularly often. Which is particularly odd when you consider that I have a…
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Caipirinha – Carioca for a Week
Sipping a Caipirinha truly makes you feel like a Brazilian, if only for a short time. The fresh lime flavor, sweetness and grassy flavor of the cachaça meld in to a truly wonderful drink. The flavor is extremely refreshing, not unlike a slightly alcoholic limeade. Not to mention these drinks are exceedingly drinkable. That said,…
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Caipirinha
This week, and specifically Tuesday, is Carnaval in Brazil and to celebrate I’m featuring Brazil’s national drink, the Caipirinha. The Caipirinha [KIE-PEE-REEN-YAH] is a fairly simple drink consisting of only cachaça [KA-SHA-SA], limes and sugar muddled together to create what Gary Regan lovingly refers to as “an elixir.” Sounds fantastic to me, sign me up.…