Tag: Recipe
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Champs Elysées – Yeah…No
I started this week eager for a unique and interesting cocktail. Something that was a step away from what I’ve been mixing for a while. While I got unique and I got interesting I, sadly, did not get tasty. The Champs Elysées is a riff on the classic sour and seems like it should be…
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Champs Elysées
I’ve been making a lot of cocktails out of Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails of late, but my library runs much deeper. So, in an effort to break out of my routine a bit I perused Anvil’s drink list this morning for inspiration and made a quick list of a few I haven’t tried. If…
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Lucien Gaudin Cocktail
After the last cocktail I need something that I know sounds delicious. That in mind, I leafed through my Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails looking at the cocktails I’d marked to mix at some point. There on page 196 is a picture of a ruby red cocktail that I knew was going to fit the…
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Rob Roy
It should come as no surprise to long time readers of this blog that I love Manhattans. They’re one of my go to cocktails when I’m looking for something straight forward but delicious. They’re one of the classics that I’ll actually order at a restaurant (and I’m usually not disappointed). And, finally, they’re just damn…
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Homemade Hot Chocolate Mix
Knowing I was going to be mixing up a bunch of hot chocolate for this group of drinks I wanted to try my hand at making my own powdered hot chocolate mix. I had seen a recipe on Good Eats a while back that sounded really tasty, included only ingredients I could actually pronounce and…