Tag: Recipe

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…