Archive for the 'Food and Drinks' Category

Delicious Fall Cocktails

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

I’ve got not one, not two, but three new cocktail recipes for you guys. The first, Faux Cider, is so-named because it has no apple cider in it and yet is oddly reminiscent of a hard cider. Something about the combination of lillet, vermouth, cola and lemon gives it a fruity tang. It’s really nice [...]

My Latest Cocktail Recipes

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

I’ve been toying with Campari lately. It’s an incredibly bitter Italian liqueur which can easily overwhelm a drink if you’re not very careful with it. I’ve found that rum and, especially, bourbon play very well with it though, and consequentially have two new and exciting cocktails for you to try. I’ve searched around the web [...]

Cocktail Creation – The Cloven Martini

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Charlotte, my friend Gabe, and several others have noticed – and never fail to point out – that I get a disproportionate amount of pink drinks compared to the average, virile, testosterone-fueled man! I think the reason for this is because I tend to try cocktails with a lot of ingredients, rather than just “some [...]

The Omnivore’s Hundred

Monday, August 18th, 2008

My lovely fiancée Charlotte, who maintains a blog of her own (in french – venture forth if you dare), keyed me in to this blog post and I thought it was interesting. The Omnivore’s 100. I quote:
Below is a list of 100 things that I think every good omnivore should have tried at least once [...]

Cocktail Recipes

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

I like making drinks … not just like “Jack and Coke” or “Seven and Seven” or “gin and more gin” (my martini recipe) … but trying my hand at more complex cocktails. Charlotte (my fiancée) and I are fans of the Flatiron Lounge, which is one of Manhattan’s more notable “let’s bring back old-time cocktails [...]