|| Manhattan style | Milk washed | Pistachio, Fig || I always like to make something special for the holidays, preferably premixable so I can bring it to every occasion I go! But the flavour idea for this has been lying in wait a couple of months, ever since I…
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A Rant about Measurements
A.k.a. a “measurant” This is not about how the metric system is a superior system of units (although it is). It is about exactly one thing: the inadequacy of jigger when scaling recipes and converting between units. First about the scaling. I like smaller drinks. I will always take 2…
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Chai Aperol Spritz
Great aperitif with aromatic snacks like papadums It’s the holiday season, so I need a nice aperitif cocktail for all those Christmas dinners that were coming up! I’d been revisiting the grapefruit-cardamom combination lately (because of an open carton of grapefruit juice), one of my favorites but it didn’t immediately…
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Gado Gado Sour & Asian Spices Syrup
|| Sour | Peanut, Asian Spices || This drink still makes me smile. It’s a little ridiculous but every time I drink it, it surprises me again by how well it works even though your head is telling you it shouldn’t be allowed. I was cooking an Indonesian inspired dish,…
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Spicy Chocolate Foam
Foams are fancy. That’s probably the main reason I make them! Everyone is immediately impressed when there’s foam on a cocktail, and what we see certainly adds to our experience. But I have to admit that when I’m making a menu for my cocktail parties, I’m still a bit brute…
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Bellini Variations with Bite(s)
Sometimes things seem to assemble slowly one piece at a time, and you’re not sure if it actually was your own idea or not. Or perhaps neither. This is one of those times. I think it started with Kevin Kos’ Rossini video: strawberry puree/syrup with a hint of basil and…
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The Gin Laser – A Gin Showcase cocktail
By happy accident I created a cocktail that, it turns out, is amazing at showcasing different gins. At least in my opinion for the 3 gins that I tried it with. The Gin Laser recipe is quite straightforward: Shake & Strain I’ve tried this with Roku, Tanqueray 10 and Loft…
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Spiced Stout Syrup
The spiced stout syrup as an idea is not my own. My friends had been to Scotland, and they bought an Irish coffee kit there. Now that I see myself writing this I’m not so sure this is what happened…, so maybe they actually went to Ireland? Don’t remember, nor…
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Galactic Plane
|| Milk Washed Enchaned Sour | Cherry, Orange & Chocolate | Herbs || I recently did my first milk wash. It was a bit of a coincidence. I was working on this other idea and decided kind of last minute to try milk washing, because I was missing something, and…
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Cranberry-Elderflower Syrup
Quick ingredient post, I wasn’t trying to do anything fancy, in fact I just needed to do something with this cranberry juice that was about to go past the due date! So making a syrup out of it seemed to make the most practical sense, and that’s what I did.…