|| Negroni Style – Rosemary & Violet | & | Sbagliato Style – Absinthe & Aperol || After I posted my Necropolitan, someone commented I should also do a Necronomicon, with rosemary. So I did, and I also threw in a third member of the family, a low-alcohol version. The…
|| Negroni style | Aperol, Absinthe || Spotify recommended a song by Green Lung to me the other day. I didn’t know the band, and I didn’t know the song (which was pretty good and groovy), but it was the title that’s the source for this blog: Necropolitan Line. I…
|| 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…
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…
|| 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,…
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…
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…
|| 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…
|| Pistachio & Mint Daisy || Sometimes it’s not so much inspiration as brute force. This is one of those times, when you’re a man with a hammer and you’re just looking for a tempting nail. The hammer is a pistachio liqueur, and also white chocolate foam. So with this…
|| Plum, almond & grapefruit Daisy || Do you remember The Intergalactic? That remains one of my favourites of all time, but it is not equally accessible to everyone. So that’s what we’re doing here, making the same profile but minus the cardamom-lemongrass bitters and more accessible. And boy did…