Decanting Cherry Bitters

Over the Christmas break, I decided to decant all of the bitters that were quietly infusing in their mason jars.   If you’ll remember, I had started out with a bunch of stuff that I though would work, and submerged the whole works in overproof Canadian Whisky.

Over the next day or so, all of the dried ingredients, [...]

Arnaud's Special Cocktail

In the quest to work my way through Ted Haigh’s Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails, here’s #2!  I hadn’t planned to make one of these cocktails today, BUT after getting home from grocery shopping, @fourchickens on twitter (and an awesome gluten-free blogger put out a call for a #twittercocktailparty.

Well, what’s a gal to do but join [...]

The East India Cocktail

So here we are in the stretch between Xmas and New Year’s where the days are lazy and the eating is good!  After a day of not much activity other than setting up the New PVR and walking the resident Shiba Inus, we kind of felt like curry tonight.

Our usual curry is a stew-like concoction, with [...]

Winter Solstice Cocktail

So here we sit in front of the fire, on the longest night of the year, Winter Solstice.  It seemed only fitting that there should be a cocktail to celebrate the day (ok, we’re doing some pretty serious relaxing here Chez Real Food Made Easy!)

I was initially inspired to use a good Canadian Whiskey, seeing as [...]

A Gin-teal Cocktail (TDN Makeover!)

Last Thursday Drink Night was retro-TDN (no rules in the octagon!) and I was trying to come up with a drink that used some of a bottle of earl-grey tea infused Plymouth Gin and draw down some of the bottle of Cinzano Orancio I have in the liquor cabinet.

After reflection, I ended up making a few [...]