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 [...]

Cherry Bitters

Another round of bitters got underway today!  I have had the supplies all ready to go, just needed to sit down and figure out what was going to go in the bitters, and determine if I was going to make this batch all in one shot, or do a double maceration.

I had compiled quite a few [...]

What do you do with a bottle of Falernum?

Why make cocktails, of course.  I have had my newly finished bottle of falernum sitting in the fridge for a couple of days now, and decided I had better start putting it to good use!

After a fair bit of research, I ended up using Kaiser Penguin’s recipe for falernum, and used Lamb’s 151 as the base.  [...]

Dine and dash on gluten-free muffins

A quick post here from chez Real Food Made Easy.  Ive been baking quite a bit lately — testing gluten-free recipes and all, but haven’t been taking the time to document, so here’s a quickie for you :0 !

I like my muffins “muffiny” –  a bit dense and craggy, none of these fluffy concoctions (dammit it, [...]

Homemade Grenadine

I’ve run out of grenadine, and decided it was time to make up a batch, since we’re getting those super-big pomegranates from the new crop out of California.

For those of you who haven’t had homemade grenadine, you really should try it.  Its not that hard to make, and it tastes so much better than the coloured [...]