It being that time of year, I made a genuine strawberry daiquiri. This isn’t the travesty you likely get in most bars. Like all good drinks it’s dead easy to make, taking about 3 minutes start to finish. The key of course is to use fresh ingredients, uncut by sulfites, sulfates, sugars [...]
If you really want to make a cocktail (’martini’ in the current parlance) that stands out, you’ve got to get away from gimmicky liquor (goldschlager anyone?) and alco-milkshakes. These appeal to the adolescent drinker with their undeveloped craving for sweets and fat. Hey when your bodyfat is under 15% this makes perfect [...]
The thing you have to understand with cocktails (and all food) is that astringency is important. Celery is astringent. Grapefruit is astringent. Romaine is astringent. The absence of astringency begats a palate for fat people.
Angostura Bitters is widely available and perhaps the most useful cocktail ingredient ever invented. It is gentian extract. Apparently it is [...]
Okay, back by popular demand!
You can find the recipe
here!
And FWIW Sairey and I actually drink it with skim milk and it’s still brilliant.
The rum used today was Flora de Cana 7 year old. (I actually like the 12 with this recipe better but it’s $15 more.)
Merry Eggnog to all! Happy Holidays! [...]
Here’s the lineup from Jeff Rogstad today:
Forty Creek Rye is missing from the picture. Any of them make great gifts.
Under $15 - Pink: cheery easy drinking rose bubbly
$35ish - Collazzi, french blends (cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet franc) Italian grown. Incredibly nice structure, smooth balanced wine. And for less than price [...]
The Minister wants to make the SLGA more user friendly. This is a good goal, but truthfully I don’t have any trouble with the SLGA retail side. The staff is very helpful, and I’ve worked out how to get what I want.
So I’m writing a column on under $25 Bordeaux (appearing June 9 in the Saskatoon StarPhoenix if you’re curious) and this required drinking a dozen of them.
Left Bank, right bank (Cabernet/Merlot respectively) young, old… send me your poor, your tannic, your wines yearning to be drunk!
Of course this was a wildly different set of [...]
