Cocktails
The Old Fashioned
Fall the Old Fashioned Way 🍂 🍁 Fall is a great time for classic cocktails—summer coolers are a thing of the past, winter warmers are around the corner and autumnal cocktails, like Rusty Nails and Rob Roys, are just right for the season. A great way to transition from tall summery drinks like a Gin […]
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The Jermyn Street Irregular Cocktail
There is a classic construct for the perfect cocktail—some citrus for acidity and sourness, a liqueur for sweetness and flavor and a spirit for the body of the drink. This works perfectly for drinks like the Margarita (lime juice, triple sec and tequila) and the Sidecar (lemon juice, Cointreau and brandy). You can ramp […]
Continue ReadingPeachy Old Fashioned
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]The Old Fashioned cocktail is one of the oldest cocktails around—hence the name—and has had many iterations over the years but basically must have spirits, sugar, bitters and water. The Old Fashioned we know today, that most manly of drinks beloved of Don Draper, uses American whiskey (usually rye) and comes complete with a […]
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The Orange Grove Cocktail
To see my home in Pasadena; Home where grass is greener Where honeybees Hum melodies And orange trees scent the breeze. –Al Jolson Pasadena, California, is home to the Rose Parade, the California Institute of Technology, Julia Child (yes, really) and—at one time—groves of orange trees. The groves are long gone, but they gave […]
Continue ReadingPink Gin Two Ways
And now a word (or two) from Eric Miller! Pink Gin Two Ways Diana Vreeland once said that “hot pink is the navy blue of India.” That may be fine for the world of high fashion. When it comes to drinking, though, I would change it to say that “pink is hot in the Navy, […]
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Today, this post is brought to you by my marvelous husband Eric and yes, I got to drink it! These are the perks people! I met a gin-soaked barroom queen in Memphis…. Whenever I hear this classic Rolling Stones song, I wonder who Mick and Keith had in mind when they wrote about the gin-soaked […]
Continue ReadingCampari Cocktail, or how to live La Dolce Vita
And now a word from my in-house cocktail concocter husband Eric…. Campari, whether you love it or hate it (or love to hate it), is one of the great classic European aperitifs. Campari is bittersweet (agrodulce, in Italian) with a brilliant ruby red color and most well know as one of the ingredients in a […]
Continue ReadingThe Royal Cuppa
“All One Wants For Christmas….” As the year winds down and Christmas fast approaches, even hardworking monarchs earn the right to kick off their shoes (court pumps, Rayne, British size 4) and unwind with a favorite tipple. Up Sandringham way, as the Windsors settle into their Christmas Eve fun, that tipple would be a glass […]
Continue ReadingRob Roy Cocktail
Happy Thanksgiving! Here is a word from my in-house cocktail blogger, Eric Miller…. Scotch For The Holidays What I did on my vacation? For the last ten years…. Took pictures of your town, Plaid perfume on my breath. I mean I’ve been drinking Scotch. While touring through your town…. — Exene Cervenka Thanksgiving is a […]
Continue ReadingPineapple Mojito
I leave today’s blog to my wonderful husband Eric, my in-house cocktail aficionado. Fresh pineapple is one of the best of the tropical fruit-well worth the effort to skin and core, light years better than the canned kind (unless we are talking about a pineapple upside down cake, in which case the opposite is true). […]
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