Archive for the ‘Cocktails’ Category
Pear and Apple Cider Cocktail
Tonight I’m cooking a pork loin with shallots and pears, and the sauce calls for pear nectar. Naturally I had to come up with a cocktail using the nectar to serve before dinner:
Rosemary Old Fashioned Cocktail Recipe
The other night as I was cooking venison stew I was thinking about ways to incorporate rosemary into the dessert, which was going to be stewed cherries over ice cream. Chopped rosemary in a dessert doesn’t quite do it, so I decided to try infusing rosemary into a simple syrup. The result was very aromatic and very sweet, which was exactly what I was going for. Since I had a lot of this syrup, and I like an Old Fashioned every now and then, the obvious next step was to incorporate it into the cocktail:
Rosemary Old Fashioned
Recipe after the jump…
Blood Orange Granita Cocktail
I’ve had a batch of blood orange granita sitting in the freezer since I made it as a dessert for a dinner party last week. It is very easy to make, and it makes a delicious cocktail that looks like it is more work than it is:
Mix 1/3 cup of powdered sugar and 2 T of dark rum into 3 cups of blood orange juice (or any orange juice) in a shallow baking dish. Once the sugar dissolves, put the dish in the freezer, and break up the chunks of ice every hour or so until you get a nice, light, shaved-ice consistency.
I figured that this dessert lends itself perfectly to a cocktail, as a topper:
Little Branch: User-Defined Cocktails
The bar Little Branch in the East Village here in New York has a rather unique take on making cocktails. You can order from their menu, or you can challenge their bartenders to make you a concoction based upon a theme, keyword or phrase, flavor profile, or general idea. We wound up at Little Branch after dinner at Ditch Plains, and decided to put the bartenders to the test….
Tragic hipsters on fire…
