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Posts tagged ‘go-to cocktail’
Sep 23
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Sep 6
A late-20s sort of cocktail. (Go-to cocktail: Leslie’s Americano)
I had a pretty good birthday weekend, you could say.
It involved this:
That’s a jar of lard. I made it.
Jul 9
Go-to cocktail: Sparkling wine with bitter orange
Let’s talk about sparkling wine with Aperol. Let’s talk about how pretty it is, when it’s warm outside and there’s a lawn chair in the middle of the backyard. Or when it’s on a table at a fancy restaurant on a tiny side street in Vienna, when you’re celebrating two years of marriage with your love.
While we were in Germany and Austria, we couldn’t walk into or by a restaurant or cafe without seeing about 1,000 bottles of Campari or Aperol lining the shelves behind the bar. These bitter orange liqueurs are not nearly as common here in the United States, but almost every menu we saw had a sizable selection of simple cocktails with one or the other – as straight-forward as Campari and soda up to four- and five-ingredient cocktails.
May 9
15 go-to cocktails: Kir
I would like to live in Paris. Even here. I mean – actually living in the physical location of Paris would be nice, certainly; but I mean more that I would like to live like I’d live in Paris. Or least how Paris seemed to me, when we were there last spring. Afternoon cafe visits, walking anywhere almost no matter the distance, leisurely lunches with wine, a break from the rest of life on Sundays when everything in closed and things move more slowly. We came back thinking we’d try to incorporate this lifestyle into our little Claremont life; how hard could that be? We have cafes with tables outside, we have wine bars with nibbles for after-work relaxation, we have parks and botanic gardens for walking … but in reality, the only thing we’ve kept up with is beer or wine at lunch on the weekends (big surprise). Read more
Mar 7
15 Go-To Cocktails: Gin or vodka Tonic
It feels a little funny to put a cocktail recipe so simple on the site, but in building a list of go-to cocktails there’s no way I could skip a gin or vodka and tonic.
