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Whose Benefit?
The medical benefit plan I have requires payment of a certain sum before it begins paying a high percentage of the cost of prescriptions. This sum is called the deductible; it’s a sum uncovered by the insurance, deducted from the … Continue reading
Bloody Mary is the … Girl I Love
Happy 3rd Birthday, No. 2 Son! Soon we’ll have the family over for a party in your honor, and they’ll be drinking some stuff you can’t, yet. It must be my upbringing, but when I think of the Bloody Mary, … Continue reading
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Tagged cayenne, cocktail, lemon, salt, tomato, vodka, Worchestershire
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Spirits of Any Kind
Now that I have more than two bitters in the house, let us try something. A cocktail is spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters. How about an Old-Fashioned with gin? Gin, the Old-Fashioned Way cube of sugar splash … Continue reading
What Fashion of Gimlet Might This Be?
Having acquired an essential ingredient in the Deadrise, I find myself without another: the cucumber. Well, there’s nothing to it then but to make the necessary sacrifice and drink the result anyway. Oh, this is good. This is very good. … Continue reading
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Tagged agave, cocktail, gimlet, gin, grapefruit bitters, Hendrick's Gin, lime
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Harvest Punch
We typically host Christmas Day dinner at our house, after my brother-in-law and his wife host the Feast of the Seven Fishes at his. Christmas Day is a more subdued affair, with fewer guests, and more flexibility in the menu. … Continue reading
Egg Nog
Mr. Boston’s Official Bartender’s and Party Guide (64th Edition) (Warner Books, 1994) has this to say on the subject of egg nog. Eggnog can be made from scratch, but since those recipes use raw eggs, which may carry the risk … Continue reading
When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Drink Cocktails
J. T. Dobbs at American Drink asks, Is it a coincidence that on the heels of one of the worst economic crises since The Depression, artisan cocktails began making a huge comeback? Actually, no, it’s not. It’s typical. In The … Continue reading
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One Day Spam Will Once Again Be Just a Luncheon Meat
Dear Spammer: You’re wasting your time, but not mine. All posts here that Akismet thinks are spam are automatically deleted. Fuck you, and the horse you rode in on. Best Regards,
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A Martini
The Martini that most folks know, if they order a Martini in a bar, is between six and nine ounces of chilled vodka or gin, perhaps with the glass washed with vermouth. (Great! Three drinks for the price of one!) … Continue reading
Deadrise
Over the summer Legal Sea Foods offered a cocktail they call the Deadrise. Huh? What’s a deadrise? A fishy kind of zombie? Nope. The deadrise is the angle between the bottom of a vessel and the horizontal in the transverse … Continue reading
The Cosmopolitan
Girlfriend, I present for your classy enjoyment the Cosmopolitan. Or, rather, a variation thereof since I don’t stock citrus vodka. The Cosmopolitan 1 1/2 oz. vodka 1 oz. triple sec 1/2 oz. fresh lime juice 1/4 oz. cranberry juice 1 … Continue reading
On Plagiarism and Linkage
I’m disturbed by what seems to be the very common practices on today’s Internet of copying another’s work without acknowledging the source, of quotations without attribution, and of quotations pretending to be one’s original work. I suppose this could be, … Continue reading
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Honey Lime Toddy
We are fresh out of lemons, so I made a hot toddy this afternoon using my standard recipe but substituting lime for the lemon. Honey Lime Toddy 1 oz. honey 1 oz. lime juice 1 oz. bourbon 6 oz. boiling … Continue reading
Spiced Bourbon
Using the spiced syrup from the Honeycrisp Apple cocktail, make a variation of the Old Fashioned. I’ve drunk the following with both Evan Williams and Tuthilltown Baby Bourbon, and both go well with the spices in the syrup. The Tuthilltown … Continue reading
Cinzano and Lime
Cinzano’s site is all Flash, and next to useless. They did, once the craplet loaded, have some worthwhile suggestions about what to do with this bottle of Cinzano Extra Dry. Cinzano suggested drinking their extra dry vermouth with lime. Cinzano … Continue reading
Replacing the Oxygen Sensor on a 2002 Honda CR-V
In order to pass the New York State vehicle inspection, all emissions control components must work. For example, if the oxygen sensors fail, they must be replaced. If you ever need to do replace an oxygen sensor, these instructions from … Continue reading
Google Travel
Apparently Google wants to purchase a travel data company, but the existing flight comparison websites don’t want them to. I can see why they wouldn’t: they’re all slow, unusable masses of advertisements for unwanted products that make it faster for … Continue reading
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Things to do with Vermouth
I have a rather large bottle of Cinzano Extra Dry Vermouth in my refrigerator. One might ask why I have such a large bottle. That’s easily explained: it was the smallest vermouth sold at the store I visited the day … Continue reading
Honeycrisp Apple
The recipe below is from Gotham Bar & Grill, by way of Tuthilltown Spirits. I substituted Harvest Spirits’s Core Vodka and Cornelius Applejack instead of Tuthilltown’s Heart of the Hudson vodka and Busnel Calvados. I don’t need a quart of … Continue reading
Orange Bourbon Toddy
The girls made a pumpkin bundt cake the other day, which called for an orange syrup. I had some left over, and tonight made a hot toddy. Several others in the house are sick or getting sick. I’m not yet, … Continue reading
