A semi-Semi-Homemade ‘Cocktail’
Brandy Crusta
February 15th, 2008 | by Marleigh | published in brandy, liqueur, recipes
After a long wait I finally give in and make a crusta at home, peel and all.
Colonial Cocktail
February 4th, 2008 | by Marleigh | published in gin, liqueur, recipes
Either I’m getting better at choosing which odd flavor combinations are going to taste good or my tastebuds have died and let me go astray.
Blood and Sand
January 24th, 2008 | by Marleigh | published in liqueur, recipes, scotch, whisk(e)y
It occurred to me that a drink inspired by a matador could stand to be a little bit bloodier, so I turned to the Blood and Sand to use up my stash of fresh blood oranges.
Robert Burns Cocktail
January 7th, 2008 | by Marleigh | published in liqueur, recipes, scotch, whisk(e)y
Happy New Year, friends. 2007 was quite the year, in ways both positive and negative, but we came out of it hale and hearty and hoping that 2008 will keep all the promise it presently holds. As such, I’m cleaning out the queue and posting a lingerer—a post that I really meant to publish before [...]
Brandy Alexander
December 20th, 2007 | by Marleigh | published in brandy, liqueur, recipes
My boyfriend is cheating on me with, of all people, another cocktail blogger. It’s a hard reality to cope with, but I suppose if his eye was going to wander it only makes sense that he’d look to someone dashing and talented like Jeffrey Morgenthaler. In the past month, he’s made every single bourbon-based recipe [...]
Far East Cocktail
December 14th, 2007 | by Marleigh | published in liqueur, recipes, rum
So. By this point, you may have noticed that I don’t often post about recipes gone wrong. I don’t tell you about the drinks I make that are on the “meh” side of boring, the ones that are mixed improperly or those that are just plain old bad. This information isn’t shared primarily because I’m [...]
Flaming Coffee Grog
December 10th, 2007 | by Marleigh | published in liqueur, recipes, rum
Like many people, I have a latent pyromaniacal streak that kicks up whenever presented with the opportunity to do anything in the kitchen that involves fire. It is perhaps better for everyone I know that I have not yet given in to the temptation to purchase a kitchen blowtorch, as that is a trip to [...]
Leave It To Me Cocktail #1
December 3rd, 2007 | by Marleigh | published in brandy, gin, liqueur, MxMo, recipes
Happy Repeal Day Mixology Monday, everyone! As usual, I’m late to the party, as I (naturally) forgot my camera elsewhere over Thanksgiving and just got it back. The theme of this month’s challenge has to do with a very special day, that being December 5th, the anniversary of the day that the 21st amendment was [...]
Q.B. Cooler
November 20th, 2007 | by Marleigh | published in liqueur, recipes, rum
It’s officially that time of year. Despite the nutty weather—which has kept me in short sleeves thus far—there is one sure sign that winter is here: the Tiki-Ti is closed for the holidays. Every year the Mikes close their doors and head West to Hawaii for the holiday season, leaving the rest of us to [...]
Stinger
November 14th, 2007 | by Marleigh | published in brandy, liqueur, recipes, rum
Part of the reason I am able to drum up the time to keep this blog is that I don’t have a television. No television, no cable, no wasted time staring at the flashing lights—which, when presented with a TV in a bar or other locale, is exactly what I do. If you’ve seen Land [...]
Scoff Law Cocktail
November 7th, 2007 | by Marleigh | published in liqueur, mixers, recipes, rye, whisk(e)y
Generally I try to learn from my mistakes. Using all whole-wheat flour when making pancakes? Little bit like eating cardboard. Drinking anything of a color that resembles neon? Hangover. Taking on my sister at Dance Dance Revolution? Sweaty, pathetic failure. As a result, I don’t do these things anymore. Thus, when cruising through the Savoy [...]
Pompano
October 28th, 2007 | by Marleigh | published in gin, liqueur, mixers, recipes
I have something of a habit when it comes to books, especially books with recipes in them. I tend to get into a rut, and find myself only fixing recipes from one or two books at one time. Try as I might to mix things up, if I’m into Vintage Spirits & Forgotten Cocktails or [...]
Mai Tai
October 24th, 2007 | by Marleigh | published in liqueur, mixers, recipes, rum
Invention is all well and good. Invention brought us the cotton gin, sliced bread, Velcro® shoelaces, my beloved new stand mixer; all the things we so love about our lives of modern convenience. (Though why, despite all this creative mobility, I still can’t find a decent ice crusher is beyond me.) Invention has done many [...]
