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Category: Cocktails

  • 31 Aug 2026: The Orange Gin Martini

    This was and is a stellar drink for marking the end of summer. Coming from FirstOrderGin.com, the drink is refreshingly smooth. Somehow the addition of orange bitters and Cointreau smooths out any edges. The link from the website is here and the ingredients are below, along with my notes on which bottles were preferred. Orange…

  • 26 Aug 2026: Cherry White Negroni

    I am a huge fan of London Dry gins – the more juniper the better – and my go-to summer cocktail is nearly always a Negroni. In my search last week for an alternative to that, because once in a while it’s good to mix things up a bit (no pun intended), I discovered a…

  • 09 Dec. 2025: Roasted Carrot Hummus

    We enjoy a transition period from working to relaxing at the end of each day. Even as retirees, we’ve kept up this habit which in French culture is called Cinq à Sept. Throughout COVID, when we were isolating, we got pretty darn good at mixology (spirit-based or mocktail) thanks to some YouTubers and books (shoutout…

  • 30 Jul 2025: A Spanish Margarita 43

    I’m not generally a Margarita drinker. Too many ice chips makes it less of a cocktail and more like shave ice or a slushy. Not my thing. But, when I spotted this concoction from Licor 43, the Spanish liqueur, I thought I’d give it a try to make use of a couple of open bottles.…

  • 31 October 2018: Exploring Apéritif

    Apéritif – just the word by itself sounds elegant and refined. We could all use a little elegance these days, so after discovering an entire book dedicated to this (nightly) ritual in a recent New York Times article (The 19 Best Cookbooks of Fall 2018), it was time to start expanding my pre-dinner horizons.  The…