(Note: America’s Test kitchen sent me their The Complete Autumn & Winter Cookbook for review purposes, though all opinions are my own.) As I write this, we’re less than two weeks from Christmas and less than three from the New Year, and thanks to our vaccines and boosters, gathering for the holidays is once again…
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Two Basque Country cocktails for the waning days of summer: Basque sangría (Zurracapote) and red wine-cola cocktail (Kalimotxo).
With August coming to a close, I realized recently that I had yet to make a batch of sangría at all this spring or summer, which is very out of character for me and something I had to rectify immediately. Our building was having a get-together–the first that we’ve had in probably two years now–and…
Checking in on my cookbook project, month three (now with a pandemic), and The Bloodhound cocktail from Hawksmoor at Home.
Well, I guess I can say that I’m glad I’ve been so aggressive with this project, because as of this writing I’m 59% through my bookcase with 56 books to go, and that’s with a solid week and a half of panic shopping and cooking where we could only work with what we could find…
The Gramercy Tavern Mezcaliente cocktail from The Gramercy Tavern Cookbook.
When walking into the Tavern Room at the Gramercy Tavern in New York, you’d be forgiven for thinking you stepped into a time machine that took you back to 1994. That’s the year the restaurant opened, and from what I can gather it hasn’t really changed much since then. Between the large and almost garishly-colored…
An Aperol Spritz inspired by The Sandbox at 1 Hotel in Miami Beach.
I mentioned in an earlier post that I was never expecting to fall in love with Miami during our travels there this past spring, but fall in love with it I did. The moment that kicked my excitement into high gear can be pinpointed back to when we made it onto the Julia Tuttle Causeway,…
Boqueria’s sangría de vino rosado, or: what I did with my summer produce, drinks edition.
Not long after we moved to Stamford from New York, I planned to do this whole tapas crawl around Manhattan, and as I’ve implied in this post over at Maps of Fun, it was kind of a disaster because, like, half of the places we went to either were not open until later in the…
Moscow Muled x The Manhattan [food] Project, and the Moscow via Mexico City Mule
Full disclosure: Moscow Muled provided two copper mugs for review. All opinions are my own. A few weeks ago, the company Moscow Muled reached out to me to see if I’d be interested in reviewing their copper mugs and share my experiences. After looking around on their website to read their story and having a call with…
Discovering cucamelons and making The Gail from Bringing it Home.
I feel like the last six or seven weeks has been conspicuously rainy here in Baltimore, and on the East Coast in general. Every week seems to have at least one cloudburst, and more recently it’s a matter of when, not if, a rainstorm is going to converge over us. When we were in PA…
Some cocktails we’ve been sipping on this summer: Franny’s Rhubarb Bridge and Alton Brown’s Bitter-Day Martini
My interest in cocktails waxes and wanes: sometimes I’d rather drink something that barely qualifies as one like a kir, and other times I’ll happily pull a bunch of bottles off the shelf and mix together something elaborate and interesting. Often I’ll kind of go to the beat of my own drum, but lately I’ve…
Dave Arnold’s turmeric gin sour.
Well, I have good news and I have bad news: we’re less than a month away from the first day of winter. For some, that may be great news, especially for my skiing enthusiast friends, but for most of this this is simply a harbinger of gloom, doom, and darkness. (OK, I may be a…
The Manhattan [food] Project 