(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…
Tag: vodka
Eric Ripert’s California Bee Sting from Avec Eric.
Every once in a while I find myself feeling the urge to bring out my fancy rocks glasses that I inherited from my grandmother when we cleaned out her house years ago. They belonged originally to my great-great aunt who sponsored my grandmother’s emigration to the U.S. from Ireland, and they always stood in a…
Making sous vide blackberry cordial.
Since my immersion circulator joined our coterie of kitchen gadgets, I’ve made quite a few infusions with it, from Alton Brown’s fennel cordial, homemade not-actually Grand Mariner, allspice dram, and a raspberry cordial taken straight from the Anova Culinary website. AB’s fennel cordial was exactly as I expected–complex with lots of different anise notes at…
Gail Simmons’ Bloody Mary Eggs from Bringing it Home.
Something I’m trying to do as we head into winter is to make brunch at home once or twice a month, in part to switch things up, but also as a way to cook in natural light when the sun sets at 5 PM every day. This doesn’t mean that we will always make something…
Winter to spring cocktails: using blood oranges in arancitacello.
As recently as a few years ago, you would be hard-pressed to find any citrus fruits that went beyond your basic lemons, limes, navel oranges, and grapefruits save for a few short weeks a year. Much like ramps in springtime, you’d be forced to overload on as many blood oranges, Meyer lemons, kumquats, pink lemons,…
03.16.10: digestivo (is it limoncello?)
There’s something magical about taking a nondescript bottle of vodka and turning it into limoncello; that is, until you turn it into pompelmocello (or whatever the Italians call grapefruit peels steeped in alcohol and sugar syrup–I’m improvising here). As lovely as lemons are, I’m one who can eat a few grapefruit in one sitting if…
The Manhattan [food] Project 