tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18634707797150446682024-02-19T07:58:03.839-08:00Cocktails anyone?William MacFarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17280365260834303000noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863470779715044668.post-58157294815267537892014-10-28T09:02:00.000-07:002014-10-28T09:03:46.311-07:00<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><u>BEAR ESSENTIALS</u></span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">WE know a bear loves his/her honey. Such sustenance
derived<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from this primal source can keep
a bear going long enough for … an unsuspecting salmon, say, to leap out of the
river and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>get munched by a waiting
ursine creature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As in – if ah see her, Alaska. Though they're not usually so polite.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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you ever seen a bear munch a cocktail? Probably not. Yet there is one bear at
our apartment who looks on despondently when he hears the mixer being all shook
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heart-warming cocktail then for a bear. More than just heart-warming as this
chap will testify. More bare than bear, really.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Our own
furry friend – one William Brown Bear –<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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beforehand)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Shave vigorously<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pierce a small piece of fresh orange and a maraschino cherry
on a cocktail stick and place in each glass<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pour the mixture into the glasses<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>(Serves two or only one teddy bear if he gets in first)</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">My dear friend Boo is something of an aficionado in
pleasure-related pursuits. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Especially if they’re related to Manhattan – hence her
e-notebook booyorkcity.com – a must for those interested in what’s going down
downtown.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> She’s full of surprises – that’s possibly why they call her
Boo – and recently told me that cocktails were once served in cups in the
speakeasies as a disguise during that singularly unsuccessful experiment,
Prohibition, so raiding cops would think the patrons were drinking coffee or
tea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Aye, right, as the Scots among us are wont to mention.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Whatever your response, the notion of a cocktail in a cup is
quite enticing and, after seeking some advice from the aforesaid Boo, I sought
out the Royal Doulton. She prefers Limoges china, but when the devil drives
etc….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> So here it is – and looking more like afternoon tea than afternoon tea. Even the accompanying caviar blinis look jolly pleased to be in
the frame.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Vesper Cocktail</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(To give the tea colour to the cocktail I’ve added a little
extra bitters.)</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Ingredients<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">2 measures vodka<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">1 measure gin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">½ measure dry vermouth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Dash of orange bitters<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Dash of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>aromatic
bitters<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Splash of angostura bitters<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Method<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Drop a few ice cubes into a shaker<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Add the ingredients<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Give it a plentiful shake<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Serve with a slice of lemon in your best china teacups. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> So, if this is prohibition, bring it on.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> But perhaps avoid the following sort of thing....</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJpRSf4q-hI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJpRSf4q-hI</a></span></div>
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William MacFarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17280365260834303000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863470779715044668.post-86487802800287522792014-04-19T10:05:00.002-07:002014-04-22T10:37:22.602-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEAT THAT!</b></span><br />
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</style> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">THE passage of the earth round the
sun can, for many, seem depressingly routine. Another day, another dull ache
where excitement once dwelled. </span><o:p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></o:p>
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Photographers,
in pre-digital days where light meant everything, had to use one for the other,
as in the technique known as ‘day for night’, wherein shooting is done in
daylight using blue filters and under-exposed later by a few ‘stops’.<o:p></o:p></div>
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French nouvelle
vague auteur Francois Truffaut even named one of his revered movies Day For
Night, a movie about a movie, after the method film makers used to trick
audiences.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Getting through
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it, it’s tomorrow. Which, as Bond lovers will know, never dies.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To compensate
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others might sip a glass of fresh orange juice of a morning, turn instead to a
Tequila Sunrise. And not necessarily in Mexico either.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I invited three
chums round to indulge me in the version pictured above. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tequila Sunrise</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Ingredients
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tequila<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>Fresh orange
juice<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>Orange bitters<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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Method<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>Fill four
highball glasses with ice cubes (chill them in the fridge for an hour or so beforehand)<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>Add the tequila
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<b><i>Add orange juice
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<b><i>Gently pour a
dollop of Grenadine down the edge of each glass; it will sink to the bottom
then gradually rise, giving the appearance of a sunrise<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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in each glass and garnish with a wedge of fresh orange between two maraschino
cherries on a cocktail stick.</i><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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What a morning!
Creative types, they strode off afterwards and …<o:p></o:p></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">a/ invented
software for transferring people to another destination without the requirement
of the internal combustion engine. “Beam me up, Scotty!”</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">b/ drew up a
peace document </span><i style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">sine qua non</i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> for Israel and Palestine</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">c/ came up with
an idea of getting gin from the offie if it’s raining: sending his little
brother.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Me, I just
mulled over the rest of what some imagined was another day. Fortified – yes, I
was – it came to me that such a day as this should never end. After much
mulling and creating on the part of my chums we all repaired later to my flat
to turn day into night – but without the perception of it, the requirement
being … why, a Tequila Sunset. Chums satisfied that their host could invent an
item equal to anything they could come up with, I smiled – it was a rather
skewed smile, I admit – and got on with it.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Tequila Sunset</span></span></b></div>
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<i>Recipe and
method similar to the aforementioned Sunrise but instead of fresh orange juice,
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The latter on its own is, I’m
sure, terribly healthy, but would never transport the inquisitive mind to think
up E=MC2 or whatever, but added to these other ingredients and enjoyed in the
company of philosophers – some call them bevvy merchants – well, there’s no
comparison.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There's even a song for it...</span><br />
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William MacFarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17280365260834303000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863470779715044668.post-58816274829722476552012-09-28T09:45:00.001-07:002012-09-28T10:04:15.635-07:00The name's Bond ... aye, bail bond.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><strike></strike>AS the new Bond movie looms large, it seems you can’t turn your head without encountering some mention of the great man. So, pre-release of Skyfall, I may as well get my hand in. Or chips. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> All nicely referenced, of course, in Casino Royale, the first of Ian Fleming’s Bond novels as well as Daniel Craig’s first go at taking on the movie role. Casino Royale is, for my purposes, pretty good, too, on cocktails.
As a French beauty in the Hermitage Bar was heard to say to her tweedy companion, “Moi, j’adore le Dry … fait avec du Gordon’s, bien entendu.” </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Of course? Well, possibly mademoiselle had yet to come across le Bombay Sapphire, but we’ll let it pass.
Later, while having a refreshment with a CIA spook, Bond instructs the barman to concoct “three measures of Gordon’s, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet (a French dry, white vermouth). Shake it very well until it’s ice-cold then add a large, thin slice of lemon peel. Got it?” </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Not so much a refreshment as a knockout punch, and the first mention of Bond requiring his Martinis “shaken, not stirred”.
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, I prefer the simple classic of gin (mostly), a passing acquaintance with Noilly Prat, well shaken with several ice cubes and poured into a Martini glass with three pimento-stuffed olives on a stick. (See above). Not too much to ask, is it? After a hard day down the vermouth mines. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Neither of the two movie versions of Casino Royale had Sean Connery in them. In fact, the novel refers to the man Fleming would have liked to be the star when Bond is described as looking like Hoagy Carmichael. Very fetching he is, too.
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Recently, in the interests of research, we were forced to attend an exhibition at the Barbican celebrating 50 years of Bond style. Thankfully, at the end they had wisely set up a special 007 Martini Bar where a person might catch his breath. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Included on the bill of fare was a Vesper Cocktail, with a nod to Vesper Lynd, the beautiful double agent in Casino Royale. Ingredients: gin, lillet blanc and vermouth with a dash of ground black pepper added. The latter component sounds quite sexy and, if I ever finish this, I’m going to make myself one. It is Friday, after all.
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Certainly, Miss Moneypenny and her young spies in my photograph above, enjoyed the aperitifs they chose at the 007 bar.
Meanwhile, if Mr Bond were musical, this is what he might have sounded like ... and the waiter might do a neat job in serving cocktails, too!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">With the Games upon us, it's just possible that those of us who see a life past Stratford will be in need of a celebratory cocktail, one Olympian in its fortification and stout in its resilience – and when I say stout, I don't mean the Irish stuff. What I have to offer is something quasi-commemorative. Or should that be queasy? <i>(See report from the HSE down the page.)</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">First of all it needs to be pink...</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">... to match the official colour of the 2012 Olympics logo. For that we add a good measure of cranberry juice. If it's measures you're after, you can call it a dash – as in 100 metres dash which is likely to be won by the Bolt from the Blue.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Other vital ingredients:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>* A good slug of bitters. This will sound a chime with those desperate for it to be all over.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>*A fair few beta blockers ground into powder and spooned in. This ingredient, discovered by Scottish pharmacologist Dr James Black and which won him the Nobel Prize in 1988, will help correct any anxiety by officials and Mitt Romney alike. Though no one wants to be like Mitt Romney.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><br />
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</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">* 1 kg of sour grapes. This is for Ed Milliband who failed to make the political capital he'd hoped for in the light of the G4S lack of security scandal.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>*1 heaped tbsp of powdered zinc. This is an age-old antidote for jitters in the tummy for others still concerned about a lack of proper security. (See above).</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>* Oh, and a pint of gin. This is a corrective for those of a nervous disposition as they contemplate weeks of torture on the airwaves.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">"Almost, but not quite" rejoined Mr Tolkien. "So stuff that in yer pipe and smoke it." </span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Meanwhile, do have a listen to this ... for the benefit of two charming young gentlemen of my acquaintance who, despite months of trying, only managed to get tickets for that brilliant spectator sport, the weightlifting.</span><br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq"></blockquote>William MacFarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17280365260834303000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863470779715044668.post-2283429339754955262012-05-10T09:47:00.003-07:002012-05-11T00:38:02.535-07:00They say he killed a man...<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">THE cocktail generation of the Roaring 20s gained a certain piquant currency with The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald’s scathing satire of the rich and their hangers-on in Long Island and New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Three quarters of the way through the novel, during a “broiling” afternoon, the group – Tom Buchanan, wife Daisy, her chum Jordan and narrator Nick Carraway – attempt to cool down by drinking Gin Rickeys with plenty of ice.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When that doesn’t work they make their way, at Daisy’s suggestion, to the city as a diversion from the heat.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tom has brought a bottle of whiskey and the group end up in a plush hotel suite, tempers, mostly that of Tom, beginning to fray as the love affair between Jay Gatsby and Daisy becomes all too obvious.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">More cocktails are called for to bring the temperature down a little. A waiter is summoned to bring glasses, mint and crushed ice.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This time the gang are about to have Mint Juleps, courtesy of Tom's bourbon.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As his heated interrogation of Gatsby’s credentials as a gentleman – an “Oxford man” in particular – begin to grate and embarrass the others, Daisy attempts futilely to intervene.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">All this goes to show that despite the – for the most part – delightful benefits of having cocktails with chums, the exercise doesn’t always work, not least when “Mr Nobody from Nowhere make(s) love to your wife”.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The difficulties thrown up by sultry days, extra marital affairs, sulking toffs and the class system are rarely solved by a revivifying cocktail, no matter how much ice is inserted to temper the mix.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">That said, the two delicacies aforementioned, if sipped among friendly company, might elevate such an alliance to a highly sophisticated level. Right, old sport?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Gin Rickey</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>(This, to some throats, might taste not unlike a Gimlet, made famous by another American novelist Raymond Chandler, it being the drink of choice of his gumshoe, Philip Marlowe. The picture above I took of a Gimlet I made recently but if anyone served you a Gin Rickey, you probably wouldn’t notice the difference – in taste... the Rickey is served in a tall glass filled with ice. So, ya boo and sucks, etc).</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><b>Pour in the booze</b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><b>Top with more ice and decorate with sprig of mint.<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><b>Serve with a straw.</b></i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Leonardo di Caprio and Carey Mulligan will soon hit the big screens as Gatsby and Daisy in an extravagant remake of the legendary 1974 classic with Robert Redford and Mia Farrow. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Minus her sash, of course.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The latter refers to the flop she made about the Irish Troubles – <i>The Sash Mia Farrow Wore.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><br />
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</div>William MacFarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17280365260834303000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863470779715044668.post-613618944445497302012-03-24T09:45:00.000-07:002012-03-24T09:45:24.785-07:00DEAR PRUDENCE<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In the interests of continued financial prudence – to which I referred in an earlier post – I’ve utilised some elements in my latest creation which might not as a rule find themselves in a chic cocktail.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yet needs must.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm6iCSSIjlRYX_4U28tnDSNZ59FtGQp-x7Ez4YXN0m13Wi6K8INgwf16topeeYqjDEoehb4Y77rHDVnGdtQLjdNTHCAq1hEm6WDztZuWAlYat8_FTjIrxnIdUDyOmRlVsQ8iGywUy78V0P/s1600/gordon-brown1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm6iCSSIjlRYX_4U28tnDSNZ59FtGQp-x7Ez4YXN0m13Wi6K8INgwf16topeeYqjDEoehb4Y77rHDVnGdtQLjdNTHCAq1hEm6WDztZuWAlYat8_FTjIrxnIdUDyOmRlVsQ8iGywUy78V0P/s320/gordon-brown1.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"> <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Keen for my next cocktail...</span></b></i><br />
<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> a prudent chap. Remember him?</span></b></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A few weeks ago, I had made a bile o’ jam, as they say in Aberdeen – the rhubarb and ginger variety.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As a result, I had half a jar left of stem ginger pieces still covered in their thick, gooey juice.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Also wilting away at the back of the cocktail cabinet was half a bottle of Liqueur de Framboises, a strawberry concoction hunted down in Fortnum’s for an earlier creation, and still exceedingly potable, given its 21% alcohol volume.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So get to work then, mister, I ordered myself. The guests will be here any minute.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It’s more common for the dear better half to do the ordering but she’s making herself even more beautiful at the moment.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The name I’ve given it – Ginger Pop – will appeal to those of un certain age but don’t let the kiddies get anywhere near it, whatever you do.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>GINGER POP</b></span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Serves four<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Ingredients:</b></span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>2 fl oz good vodka taken straight from the freezer<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>1 fl oz Grand Marnier<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>1 fl oz juice from jar of stem ginger<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Good dash of orange bitters<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Juice of half a lime<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>12 black seeded grapes<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>4 tiny chunks of stem ginger<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Chocolate sauce<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Caster sugar.</i></span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Method:</b></span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Place four or five ice cubes in a cocktail shaker<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Add the remainder of the ingredients<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Shake vigorously<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Remove Martini glasses from the fridge where they’ve been chilling<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Smear a smudge of chocolate sauce on the base of each glass and attach a grape to each. (This is an idea I got from Nightjar, the fab cocktail bar I wrote about last time.) The thick consistency of the sauce will ensure the grape adheres to it. (I used a yum variety: Chocolate & Orange Fudge Sauce from Fudge Kitchen, a wondrously thick extravagance which you can – not without a certain degree of guilt – eat straight from the jar with a spoon.)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Run a wedge of lime around the edge of each glass then dip it into a saucer of caster sugar<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>With each of four cocktail sticks pierce a grape followed by a stem ginger fragment then another grape<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Pour the liquid into the glasses<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Place a fruit-laden cocktail stick into each<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Serve.</i></span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As is customary, you’d wait until the magical Cocktail Hour of 6pm to serve these (even if I do say so myself) delights. But the clocks spring forward later tonight so we’re going to neck ’em at five o’clock.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Radical, what?!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">All things ginger have a deep resonance in certain parts of the country, not least the west of Scotland. You may know someone such as the following... If so, don’t advertise it.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7DPZIMr-aM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7DPZIMr-aM</a><o:p></o:p></div>William MacFarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17280365260834303000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863470779715044668.post-68188482223511959822012-03-16T09:43:00.001-07:002012-03-17T05:43:37.920-07:00Maybe it's a big horse...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The London Evening Standard – a free paper owned by a Russian oligarch – boasts that it has its ear to the ground regarding cultural life in the city. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yet it has only just discovered </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(15/03/12) </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">that Londoners – I use the term loosely – love cocktails. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Where have their staffers been all this while? At fires? Riots? Covering Parliament?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The report in question, too, misses out on possibly the best spot in town.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Nightjar – named after a nocturnal bird with short legs (see above in daylight for a change) – is squeezed between two greasy spoons on the edge of Shoreditch, where the bells once chimed to the tune of "When I am rich". </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>When indeed? </i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yet there are plenty of well-off punters around in this neck of the wood, situated within thieving distance of the City.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And inside, it's dark. Really dark. As my picture above shows. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The bar, unobtrusive until then, opens its double wooden doors at 6pm, aspiring to the ambience of a Chicago 'speak' in the prohibition era. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">All that's missing is for the doorkeep to whisper "Leave your piece at the desk".</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mind you, if you asked that of a thirsty Glaswegian, you might be surprised to discover the punter divesting himself of a jam sandwich instead of a gat.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The cocktails at Nightjar are a wonder, costing about £10 each – and are in abundance. We had – as the pic shows – a White Lady and a Cosmo Roast. Because the lady loves a Cosmopolitan. <i>(God knows what she sees in me.)</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My selection wasn't like any White Lady I had ever encountered or even tasted before, but that merely confirmed my opinion that for every cocktail, there are umpteen recipes.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The place sells bar snacks too: decent tapas-style stuff for about £3 a pop. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We had salmon balls, gorgeous warm bread and olives and feta-stuffed zucchini rolls.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dulce et decorum est that a salmon should lay down his balls for a hedonist.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">From 8pm a small band play selections from the hot jazz days. You know the kind of thing...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I was recommended to visit by a friend who had travelled all the way from Glasgow for one night only just to try it out. He and his companion spent several hours and much mazooma there.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Possibly not to be recommended. The place being so dark, you might end up tumbling into the lap of an oligarch's female companion.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Then you'd be required to give the billionaire and his broad-shouldered телохранители the Possil stare.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">That might do it. Might</span>William MacFarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17280365260834303000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863470779715044668.post-29146149683133002352012-02-27T08:10:00.003-08:002012-02-27T08:17:05.729-08:00HEALTH RATHER THAN WEALTH<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Well, the doctors are constantly on about it, despite some of them drinking like fish. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Funny expression that...do fish actually drink the water they swim in? As WC Fields once said – possibly more than once – when explaining why he preferred his whisky without water: "Fish *!+^ in it."</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I can't actually write what he said...this is far too upright a forum. And Bill Fields was, as most people will know, infrequently upright.<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But to get back to the point – doctors and their ilk are always on at the rest of us to lead a healthy lifestyle. So, in the interests of prolonging healthy life, I've concocted a little something that will put years on you.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">No, that's not right...take years off you, I mean.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It's a well-balanced cocktail that has resonances in World War II, during which the wealthy and well connected – some of them spies – carried on in the old fashioned way in London's top hotels as if the only thing that had changed was the lack of a decent butler.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Not for us the Old Fashioned... </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Not for us the sumptuous, gin-heavy Gibson or Dry Martini.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Not in this blog episode at any rate.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">No, what we're after here is using up the ingredients lying around in the (cocktail) cupboard...waste not want not...a bit of make do and mend in the way of our antecedents – not the idle rich sort.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If you discount the alcohol in it, the drink in question might be regarded as a real tonic, a pick-me-up...something you could munch a couple of before you go to work. Assuming you require to be <i>compos mentis</i> at work, that is. But who wants a job like that?</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In my case, I had a few things lying about, items that were beginning – as a very tidy person – to get on my nerves. Items such as a small bottle of apricot brandy, untouched and unanticipated; the dregs of a bottle of triple sec and some five-day old fruit.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There are those who would just have chucked the liquid down the sink and the fruit in the bin, yet being a recycling-minded cove, I put my mind to the test.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">What to call it though..? I'll keep thinking as I write. </div><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Meanwhile – and you'll appreciate the essence of the possibility of an early spring here – the working title:</div><br />
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">HEALTH DRINK</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>Ingredients: <br />
</i></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>2 fl oz apricot brandy</i></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>1 fl oz triple sec</i></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>1/2 fl oz Rose's lime juice <br />
</i></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>Juice of three clementines</i></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>Juice of half lemon</i></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>Good dash of orange bitters</i></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>Method:</i></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>Place four ice cubes in shaker</i></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>Add remainder of ingredients</i></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>Shake vigorously</i></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>Pour into cocktail glasses adorned with slice of fresh lemon</i></b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Serves four.</span></b></div><i style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Speaking of the war and the inclusion of clementines reminds me of Winston Churchill and his beloved wife, Clementine, or "Dear Clemmie", as he called her by way of an endearment.</div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We could call this cocktail, therefore, Dear Clemmie, in memoriam of distant times when things were great for some, crap for the bulk.</span><i style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></i><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Take a peek at the following and you'll be desperate certainly for a wee snifter...</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_567572617"><br />
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</i>William MacFarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17280365260834303000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863470779715044668.post-42036707855482435522012-02-07T05:14:00.000-08:002012-02-07T12:57:27.109-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Puttin' on the poor mouth</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Off to Paris in a fortnight and had hoped to renew our acquaintance with the Hemingway Bar at the Ritz. </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>But the horror, the horror... the old place is being renovated and won't be open when we get there. </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Our charming hostess, Chantal, whose mother once had a drink with Hemingway at the very spot many years ago, will have somewhere else to treat us, I'm sure. I will report on that accordingly.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i>Mais pour maintenant...</i></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>The above publication, not long off the <i>presses chaudes</i> of the Ritz a la Place Vendome, alludes to the fab cocktails that can be savoured there. </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>To quote: "It is said that the Hemingway bar makes the best Dry Martini in the world." </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Given that the head barman Colin Field was once voted best barman in the world by Forbes Magazine, that might seem a reasonable assertion. </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Yet it is, as are so many other claims about cocktail recipes, somewhat precious.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>What makes a good dry martini after all is pretty damn simple</b></span>:<br />
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<ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it must be as cold as a mother-in-law's stare</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">secure the best gin available</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">include two or three olives on a stick...</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and oh, I almost forgot – a passing acquaintance with vermouth is occasionally called for.</span></span></li>
</ul><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>And you could replace the olives with <i>les petits oignons</i> and call it a Gibson.</b></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Easy.</b></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>Whatever!</i> as the young ones say when they can't think of anything else to say.</b></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Maybe it's just as well we're not going to the Ritz – we're far too poor. At 26 euros for a glass of the house champagne, we might need to remortgage the maison if we fancied a night out there.</b></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><br />
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</b></span></span></span></div>William MacFarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17280365260834303000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863470779715044668.post-51308954271642348752012-02-02T11:13:00.000-08:002012-02-02T11:13:51.350-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Chile for some.</b></span></span><br />
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<h3><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">The folks in Chile obviously enjoy their cocktails on the cold side. I just read that a guy with a big truck has been nabbed after chipping </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">five tonnes of ice from a glacier in Patagonia to sell as ice cubes for cocktails. </span></span></h3><h3><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"Designer" ice cubes, at that, according to the report.</span></span></h3><h3><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">What the hell is a designer ice cube? Is it still a cube? Is it like a Rubik cube or did someone just cross the Rubicon with this little escapade?</span></h3><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I hope they threw the buce at the thief. Did you spot the anagram there? Or did you just think I'm a bad speller?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">You may think the following track is about Chile but you'd be wrong. Jimi Hendrix can't spell either.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">On another track...we're going to a hot cocktail spot in London very soon. According to a chum who's been, they serve the most amazing concoctions and there's no shortage of them.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Watch this space.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Another pleasant stop-off for the weary traveller is in Paris. More on that later, too.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Meanwhile, if you fancy a nice cocktail in Bonnie Scotland, do try Oran Mor at the corner of Great Western Road and Byres Road. Those in the picture are a classic champagne cocktail and two mojitos.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div>William MacFarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17280365260834303000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863470779715044668.post-74782376720374615732011-12-21T07:58:00.000-08:002011-12-21T07:58:41.246-08:00First Christmas<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What to do if there are too bloomin' many of you for Christmas? Why, have another one a week earlier. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Call it First Christmas. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't invite George Michael...he'll only crash the car getting there. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Never mind Last Christmas - let's celebrate First Christmas.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8gmARGvPlI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8gmARGvPlI</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>You'll probably want a decent cocktail to celebrate. These wonderful, polite young gentlemen in the picture seemed to enjoy it...and it's pink!</b></span><br />
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</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Pink Christmas Cocktail</span></b></span><br />
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<i>Ingredients:</i><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">4 fl oz Stolichnaya vodka</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">1 fl oz Triple Sec</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">2 fl oz Creme de Cassis</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Handful of fresh blueberries</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Good dash of orange bitters</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Juice of half an orange</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Juice of 1 lime</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Juice of 1/2 lemon</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">2 fl oz double cream</span></span><br />
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<i>Method:</i><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Place the cocktail glasses in the fridge for at least an hour before serving. I use champagne coupes for this cocktail – they're very celebratory, don't you know.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Place all the ingredients, except the cream, in a blender and whizz briskly. Add the cream and whizz for a few seconds.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Remove glasses form fridge. Place a sprig of mint in each glass then balance on the rim a cocktail stick on which a small wedge of orange (skin on) is skewered amid two fresh blueberries on either side.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Dust the surface of each glass with sieved icing sugar.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Serves six (with, hopefully, a little to spare for top-ups)</span></span><br />
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Suffice to say, don't overdo it. if you were to have too many you might end up seeing things...<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=944cPciN-kw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=944cPciN-kw</a>William MacFarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17280365260834303000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863470779715044668.post-50319836593434848942011-10-23T14:16:00.000-07:002011-10-23T14:16:22.873-07:00Won by a neck<!--StartFragment--> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Race to it.</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>As Churchill almost said, “Some horse, some neck!”<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>This cocktail, famous as it may be, looks nothing like a horse’s neck, despite its taxonomy. Yet, as London Cocktail Week fades to a memory, I thought I’d better throw in my tuppence worth with a classic – but with a twist, naturally.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Click on the picture below for a bigger image.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br />
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</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The neck in question is supposedly represented by the curlicue of lemon peel residing in the glass then hanging out over the rim, in the way that a horse’s neck might.</b></span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I mean, who thinks these things up?</i></span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>What you must have, however, is a small but very sharp knife in order to slice the peel off a lemon in one piece. The phrase ‘Don’t try this at home’ should really apply here but not to the rough tough type who enjoy a cocktail.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>"Hey, I just did a 12-hour shift down a tin mine" doesn’t cut it, I’m afraid, with the fearless cocktail provider.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>“Just drink this Horse’s Neck and give us peace. But wash your bloomin’ hands first!”</b></span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Before we start, have a listen to the following track. I know it’s a Stones song but this version is ten times better…</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjpa_OYAEpo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjpa_OYAEpo</a><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Back to business. The classic Horse’s Neck cocktail is not unlike a Rye and Dry, ergo in my own recipe I like to jazz it up </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">un peu. </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">On no account, entertain any so-called cocktail barman aficionado who, when commissioned to prepare this recipe, shakes his weary head and sneers, “Yes, hmm, but it ain’t a Horse’s Neck.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Fact is, cocktail recipes change with the winds that blow these so-called aficionados in and out of town. One Horse’s Neck recipe might suggest bourbon as the main ingredient while another would plump for brandy. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So who cares? Be an iconoclast. It’s your personal taste that remains the only concern.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here we go …</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Horse’s Neck</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ingredients</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>2 fl oz good bourbon (Jack Daniels will do nicely)<o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>8 fl oz ginger ale (a ratio of approximately four to one in favour of the ginger ale works best for my gang)<o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Juice of 1 lemon (strained)<o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Juice of 1 small orange (strained)<o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>4 dashes of Angostura bitters<o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>4 ice cubes<o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Peel of 4 lemons</i><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Place ingredients – NOT the ginger ale – in a cocktail shaker and give it a vigorous workout. <o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Pour into a large jug and add the ginger ale.<o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Into 4 small tumblers, insert the sliced peel of each lemon, allowing the “neck” to hang out. (see picture above). Fill each glass up with more ice cubes then pour in the mixture from the jug.<o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Serves four but there will probably be enough left for a top-up. Always be prepared, as good Scouts would.<o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><br />
</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As with other healthy cocktails in my previous posts, this Horse's Neck can count as one of your five a day. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">With trends like these, who needs enemas?</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">THE best strawberries come, some might say, from the Clyde Valley. Others would argue in favour of those from the farms of Fife around the Leven area. Southerners would naturally plump for the strain from the great Garden of England that is Kent.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Plump, however, is the operative word. <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Thin strawbs don’t cut it.</i></b></span></span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Get some quick as there are not many local varieties left now that summer has rapidly disappeared down the plughole.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To the cocktail I’m proselytising about here I’ve added, in elegiac mood, a splash of rosewater. Ergo, the last rose of summer …</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the great poet of the so-called Scottish Renaissance might have put it...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>The cocktail of all the world is not for me.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>I want for my part<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>Only the frozen strawberry daiquiri of Scotland<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>That tastes sharp and sweet<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>And goes straight to the brain.</i></span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With apologies, of course, to McDiarmid, who perhaps might not have minded, given that he tried just about everything himself. And Scottish Renaissance? </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When did it ever die so that it required rebirth?</span></i><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The cocktail lovers among you can continue with the occasional Banana Daiquiri that will see you through the winter and spring months, but if it’s local ingredients that you’re after in that green way of the ecological cocktail champion, then get this one over your neck sharpish.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Ingredients:</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>14 decent sized ripe strawberries. Plump!<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>2 fl oz white rum<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>1 fl oz crème de framboises (or some sort of Strawberry liqueur)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>1 tbsp caster sugar<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Juice of two limes<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Juice of 1 orange<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Dash orange bitters<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Splash of rosewater<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>4 ice cubes</b></span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><b>Method:</b></span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Retain 4 of the strawbs then plonk the rest of the ingredients in a jug blender and whizz the mixture like it's the Large Hadron Collider<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Rub a slice of lime over the rim of each glass then dip it in sugar up to a couple of millimetres.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Pour into four cocktail glasses<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Do something fancy with a strawberry and skewer it along with a quarter slice of orange and lay it in the glass.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Don’t forget to say “Cheers!” or some other convivial toast.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Sip, don’t gulp</i></b></span><b><i>.</i></b><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Ahhh.....</i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><i><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coming up in a future blog … <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why I’d rather sip a horse’s neck than tip a horse’s ass. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hee haw! (Sorry, that was a donkey).</span></div><!--EndFragment-->William MacFarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17280365260834303000noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863470779715044668.post-63802700294469914242011-09-26T10:15:00.000-07:002011-09-26T10:31:23.282-07:00The Third Drink...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">When in Vienna, what do you do if you like a cocktail and are possessed with – or, most likely, by – a vivid imagination? Well, one of the best spots is the American Bar, just off Karntner Strasse.</span></span></b></span><br />
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<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>The lady, being a cosmopolitan sort, generally plumps for a Cosmo. And to savour one outside this 1908 bar, designed by the Brno-born architect Adolf Loos in the art nouveau style – or <i>jugendstil</i>, as they term it locally – was, she attested, "Just perfect."</b></span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In place of the common burnt slice of orange peel. the barman plonked a similarly charred chunk of lemon zest. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Ahhh, delicious ... and that's just the Cosmopolitan.</b></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Another fine spot in Vienna is the Imperial Hotel, which backs on to the square containing the fabulous Golden Saal of the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Musikverein</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, famous internationally for its New Year's Day concerts.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">At the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Imperial's</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> cocktail bar, I sipped a well-crafted Old-Fashioned, made with a very decent bourbon while a pianist with a lovely, insouciant touch asked for requests. The Time Goes By very nicely there.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But ...! What if your vivid imagination takes a turn for the worse and you begin to hear noises off?</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4JpDUMXBqo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4JpDUMXBqo</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oh no – it's that zither tune by Anton </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Karas</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. Once you've heard it you can't get it out of your head.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And who's that character skulking in the shadows in Josef </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Platz</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, scene of the fake death of one Harry Lime? It must be the Third Man, surely. Looking for his third drink, most likely.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Was it all a mirage? And why did we wake up in London? </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ach</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, es </span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">ist</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">sehr</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">unheimlich</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, </span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">nicht</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">wahr</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">?</span></i></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>William MacFarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17280365260834303000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863470779715044668.post-19449108496977016362011-08-01T05:35:00.000-07:002011-08-01T05:35:22.631-07:00Let's Twist Again<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Was Chubby Checker ever invited to Chequers? And if so, did he enjoy a cocktail there, provided by one Harold McMillan? </span><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"There you are, dear boy. You've never had it so good, what?"</span></i><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCO4sRLzsGk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCO4sRLzsGk</a><br />
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Well, possibly not.<br />
But speaking of cocktails...I often try to do something a little different – with a twist, as it were. So I wonder what old Chubby Checker, or Ernest Evans, to give him his real name, and our esteemed Prime Minister would have thought about these efforts...<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Cosmopolitan – With a Twist</span></b></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Cosmo is regarded more as a woman's cocktail – my good lady certainly loves an occasional one (occasional, as in "It's six o'clock and it's Friday. Where's my blooming Cosmo?!"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And as one should always try to do the right thing by one's good lady, I came up with this version for the delectation of us both. It is pretty much like a regular Cosmopolitan but just wait for it...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>One measure of cointreau or triple sec</b></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>One measure of good cranberry juice</b></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Juice of one lime</b></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>And...a good dash of rosewater.</b></span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Give it a really good shake.</b></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Hang a slice of lime on the rim of your cocktail glass (another little twist) and pour in the mixture. Before serving, slice off a chunk of orange zest (about 1x2 in) and hold the rind side over a flame for a few seconds until it blackens a little then plop that into the glass. </b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>(I like to use a long match for this – it connects me to the days when cavemen were inventing the first cocktails.)</b></span></i></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Then drink the thing! And jolly good it is. And with the addition of the rosewater – also used in religious ceremonies – you can have the added satisfaction that as well as indulging in a rather decadent pleasure, you're also communing with your maker on some level or other.</b></span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Add a dash of orange bitters and perform the same little ceremony</b></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Plop a brown sugar cube in the bottom of the glass</b></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Add a measure of Grand Marnier (this is instead of the usual cognac – hence the twist. And the orange bitters enhances the liqueur's flavour even more)</b></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Fill up with a decent champagne – Kristal is very nice. (Hahaha. Aye right, as they say in Govan).</b></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Munch it up, get the dinner over with sharpish and chuck out the gusts!</b></span></li>
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</div>William MacFarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17280365260834303000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863470779715044668.post-49041817014071256302011-05-14T08:37:00.000-07:002011-05-14T08:37:07.367-07:00Dire Straits? NeverIstanbul may be a long way to go for a cocktail. But it's a better reason to go than to eat. I'll expand on that later. It's a good spot, too, to have a glass of tea, a baklava or two and puff on the old nargile (water pipe) while being entertained by some local musicians and a whirling dervish.<br />
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If, however, you fancy going a bit upmarket, you can go on the roof of the Marmara Hotel in the Beyoglu district of the city. All 18 floors up.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">That's the lovely Lula overlooking her empire (me!) while indulging in a classic Dry Martini. The rooftop bar doesn't have a cocktail menu as such but the staff are happy to make you a drink to the recipe of your choice. So, before you head skyward, you'd better know what you want – and how you like it. A little of what you fancy etc.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If the Marmara roof bar is too giddy an enterprise you could had a few metres south and enter a world of revitalised splendour: the Pera Palas Hotel, where the rich and famous have stayed down the years, including Mata Hari, Ian Fleming, Graham Greene and Agatha Christie. The room she stayed in during her famous 'disappearance' is available for guests to view. Also on view is a the original lift, one of the first to be built, and the remains of a sedan chair, used to transport guests to and from Sirkeci station, the end of the Orient Express line.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In their cocktail bar, one of several gorgeous public spaces in the beautifully restored Pera Palas, staff serve a mean cocktail, too. I had another Dry Martini – you musn't mix your drinks, no! – and Her Highness had a Cosmopolitan. Their recipe: vodka, cointreau, squeeze of lemon and, in place of the usual cranberry, they used sour cherry juice. No burnt orange peel but my companion pronounced it "just perfect".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Next day after a boat trip on the Bosphorus we had to head home to Blighty. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Now it's the bus for us.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Great trip but the food could be better, one has to say. Kebab and chips everywhere. Even an apparently top restaurant we tried was less than wonderful.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">What would old Ataturk think, I wonder?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>William MacFarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17280365260834303000noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863470779715044668.post-1902799991285782342011-04-05T09:48:00.000-07:002011-04-05T09:53:27.439-07:00Steppes this way>>>The Russians have much to answer for but, in their favour, they gave the world vodka. Or a wee voddie, as they say in Maryhill. And not so wee at that. The Moscow-Maryhill link is little documented; probably for the best. Those who have been party to that link will remember little of its significance. For despite its benign appearance, vodka can be a killer. Treat it, however, with respect and it will repay you in a price above rubies. Or rubles.<br />
Others, outside of Maryhill, like it in ultra cold shots to accompany a silver bowl of Beluga. Quaite naice, as they say in nearby Kelvinside – or even, Morningside. But such a combination is more common in Knightsbridge, supped by those oligarchs who have managed to dodge the current Russian taste for poisoning their expats.<br />
Poland, which crafts several wondrous varieties of its own, also lays claim to wodka provenance but the jury, as they say, is still out.<br />
All that argument over a bag of potatoes. Which can also be fashioned, of course, into chips. Cue, once more, Maryhill. A bag of chips washed down by a glass of girders: that's voddie and Irn Bru to you, Vladimir. Here's how it's done but don't try it at home...<br />
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For the faintly civilised among us, however, vodka can often be put to a far better use: namely in a cocktail. Its crisp, clean taste, backed up by an almighty kick, is the first ingredient many choose to base their Friday fun upon. Here's a goodie I invented last Friday evening at 6pm precisely. I call it...<br />
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<i><b>Throw 4 ice cubes into cocktail shaker</b></i><br />
<i><b>5 fl oz Stolichnaya Vodka straight from the freezer</b></i><br />
<i><b>Juice of a lime</b></i><br />
<i><b>1 fl oz sugar syrup</b></i><br />
<i><b>1/2 fl oz peach schnapps</b></i><br />
<i><b>Good dash orange bitters</b></i><br />
<i><b>White of an egg</b></i><br />
<i><b>Add soda water to fill</b></i><br />
<i><b>Hold down the top very firmly and shake</b></i><br />
<i><b>Garnish glasses with slice of lime or lemon then pour.</b></i><br />
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There may be enough for four measures. Possibly. It's not an exact science, this!<br />
Coming soon – another vodka-based classic, helped along with a very special ingredient given to me by a most artistic chum. Watch this space!William MacFarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17280365260834303000noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863470779715044668.post-45325376423223451392011-03-15T15:14:00.000-07:002011-03-16T07:24:33.096-07:00FruitySo, you're after a healthy lifestyle. What, after years of neglect? I'll give you some tips – provided you don't report me to the Ministry of Health.<br />
And this, as you might imagine, is a fun route to fitness, assuming that, by fitness, you mean fitness of the intellect.<br />
<i>Alors,</i> you've heaved your wretched frame out of bed ... then do pour – and don't forget to drink – a glass of decent fruit juice. (Not that horrible, cheap concentrate rubbish). Then munch a handful of blueberries, assuming you can get them past your remonstrating gullet.<br />
At lunch, accompany your brie de meaux with your customary glass of burgundy or whatever. But how about being a bit radical for a change? Have a grape with it. White or red will do. Peeled or otherwise.<br />
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Come evening, when you're about to serve your oysters, you'll have some finely chopped shallots in balsamic vinegar ready for garnishing purposes.<br />
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And not long before that, at cocktail hour, why not try a frozen banana daiquiri ... that's the very thing on the right of the picture below... the other, under the orange parasol, not to mention the breathtaking smile, is a cosmopolitan. More of that on another day...<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Not only are you having fun, but it transpires that your cocktail is one of your five a day. Sorted! </span></span></span></u></b></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Not that it did Fredo of Godfather fame much good, despite his love of the banana daiquiri as witnessed in the Cuba scenes. Michael saw though his brother but it was tough.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"></span></span></span></span></span>"Fredo, you broke my heart."<br />
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<i>Peel a ripe banana and stick it in the blender</i><br />
<i>Batter half a dozen ice cubes then slam them into the blender</i><br />
<i>3 fl oz white rum</i><br />
<i>1 fl oz triple sec</i><br />
<i>Juice of half lemon</i><br />
<i>1/2 fl oz sugar syrup</i><br />
<i>Give it a good old whizz then pour</i><br />
<i>If you're lucky you might get 4 small measures</i><br />
<i>Some say stick a maraschino cherry on a cocktail stick and garnish the drink with it</i><br />
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I say: Hold the cherry: it would amount to another fruit/veg item and five is plenty. You can be merry without a cherry, especially the maraschino variety. Ugh.<br />
So, as the Mikado might have sung when referring to the frozen banana daiquiri –<br />
<b><i>"A source of innocent merriment, of innocent merriment."</i></b>William MacFarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17280365260834303000noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863470779715044668.post-59750256697564253262011-02-21T06:10:00.000-08:002011-02-21T06:10:43.472-08:00Just another FridayWell, what can you say? Liza Minelli summed it up nicely in Cabaret when, as Sally Bowles, she pronounced "Divine decadence, darling" about life in Berlin to the tyro Brian Roberts, played by Michael York. The following pic neatly encapsulates, too, that lovely feeling when work is over for another week and you can begin to enjoy yourself... Did somebody mention work?<br />
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The shaker full of gin and ice, the glass about to be sprayed with French vermouth – just a wee skoosh, as we say in Glasgow – plus three pimento-stuffed olives for the perfect Dry Martini. And the meal? Why a plate of oysters, served with lemon, tabasco, a finely chopped shallot in balsamic vinegar and buttered wholemeal bread. The oysters, beautifully fresh and bought from MacCallums in Finnieston, Glasgow – surely the best fishmongers In Scotland; they also have an oyster bar in Troon. Don't take my word for it; follow this link...<br />
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I imagine Miss Bowles would enjoy such decadence – even more so as there's little chance of any horrible Nazis on the horizon to spoil things for everybody. She did like to enjoy herself...<br />
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Meanwhile, back in Glasgow, I almost expect Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine to stumble through the door to partake in the festivities. Mind you, there's no absinthe on offer <i>en ce moment.</i> A symbolist moment, perhaps, nevertheless.<br />
And yet it's not realism, as such, that the modern sensualist disdains; it's reality.William MacFarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17280365260834303000noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863470779715044668.post-67480713223772091092011-02-15T09:04:00.000-08:002011-02-15T10:55:25.151-08:00All white on the nightThere's something mysterious and fabulously alluring about ordering a cocktail named White Lady. Here's three to be going on with...<br />
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As usual, the science is inexact regarding how to mix them, and equally common is the provenance of their invention. There are those who maintain that the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 25px;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">White Lady</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 25px;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> – apparently also known as a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Delilah or the rather mawkish</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Lillian Forever –</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> is essentially a Sidecar fashioned from gin rather than cognac.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 25px;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Two American Harrys claim the credit: </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1/ Harry MacElhone</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> at Harry's Bar in Paris circa </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1929.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2/ Harry Craddock of the Savoy. If you've been looking closely you'll have noticed I have ranted somewhat about the seeming genius of the latter in a previous post.</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Craddock published his recipe in the Savoy </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">recipe Cocktail Book in 1930.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And Laurel and Hardy loved a White Lady, so it is reported. That's funny.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1/2 part gin</span></i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1/4 part Cointreau</span></i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1/4 part lemon juice</span></i></span></i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Shake well with ice then strain into glass.</span></i></span></i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i><br />
</i></span></i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Some recipes add the white of an egg and, I must say, this gives the drink a smooth, silky finish. I prefer Triple Sec instead of Cointreau and I'd use Bombay Sapphire gin (I trust you are looking at this, you old Bombay Sapphire distiller, you, and despatch my reward immediately) which I keep in the freezer. Give the mix a jolly good shake. Garnish the rim of the cocktail glass with a slice of lemon or lime and pour. The three glasses in my picture above were made using this method.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What, however, if you believe that the White Lady has been given too much deference and that the Black Lady is a victim of some kind of cocktalian discrimination? In which case, you might use dark rum instead of gin. And lime might be preferable to lemon. I know a couple of Jamaican worthies who would happily go for this amendment.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">On a Health & Safety note, you might not wish to carry cocktails around on the tray in my picture. A chum did that very thing one Christmas and broke two of my six exquisite Bohemian glass champagne flutes. A far better plan is to transport them on a clever invention called the Safetray. Check it out in this video...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Ah yes, the best inventions are always the simplest ones.</div>William MacFarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17280365260834303000noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1863470779715044668.post-76929741886837401392011-01-22T10:23:00.000-08:002011-01-22T10:26:14.061-08:00A jigger of gin...So, as I mentioned in my last post, a chum of mine is prone to a martini or two – prone being the operative word. Here he is after a night on the tiles and following the consumption of one too many. From the angle of his half-cocked top hat, it appears as if Little Minky – that's the chap's moniker – had a good session. He certainly found favour in the arms of Gertie the showgirl from the Cafe de Paris. And by the size of the empty cocktail glass, it looks as if he could leap into it. Perhaps that's what he did, in fact. A bath of dry martini – what a way to go.<br />
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Children can be wonderful – even when they're all grown up. Some might say, especially when they're all grown up. My family were very kind this Christmas – and apposite. They gave me a whole bunch of goodies connected to my latest interest – cocktails. They like to mix with the right sort, too.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Check out the items in the picture: two fab books about classic cocktails, a selection of bitters, a box of exotic spices to enliven a champagne cocktail and the piece de resistance – that silvery cigar-shaped object is a spray device engraved with the words "mix with the right sort" which is, of course, the name of the blog. How clever! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">What you do is: fill the little chamber inside with vermouth – Noilly Prat is preferable – then spray it on the inside of the glass. Then top up with gin which has been languishing in the freezer. Three pimento-stuffed olives for me. And pretty fine, too, for the lady in the picture above; she does seem to be enjoying the attention.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As Ogden Nash remarked about the Dry Martini...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">There is something about a Martini,</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">A tingle remarkably pleasant;</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">A yellow, a mellow Martini;</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">I wish that I had one at present.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><br />
</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">There is something about a Martini,</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">'Ere the singing and dancing begin,</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">And to tell you the truth,</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">It is not the vermouth –</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">I think that perhaps it's the gin.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My thanks to other chums for that last poem – they gave me a framed copy of Nash's poem on another occasion. These chums have just purchased a new superfridge – it has a compartment which releases crushed ice at the press of a button. I'll have to get one ... then for the perfect mint julep.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Meanwhile, I have another chum who likes a wee drappie o' it. I'll tell you more about him soon.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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