Just found this neat article from thestar.com. Great ideas for using up those dusty, forgotten, half-empty bottles shoved towards the back of your cupboard that never seem to get used up.
Ideas from the article:
“Get cooking: Plenty of recipes call for liquor and even if they don’t, a little glug could add complexity and richness to your sauces or drippings (much of the alcohol burns off, depending on the cooking method, leaving the flavour behind).
Get cooking: Plenty of recipes call for liquor and even if they don’t, a little glug could add complexity and richness to your sauces or drippings (much of the alcohol burns off, depending on the cooking method, leaving the flavour behind).”
“Get infused: Don’t like the taste? Change it through the magic of infusion. A pretty simple process gets you big points from those who don’t realize how easy it is: just put flavourings in, seal, wait, and drink.”
“The thrifty mixologist need look no further than the Internet to find oodles of free tools that will help empty out your liquor cabinet in no time. Cocktail Builder (www.cocktailbuilder.com) generates drink recipes based on what you have on hand. “
Bah Humbug.
This ale has a strong yeast flavour on the front of the mouth and a decidedly hoppy flavour after. As their Christmas product this beer has cinnamon added and this becomes more predominant as one gets closer to the end of the bottle, making this a beer that will definitely benefit from being dispensed into a glass. There definitely are (as the bottle suggests) hints of dried fruits as many yeasty ales exhibit.
definitely worth a try next year (sorry for the late review), and quite reasonably priced. Three and a half shots out of five.
This is one of my favourite beers, it is best enjoyed with the vegetarian Po’ Boy and sweet potato fries at Hot Belly Mama’s restaurant in Peterborough, although now available at the LCBO.
Review:
It has a lovely raspberry bouquet the raspberry flavour blends very well. It has a pleasant light hoppy aftertaste.
* Single Malt Whisky – A term coined in the 1970s during the malt whisky revival, used to define the whisky of one distillery made with 100 percent malted barley.
* Scotch – A blended whisky made in Scotland.
* Irish Whiskey – Whiskey made in Ireland, normally a blend of pot still whiskey with malted barley and grain whiskey.
* Bourbon – An American whiskey with 51 percent or more corn mash aged for two years in charred oak barrels.
* Tennessee Whiskey – a whiskey with no specific grain criteria but normally made with corn mash and charcoal filtering.
I read somewhere recently that there was an article about Steven Page from the band BNL at some point in Wine X Magazine so I loooked it up.
It’s from a few years ago.
Here’s the story.
by Bob Blumer
Magazine Issue: U.S. Vol. 4.3
“The usual drill for my Wine X celebrity cover stories is that the interviewee comes to my house, I cook dinner and he or she plunders my wine collection. So when Steven Page, lead singer of The Barenaked Ladies, invited me to sample his cooking and drink his wine, how could I refuse — even if he does live in a foreign, snow-bound country, 3,000 miles from my comfortable perch below the Hollywood sign.”
“A week after receiving the invitation, I embarked for Toronto and was met by a midwinter blizzard. An hour later the reception was much warmer as I was invited into Steven’s tastefully furnished, albeit modest-by-rock-star-standards, house. Steven, equally as unrock-star-like in his thick black framed glasses, tended to a pan of scalloped potatoes as he introduced me to his wife Carolyn, his two young boys, and to Steven Duffy, leader of the ’80s British band Tin Tin, known for their classic hit “Kiss Me.” Duffy was visiting from London for a couple of weeks, to co-write the forthcoming BNL album with Page. Over the course of the evening, the four of us feasted on a seemingly bottomless tin of 0setra caviar, a bottle of Schramsberg’s J Schram that I’d lugged with me, a magnum of Gosset 1989 Champagne, seared ahi tuna served with the aforementioned potatoes and a gloriously stinky collection of French cheese — all served with wines from Steven’s carefully assembled and very rock star-like 300 bottle temperature controlled walk-in wine cellar. The atmosphere was so homey and the host so relaxed, that as dinner started, I had to remind myself that I was there on a mission.”
I just had to know if a Bartender’s magazine did indeed exsist after recently watching a Cheers episode where Woody tries to make up his own drink in an effort to create an original recipe for publication.
“Issued quarterly by the Foley Publishing Corporation in Livingston, New Jersey, the magazine is one of a number of services for the bartending and on-premise industry offered by Ray and Jackie Foley.
They also operate a website with still more drink recipes, bartending job ads and instruction (for a fee) on all sorts of matters of interest.
Ray is the author of several books, including Bartending for Dummies, Running a Bar for Dummies and The Ultimate Little Martini Book. That last title features more than 1,000 martini recipes!” Magazine Review: Bartender
ARTICLES OF INTEREST Dear Mixologists…
by Francis Lam
Wine+Spirits+Beer @Gourmet.com
This is a fun New Year’s Eve trip around the world from Chowhound. I think the Spiced Somalian Tea looks great, what a nice break in the boozy recipes. I remember seeing a recipe in the Toronto Star almost exactly like this one a few years back.
I wish I had an ice cream maker just to try this amazing Frozen Lambic Ice.
Lots of interesting new drinks I hope to try sometime soon.
This is what I plan to make for New Year’s eve this year. Keep in mind I haven’t tried this yet.
Cranberry Sangria
1 can frozen undiluted cranberry cocktail concentrate
1/2 can frozen undiluted lemonade concentrate
1/4 can frozen undiluted orange juice concentrate
2 tsp lime juice
1 bottle dry white wine
1 tbsp sugar, or to taste
3-4 shots of tequila
