College, NFL it is Fall and that means I don’t leave the house in Saturdays and rarely on a Sunday. What to do while watching 12 hours of straight football? Cocktails!
It’s that time of year again. No, not annual holiday celebration, it is something else. This Tuesday we celebrate the end to a dark time in American history, the passing of the 21 Amendment, thus repealing the 18th (aka Prohibition)….
Q: Marlene writes, “How many ounces are in a 1/5th bottle of vodka?” A: First, let’s use a 1 oz shot for this exercise. Next, what exactly is a fifth? It is an old measurement for a bottle of booze….
This creamy, peppermint treat in cocktail form is perfect for cozy nights by the fireplace. Ingredients 1 ½ parts vodka 1 part peppermint schnapps ½ part simple syrup ½ part cream Instructions Shake all ingredients vigorously in a cocktail shaker full of ice….
The Sipping Seder – A site of Passover Cocktails Does the Perfect Bourbon Exist? – The Washington Post postulates All 68 NCAA Tournament Teams Ranked by Their Best Drunk College Food – Endless Simmer Fastest Bartender in the World –…
The mid-February celebrations originate in early Rome, where revelers commemorated the empire’s founders, as well as the Roman god of agriculture, Faunus. This fertility festival included a sex lottery where men pulled names of mates out of a box. The randomly matched lovers often ended up marrying. Talk about fodder for reality TV.
Tonight marks the Feast of the Seven Fishes in some Italian families. Others will choose to celebrate tomorrow. But, it occurred to us that there will be a great deal of fish and seafood consumed in the next week as Christmas morphs into New Year’s. Our own family traditions have come to include heaping amounts of San Francisco’s local dungeness crab. For Christmas, we make the local San Francisco seafood stew – Ciopinno – a medley of seafood and fish in a spicy tomato broth. For New Year’s, we get a smorgasbord of local shellfish – crab, shrimp, oysters and clams (if you are on top of things, order from Swan’s Oyster Depot, which has been slinging seafood in San Francisco for 100 years). What goes better with seafood and fish than white wine.
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