So while we have been partaking of alcoholic libations lately, they haven't been on the exotic side, but rather, more mundane. To be perfectly frank, we've been drinking, (gasp!) just ingredients! Wine? Check. Campari with a cube of ice? Check. Scotch? Check. Mixologic delights? Nope. Which is why our excitement level went up a few notches after finding this awesome link. It's Tony Abou-Gamin's site. Nice resume (Balboa Cafe, Harry Denton's Starlight Room, Po, and Bellagio). We'll make a hefty bet that this gentlemen knows how to make a rockin' Martini. While a quick peruse of the cocktail recipies on his site don't offer up anything that makes us raise the collective eyebrow, we will state that the man's devotion to using only the freshest of ingredients is spot on. Nothing makes the drink like the components. And when your parts are crap, well... Speaking of Harry Denton, we've recently been alerted to the existence of the 'million-dollar cocktail menu'. Spare us the whole 'yupsters, wealthy men, celebrities and those looking to impress' as the clientele for these. Being the hooch-wizards we are, the four drinks for offer sound VERY tempting. We'll be putting a visit to the Starlight on our agenda in the next 2 months so that we can give all four a good test drive and render an opinion.
With Halloween creeping closer, we've started to get the itch to do some mixology after a long dry spell. What better excuse to stand over the silver cauldron that goes by the usual moniker of 'martini-shaker'? Though hunting around the interwebby thingy for ideas is proving to be somewhat of a bust. This seems to be the most promising idea we've found thus far. And again, it's more the ingredients and what we percieve will be a delightful blend of the various parts. (This cocktail just seems like one of those dangerous potions, one could easily envision knocking back more than three). In desperation, we even perused through the Food Network site. Bleah. Devils eyeballs = lychee implanted with a cherry that has a chocolate morsel for a pupil? Um. No. 'Blue Curapolitan'? See previous posts on the evil that is Blue Curacao. Again. No. Blood colored fruit juices and Ruby Liquors? Boring, boring, boring. We did however, enjoy the wormy ice cubes recipe. Kinda neat in principle, but we have a feeling that nursing a drink over an extended period (like, oh, say, an hour), will yield no ice, and some rapidly expanding/syrupy sweet oversized goobers in your glass. And isn't that an enticing thought? Of more interest actually was the whole recipe for making a smoking cauldron. Dry ice! Glue a hand to it! Make it look like it's reaching out for help! Hee. Providing equal mirth was the suggestion (and we'll quote) ".. if you want to really go for the gruesome, take apart plastic dolls from a dollar store, clean them well and use the little limbs as stirrers!" Um. Why stop there? How about impaling those dollar store doll heads on a real olive pick and using THAT as a stirrer. Heck, how about embedding the discarded torso in some Halloween cake (surprise!) Ugh. Pass us a Bloody Mary...
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