Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Cocktail Without A Name
I teach the chic and fabulous people of L.A. to cook, which I love to do, but no matter how much fun I am having, it is still work. So when it comes to relaxing, I get together with my incredible friends and have a few drinks, including my favorite: Cocktail Without A Name. (So named mostly because I refuse to call it a Saketini.) Now, before you go thinking I am the sort of girl who doesn’t know enough to use premium liquor, I will just point out that after many trials, I found Stoli works best because it has the most neutral flavor. Make your non-mixed drinks top shelf, but for this, go with the less expensive stuff. Oh, and I know I mentioned this before, but I will say it again…skip the martini glasses. Use a chilled whiskey glass or a double old fashioned; less spillage, and altogether more sophisticated. Cheers!
FOR THE VODKA:
1 750 ml bottle of Stoli vodka
¾ cup fresh ginger, peeled and sliced thin
Pour yourself a shot or two of the vodka (oh come on, you deserve it!), then add the ginger to the bottle. Let steep in the freezer for about a week and up to three months.
FOR THE COCKTAIL:
2 oz. Ginger Vodka
1 oz. Pear Sake
½ cup ice, crushed
Pickled ginger, for garnish
Pour the vodka, sake and ice into a cocktail shaker and give it a shake, (Quickly. You don't want the ice melting and diluting your drink, do you?) then strain into a glass, garnish with a little pickled ginger on a cocktail pick and serve. Makes one drink. Repeat as needed.
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Queen Elizabeth I of England is credited with the invention of the gingerbread man.
(Of COURSE she did!)
Tiffany posted a comment I made to her on her site Breakfast at Tiffany's (which Colin
thought was a diet blog at first. Tee hee.) What my old friend neglected to mention was
that I think that if that were true it would have triggered the apocalypse.
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Mmm, ginger and pear are one of my favorite combos. I made a crystallized-ginger vodka recently for a similar drink:
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