Posted in Beverage, Cocktails, Drinks, Home Cooking, Joyce, Recipe, Special Occasion, Spirits, tagged Cocktail, Easy Recipe, French 75, Gin, Mocktail, Raincity Distillery, recipe, Saintly Wine, Sparkling Rosé on February 14, 2024| Leave a Comment »
This is the classic French 75 cocktail but I changed it up with a sparkling rosé. I called it Blush 75 (and others may have named it similarly as well) because the sparkling rosé would give it a tint of pink. The colour is also perfect for Valentine’s Day. And I love that I have all the ingredients at home so I don’t have to buy a bunch of cocktail stuff that I don’t use often.
Posted in Beverage, Cocktails, Drinks, Joyce, Recipe, Wine, tagged Cocktail, Inniskillin, Jameson Whiskey, New York Sour, recipe on January 26, 2023| Leave a Comment »
So over the holidays Mr. got into cocktail making and we’re looking up recipes online to try. The tricky thing is, we don’t have a lot of ingredients readily available and we also don’t want to stock up a lot of liqueurs, syrups or bitters and clog up the shelves. Then I was given this New York Sour recipe and with some modifications, it’s just the perfect drink for us to make at home.
Posted in Beverage, Drinks, Holiday, Joyce, Parties, Recipe, tagged Cocktail, Halloween, Hounds Vodka, Party Idea, recipe, Screwdriver, Vodka on October 28, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Halloween is just around the corner. Are you hosting a party, having friends over? Are you looking for cool yet easy entertaining ideas? How about a 2-ingredient cocktail?
Recently, I was sent some samples of Hounds Vodka. What’s special about Hounds is that the vodka is black in colour and naturally, I thought of using it for Halloween. What’s an easy cocktail recipe for this mysterious looking vodka? The classic Screwdriver came to mind.
Posted in American, Baked Goods, Casual, Chinatown, Culinary Events, Dine Out Vancouver, Dinner, Fried, Joyce, Meat, Restaurants, Vancouver, tagged Baked Beans, Biscuit, Chinatown, Cocktail, Dine Out Vancouver, Dine Out Vancouver 2019, Fried Chicken, Gluten Free, Juke Fried Chicken, Media, Menu Tasting, Pickles, Potato Salad on January 18, 2019| 1 Comment »
For the second year, Juke Fried Chicken in Chinatown is participating in Dine Out Vancouver. I was invited to a tasting of its $25 menu.
The appetizer includes two options. The Country Biscuits are to die for! They were warm, had a nice crispy crust on the outside, and soft, buttery inside. Combining with the herbed schmaltz (think butter), mmm it’s one of the best biscuits I’ve had in town. There was leftover from the tasting, so I brought some home. Even with reheating, my family was still marvelled by how delicious these biscuits were.
The other option is Fried Zucchini Pickles. Since it’s home made, it’s not pungent and acidic like the typical pickles. There’s a bit of sweetness in them. The corn flour-cornmeal crust was thin, making the exterior perfectly crunchy. The honey dill dressing goes well with it, and I tasted a hint of heat too. I didn’t think much of it when I saw this option on the menu, but it’s actually some good munchies before the highlight of the meal.
Suggested by the restaurant name, obviously fried chicken needs to be on the menu.
Posted in Beverage, Cocktails, Culinary Events, Drinks, Food Bloggers, Joyce, Meat, News, Vancouver, tagged Andrea Civettini, Aubrey Pingitore, Cocktail, Cocktail Competition, Cocktails, David Robertson, Event, Fermentation, Fun, Jesse Hochhausen, liquid nitrogen, Michael Chan, Science, Science of Cocktails, Science World, Science World Class Field Trip Bursary, smoked, Sous vide on February 26, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Earlier this month, as media, I was invited to attend the 3rd annual Science of Cocktails event at the Science World. It was the perfect venue as the Science World was transformed into a giant lab where drinks were changing from blue to pink, bananas being sous vide in honey, popcorn was frozen with liquid nitrogen, a “toothpaste” palate cleanser, smoking herbs, vaporized gin & tonic, fermentation, a sniffing station, foodies pulling themselves up a lift… the list goes on!
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