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Tequila, our forgotten friend

Posted in Cocktail Recipes on April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I love some tequila, but noticed that it doesn’t make it into our classic cocktails very often.  Research was needed!  I delved into the great wide world of tequila cocktail recipes on the web and came back a bit defeated.  Where were all the great recipes?  Some, like the margarita, just can’t really be classified [...]

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Vodka is mama’s candy

Posted in Cocktail Recipes, Cocktails, tagged , , , on February 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Skittle-infused Vodka?! Crazy? Yes. Awesome? Maybe. Crazy Awesome? Potentially.

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Baby, It’s Cold Outside!

Posted in Cocktail Recipes, Meetings on January 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »

When I realized that I was hosting the December LUPEC meeting, I couldn’t get past the fact that it’s been cold here in Denver.  Really, really cold.  Sure, it’s that uniquely sunny, crisp cold that only Denver can offer but still.  Cold is cold and I wanted delicious hot cocktails to drown my frostbitten holiday [...]

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Lemons as big as your head!

Posted in Cocktail Recipes, tagged , , on December 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Italy’s Amalfi coast is known for lemons – huge, insane lemons that if they ever became sentient would be totally big enough to take over the world.  And with those lemons come limoncello, a delicious Italian liqueur. We bought a bottle of limoncello, around a .375, for like 6.50 euros while in Amalfi.  Again, with [...]

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Bellinis are the bomb.

Posted in Cocktail History, Cocktail Recipes, tagged , , on December 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I’d had bellinis before I went to Venice, but I’d never really HAD a BELLINI.  I’d always thought of it as basically a mimosa, but subbing peach puree for the OJ – oh, it is so much more than that. Here’s what I learned about bellinis from Wikipedia:  they were invented by Giuseppe Cipriani, the [...]

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The best in Venice

Posted in Cocktail Recipes, tagged , , on November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The first drink I served at La Bella Italia was an Aperol Spritz.  It’s a simple recipe that I first tasted at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. Peggy Guggenheim lived in an unfinished villa on the Grand Canal and was known for her love of 20th century art.  She collected voraciously and essentially considered [...]

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