What’s in a name? Well, when you’re asking about the breakfast cocktail Pamplemosa, grapefruit juice and champagne. Flashback to 2006. My sister and I, (and later Sam!), enjoyed a “Thursday is our day off” adventure club. We’d beach and brunch or hike and lunch or late afternoon swim and gin cocktails drink followed by fancy […]
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I was shocked that I’d never heard of Orange à la Norvegienne before. I mean, French cooking takes on a Scandinavian country? That’s my jam. So of course, I made Orange à la Norvegienne the very night I discovered it. And of course, I had to do a little something something to change it up. In this […]
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When embarking on my first tamale party, I started with the two fillings from Anna Zepaltas, including this Chili Lime Chicken Filling for Tamales. I also created one of my own. Hers were so good, that I stuck with them for party number two. Her chicken filling is a classic. It’s very flavorful, but simple, […]
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Well, January is turning out to be a month of unfinished business for Dirty Laundry Kitchen. I still owe the rest of the Hot! Tamale Dinner Party that I did for Christmas this year. And these Lemony Leek Meatballs are the last dish from my New Year’s Eve Party. The good news is that even though […]
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These Swedish Orange Cardamom Stars provide a festive and light dessert that will pair nicely with the cocktail and further our theme of glitter and sparkles for New Year’s. You can make the dough ahead a couple of days and store in the refrigerator, but baking ahead isn’t the best. These are definitely a cookie that’s […]
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Bruschetta is a great make ahead appetizer and this Fava Bean and Orange Bruschetta is both gorgeous and unexpected. With frozen vegetables and plentiful citrus fruits, it’s festive and seasonal. Fava Bean and Orange Bruschetta is also fairly healthy, which is a great way to ring in the New Year. 1 cup fava beans, shelled and […]
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Clementine Rosemary Margaritas started off Thanksgiving 2012. Good parties do have a tendency to start with cocktails. And like good cocktails often do, Clementine Rosemary Margaritas started with fresh citrus and herbs and good tequila and mezcal. Clementine Rosemary Margaritas are amazing on a cold fall night and perfect with a Mexican themed Thanksgiving. Cheers. […]
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Sometimes it’s really hard to name my creations, and sometimes it’s really easy. The French Lime Blossom Cocktail was an easy one. Naming is harder than it might sound, because while I want to name things something funny, and goofy, that reflects my feelings about my time in the kitchen and love for language, the truth […]
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Each winter, I forget that an Aperol Spritz is my perfect summer cocktail, and then every Summer, I’m reminded of this fact, usually sometime about this week in July. The first night it’s really sticky- hot outside, even at night, an Aperol Spritz is perfect: delicious, refreshing, effervescent, sweet and salty. Yes, that’s right, salty. I tried […]
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Believe it or not, at least for the Dirty Laundry Kitchen, it’s time to thinking about the 4th of July, and what’s a better place to start than with this Lemon Verbena Smash cocktail. This past weekend, I was forced to spend my time picnicking and drinking Lemon Verbena Smash cocktails at the dog park […]
Continue readingIt was early Sunday morning and all the liquor stores were closed. With no champagne on hand, we decided that instead of a mimosa, we’d have to head for the hard stuff. Citrus was an obvious choice to pair with the salty breakfast menu and gin was the bottle in the freezer. Here’s the fruit […]
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I love this gin-based Aviation Cocktail for all it’s refined floral and citrus notes, but picking the right gin is important because of the more subtle ingredients in the cocktail (i.e. the maraschino liquer and the creme de violette). One of the properties that makes gin-based cocktails interesting to me is that gins taste quite […]
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