We’re huge fans of The New Joy of Cooking by Marion Rombauer Becker, Irma S. Rombauer, and Ethan Becker. Hardly a meal goes through our kitchen that isn’t shaped in some part by the recipes and general information in its pages. A recent discovery was Joy’s description and defense of cocktail parties.
So, when a book [...]
Posted October 7, 2007 by TowerGirl
Categories: Kitchen. Tags: alcohol, american invention, cocktail, cocktail parties, cocktail party, cocktails, drink, entertaining, joy of cooking, party, toast. 2 Comments.
Ok, the truth is that at MaisonBisson we celebrate all holidays with a drink. Since we take cocktails quite seriously, I wanted something very pretty for the little Fourth of July soiree we were having. I have found that the secret to a perfect strawberry daiquiri is using frozen strawberries. I also [...]
Posted July 4, 2007 by TowerGirl
Categories: Kitchen. Tags: alcohol, blue, blueberry, cocktail, cocktails, crushed ice, daiquiri, delicious drink, drink, fourth of july, frozen strawberries, holidays, Homemade, ice, independence day, july 4, july 4th, red, red white and blue, ripe banana, rum, star fruit, starfruit, strawberry, strawberry daiquiri, summer, Sweets, whipped cream, white, yankee doodle dandy. 7 Comments.
Who wouldn’t enjoy a frozen mud slide on a hot summer day? Typical recipes call for crushed ice and cream or ice cream. For some reason, we decided to try making them from ice cream, from scratch.
The MaisonBisson Frozen Mud Slide
This recipe requires an ice cream maker, we used the Deni Scoop Factory.
1.5 cups heavy [...]
Posted June 10, 2007 by TowerGirl
Categories: Kitchen. Tags: alcohol, cocktail, cocktails, crushed ice, drink, freezer, frozen mud slide, heavy cream, Homemade, hot summer, ice cream, ice cream maker, kahlua, milk, mud slide, sugar, summer, Sweets, vodka, whipped cream. One Comment.
The holidays are long since past, here’s a drink to carry you through ’till Spring.
Rusty Nail
3 parts Scotch
1 part Drambuie
Serve over ice in an old fashioned glass.
Please enjoy it responsibly.
Posted January 6, 2007 by TowerGirl
Categories: Kitchen. Tags: alcohol, cocktail, cocktails, cold, cold weather, drambuie, drink, holidays, Homemade, rusty nail, scotch, warm drinks for cold nights, winter. Be the first one.
El Chapultepec is a little jazz club on Market St in LoDo, and one of a number of finds in Denver.
Posted May 22, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Photoblog, Style, Fashion and Food. Tags: bar, cocktails, Colorado, denver, denver co, entertainment, jazz club. Be the first one.
I convinced Sandee to join me at Atomic Liquors on Fremont Street, just beyond the Western Hotel Casino in what the Las Vegas Sun calls the “gritty underbelly of Las Vegas.”
Owner Joe Sobchick and his wife Stella started business in 1945 with a cafe called Virginia’s. They converted it into a bar in 1953, and [...]
Posted December 27, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Kitchen, Style, Fashion and Food. Tags: atomic, atomic cocktail, atomic cocktails, atomic liquors, atomic liquors and cocktails, bar, cocktails, downtown, drinks, joe sobchick, las vegas, las vegas nv, liquor, liquor store, neon, sign, storefront, vegas. 2 Comments.
