APPETIZER – Potato Pancakes w/ Dill

INGREDIENTS: 1 small yellow onion (peeled and grated) 3 Yukon gold potatoes (also called Butter Potatoes; peeled and grated) 1 tablespoon chopped fresh dill, plus several sprigs for garnish 1/2 teaspoon salt Pinch of freshly ground black pepper 1 large egg white 1/4 cup sour cream Olive-oil cooking spray DIRECTIONS: 1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Squeeze out the moisture from the potatoes and onions. Combine onion, potatoes, chopped dill, salt, pepper, and egg white in a medium bowl, and stir to combine. 2. Coat two baking sheets with olive-oil cooking spray. Drop pancakes onto the sheets and flatten into disks. Bake until golden brown on bottom, about 10 minutes, rotating trays once during cooking. Remove from oven, and turn pancakes over. Return to oven, and bake until brown on both sides, about 7 minutes more. 3. Serve pancakes topped w/ a dab of sour cream and a sprig of dill. ENJOY

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Drink Recipes: Creative cocktails – Part 9

One hobby that I have recently been delving into is mixology. Attempting to accurately balance different tastes within a cocktail to create wonderful and new cocktails. The key to making a great cocktail is to satisfy all of the senses, not only the taste. A drink must have a pleasing appearance, fragrance, and texture in order for consumers to experience the full effect of the taste. After doing a bit of reading and a lot of experimenting I have found several great drinks that you won’t find in any recipe books. I will include my most recent concoction below. I call it the Purple Collins.

1 1/2oz of lime twisted gin

3/4 oz of sweet and sour mix

Club soda to fill

1/4 0z of Raspberry Liqueur (Chambord for best results)

Garnish with a fresh lime wedge (make sure to squeeze a little lime into the drink as well.)

Pour all ingredients into a tall Collin’s glass over ice.

Although I enjoy a Tom Collin’s the cocktail is a bit too sour and bitter for me. The sour taste is a result of the citrus flavor from the sour mix and fresh lime, while the bitter taste comes from the tonic water. The drink lacks a sweetness to balance the taste.

Therefore, I decided to experiment with a few cordials such as Midori, Cointreau, Blue Curacao, and finally Raspberry Liqueur. I enjoyed the taste of each drink, although I have to say the Raspberry Liqueur is not only the best tasting out of the variations I tampered with; it is also the most attractive looking. It has a slight purple tint with visible soda bubbles moving in the glass.

Impress your friends at your next social gathering and mix them a Purple Collins. They will enjoy the originality of the drink, the unique appearance, as well as the refreshing and balanced taste.

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Drink recipes: Fizz – Part 1

While flipping through a cocktail book the other evening a drink caught my eye; the Gansevoort Fizz. While this isn’t the first cocktail with an unusual name to have caused me pause, it was the description that had me salivating for more information. It seems this particular cocktail’s inspiration was a drink from the 1930’s with the unlikely combination of Drambuie and rum.

My fascination with Drambuie is that it is often overlooked in cocktail books and when it is referenced its most notable drink is the Rusty Nail. While the Rusty Nail is certainly not a drink to scoff at or take lightly, it is basically a “duo” drink. A duo drink is exactly what it sounds like; a drink that is usually one part base liquor and one part liqueur in varying ratios. The Rusty Nail can become quite a fascinating drink once the complexities of different scotches are taken into consideration. Every scotch has a character of its own. Some are lightly peated while others are heavily peated. Each would call for a completely different ratio of Drambuie to scotch in the duo mix. All this could be great fun for the scotch enthusiast, but I was searching for something a little different with the Drambuie. Surely there is something new and inspiring to do with this silky smooth liqueur that practically rolls off the back of the tongue begging the senses to take in more.

And there it was! It was staring me right in the face buried under years of Drambuie history in the family name. The Mackinnon. The Mackinnon was the inspiration cocktail for the Gansevoort Fizz. However, without the history of Drambuie, the Mackinnon cocktail lacks pizzazz.

Be it legend, lore or good old fashioned honest truth, Drambuie came to be through the hands of a prince after a bloody rebellion was quashed. Prince Charles Edward Stuart sailed to Scotland in 1745 to raise an army to restore the exiled kings of England, Scotland and Ireland to their rightful thrones. The Highland clans rose to the challenge and fought alongside their prince.

After nearly reaching their goal one hundred thirty miles from London, reinforcements failed to arrive. Though they were outnumbered and surrounded, the prince and his rebels continued the fight. It was at Culloden Moor that the rebellion was crushed and bathed in blood. The prince escaped capture and a steep price was put upon his head.

The prince was met with devotion from his Highland friends. Captain John Mackinnon of Strathaird gave the prince refuge, helping

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