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Drink recipes: Kir royale – Part 2

It is a shame that champagne seems to only make an appearance at special occasions such as weddings, anniversaries, birthday brunches, and New Years Eve. This particular effervescent beverage rises above all others on cocktail menus and wine lists. This may be due in part to the celebratory nature of its existence or the underlying impression that only expensive champagne or sparkling wine is worth partaking of. Not so. Imagine the opportunities wasting away that could be had sipping on a bit of the bubbly while experimenting with exciting flavors of liqueurs.

The Kir Royale, also known as the Kir Imperial, for instance not only allows our taste buds the joyous fizzy bubbles, but also a walk on the wild side with the seldom used Cassis liqueur. Cassis is a liqueur made from the tart blackcurrant berries. These tiny berries are miniature pinkish red clusters that appear almost translucent. Once the blackcurrants are refined into liqueur form the liquid takes on a lush, deep purplish hue to match its rich flavor. While blackcurrant berries are tart, the Cassis liqueur is a sharp sort of sweet that is neither syrupy, nor bitter.

The Kir Royale needs just two ingredients, Champagne or sparkling wine and Cassis liqueur. While an expensive bottle of authentic Champagne would indeed make this an exquisite cocktail, it is completely unnecessary. The liqueur added to the Champagne breaks down the complexities a high quality Champagne has to offer. The real reason to spend a great deal of money on a bottle of Champagne is to savor every drop of flavor from the Champagne itself, not to mix it with a liqueur.

An inexpensive Champagne or sparkling wine is the way to go for the Kir Royale or any other Champagne cocktail. Keep in mind liqueurs have a high sugar content. Since Champagne or sparkling wine is already sweet, it is a good idea to look for the classifications of Extra Dry, Brut or Extra Brut. Drier Champagne helps balance the liqueur for a more satisfying cocktail. Save the expensive champagnes for the extraordinary occasions, but bring out a bit of the bubbly for the everyday celebrations that make life festive each day.

Kir Royale

Champagne

1/4 ounce Mathilde Cassis Liqueur

Lemon peel for garnish

Pour the Cassis Liqueur into a champagne glass and fill with champagne. Garnish with a lemon peel.

A Kir is basically an identical cocktail to the Kir Royale. White wine is used in place of Champagne in the Kir. In France it has become commonplace for waiters to offer the choice of blackcurrant, blackberry, or peach liqueurs when ordering a Kir. Try any of these or raspberry for a pleasant new twist on a classic favorite.

Drink recipes: Singapore sling – Part 3

The Singapore sling is a cocktail that was created by Mr. Ngiam Tong Boon for the Raffles Hotel in Singapore sometime in the early 1900’s. He was a Hainanese-Chinese bartender that worked for the hotel. There are many variations on the cocktail so if you have tried one before and then try one at a different place, they may taste nothing the same.

I found a recipe that is right from the Raffles Hotel in Singapore. Although it said that the recipe was written down by the memory of bartenders from that time with some notes taht they were able to find. Since the original was lost, this is still the one closest to the real thing.

Mr. Ngiam Tong Boon originally created the Singapore sling as a woman cocktail, and make it pink in color, but it is enjoyed by all these days.

Singapore Sling ~

30ml Gin

15 ml Cherry Brandy

120 ml Pineapple Juice

15 ml Lime Juice

7.5 ml Cointreau

7.5 ml Dom Benedictine

10 ml Grenadine

A Dash of Angostura Bitters

Mix all the ingredients together.

Garnish with a slice of Pineapple and Cherry.

Enjoy!

Easy to make Funkin Bellini cocktail with prosecco-The 10 second cocktail

Home made cocktail made easy thanks to funkin, the professionals’ choice for cocktail making. Make your favourite cocktails at home could not be easier… Just follow the step by step instruction on the video to create delicious funkin cocktails! There is a barman in you ready to mix it up. Funkin is available from Waitrose, Tesco, Harrods, Selfridges, Harvey Nichols and order online at www.funkin.co.uk

Drink recipes: Sidecar – Part 4

The “Sidecar” cocktail was invented during WWI , when a regular customer at the Ritz Hotel in Paris , arriving in a motorcycle sidecar kept demanding a drink that would “warm him up”. The bartender at first was stumped, and the customer unhappy, but after many trials this delicious drink was concocted. This recipe was developed that warms your throat, body, and maybe even your heart. (It is a variation of the old “Brandy Daisy” drink. Since there are few ingredients to this cocktail, it is very important to use the best quality liquors that you can afford. It really makes the difference in the smoothness of the product.

SIDECAR

2 shots of Cognac

0.25 shot of Triple Sec

0.25 shot of water

0.25 shot of sugar syrup

0.25 shot of lemon juice

Shake the ingredients together with ice in a cocktail shaker, and strain into a glass. Use a standard cocktail glass for the presentation. This cloudy orange colored drink can be garnished with something simple like an orange or lemon peel(twist). Some bartenders use a bourbon instead of the brandy,though the brandy stays true to the “warming” properties mentioned before. The sugar may or may not be used as desired. The Sidecar is one of the basic cocktails that a bartender should know…and now it is on your list!

Mojito Cocktail

This week our resident mixologist and funny girl, Fallon, teaches you how to make a Mojito cocktail with a tasty twist! To watch more of Fallon’s videos check out our channel and subcribe to our videos!

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Video game reviews: Dead Rising (X360)

Dead Rising is the first game that showed us what the Xbox 360 can truly do, especially with the swarm technology it employs. The game is a zombie romp (hence the use of swarm technology) through a mall and deserves the 18 rating, so it’s not suitable for children. However, the violence is more comical than anything else is. So, the violence is bloodier than intense and realistic.

Story:

The story here plays a secondary role to the fun you can have in game. But it does have one, no matter how good or weak it is in the eye of the beholder.

You play Frank West, a photojournalist who has spent time in war zones, who gets whiff of a big story taking place in a small town. Naturally, he hires a chopper and pilot to take him there. When he arrives, he didn’t bargain for what he found. He sees what he thinks are crazed people wreaking havoc about town, from the safety of the chopper. Eventually, after taking some photos, the chopper lands on top of a mall. Frank gets left there and has to fend for himself in a mall full of zombies.

While fighting to survive, he unravels the threads of a conspiracy while waiting for the chopper to come back for him within 3 days.

Gameplay:

The game is fun. There’s no denying that. Who doesn’t love messing around with slow moving, stupid zombies? I’d wager there isn’t many.

So, the game sees you trapped in a mall full of zombies (though they aren’t the only enemies you fight). Besides zombies in the case of this game, what else is there in malls? There’s food, drink, toys, guns and everything else you can think of. Basically, you have a kid’s dream playground at your fingertips that you can feel free to explore while dodging the hordes of zombies. So yes, you can collect Mega Man toys and bash zombies over the head with it. You can get toy lasers and use them against the hordes. You can also get katanas to slice the zombies in half and use guns such as a shotgun. You can even pick up a child’s potty and put it on a zombie’s head and watch him/her try to find their way around with it stuck on their head. It’s rather hilarious. You can also use cars in the car park to run the zombies down. To give you an even better idea of what you can do for fun in the game, there are zombies who walk around with a hunk of meat (otherwise known as a severed arm/hand) and you can take it off them. Now, if you attack them with it, you simply shove it in their mouths. It’s funny to watch.

To further help combat them, Frank levels up by collecting

Drink recipes: Bucks fizz

A Buck’s Fizz by any other name is what most Americans know as a Mimosa. This Sunday brunch staple may well be the most commonly known Champagne cocktail. The Buck’s Fizz or Mimosa is a simply elegant cocktail which turns an ordinary breakfast into an invitation for leisurely conversation.

The Buck’s Fizz originated in 1921 with barman, Pat McGarry, the first bartender of the famous Buck’s Club in London. McGarry is also the recognized creator of the original Sidecar cocktail. Captain H. J. Buckmaster established the Buck’s Club in 1919. He wanted an American Cocktail Bar rather than the stuffy traditional gentlemen’s clubs in existence at the time. He must have hit upon something, because the Buck’s Club made its way into contemporary fiction writing and has hit Hollywood’s big screen. Most importantly, Buck’s Club is still in business at the time of this writing.

With only two ingredients, Champagne and orange juice, the Buck’s Fizz is an easy preparation. A Buck’s Fizz is heavier on orange juice than the Mimosa version that followed a few short years later, making its appearance at the Ritz Hotel in Paris in 1925. Both are very similar, the difference being only in the ratios of Champagne to orange juice. If Champagne is not available or desired, sparkling wine or Prosecco may be used. Fresh orange juice is always a plus, but is not absolutely necessary to make either of these cocktails a winning combination.

Buck’s Fizz

4 ounces Orange Juice

2 ounces Champagne

Pour orange juice into a champagne flute. Top off with Champagne, sparkling wine, or Prosecco. This cocktail may be garnished with a float of grenadine and a cherry if desired.

Mimosa

2 ounces Orange Juice

4 ounces Champagne

Pour orange juice into a champagne flute. Top off with Champagne, sparkling wine, or Prosecco. Garnish with a float of grenadine and a cherry if desired.

Barman Frank Meier or the Ritz Bar created an alternate version to the Mimosa calling it a Valencia.

Valencia

1 ounce Orange Juice

1/2 ounce Apricot Liqueur

5 to 6 ounces Champagne

Place orange juice and apricot liqueur in champagne flute. Top with Champagne. Garnish with an orange spiral.

Yet another version of this ever popular cocktail is the French Mimosa using Gran Marnier. Cointreau may be used as a substitute as well.

1 ounce Orange Juice

1/2 ounce Gran Marnier

5 to 6 ounces Champagne

Pour orange juice and Gran Marnier into champagne flute. Top with Champagne. Garnish with an orange spiral. A few dashes of orange bitters before adding the Champagne is another alternative for an extra layer of exceptional flavor.

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