trout & hawk

inspired by a beautiful coffee table book about the Venice kitchen and tasted last weekend: Pomegranate 1 part freshly squeezed pomegranate juice 2 parts  Prosecco Squeeze the pomegranate using a lemon squeezer . Pour the juice into chilled champagne glasses and add the Prosecco. Alla salute!

Recently strolling through the delikatessen of Karstadt, a Dresden department store, we found the perfect tool to prepare an “instant Bellini”: a small bottle containing pureed white peaches for longdrinks. The season of whites peaches is short, so it seemed to be worth a try. (In case it wouldn’t have met my high expectations – there are always dessert creations calling for an extra ingredient.) To mix the original Bellini, invented more than half a […]

Today I complained about being uninspired. My daughter just saw one way out of this creative drought. Ever since I had a sip of this spontaneously created raspberry cocktail, things started moving. My creativity galloping away ( – me clinging on), pulled me into new terrain. The topic of discussion for the night has become profane : “is the primitive contrast of red and green enough to stimulate the demanding readership of my blog?” Here […]

The peppermint plantation in my garden is ripe and ready to find its way into the cocktail glasses… For 2 glasses of irresistible-dazzling-turqoise Leapfrog  take 6 mint leaves 4 parts Gin 1 1/2 parts lemon juice 1 part Blue Curacao 1/2 part sugar syrup 2 dashes Angostura Bitter In a mixing glass, muddle the mint leaves with the sugar syrup, then add the rest of the ingredients. Shake with ice cubes and strain into a […]

Our new favourite from now! As I’m convinced that the malevolent Ehec germ lives neither in spanish cucumbers nor in our regional vegetables, I fancied trying a cocktail with fresh cucumbers. The Intro To Awesome Punch has been created by Jane Danger, head bartender at Cienfuegos, a spin-off from the owners of Death and Co., a cocktailbar located in the East Village of Manhattan. The Punch mixes best while listening to this music How to […]

Sunday’s cocktail comes on a bad-weather-Monday! However, are you ready for a summer series of fresh sours and punches?  Being the White Lady still a true classic, my next drinks will come along much more creative with fruit, cucumbers and herbs muddled in the syrup and the spirits. Ah?  Do I see that some of you are raising the eyebrows? Don’t worry, Paul Carr, an English composer  and big aficionado of cocktail mixing, once taught […]