Your Ticket to Creative Culinary Mixology!
Like the aesthetically pleasing curves of the instrument of the same name, the Mandolin slicer is a great tool for creative drink making. It quickly and easily slices all those tasty fresh ingredients like apple and cucumber into a uniform and sexy slice that gives more for you muddle in taste, looks, and style, and vastly streamlines the prep required for today’s culinary cocktails.
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The PSAde is a vodka Aperol refresher with rounds of tangerine, blood orange, and cucumber muddled in for the brightest freshest flavor.
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The Flighty Floridita Daiquiri was inspired by the by the signature drink of the Floridita Restaurant-Bar in Havana, Cuba. A tangy rum cocktail, slightly sweet, with a hint of flower and cherry, this drink has been a favorite for almost 75 yrs. Ernest Hemingway was so fond of it, he came up with his own version, as does Miss Flighty in this episode of COTF.
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Part 3 of Miss Flighty’s visit to San Francisco Gin Distillery No. 209.
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Miss Flighty offers up her Bloody Mary Mix recipe, chock full of savory flavor, and easy to make at home. Horseradish, garlic powder, cilantro, celery salt, hot sauce, chilies, lime make up this fiery blend is more than a hangover remedy, its a meal!
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Miss Flighty offers up advice about the actual mixing of cocktails and other spirit based beverages. Her technique contradicts the majority of working Bartenders and Mixologists, but we all know she’s never been “just one of the boys”. For Flighty, creating drinks starts with a base and then modifiers such as vermouths, liqueurs, and fresh fruit and herbs come later. Check it out and see what you think.
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An intriguing flavorful home made infused Bloody Mary Vodka that is simple to make at home. The recipe uses an assortment of herbs and spices, such as Ancho Chilies for their rich smokiness, garlic, cilantro, lemongrass, coriander, juniper berries, and bay leafs combine to make a “pepper” vodka that in contrast to most commercial varieties that are simply hot, it can also be enjoyed on its own as a shot for the adventurous drinker.
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One of a four part series on the Bloody Mary, this is Miss Flighty’s recipe for aromatic and spicy rim or edging salt. Its made with coarse black and other gourmet salts, garlic powder, celery salt, and chili powder. Its easy to make and save and can be used to sprinkle on many foods.
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Miss Flighty’s decadent recipe for freshly whipped heavy cocktail cream with vanilla, brown sugar, and a hint of spice. Part one of two episodes on her special version of the White Russian, so be sure to catch them both.
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The Bijou is a classic gin drink with the rich herbal sweetness of Green Chartreuse, and the dryness of French Vermouth, or as Flighty mixes it, with her homemade infused Lillet Blanc. The drink is light, sweetly complex, and balanced, the perfect alternative drink for Negroni lovers in the springtime.
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In this Miss Flighty reviews four key brands of aromatic cocktail bitters-Peychaud’s, Angostura, Fee Bros. Orange, and Regan’s Orange Bitters #6-and highlights the salient elements each one brings to our best loved drink recipes.
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Miss Flighty mixes up one of her deluxe White Russians with Skyy Vanilla vodka, Kahula, topped by a thick layer of heavy whipping cream prepared with a hint of spice.
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Miss Flighty mixes up that quintessential whiskey cocktail, the Rye Manhattan. Beloved for its timeless class and effortless flavor, the Manhattan never went out of style like many of its cocktail cousins, and with the growing availability of Rye, bartenders everywhere insist on the original recipe-rye, Italian vermouth, bitters, and orange twist.
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Miss Flighty gives up some serious mixology tech with step by step instructions on bar pouring; It can be a pretty complex chicken or egg-type situation, citrus first?? Sugar? Egg White? Booze? Bitters? What to do? Not to worry we’ve got your back.
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So what is muddling? Why do bartenders do it? Is it dangerous? Difficult? Why not use a blender instead? What are all these “weeds” doing floating in my drink? What makes a good muddler? Miss Flighty address these issues in this episode on Muddling.
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