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RECIPES: Favorite Gin Cocktails

September 15, 2008 at 4:38 pm · Filed under Cocktails & Spirits, Recipes


[1] The Piccadilly cocktail substitutes gin for Tequila in the popular TequilaSunrise. Gin is a versatile spirit that can be enjoyed in cocktails far beyond the Gin and Tonic or Martini.

Beefeater Gin Ad
[2] Beefeater 1960s ad from eBay.

Martini Cocktail With Olives
[3] The Martini was originally made with gin (photo © The Bar).

  

The Gin & Tonic is the archetypal British cocktail, but gin is as adaptable to different recipes as any other spirit.

For your next cocktail party, offer guests a menu of gin cocktails. Here are some favorites from Beefeater Gin.

Beefeater, named after a slang term for the Yeomen Warders who guard the Tower of London (shown on Beefeater Gin’s bottle label), is the only international gin still distilled in London.

Its proprietary gin recipe, developed in the early 1860s, includes botanicals such as juniper, angelica roots and seeds, coriander seeds, licorice, almonds, orris root, Seville oranges, and lemon peel.

Each brand of gin has its own recipe and distinctive flavor. Beefeater has a floral palate with hints of citrus.

Learn how each botanical contributes to the blend at BeefeaterGin.com.

> The history of gin.
 
 
CLASSIC GIN COCKTAILS

  • Classic Gin & Tonic
  • Classic Gin & Tonic #2
  • French 75
  • Gibson
  • Gimlet
  • Gin Fizz
  • Gin Fizz #2
  • Gin Martini
  • Gin Rickey
  • Gin Rickey #2
  • London Lemonade
  • Negroni
  • Negroni #2
  • Negroni #3
  • The Piccadilly
  • Pink Lady
  • Ramos Gin Fizz
  • Royal Garden
  • Salty Dog
  • Singapore Sling
  • Tom Collins

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    MORE GIN COCKTAILS

  • Blackberry, Cassis & Gin
  • Blood Orange Juice & Gin
  • Desert Rose Pink Gin Cocktail
  • Gin Martini Milkshake
  • Hibiscus Rose Gin Cocktail
  • The Violet Fog
  • Thyme Gin & Tonic
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    News: Diet At The Cheesecake Factory

    September 13, 2008 at 9:00 am · Filed under Cookies-Cake-Pastry, Events, Restaurants

    Our favorite chain restaurant, The Cheesecake Factory, has added to its popular Weight Management menu category with the addition of a Weight Management Grilled Chicken, a lightly-pounded chicken breast, charbroiled and topped with a tomato and arugula salad. The plate is garnished with steamed white rice (tell them to hold the rice—too bad they didn’t make it brown rice, since white rice is largely empty calories) and asparagus. The Grilled Chicken entrée is less than 590 total calories, making it the perfect light summer fare. The piece of limited-edition 30th Anniversary Chocolate Cake Cheesecake you can have for dessert will easily match those calories. The four-layer anniversary cheesecake combines two layers of Original Cheesecake and two layers of Chocolate Fudge Cake, filled with chocolate cream and finished with crunchy pearls of Valrhona chocolate. Share a piece with two or three friends. The first Cheesecake Factory restaurant opened in Beverly Hills, California in 1978.  
    Cheesecake Factory’s limited-edition
    30th Anniversary Chocolate Cake
    Cheesecake.
    Read more about cheesecake in THE NIBBLE’s Gourmet Cakes & Cupcakes section.

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    Fun & Learning: Measure Your Carbon Footprint

    September 12, 2008 at 1:36 pm · Filed under NutriNibbles-Organic-Health, Viewpoint


    Start your day with a bowl of organic
    breakfast cereal    . Organic food
    production does not create greenhouse
    gases. If every American converted 10%
    of our foods to organic, it would be the
    equivalent of taking 2 million car off the
    road each year.    		   Measure your carbon footprint with the Ecological Footprint Calculator. It’s eye-opening—and fun. Earth Day Network has created the tool to combat climate change. You create your three-dimensional avatar and tour your virtual neighborhood as you answer a series of questions about your eating habits, energy use, mode of transportation, type of residence, recycling commitment and consumer consumption. The Foodprint Calculator then tells you how many “planets” would be necessary to sustain human life if everyone lived just like you, and how many acres of land and tons of carbon necessary to sustain your lifestyle. If you want, you can find out how to reduce your carbon footprint. We were shocked at our results: We don’t eat meat, don’t own a car and take public transportation a short distance to work, although we do take a few airplane trips a year. Our result: It takes 4.3 planet Earths to sustain just one of us!

    You have to supply an email address to start the quiz, but it’s well worth it. Take the next step at http://www.earthday.net/footprint/index.html. (Note: The Footprint Calculator currently has measures for the United States and Australia only, but expects to have more countries by the end of the year.)
     

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    New Product: Can Chocolate Predict The New President?

    September 12, 2008 at 12:54 pm · Filed under Chocolate, Events, Special Sweets

    Some people look to the Gallup, Zogby and Harris polls to gauge the presidential preference of the American public. But chocolatier B.T. McElrath is measuring public opinion on a “gut” level: chocolate sales. “Campaign Buttons,” round dark chocolate melt-a-ways that have been selling like—hotcakes?—since early June. They feature cocoa butter images of Democrat or Republican vintage campaign buttons. They’re available at specialty food and gift retailers nationwide, as well as directly available at www.btmcelrath.com. Since August 15, the company has begun issuing weekly postings on the political temperament of the country based on chocolate sales. The current numbers have the Democrats with a slight lead, 51% to 49%. However, this is a poll where you can vote as many times as you like! Five pieces in 60% cacao semisweet chocolate are $10.70.

    Read more about chocolate in THE NIBBLE’s Chocolate section.
    B.T. McElrath’s democratic chocolate
    buttons.

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    PRODUCT REVIEW: Kaboom Infinite Energy & Infinite Wellness Juice

    September 11, 2008 at 9:00 am · Filed under Beverages, Kosher Nibbles, NutriNibbles-Organic-Health


    Juice-based organic drinks deliver
    energy, vitamins, antioxidants…and
    great flavor.    		   Kaboom’s two lines, Infinite Energy Juices and Infinite Wellness Juices, are made with all natural, FDA-certified organic ingredients. All products provide at least 50% of the daily requirement of the complete B complex as well as a day’s worth of Vitamin C and half a day’s requirement of folate. While the energy juices are fortified with guarana and green tea extracts, the wellness juices pump you up with antioxidants rather than caffeine. That’s why Kaboom’s energy drinks make our hearts go “boom boom boom”—not with caffeine-induced speed, but with excitement over delicious, juicy flavors. The line is also certified kosher. We don’t review many energy drinks because we don’t like the taste. In fact, this is just our second (the first, Hiball, is an energy drink in the form of club soda).

    Read the full review on TheNibble.com.
     

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