Autumn in Dupont Circle: The Cocktail

I’ve developed a signature drink this year, or rather a series of signature drinks.  There’s the Winter in Dupont Circle – pear cider, home-made ginger-infused vodka, and lemon juice, shaken and strained martini-style.  There’s the Summer in Dupont Circle, which uses the same ingredients but changes up the ratios and is served punch-style over ice. [...]

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Weekend Photos: Cocktails with a Kick

Despite the content of this blog, I’m not always toiling away in the garden and the kitchen.  Last night was the much-anticipated Spice party, hosted by Orr Shtuhl (Washington City Paper’s Beerspotter) and DJed by Sean P of Fatback.  Orr took a night off from beer and created  an intriguing slate of spice-infused cocktails, such [...]

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A Cocktail for All Seasons

Earlier this year I wrote about a cocktail I invented, which I called the Winter in Dupont Circle.  Home-made ginger-infused vodka paired with lemon juice and pear cider, it was a fun drink to make during cider season.  So imagine my delight when last Sunday one of the vendors at the Dupont farmers market once [...]

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Sunday Roundup: Updates & Week in Review

Traffic at this blog jumped this week – thanks for reading, all!  And thanks for the comments.  There are some updates on a few of this week’s posts, so I thought I’d do them all at once here. According to the recipient of the giveaway tomatoes I wrote about on Friday, the key factor helping [...]

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Rhubarb Syrup and Cocktails

Rhubarb takes me back to my childhood in Olympia, WA, when we would make rhubarb cobbler using stalks harvested from a prolific plant in our backyard.  The Pacific Northwest is ideal rhubarb territory, according to a New York Times article from a few years ago, but rhubarb definitely has a following here in the Mid-Atlantic [...]

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Cocktail Recipe: Winter in Dupont Circle

Some commenters on my carrot soup post were curious about the vodka-preserved ginger I used as a substitute for fresh ginger root. Because I am usually just cooking for myself, I have a hard time using up produce quickly enough. Anticipating this, I was thinking of ways to use my extra ginger root last month. [...]

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