kumquatini: move over pomegranate
April 3, 2008
Aprés ski is so much more rewarding than just an after work drink at happy hour. I don’t even remember the last happy hour i have been to since most times, i don’t get out of work early enough to take advantage of half price drinks and bar food discounts. In any case, after a hard day of snowboarding and skiing in extreme weather conditions, we headed back to the condo for some good ole R&R.
My friend, Chad, famous for his “sunset cocktails”, came up with this drink. He had an abundance of kumquats from his own organic, backyard trees and brought them up to the mountains. These were the leftovers after he already did some fervent canning. Apparently there is a surplus of kumquats in Socal this year. Perhaps this drink will help alleviate that. It has officially replaced the pomegranate martini and the mojito for me as a cocktail of choice. He was inspired by the kumquat bourbon drink special he had at the Hungry Cat.
The best part about this drink concoction is that we were enjoying a fruity spring, drink while it was dumping snow outside. It was also fun being the official taster, though we had to make do with what we had. When on a weekend ski trip, it sometimes feels like you are roughing it. Cooking in high altitude, sleeping on a two-thread count sheets, a less than well-equipped kitchen, and achey all over from physical exertion and exhaustion.
Since we didn’t have cointreau, we didn’t use it. But here is the recipe for kumquat martini’s that we came up with.
KUMQUATINI: makes 1 cocktail
5 kumquats
1tbs sugar
2 oz vodka
splash of OJ or preferably Cointreau, or any orange liqueur.
Muddle the kumquats and sugar. Then shake with the vodka and cointreau and crushed ice.
serve on the rocks or in a martini glass, up.
another option is to nix the orange flavor all together and use 1oz St. Germain to 1 oz of vodka. yum
.
Another great usage for kumquats was to slice them up and put them in our proseco. This really helped open up the bouquet of the sparkling wine and added some nice color like a strawberry might do.
Aprés ski is so much more rewarding than just an after work drink at happy hour. I don’t even remember the last happy hour i have been to since most times, i don’t get out of work early enough to take advantage of half price drinks and bar food discounts. In any case, after a hard day of snowboarding and skiing in extreme weather conditions, we headed back to the condo for some good ole R&R.
My friend, Chad, famous for his “sunset cocktails”, came up with this drink. He had an abundance of kumquats from his own organic, backyard trees and brought them up to the mountains. These were the leftovers after he already did some fervent canning. Apparently there is a surplus of kumquats in Socal this year. Perhaps this drink will help alleviate that. It has officially replaced the pomegranate martini and the mojito for me as a cocktail of choice. He was inspired by the kumquat bourbon drink special he had at the Hungry Cat.
The best part about this drink concoction is that we were enjoying a fruity spring, drink while it was dumping snow outside. It was also fun being the official taster, though we had to make do with what we had. When on a weekend ski trip, it sometimes feels like you are roughing it. Cooking in high altitude, sleeping on a two-thread count sheets, a less than well-equipped kitchen, and achey all over from physical exertion and exhaustion.
Since we didn’t have cointreau, we didn’t use it. But here is the recipe for kumquat martini’s that we came up with.
KUMQUATINI: makes 1 cocktail
5 kumquats
1tbs sugar
2 oz vodka
splash of OJ or preferably Cointreau, or any orange liqueur.
Muddle the kumquats and sugar. Then shake with the vodka and cointreau and crushed ice.
serve on the rocks or in a martini glass, up.
another option is to nix the orange flavor all together and use 1oz St. Germain to 1 oz of vodka. yum
.
Another great usage for kumquats was to slice them up and put them in our proseco. This really helped open up the bouquet of the sparkling wine and added some nice color like a strawberry might do.
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