BY NONI CHRISTOPOULOS Baked Feta with Tomatoes: A delicious and beautiful starter that is simple to make, just place all ingredients into the oven. Enjoy a glass of wine while you wait for the feta to soften and the tomatoes burst into a sweet mess. Ingredients: 250g feta 25 mixed cherry tomatoes halved 1 tsp crushed garlic ¼ small red onion thinly sliced 1½ tbsp … Continue reading Supporting #BritishTomatoWeek
BY NINA YANG When you think whisky, do you think Japan? When I think of single malts and whisky, the image that comes to mind is of brawny men in kilts pushing barrels about in a cellar. However, I am told by my bar tender friend in America to picture whisky distilleries set amongst a backdrop of cherry blossoms, as Japan with its meticulous attention … Continue reading #WorldWhiskyDay
Instructions: In an ice filled mixing glass, briefly stir together 5–10ml Vermouth with a dash of Angostura bitters. Add 60–90ml Single Barrel Rye (Michter’s Rye suits the purpose) and stir again until it’s as cold as a winter sea off the Frisian island of Föhr (where the Manhattan, surprisingly, is their national drink). Strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with a Maraschino cherry. Continue reading The Manhattan
BY NONI CHRISTOPOULOS This is the perfect summer drink to serve guests during the warmer weather and BBQ season. Deeply refreshing and very easy to make. Ingredients: 1 part gin A glass half-filled with ice Good splash of elderflower cordial Several mint leaves Lime wedge 3 parts Prosecco or any Brut sparkling wine (non-sweet) Soda water Method: Pour a generous measure of gin into a … Continue reading The Hugo Cocktail
Ingredients: 5 pounds ground beef 5 teaspoons sugar-based curing mixture 12 teaspoons mustard seed 3 tablespoons garlic powder 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper 1 tablespoon red pepper flakes 1 tablespoon salt 1/2 teaspoon hickory-flavoured liquid smoke Instructions: In a large bowl, mix beef, curing mixture, mustard seed, garlic powder, cayenne, red pepper flakes, salt, and liquid smoke. Cover with plastic, and refrigerate for three days, … Continue reading Summer Sausage Recipe
Ingredients: 2/3 oz (2 parts) Coffee liqueur, 1 2/3 oz (5 parts) Vodka Preparation: Pour the ingredients into an old fashioned glass filled with ice cubes. Stir gently. Served: On the rocks; poured over ice. Continue reading Black Russian
Ingredients: Half a lime cut into 4 wedges 2 Teaspoons brown sugar 1 2/3 oz Cachaça Instructions: Place lime and sugar into old fashioned glass and muddle (mash the two ingredients together using a muddler or a wooden spoon). Fill the glass with crushed ice and add the Cachaça. Served: On the rocks; poured over ice Standard garnish: Lime, Sugar cane Continue reading The Caipirinha
Ingredients: 1 watermelon, medium, chopped, total weight 450g once prepped 1 lemon, large, juiced 75ml of Prosecco Rosemary syrup 2 sprigs of rosemary, large 100ml of water 100g of caster sugar Instructions: To begin, make the simple rosemary syrup. Add the sugar, water and rosemary to a medium saucepan and place over a low heat. Allow the sugar to slowly dissolve in the … Continue reading Watermelon & Prosecco Sorbet
Ingredients: 60ml Gin 30ml Fresh Lemon Juice 20ml Sugar Syrup Instructions: Combine first three ingredients in a glass with ice Stir and then top with Soda. Add straws and serve Garnish with an orange slice Continue reading Tom Collins Cocktail
Ingredients: 2 oz French Vermouth 1 oz Blackberry Cordial 1 teaspoon Blackberry Syrup Blackberries & Rosemary to garnish Method: Strain measured ingredients into a short glass over ice. Garnish with blackberries and a sprig of rosemary. Continue reading The Black Rose
Ingredients 1½ bunches coriander or flat-leaf (Italian) parsley 10 cloves garlic, peeled 8 fresh bird’s eye chillies (small hot red chillies), seeds removed 3 cardamom pods 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil ½ tsp each sea salt and ground black pepper Instructions In a food processor, place the coriander (or parsley), garlic, chilli, cardamom, olive oil, salt and pepper and process until it … Continue reading Zhoug Recipe
Ingredients: 1 to 2 tbsp vegetable oil 6 plump good-quality sausages with herbs (1x400g pack) splash of red wine (if you have some) 175ml vegetable stock 10ml tomato puree 3 tbsp caramelised red onions 300g tinned peeled new potatoes 150g tinned chick peas 150g cooked pasta shells Method: Heat the oil in a medium frying pan (one the sausages will fit in fairly snugly). … Continue reading Sausage Hot Pot
Ingredients: 2 ounces Irish whiskey 1 ounce sweet vermouth 2 dashes orange bitters Instructions: Pour all ingredients into a mixing glass and fill with cracked ice. Stir well for 30 seconds and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a piece of orange or lemon peel, or nothing at all. Continue reading The Emerald
BY ANASTASIA CHOO Aside from flowers and breakfast in bed on Mother’s Day, impress the Mama in your life with one of these easy cocktails: Tea Tini – It’s tea time and Mum will sure enjoy this light short drink on a Spring afternoon. Ingredients: 50ml vodka 30ml iced tea (sweet) 10ml lemon juice (fresh) Garnish: lemon wedge Garnish: sugar for glass rim Method: Pour … Continue reading 7 Cocktails for Mother’s Day
Ingredients: 1 cupstrong black tea 1 shot dark rum Instructions: Pour one cup of strong black tea, add rum and stir. Traditionally drunk on Christmas Day, ‘Gunfire‘ is not for the faint-hearted. Made of black tea and laced with rum, the cocktail traces its origins to the late 19th century when served to lower-ranking members of the British Army to offer ‘Dutch courage’ before a morning attack. Continue reading Gunfire
Ingredients: 50ml Gin 10ml Bottle green elderflower cordial 15ml Martini Rosso Vermouth 75ml Ginger Ale (chilled & freshly opened) 2 lime wedges 1 Fresh thin ginger slice 1 Large mint sprig Instructions: Squeeze two lime wedges into a balloon glass then add the cordial, Gin and Martini Rosso Vermouth, swirl to mix. Fully fill the glass with cubed ice and stir to chill. Top with … Continue reading The Laverstoke Cocktail
BY RUCHIRA GHOSH Ingredients: Semolina 100 gm Milk 500 ml Sugar (according to taste) Raisins/dry fruits ½ a cup Instructions: In a wok stir fry the semolina over low to medium heat. When slightly brown (be careful not to burn the semolina) add milk. Continue to stir till milk begins to boil. Add sugar and keep stirring. When the mixture begins to thicken add … Continue reading Semolina Pudding
Ingredients: 40 ml. Vodka 10 ml. No. 2 Organic Maple Syrup 1 Sprig of Rosemary, leaves pulled off 1 Pinch of Salt 50 ml. Freshly Squeezed Pink Grapefruit Juice Directions: In the bottom of a rock glass briefly crush the rosemary leaves into the maple and salt. Fill with good quality ice and add the vodka. Top with fresh pink grapefruit juice and stir well. … Continue reading Fireside Cocktail
Ingredients 25 ml Gordon’s Crisp Cucumber Gin 50 ml Apple Juice 20 ml Lime Juice 20 ml Sugar Syrup 1 leaf mint 1 slice cucumber Instructions Fill a shaker with ice. Add Gordon’s Crisp Cucumber, apple juice, lime juice and sugar syrup to the shaker. Shake until cold. Strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a slice of cucumber and a mint leaf. Continue reading English Garden Cocktail
BY RUCHIRA GHOSH Ingredients: 2 /3 medium sizes brinjals cut into circular /semicircular pieces of medium thickness Salt to taste A pinch of turmeric Cooking oil. Sugar (optional) Instructions: Heat oil in a wide rimmed pan. Take the circular pieces of brinjal and smear them with salt and turmeric. Next lower them gently into the boiling oil. Use a slotted spoon to flip both sides … Continue reading Crispy Brinjal Fries
