Whisky of the Week experiment with many of the well known cocktails to look at their history, and the best ingredients to use. I experiment to find out how easy it is to make them at home. From an Old Fashioned cocktail to a gin martini and even some of the tropical cocktails such as a Cuba Libre.
Occasionally a girlfriend would ask me about whisky. Where do they start and what whisky to try are typical questions. My advice is always that the best place to start is a tasting session where someone can guide you.Read More »Pink Valentine’s Day Whisky Cocktails
It was a special treat to go out for dinner as a student. If you still had enough money left over at the end of the meal, the dessert choice was always a Don Pedro. I assumed that Don Pedro is a standard dessert throughout the world. It is only when I started travelling abroad that I realized, it is not known outside of our beautiful country.
Coffee – the magic beans that get me going in the morning. I love coffee. What smells nicer than opening a bag of freshly ground coffee beans and inhaling deeply? No wonder it is one of the most popular drinks in the world. Coffee has been the magic bean getting people going for a long, long time. There is evidence of coffee drinking around the middle of the 15th century in Yemen.