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Friday Cocktail Hour: Key Sunrise
So my oldest and dearest pal, Lester, feeling a bit fidgety several Fridays ago, texted to coax me off work early. I had cooking to do so I said, "Come over. I'll make us some Clover Clubs while I finish prep." After imbibing, I recalled the savvy note from Danny Guess of Fly Bar & Restaurant and video "host" of the iBook 25 Classic Cocktails, that if you add applejack brandy, you have a cocktail called a Pink Lady (all of which were covered in this post). Having finished our drinks and with more egg white on hand, I made us a second, this time a Pink Lady.
Killer cocktail, but such an unfortunate name! This is something you will ...
Posted in Cocktails, Recipes Tagged apple brandy, cocktail, Epicurious, friday, Gin, key lime juice, Key Sunrise, recipe 9 Comments
Twenty/Wood Spoon Giveaway
(with butcher’s string attached: need your help!)

I'm giving away a personalized Twenty and two awesome Spankettes in return for your ideas. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.
I’d call the book “Time; The Secret Ingredient You’ll Never See On Iron Chef,” and ...
Posted in Books, Giveaway, Kitchen Tools, ruhlman products Tagged cookbook, giveaway, paddles, twenty 466 Comments
Friday Cocktail Hour: El Diablo
Cinco de Mayo is Sunday. How many of you know what it celebrates or why? Shaw Lash is one of the key cooks and brains in the Rick Bayless Chicago operations, places I really admire. Last year she wrote why, having grown up in Texas and later lived in Mexico, the Cinco de Mayo madness drives her mad. She wants you to know what it means and asks should we celebrate it at all. Her short answer: It's a celebration of being Mexican. And it's a brilliant American marketing gimmick.
Shaw Lash is one of those aware people I admire, so when my able cohort Emilia suggested a tequila cocktail, I emailed Shaw. ...
Posted in Cocktails Tagged cocktail, El Diablo, friday, Rick Bayless, Shaw Lash, tequila 12 Comments
How to Cook Morels

Fresh ramps and the coolest edible to grow out of the ground, morel mushrooms.
Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.
Posted in Farming, Food Adventure, Recipes Tagged Connie Green, Earthy Delights, Epicurious, Jonathon Sawyer, morels, mushrooms, ramps, spring 13 Comments
Chasing the Dream: Chef Patricia Tracey
(with Salsa Verde)
People call me a chef (even says so here). I’m not a chef. Ted Allen is not a chef (as if his round wood spoons didn’t say as much). Rachael Ray is not a chef. None of us ever said we were. (I have on occasion, claimed to be, but that was just to piss off Michael Symon, who is a chef, or was—now he’s a TV cook, entertainer, and successful restaurateur. I cooked at Sans Souci, a Marriot-owned restaurant, ages ago, but I wouldn’t last an hour on the line today.)
Terms matter. I say this because today’s guest poster, Patricia Tracey, is and remains solely a chef. Not a celeb chef like Symon or Bobby Flay (both of ...


















