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Gin Garnishing: What To Add To Your Gin To Make It Pop
I don’t know about you guys, but I LOVE gin! Gin’s definitely having a resurgence after the waning popularity of the humble Cosmopolitan or Mojito- don’t get me wrong! I LOVE a GOOD Mojito on a hot Summer afternoon but now there’s that delicious bulbous glass that we’re seeing everywhere, filled to the top with ice, delicious garnishes and a refreshing sup of gin. There are so many different types of gin on the market at the moment that it’s hard to know what to put with them, take Hendrick’s for example, I’m always impressed when a bar serves cucumber with Hendricks, because their Gin is infused with rose &…
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Galway: My top 5 restaurants!
I lived in Galway for several years and being a native Dubliner, my city was calling me home, marrying another Dub’ sealed my fate and now I’m home permanently. However, if I was asked to describe Galway in less than five words, I’d probably say “The place LOVES it’s food!”. When we first moved to Galway in the mid 90’s, it was still very much a country town, going out for dinner meant the usual seafood or a stodgy Supreme of chicken with lashings of mash and a kidney dish of root vegetables and that’s as adventurous as it got, even the cocktails were stuck in the 80’s. With the…
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The Accidental Cocktail..
So I’m drinking one of the Bulmers ( Magners) pear ciders Hubster bought me, celebrating St.Patrick’s day with a libation, I’m not really into boozey cider ( even though my Grandfather was from Somerset, England, it should be in my blood) I wasn’t really enjoying it because it was sort of tasteless, so I had a peek in my drinks cabinet to see what Spirits I had in there and there was a bottle of Cointreau, smiling up at me, beside a jar of cocktail cherries in almond syrup, sort of like Amaretto… So I filled a large glass with ice, poured in some Perry, added a shot of Triple…
