No, I don’t just drink all day (but one can dream). And there are more food recipes coming, they just take longer. But while researching one cocktail I often find another, and this one solved a problem, so I had to post it.

The problem is Campari. You know, the super bitter stuff in the back of your liquor cabinet. The medicinal ingredient that mixologists can’t keep out of an otherwise tasty drink. The stuff that keeps those nasty Negronis on all of the trendiest cocktail menus. The stuff that tastes so bad it’s “cool” to drink. Hey, Italians and hipsters drink it so it must be cool.

But I rant, my apologies. As you might guess, Campari can be a polarizing ingredient. As with many ingredients that people “learn to love”, Campari’s proponents can get pretty religious. The rest of us just shrug and wait for the enlightenment that may never come, and meanwhile we will drink things that, you know, taste good. Continue reading →