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Piscadora

Piscadora Cocktail Our Spring has been quite cool this year in the Pacific Northwest. We did have a gorgeous weekend, so my thought are turning to Summer cooling drinks. Tonight I decided I would will the sun to come back by making something tasty.

I opened up David Wondrich’s wonderful Killer Cocktails and came across the Piscadora. I was instantly sold.

I love Pisco. It takes me instantly back to my two trips in the Andes … Continue Reading

Damn Good Pisco Sour

In celebration of find a proper bottle of Peruvian pisco for sale in a Bellevue, Washington state liquor shop, I made Pisco Sours last night. Those made en el Norte can’t ever be right because we don’t have the right limes here, but I found the store-bought limes to work fine.

You can’t get the right foamy goodness on top without using a blender, and i think the ice adds the right amount of dilution, anyway, so go with it:

recipe for four:
1 cup Peruvian pisco (i used Guacamayo, which is a pisco puro)
2 oz simple syrup
2 oz fresh squeezed lime … Continue Reading