Healing foods reference database Drink Recipes | Punch Recipes | Vintage Drink Recipes Take 1½ lbs. of cut loaf sugar and rub the lumps on the skins of 4 lemons and 2 oranges until the sugar becomes well saturated with the oil from the skins. Then put the sugar thus prepared into a large porcelain-lined or agate mixing vessel, and add: • 12 Oranges, sliced. • 1 Pineapple, sliced. • 1 box Strawberries. • 2 bottles (quarts) Apollinaris Water. Stir thoroughly with oak paddle or large silver ladle, and add: • 1 jigger Benedictine. • 1 jigger Red Curacoa. • 1 jigger Maraschino. • ½ jigger Jamaica Rum. • 1 quart Brandy. • 4 quarts Tokay or Sweet Catawba Wine. • 2 quarts Madeira Wine. • 4 quarts Chateau Margaux. Mix well with oak paddle or ladle and strain into another bowl in which has been placed a block of clear ice.
Tweetable Eats: What Street Vendors Can Teach Businesses About Twitter Ann Handley is the Editor in Chief of MarketingProfs and a writer. You can follow her on . "Twitter is still a scary, untamed frontier for many businesses," Fortune wrote last week. Lots of businesses on Twitter are doing it right. Time was that lunch from street vendors meant limited options. Twitter may not be the sole driving source (no pun intended) behind the growth of street food vendors—undoubtedly the economy has done its part to encourage the otherwise unemployed to find an inexpensive way to make a living. 1. The best use of Twitter for your business, of course, is to start gathering followers in your target market. Lunchtime lesson: 1,000 followers who will actually do business with you are ultimately more valuable to your business than 100,000 less-engaged people. 2. New York City's The Treats Truck writes updates so vivid that you can almost smell the cookies and brownies baking. Or check out the "food porn" photos shared by Vancouver's Japanese hot dog stand Japa Dog: 3. 4.
Greek Food Recipes and Reflections, Toronto, Ontario, Canada An easy to make and very tasty traditional leek pie recipe from North Western Greece. If you like leeks, you will love this pie. Straight from out of the oven. Click to Enlarge Image. Leeks are my favourite seasonal vegetable this time of year. A slice of prasópita anyone? Today, Greek cuisine offers many variations on the use of leeks. Ingredients: 3 - 4 large leeks, sliced thinly (upper dark green stalks removed) 3 large eggs 1 ½ cups of milk 1 cup crumbled Greek feta cheese ¾ cup all-purpose flour ½ cup Greek extra virgin olive oil ¼ cup fresh green onion, finely chopped ¼ cup fresh dill, finely chopped 1 teaspoon dried Greek oregano Fresh-ground pepper A pinch of salt Heat the olive oil in a pan and sauté the leeks for about 5 minutes, then add the fresh green onion and continue sautéing until both are soft and tender (another 3 minutes or so). Personally, I prefer serving this on the following day to allow the flavours time to meld. Kali Orexi!
Spotted | Foodspotter's Field Guide Many of you share more than photos of food on Foodspotting, which is why our second set of spotting tips & tricks are from our friend Daniel Kent, bartender/cocktail savant at Locanda Vini e Olii in Brooklyn, NY. Daniel's advice touches on color, presentation and why it's always important to highlight the "bouquet" of a cocktail. The art of the cocktail changes the act of drinking. It’s not as simple as opening a bottle of wine or beer and pouring it into a glass. Color A bolder, fuller cocktail with a lot of body, should always capture a deeper color scheme. Presentation Taking a picture of a finished drink in its glass has its appeal, however, each cocktail has a certain method, measured ingredients, and tedious steps that define its character and give it life. Bouquet The bouquet of a cocktail is one of the most effective ways to convey taste. After all of this, let us not forget what drinking is all about: being social.