A bonus recipe! Merry Christmas from your Galley Pirates. One of my favorite perks of the holidays down south is the arrival of Satsumas — sort of really big , easy-to-peel mandarin oranges, they ripen with the arrival of Thanksgiving and Christmas and make a nice, seasonal but fresh and fruity break between the hams…
Every now an then we sneak in a mid-week, little…in this case petite, recipe. This happens to be a cocktail from David Lebovitz’s new book of cocktails, Drinking French. Infused with Lillet blanc, gin and Grand Marnier…with a lick of absinthe…it is totally worth risking cut crystal coupe glasses in the cockpit for evening sundowners.
An army of Koa warriors is infiltrating our saloon armed with Piña Coladas. That’s the way I like to fight! And since we’re boat people we’re going to make this recipe simple, no power tools.
In Pirate Caroline’s anchorage, it’s Eastern Shore ‘Loupe season; in Pirate Kristin’s it’s not nearly so romantic. We have four seasons here in southern Louisiana: football, Mardi Gras, crawfish, and hurricane; and we’ve just entered the latter one. No storms yet — it’s early — but the heat and humidity make sailing a very catch-as-catch…
Aye, mateys, you guessed it … it’s Talk Like a Pirate Day! And yer faithful Galley Pirates are giving no quarter. This year we be shivering your timbers with a toast to a great novel of the sea: we toyed with “Melville’s Martini” but settled on the less landlubberly “Moby Drink.” For I wish a…
I looked it up: a “julep” is a genre of drink — the most famous but not only of which is the fabled mint julep — “consisting of a liquor (such as bourbon or brandy) and sugar poured over crushed ice and garnished with mint.” This was a revelation when I made these delicious cocktails…