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Come see me and Columbia Winery at the Seattle Food & Wine Experience on Sunday, February 28 from 12:00 – 5:00 pm at the Seattle Exhibition Center Exhibition Hall!
I’ll be chatting all things wine and food at the Columbia Winery Booth, plus giving away free autographed copies of my books! Click here for detailed event info and ticket prices.
My Valen’Thyme Clover Club is the perfect cocktail for Valentine’s Day: Slightly pink, frothy and delicious! Traditionally made with gin my version incorporates fresh thyme and is shaken up with half gin and half vodka — a great introduction to botanicals for the gin shy cocktailer.
So toast your sweetie with my classic twist on this classic cocktail.
Valen’Thyme Clover Club
Makes 1 cocktail
6 fresh raspberries
1 sprig fresh thyme
3/4 oz vodka
3/4 oz gin
3/4 oz Housemade Honey Syrup (see recipe)
3/4 oz fresh lemon juice
1 organic egg white
Garnish: fresh raspberry, fresh thyme sprig
Drop the raspberries into a cocktail shaker, bend and drop in the fresh thyme. Measure in the vodka, gin, Honey Syrup, lemon juice and egg white. Fill shaker with ice, cap and POWER shake – enough so the egg white becomes frothy and the raspberries are broken up. Strain into a martini glass. Garnish with raspberry skewered on a fresh thyme sprig.
*Housemade Honey Syrup
Mix together 1/2 cup honey with 1/3 cup hot water. Mix to combine and store refrigerated.
Recipe © Kathy Casey Food Studios® – Liquid Kitchen™
Have a great Super Bowl party with some tasty beer cocktails from this Liquor.com article! Have a quick read and you’ll find a recipe for my Marvelous Frothy Margarita!
It has been about a week, since I’ve been back from fabulous Miami, Florida! Earlier last week, I had the privilege to be invited to attend and present at this year’s Cheers Beverage Conference in Miami. I was excited to the idea of getting to go to Miami (and soak up some Florida sun!) and meet up with all my industry friends!
My fabulous team!!!! (Jill Benson, Cameo McRoberts, me, Keith Waldbauer)
I brought along a great powerhouse team: Executive Chef, Cameo McRoberts, my Associate mixologist, Keith Waldbauer, and my Executive Assistant, Jill Benson. The four of us tackled on Cheers and had a great time doing it! Cameo and I lead a super hands-on seminar all about bitters. Keith and I chatted it up at a seminar we led on cocktail trends.
I’m on ice as a Celebrity Bartender for Cheers!
Then it was on to the Bar Stars event where we all shook up Bellini Manhattans!
I hope you enjoy shaking up some of your own!
Just about to shake up some yummy Bellini Manhattans!
Bellini ManhattanMakes 1 cocktail
1 1/2 oz (rī)1 rye
1/2 oz Monin Peach Puree, or homemade peach puree
3/4 oz red vermouth
3/4 oz – 1 oz splash Chandon Brut Champagne
Garnish: gold gilded cherry on a pick (recipe follows)
In a cocktail shaker, fill with ice and measure in the rye, peach puree and vermouth. Cap and shake vigorously. Strain into martini glass and top with a splash of Champagne. Garnish with gold gilded maraschino cherry on a pick.
Gold Gilded Cherry
1 cup maraschino cherries – DRAINED WELL and then dried on paper towels
1/4 -1/2 tsp. Gold Luster Dust (3 g) *available at cake decorating stores or on-line
Make the cherries in the container in which you are going to store them. It is important that the cherries be very well drained. Place the cherries in the container and add the luster dust. Stir gently to coat cherries in gold.
Do not over stir. Store refrigerated for up to one week.
© 2010 by Kathy Casey Food Studios® – Liquid Kitchen™
Fun article on Liquor.com featuring Carry-on Cocktails! Who says you can’t shake up some fun while in mid-flight and off to your next destination? Take a peek at the article and you’ll find recipes for my Sky High Sling and my International No-Groni!
Fellow foodies, bloggers, and food photographers, Sally and Poppy have joined forces to create the Mixed Greens Blog! Their blog focuses on living and eating sustainably, which can be found in their blog posts, recipes, and fantastic photo gallery. With that as their focus, the Mixed Greens Blog even shares links to local vendors supporting a sustaianable living and how to continue living a sustainable life style.
I loved being in the United Arab Emirates so much on my first trip that I couldn’t stay away much longer! This past December (I left on Christmas Day!), with my husband John this time, we flew into Dubai and headed to the fabulous Fairmont Abu Dhabi, where I opened their new Chameleon Bar & Night Club on New Year’s Eve! The club is amazing—all decked out in black, gold and mirrors, with an imported London DJ spinning hip tunes. This bar is FABOO! I had a great time creating the cocktail menu. From the plethora of incredible fresh fruit juices delivered daily to the fabulous selection of spirits, it was a creative playground. The menu features over 22 drinks … my favorite being the Bollywood! Tanqueray Ten gin, fresh mint, fresh pineapple and lime juices and a housemade light curry syrup—shaken and served up with a poof of coconut rose foam and a sprinkling of red edible gold flakes … Bling Bling!!
But to get there, we had to go through making a lot of drinks … and I mean a lot. Hey, it’s a hard job but someone’s got to do it! The crew as always was amazing! What a wonderful group of guys to work with!
And while I was there, CNN contacted me … woo hoo! So, armed with my mini computer and SKYPE, I did a super-fun live piece on 2010 cocktail trends—straight from the hotel bar! Check out the CNN link here.
The Chameleon Bar Crew Ashwin, the Chameleon Manager
At the hotel’s Bliss Floral Studio—love the Sparkly Stools and the pink of course!
We opened with great success on New Year’s Eve and, whew, it was a long night. Bars there stay open much later than in the US.
The next day I got to relax a bit. Yes, it was New Year’s, so that called for room service breakfast (delicious Arabic breakfast!) while watching the camel races on TV—to me, probably just as boring to watch as football … but I guess it’s relaxing?
Arabic Room Service Breakfast Finally, I see a camel!
After we got the bar open and up and running, we headed into Abu Dhabi to be total tourists. We visited the Cultural Heritage Center, which covers local products such as dates and fish, crafts, and exhibits of traditional living quarters; there is a fun museum as well … all free to visitors! The view from the heritage center across the water is amazing—and, speaking of the water, it is super, super clear blue. And the local fish is absolutely delicious! I loved it—prepared just simply seared or in Indian curries. (And, yes, I ate the best Indian food I have ever had!)
John at the Cultural Center in Abu Dhabi Pedestrian Crossing Sign!
John and I packed back with us some fantastic spices, dried fruits, dates and a giant Shisha pipe (yes, they looked at this weird in Security) and some great Middle Eastern dance music … along with some hard-to-find Cuban rum! and an amazing genever gin from our stop at Amsterdam … sounds like a party to me!
From Arabic to Lebanese to Iranian, we had our fill of some fantastic cuisine this trip—and I can’t say enough about all the wonderful people there. It’s nice to know we have so many wonderful new friends on the other side of the world. Thank you, Facebook!
Ok—now moving on to the serious stuff … DANCING!
I’m in Seattle Dances! And I need your votes!
Watch out, Seattle! I’m putting on my dancing shoes and kicking up some trouble! The Plymouth Housing Group in partnership with Hallie Kuperman and the Century Ballroom is holding their own “Dancing with the Stars” Seattle version, called Seattle Dances! From now until the big event on Saturday, March 13, six other Seattle celebrities and I will each be trying to get in as many practices as we can. Winners are chosen by pledge votes as well as a People’s Choice award at the event.
You can vote for me online and help Plymouth Housing—an amazing charity I am proud to be dancing for! Or buy a seat and check out the action yourself!
Miami Here We Come!
This next weekend we’re heading to Miami for the Cheers Beverage Show. We’ll be presenting on Bitters in the Bar and Innovation in Beverage. I’ll also be featured as a celebrity bartender and shaking up a tasty Manhattan Bellini … (ri)1 rye, peach puree, red vermouth, my housemade harvest bitters—topped with a splash of Chandon Champagne and garnished with a gold gilded cherry!
Mark Your Calendars for Some Tasty Fun!
Thursday February 4th
I will be headed to the Uptown Met Market (located near the Space Needle), making a special appearance for the “bachelor” singles mixer event. The event will be featuring some of my appetizers (from my book Sips & Apps) served in the event room and I will be signing my books at the front kiosk from 6–8 pm. Come by and say hi!
Saturday February 6th
I’ll be shaking up a signature cocktail for the Seattle Hotel Association’s 13th Annual “Evening of Hope” Gala. The benefit event supports the Pike Place Market Foundation. Purchase a ticket and enjoy a fabulous dinner, a silent and live auction, a bedtime- fashion show, and some fantastic travel opportunities. I hope to see you there!
Sunday February 28th
I will be headed to the Seattle Food & Wine Event at the Seattle Exhibition Center from 1–5 pm. You can catch me at the Columbia Winery booth, where the first 300 people will get free copies of my Northwest Table cookbook! It will be a day of signing books and chatting wine! Purchase your tickets now and spread the word!
March 27th – 28th
Pencil in your calendars the Ocean Shores Razor Clam Festival—where my team and I will be stirring up all kinds of fun! Chowder cook-off’s, clamming—and there’s rumor of a Clam Fashion Show, too. More info to come—but mark the date for a weekend of small-town fun!
Here’s to cooking up lots of great fun in 2010!
—Kathy
I’m dancing and need your votes!
And it’s all for a great cause. Saturday, March 13, Seattle Dances! is Seattle’s own version of “Dancing with the Stars.” Put on by the Plymouth Housing Group in collaboration with Hallie Kuperman and the Century Ballroom. Proceeds from Seattle Dances! will go on to support Plymouth Housing Group’s cause and dedication to providing opportunities for the homeless and low-income people to improve their lives.
I’ll be dancing along with six other Seattle Celebs………(Joyce Taylor’s been practicing a lot I hear!). I’ll be doing the Charleston and promise to throw in a few fun suprises… you know I have to be a bit theatrical! I’ll also be shaking up the signature cocktail that evening too, to get things rolling.
You can buy tickets to see us dance live OR you can vote for me online now !
