Handsome Drinks – Infusing Tequila
Monday, August 25th, 2008
It all starts so innocently
When the Sunset Junction festival comes to town, it’s Handsome to dig up some drink recipes and put on a show. Summer cocktail recipes come and go – oftentimes you get something too complicated, too sweet, or vodka cocktail recipes. For Sunset Junction 2008 we took a cue from WASPy Handsome and infused our own tequila.
Infused tequila has many advantages that other party drinks (try finding martini recipes that are this easy). (Read on …)
Sunset Junction – Updates on the Way
Monday, August 25th, 2008
Suffice to say, it was this type of weekend
We’re working to get our house back to some semblance of the normal mess we live with as opposed to the expensive rental mess we had over the weekend. Our Sunset Junction roundup is coming, inlcuding:
- Our review of Broken Social Scene’s performance
- Other festival reviews and commentary
- Instructions for frying a turkey
- Cocktail suggestions for summer parties
- Of course, some special Junction-themed Handsome Party
Handsome Party – a Salute to Dr. Larry Tremblay
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Fans at Dodgers Stadium Celebrate Dr. Larry Tremblay
Handsome Drinks – Sacramento Valley Verdelho
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
At this outing, verdelho augmented the usual summer reds
Dirty Handsome and Pretty Handsome are fortunate enough to live near Silverlake Wine (sic), a very good Los Angeles wine store stocking only small production and unusual wines. While provisioning for our recent Trainzaganza ’08 outing (more on that later), we stumbled upon a bottle of Dancing Coyote’s 2006 Verdelho from Clarksburg on the Sacramento Delta. We immediately bought the bottle, as it had been years since we’d seen a verdelho on shelves this side of the Pacific.
Verdelho is a crisp white grape originally hailing from Madeira in Portugal (Portugo!); it’s dry, citrusy taste is a pitch perfect, very welcome polar opposite to buttery California chardonnays. (Read on …)
Our Handsome Take on the Bellini
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008Drinking is an important part of being Handsome, for better or worse. It puts a smile on our face and keeps our lawyas busy as hell. One of an ongoing series of recipes, lamentations, and observations about drinking.
All the makings for Handsome Bellinis
Recently, Dr. Handsome’s wife noted on Sunday afternoon at 4pm when we were watching a movie on Tivo and had accomplished many feats earlier that day (eaten fast food, napped, complained about feeling like death) that “we needed a hobby.” We thought we already had a pretty great hobby, but apparently she meant something other than drinking ourselves silly and dancing like idiots.
We’re still working on that (college football is still at least 24 days away), but in the meantime I managed to invent a pretty amiable summer drink. (Read on …)