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Posts tagged “mojito”

Technique: Muddling

Many warm weather cocktails use fresh ingredients such as herbs and fruit, and often, muddling is required. To muddle means to press the ingredients against the side of the glass with a muddler....

Straight Up: Using Shiso in Cocktails (Mojitos and More)

I’ve always loved shiso’s distinctive peppery-bright flavor. While the softly furred, frill-edged leaves have the texture, piquancy, and slight sweetness of fresh mint, their complex flavor also b...

Straight Up: Rhubarb is Springing Up in Warm-Weather Drinks

Rhubarb is one of the surest signs of spring for us, stirring up childhood memories of warm afternoons spent on the porch steps with friends, dipping the stringy pink-green stalks into little cups of ...