How New Yorkers Get Ready To Make NYE Cocktails... Made Your Reservations Yet ?

 The Gramercy Park Hotel drink Menu for NYE:

Gramercy ‘75
 A signature NYE Punch. Vodka, ginger essence, clarified Meyer Lemon juice, and Moet White Star Champagne.

Continental Julep
Maple Syrup, Maker’s Mark Bourbon, Corralejo Reposado Tequila, Smith and Cross Jamaican Rum, Mint. A little taste of summer, from coast to coast.

Tzarina
Champagne, Russian Standard Vodka, Creole Bitters, St. Germain.

Brown Butter Old Fashioned

Brown Butter infused Bourbon, Maraschino Liquor, house made Root Beer Bitters.

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Next Year you should consider these a next on your 2012 NYE DrinkList. 

 

Makes Three Gallons

128 oz (approximately five 750ml bottles) dry gin
128 oz sweet vermouth
128 oz Campari
Stir ingredients together (without ice) and pour into a three-gallon oak barrel. Let rest for five to seven weeks and pour into glass bottles until ready to serve.

Manhattan

Makes Three Gallons

256 oz (approximately ten 750ml bottles) rye whiskey
128 oz (approximately five 750ml bottles) sweet vermouth
7 oz Angostura bitters
Stir ingredients together (without ice) and pour into a three-gallon oak barrel (I prefer a barrel that has previously stored sherry, Madeira, or port wine). Let rest for five to seven weeks and pour into glass bottles until ready to serve.

Trident

Makes Three Gallons

128 oz (approximately five 750ml bottles) aquavit
128 oz dry sherry
128 oz Cynar
7 oz peach bitters
Stir ingredients together (without ice) and pour into a three-gallon oak barrel (I prefer a used single malt barrel). Let rest for five to seven weeks and pour into glass bottles until ready to serve."

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Pasta Primavera
You'll need a craving of veggies and a lean protein, and maybe a hopeful heart. Think about that next time you head to the grocery store.

On your list :
-Tomatoes (Roma, Grape, or Plum could work)
-Asparagus
-Onion (white)
-Whole Grain Pasta
-Parmesan Regiano
-Zucchini
-Mozzarella mushroom soy protien burger patties
-Garlic
-Red Pepper
-Shitake Mushroom
-sesame oil
-Braggs Amino Acid

Directions:

1. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add pasta and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al dente; drain.
2. Meanwhile, satay chopped onion with the olive oil and sesame oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Until they reach that yummy brown color, 2 minutes. Stir in the tomatoes, and cook until all juices from tomatoes are seeped out, bring to a simmer stirring constantly until thickened, about 5 minutes
3. Stir in garlic, red pepper, asparagus, zucchini and shitake mushroom; cook over medium-high heat until soft, about 2 minutes more. Dice burger patties as small as you'd please and toss in to the sauce pan. Season with dried basil, salt and pepper to taste. Spray amino acid on drained pasta, layer sauce on top of pasta and serve sprinkled with shaved parmigiano reggiano .