Cocktail Recipe: Lazy Lover

June 17, 2009

Cocktail Recipe: Lazy Lover

I'm a big fan of the ginger-and-honey combination. One of my favorite concoctions lately has been honey and ginger shaken with ice and a sprig of basil, double-strained. Christopher Ranch ginger has been great for this.

It appears that Felica of Felicia's Speakeasy is a like-minded soul. For Mixology Monday, she offered the Lazy Lover.

Lazy Lover

1 ½ ounce cachaça
1 ounce ginger-honey syrup (see below)
1 orange wheel

Muddle all ingredients in a glass. Add ice. Shake. Serve on the rocks.

Ginger-Honey Syrup

½ cup honey
½ cup water
2 Tablespoons fresh grated ginger

Posted by Phil Gomes on June 17, 2009 at 08:13 PM in Cocktails | Permalink

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Hey Phil!

I just wanted to show you this site, not sure if you know it!

http://www.cnn.folderpark.net/

Said to be the largest site for cachaça labels online

Posted by: Adam | June 19, 2009 at 03:13 PM

Hey,

This is neat... If off-topic...

It'd be *much* better if it offered a page-per-label, rather than several labels per page.

Do you know who set this up?

Posted by: Phil | June 19, 2009 at 06:14 PM

No clue, sorry. I think there's an about us on there. From what I remember from looking at the site yesterday, its a cachaca label that set it up, although not sure why one label would invest in sharing space with other labels.

Posted by: Adam | June 20, 2009 at 03:08 PM

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About Cachaçagora

Hi. My name is Phil Gomes. By day, I work at a public relations firm as its senior vice president of digital integration. I'm a proud SF East Bay native who currently lives in Chicago.
I was introduced to cachaça by my wife, a Carioca. Her mom, in turn, is the president of the Confraria de Cachaça do Copo Furado, a group that meets monthly to talk about Brazil's indigenous spirit. I participated in one of their meetings when I vacationed in Rio in July 2008.
This started me thinking about the basic question of whether cachaça in the U.S. is today where, say, tequila was some decades ago.
So I decided to start this blog as a means to record and share the cachaça-related items I've been seeing day-to-day. I hope to be sharing recipes, impressions, and random thoughts as the U.S. continues to catch on to the potential for this particular spirit.
Oh... The name? "Cachaçagora" is a portmanteau of "Cachaça" and "agora", which is the Portuguese word for "now". In Greek, "agora" also means public square. I hope to meet the expectations of both.
Saúde!
cachacagora~~ at~~ gmail~~ dot~~ com

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June 17, 2009