kentucky

Sazerac

To make a Sazerac you will need two bottom heavy, 3 ? ounce bar glasses. Fill one with cracked ice and water and allow it to chill. In the other glass place a lump of sugar along with just enough water to dampen it. The saturated lump of sugar can then be flattened and crushed with a spoon. Add a couple of drops of bitters, a dash of Angostura, a hearty shot of whiskey, for while bourbon may suffice for a julep it is not appropriate for a genuine Sazerac. In the glass containing sugar, bitters, and whiskey add quite a few lumps of ice and stir. A shaker is not necessary to make this drink.

Next empty the first glass of ice, add in several drops of absinthe, swirl the glass around a few times, and shake out the absinthe. The perfect amount will cling to the glass to give the cocktail the necessary zest. Strain into this glass the whiskey concoction, twist a rind of lemon peel over it for some extra flavor, but do not drop the rind into the drink-the lemon peel will overpower the cocktail otherwise. Some bartenders add a cherry, which makes for a nice garnish but is not absolutely necessary.

Kentucky Whiskey Cocktail

The ingredients needed for this libation are the following: 1 generous shot of bourbon whiskey, 1 shot of unsweetened pineapple juice, and 1 lump of sugar.

Begin by dissolving the sugar in the pineapple juice. Add in the bourbon, then followed by some ice cubes. Stir, then strain into a serving glass.

This cocktail can be made with whiskey, but then it would not be a true Kentucky Whiskey Cocktail, although the name might suggest something different. Some make this cocktail with orange juice instead of pineapple while some use sweetened pineapple juice. In the case of sweetened pineapple juice, the lump of sugar may not be needed.

Old Fashioned Cocktail

1 lump of sugar

2 dashes of bitters

1 large shot of whiskey

1 lemon peel

1 chunk of pineapple

1 orange peel

1 maraschino cherry

Add the sugar lump and bitters into a bottom heavy glass and muddle. Pour in the shot of whiskey and stir with several ice cubes. Do not use a shaker-allow the mixture to remain in the glass it was first mixed in. Garnish with the orange peel, chunk of pineapple, and the cherry with a dash of the maraschino juice. Twist the slice of lemon peel over everything and serve with a spoon.

Although this cocktail is indeed old fashioned it is as appealing to good taste now as it was on Derby Day a half century ago when the originator first stirred it into being at the Pendennis Club in Louisville, Kentucky.

The Old Fashioned has been a New Orleans tradition for countless years and when other whiskey drinks with fancy names have come and gone, the Old Fashioned will continue to entertain experienced palates. Do not try and use gin, rum, or brandy to take the place of whiskey in an Old Fashioned. An authentic Old Fashioned demands whiskey and a sturdy bar coaster.

Blue Blazer

1 lump of sugar

1 large shot of Scotch whiskey

1 shot of hot water

Have two mugs on hand and in one, dissolve the lump of sugar in the hot water. Next add the whiskey; be sure it’s a quality brand with a high alcohol percentage, for it has to burn. Then carefully ignite the mixture. Hold the burning mug in one hand, then empty the fluid rapidly from one container to the other so that a streak of blue flame connects the two. Serve in a glass that is appropriate for hot liquid after twisting a bit of lemon peel over the mixture and topping with a grating of nutmeg. It is recommended to place the hot drink on a stone coaster of some kind to avoid damaging the surface it is resting on.

If you have cold feet, chattering teeth, the shivers, or frozen fingers, and want to warm up, you can thaw out no better than with a Blue Blazer.

This drink was a popular alcoholic drink aboard the lavish paddle-wheeled steamboats that churned the waters of the Mississippi during the time the Natchez and Robert E. Lee made history in upstream races to Saint Louis. The bartenders were expert in transferring the blue-flamed liquid from one mug to another, accomplishing the task with an agility that kept the flames from singeing their beards and moustaches before deftly placing the burning drink down on the patron’s drink coaster!

With the new scores on the doors information released by the council and environmental health how do you choose where to go for a meal? According to the list the only safe places are school and hospital based kitchens.

So basically it’s easier not to get too carried away with the findings of the report especially as cleanliness was only part of the overall score the, other parts were based on attitudes of staff and management.

Here are a few places I have tried and either liked or not.

Blue Stoops is on Matlock road in Chesterfield and offer a lunchtime and evening service. They have a good choice of food for all tastes on their general menu and offer regular guest dishes on their specials board.

The majority of their food is very good and always well cooked. Their chilli is highly recommended but the chicken wings on the starter and platter meals are not fantastic.

The lady chef is extremely friendly and cheerful and is willing to listen to customers and tries to comply with any individual tastes.

If you don’t mind travelling for about 10 minutes then Batemans Mill in Tupton is an excellent place if you like your food well prepared and presented. The food is a little more expensive than the Stoops and there is less choice on the menu but the difference is very noticeable.

All meals are cooked from fresh on the premises and so you will wait a little longer for your meal but the quality of the food is worth waiting for. Unlike some places their mash is cooked using real potato and not reconstituted flakes and the chef knows the difference between rare, medium rare and well done, which many places get wrong quite regularly. The homemade soup on the starter menu is the best soup in the area and definitely worth trying.

If you want to eat out on the cheap there’s always McDonalds or Kentucky Fried Chicken. These are both the same in the quality of food in the essence of, they are fast food places. Therefore it is mainly a matter of whether you want chicken or beef.

McDonalds do offer a restaurant for you to sit in and eat and offer a wider variety of choice including vegetarian, fish and salad options whereas Kentucky is mainly chicken based and no restaurant is available.

If you want to stay home and get food delivered then give Dominoes Pizza a try.

They offer free delivery and their new Meateor Pizza is heavenly. As well as offering a full range of starters and desserts they are for a limited period now offering any sized Pizza for ?9.99. This means that you could easily feed a family of four with a starter, pizza, pudding and drinks for under ?20.

Their food is freshly prepared at their store on Lordsmill St and cooked and delivered generally within 45 minutes.

So there you have it, a couple of places worth trying out in the Chesterfield area if you fancy a night off cooking for yourself.

Ramnath Kashyap is a trader who deals in the wooden decorative items. His office is located in the beautiful valleys of Kashmir from where he transports all the manufactured material to the different parts of the country, but as every body knows, Kashmir has been an active zone of terrorist activities for the past many years. Due to it many times, Mr. Kashyap’s business has suffered a lot. Twice, his office was blazed off, by these sadistic social elements, due to which he suffered a big loss worth in crores. Not only the monetary loss but his inability to supply the orders also robbed him of his goodwill in the market resulting in leaving an indelible stain on his business profile. But not any more, as of now Mr. Kashyap has a general insurance policy by his side. This policy guards him from the loss occurred due to such incidents. General insurance policy in today’s time holds a lot of significance for the people of society, which chiefly includes business class people.

Speaking more elaborately on the topic of ‘general insurance’. It is a concept in the insurance domain that covers all the intangible aspects of life except the life itself which is covered under the title ‘life insurance’ policies. Under a general insurance policy, a person gets a cover against all kinds of uncouth jolts orchestrated by man (whether intentionally or unintentionally) or by the nature. Thus, a general insurance policy offers guard to the subscriber against all kinds of perils such as burglary, fire accidents etc. As said earlier, it even shields the person from the atrocities of nature in the form of floods, Tsunami and even earthquake. Earthquake which is one of the widespread phenomenon around the earth, has been an event that has propelled the popularity of this policy. Not only the damage caused by earthquake but incidents like the recent Orissa floods and not to forget the destructive Tsunami tide which hit the Indian shores in 2006, have been the chief contributors in spurring the demand levels for general insurance domain. Normally, a general insurance policy is for a maximum tenure of one year. An ideal proposition for the likes of traders and for the families, it is one aspect of insurance where people can get their personal assets and other accessories insured. For people who are into business profession, it can work wonders by providing insurance for stock of raw material, insurance of office and other business related commodities.

However, after the recent Mumbai attacks, there has been a steep hike in the demand levels of the general insurance policy. The reason, well it is because, these incidents have been an eye-opener for people living in metropolitan who until now were thinking that terrorism is restricted to the border-aligned areas. But the 26/11 attacks certainly proved that the nemesis of terrorism is finally sprouting in the urban areas too, which accounts for the steep hike. With the introduction of terror based general insurance policy, majority of the people both from the middle class section as well as from the business class are not shying away from the idea of buying the insurance policy.