Festive Spirit Infusions

When in the Library last looking for cocktail recipes high off the caipirinha illustrations, I found a super nice book about home-brewing. I got a bit over excited I'll be honest but rather than fill our attic with fermenting bottles and yeast I decided to focus on the rather simple infusions of shop bought spirits. I found some crazy concoctions like lavender and black pepper vodka but the recipes that follow are my favourites.

I haven't made any yet because I want to give them away as christmas presents and none have long lives. The christmas thing fed into forming the illustrations into a book to accompany the bottles. So organised this year!
(P.S. If you are my mum please forget you saw any of this...)

I really wanted to experiment with using a limited colour palette for this project. I'm usually very heavy on the colours and contrasting so I wanted to challenge myself and not rely on it too much. This feels sophisticated but I recon in hindsight the colours could have more pop. Maybe be bolder/brighter. 

At least my eye balls didn't go all 'opening the lost ark' for once...

I'll do a blog post of the process once I'm making the infusions with photos of me wrestling quinces and drinking vodka as soon as I've found some quinces and can afford vodka...

Check out how its going to kinda look when its all lovely and printed:

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Spirits

Sneaky peak of a project I'm working on for christmas. I'm gonna be SO organised this year you'll see!

CAÏPIRINHA

Last month I was commissioned by french adventure, travel, lifestyle and now food blog Les Others to create a series of illustrated recipes for the brazilian cocktail caipirinha. It was a lot of fun but because I'm a terrible (and silly busy) person I've only just had chance to post it up now. (sorry!)

I've still yet to try a caipirinha but will definitely be ordering one next time I visit a swanky London cocktail bar. It better come with its own boat and mini Christ the redeemer.

 Check out the illustrations in situ HERE!

Bag of Kale.

How to make kale 'chips' and also have a workout.

I've caught the kale hysteria that appears to be sweeping all the food blogs and magazines I read. 

And I gotta admit. Kale is the fucking balls. 

This however is the only way I can get my mum to eat it and the the best part of the recipe is the fairly primitive bag shake to oil the leaves. Recently my favourite songs to do this too are Shakira's 'Hips don't lie' and Beyonce's 'Flawless'. But Outkast kinda beats them all.

I was hoping to have a bit more type on there but it just cluttered up and the illustration couldn't be 'read' properly. 

This is the next bag shaking move I'm working on...