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Vin d’Orange, or The Best Stuff I’ve Ever Made (and I’ve made a lot)

March 8, 2015
by dlgallian
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Aperitif / Make Your Own

I first started seeing (or started noticing) house-made Vin d’Orange on bar menus in the past few months at places like Penrose and Pizzaiolo here in Oakland and, being a fan of anything slightly bitter, slightly sweet, fragrant and low alcohol, immediately became obsessed.  Imagine my unfettered delight when I discovered just how easy it is to make at home, and more happily, that it was smack in the middle of the short-lived Seville orange […]

Nocino, three ways

January 1, 2015
by dlgallian
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Aperitif / Bourbon / Brandy / Punch / Recipe

When I was twenty three, I moved into a post-1906 earthquake building in the Cow Hollow neighborhood in San Francisco.  The flat was a funny mixture of old and not-so-old, as old rental buildings tend to be.  While the built-in cabinets in the living room had been covered in 1970’s-era faux wood paneling, an unfortunate consequence of a misguided attempt at “modernizing,” no one had ever bothered to improve upon the insulation in the walls. […]