Sweet tamales for dessert.

A sweet-sour sauce that’s great with lamb, from the Field Guide to Spices.

Smoked beer adds fiery depth to a classic.

Exotic elderberries and tart apples become a unique dessert.

Dress up apple salad with curry and crab.

A sweet kugel made with apples, golden raisins, and pecans.

There are only a few true martinis, made with gin or vodka, dirty, with a lemon twist or lots of stuffed queen olives, or even canned pitless green olives. You ask for a unique martini? How about apple martini, made with the mix....

Maple Sour

Cooked Apple Martinis

Autumn Apple Martini

Here it is... Caramel Apple Martinis 8 oz vodka 4 oz Pucker Apple Sour 2 oz Buttershots For rim Cinnamon mixed with sugar Garnish Apple slice or cinnamon stick Combine the vodka, Apple Sour, and Buttershots. (freeze or refrigerate if...

at the Carlyle. However, since the Bemelmans' “renovation,” I’ve only been once and did not have a martini, so I can’t say. I imagine it’s still fine. Tho the place is still the greatest, I am soured...

of vodka at that time had nothing to do with the inclusion of vermouth. In fact at that time one could drink chilled gin – that didn’t make it a martini. It is like asking "How do you make a whiskey sour?" Pour whiskey...