Dirty Martini with The Mischief Maker
Castle & Key Gin and MSG martini with McDonald's Fries
I will be posting videos for recipes and articles featured in my Newsletter, The Mischief Maker on Substack every week. Look out for a cocktail every Monday and a dessert recipe every Thursday.
My garden is pivotal to what I do with my sugar flowers. I need them to be growing, so I can cut and reference them for my sculpting and painting. Here the flowers cut from my garden serve as a fun mix with the sugar flower that we sculpted for September, the large pink dahlia in the front.
The Perfect Dirty Martini
The secret to this martini certainly lies with the meaty brine of the best Losado olives and the secret ingredient: MSG. I won't say that I use this in a lot of my cooking—my mom uses it in her delicious Filipino egg rolls—but the flavors in the martini come alive when a heavy pinch per drink being made is added to the shaker. I got this recipe from Patrick Burchett at Bar Ona in Lexington, Kentucky.
Serve with French fries or cheese straws.
2.5 oz. Gin (Patrick prefers Beefeater. I like Castle & Key Dry Gin for this, both are good see which you like best)
1 oz olive brine (Preferably Losada brand and you can add 1.5 oz, which is a little generous, a little extra)
Heavy pinch of MSG (Go heavy, you won’t regret it)
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add ingredients and do not forego the MSG. Stir at least 60 times around until the shaker is very frosty and hard to hold.
Patrick’s other tips include keeping the glasses chilled in the freezer.
Freezer Martinis/Pre-made/Pre-batched
Assemble all of this in a bottle, maybe an empty gin bottle, and keep it in the freezer door. It’s syrupy, and Patrick says he likes it even better or just as well.
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Great Job!! It looked fabulous