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Serves 1

Ingredients

  • 2 oz dry gin 
  • Juice of half a lime, about ½ oz
  • ½ oz simple syrup
  • Tonic water to taste, about 4 to 6 oz
  • Lime Wedge

TIP:

  • When you top off the glass with tonic, hold a bar spoon over your drink and pour the tonic over the spoon. This will prevent the soda from fizzing up, preserving all those effervescent bubbles for your tastebuds.
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Serves 3

Ingredients

  • 18 jumbo (21/25 count) shell-on shrimp, peeled, deveined, and tail on

  • 3 cloves garlic, crushed

  • 2 bay leaves

  • 2 Tbsp kosher salt

  • ½ cup ketchup

  • 1 ½  Tbsp white horseradish

  • ½  tsp fresh lemon juice

  • ½  tsp Worcestershire sauce

  • pinch kosher salt

  • ¼ tsp sambal OR 1 to 3 dashes hot sauce (optional)

  • parsley springs and lemon wedges for serving

TIPS:

  • Cooking the shrimp off of the heat poaches them gently and keeps them from overcooking.
  • Add the shrimp heads and shells to the poaching water to infuse your shrimp with even more briny, flavorful goodness. 
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Serves 8

Ingredients

  • nonstick spray or butter for the pan
  • 350g (2 cups) gluten-free all-purpose baking flour (I use either Bob’s Red Mill 1-to-1 baking flour or King Arthur )
  • 1 Tbsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp fine sea salt
  • 150 ml (⅔ cup) fruity extra-virgin olive oil (preferably Agrumato limone oil if you can get it)
  • 150 g (⅔ cup) caster (super-fine) sugar
  • 2 large eggs, at room temperature 
  • 5 Tbsp lemon juice
  • 1 Tbsp finely grated lemon zest
  • 1 tsp pure lemon extract
  • 250g (1 cup) whole milk ricotta cheese, at room temperature and stirred to lighten
  • 2 Tbsp confectioners’ sugar, for dusting
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