{"id":560,"date":"2011-10-30T18:10:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T18:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/?p=560"},"modified":"2011-10-30T20:18:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T20:18:42","slug":"espresso-martini-with-my-own-loving-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/2011\/10\/30\/espresso-martini-with-my-own-loving-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"Espresso martini with my own, loving touch."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sat by my desk this afternoon, replying to emails and shopping online ( damn La Redoute!!!!) and felt like a nice cocktail. The clocks went back last night, so it got dark earlier, I wanted something strong, sweet and energising. We popped out to Waitrose to stock up on the spirits, got the Kalhua &#8211; (17 bloody pounds a bottle!!) and I produced espresso martinis.<\/p>\n<p>Four measures of strong espresso coffee, 3 measures of vodka and Kalhua and 2 scoops of good vanilla ice cream, all shaken over ice and finished up with grated chocolate.\u00a0 When I tasted it, it didn&#8217;t seem that strong, but beware- it gets to the head quickly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2011\/10\/DSC_2510.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-562\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2011\/10\/DSC_2510.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sat by my desk this afternoon, replying to emails and shopping online ( damn La Redoute!!!!) and felt like a nice cocktail. The clocks went back last night, so it got dark earlier, I wanted something strong, sweet and energising. We popped out to Waitrose to stock up on the spirits, got the Kalhua &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/2011\/10\/30\/espresso-martini-with-my-own-loving-touch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Espresso martini with my own, loving touch.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beverage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":563,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}