Plumalingus

A Dirty Martini with Plums to Pleasure the Tongue

• In a Cocktail shaker with ice mix, 2 oz Gin

• 1/2 oz Umeshu (Japanese Sweet Plum Wine)

• 1 tsp Forest Farmstead Umeboshi Vinegar

• Shake and poor over 2 Umeboshi Plums in a Chilled Martini Glass

• Add 2 Dashes Woodcutter’s Douglas Fir Bitters and Watch the Magic Skagit Mists Play

• Sip Slowly and Enjoy

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Sparkling Cedar Covid Kicker

A Fresh Spring Tonic with the Immune Support of Cedar *

• A glass with Ice

• Woodcutter’s Red Cedar Bitters Dashed in with style, to taste (Doug Fir and Spruce work too)

• Squeeze of lemon (optional)

• Sparkling water

This ‘soda and bitters’ is zero calories and can be as refreshing as a beer at end of the day. 

*I am a Woodsman; Herbalists will know more about Cedar and Covid though it is reputed to have immune system boosting properties similar to Echinacea.

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Blackberry Dust

My Kid’s Favorite Soda

• Pint Glass with Ice

• ½ to 1 oz Woodcutter’s Blackberry Syrup

• Squeeze of Lime

• Fill with sparkling water

• Add 1 dash Woodcutter’s Spruce or Doug Fir Bitters

• Serve while smiling

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Onigiri

Japanese Rice Ball

• If you don’t have an Onigiri press they can be handmade

• Umeboshi Vinegar to Lightly season sushi rice or sticky brown

• Place a strip of nori across the bottom of the press

• Fill press ½ full with rice

• De-pit one or more Umeboshi Plums and place on rice

• Fill the other half with rice, fold nori over, and press hard

• Remove and dip in toasted sesame seeds

• Pack it in your lunchbox, Yum.