Coup D’etat – Francois et Moi https://francoisetmoi.com Making a Handmade Modern Home one DIY project at a time. Wed, 26 Mar 2014 19:04:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://i0.wp.com/francoisetmoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Untitled-2-2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Coup D’etat – Francois et Moi https://francoisetmoi.com 32 32 76357554 The Dirty Martini Shake-Up: Castelvetrano Olives https://francoisetmoi.com/uncategorized/the-dirty-martini-shake-up-castelvetrano-olives/ Wed, 26 Mar 2014 19:04:44 +0000 http://francoisetmoi.com/?p=4774 We all have a go-to cocktail, the one we order when it’s been a rough or crazy week, and mine’s a vodka dirty martini, up.  Recently I ordered one at the newly opened Coup D’etat in Uptown Minneapolis, and our server recommended trying it with Tito’s Vodka, so I took his advice and went for it. The martini he brought over was unlike any I’d ever tasted.  Tito’s vodka is super smooth on its own, but the fusion of Tito’s and the Castelvetrano olive brine they used, made for a classically salty cocktail with a hint of sweet at the finish. Are you familiar with Castelvetrano olives?  They’re delicious, bright green, crunchy, and fruity olives, that are light in flavor, and less salty than the typical green olive found in dirty martinis, and thus add a fun twist on the classic dirty martini. The recipe below is pretty much your standard dirty martini recipe, but instead of Manzanilla olives , it uses Castelvetrano olives + a splash of the brine they come in. Castelvetrano olives can be found at most specialty stores. (I usually pick mine up at the Whole Food’s Olive Bar.) I’m by no means a bartender, but here’s my attempt at that killer Coup D’etat Castelvetrano Dirty Martini! Ingredients: Splash of […]

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