You don’t want to spoil your appetite during the hour of apperitivo, but a little carefully prepared meat, or even egg-based dishes, can really elevate your martini experience.
A cold, oily, almost astringent martini pairs beautifully with a morsel of flesh, dried, raw, cooked or cured. The versatile egg can also come in many suitable forms, from pickled to lightly boiled quails eggs.
Or why not combine them both with a freshly prepared tartare?
Enjoy the many options.
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Cured Venison Carpaccio
A delicious, savoury dish to evoke the forest while you’re inside enjoying a drink.
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Sexy Dishes to Pair with your Porn Star Martini
While a classic martinis pair best with things like olives, pickles, nuts, meat, dairy and seafood the Porn Star Martini offers a completely different flavour and mouthfeel, opening things up to a very different array of potential food pairings. It complements dishes ranging from sushi to tacos and can really bring a satisfying AND sexy…
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Crispy Chicken Skin Crackers for a Martini – easy home recipe
Tim Anderson’s “Your Home Izakaya” offers a delicious drinking snack in the form of crunchy chicken skin crackers. The recipe involves baking chicken skin with sesame oil, salt, and MSG. Serve alongside a classic martini with a twist of lemon peel if you want a delightful texture and flavour contrast.
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A Martini with Black Charcoal Crackers
A variation on business class airline service style from London to Moscow
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Some Recent Meat
Some tasty meaty snacks that accompanied some chilly martinis this winter
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A Martini with Sri Lankan Mutton Rolls
A delicious, crunchy and comforting snack, ubiquitous across Sri Lanka.
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A Martini with Danish Smørrebrød
Some colourful inspiration from Danish cuisine
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Bacon Asparagus Skewers
A delicious Japanese yakitori appetiser that goes perfectly with a martini
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Prunes with Blue Cheese and Prosciutto
This is a delicious warm umami-salty-sweet nibble to accompany a frosty martini. It’s a little bit of a faff to prepare but it’s worth it!
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A German Martini – mit Weisswurst
This is a standard martini but in this case served with Bavarian Weisswurst and other traditional German nibbles.
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Slow roasted leg of lamb
This is a simple recipe to make a slow cooked leg of lamb. You can enjoy a aperitif at the last stage of the preparation while the meat is resting.
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Beef yakitori snacks
I had a couple of people round for a catch up (over drinks of course). I was trying to think of something quick and I easy I could feed them between martini drinking when I came across some beef mince on special offer at the supermarket. I bought a kilogram and decided to make yakitori,…
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South African biltong
A classic treat from my South African relatives.
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The Parmesan Cheese Martini
A recipe for a parmesan martini made by infusing vodka with parmesan cheese.
The Martini Socialist 