Finalizing the works and making huge progress.  A Modern Man's Guide to being an Old-World Gentlemen   © , - by Lord Killigrew  © , - lol.                                  

Working on new gentlemen's shave and grooming kits
, very old-world French chic and steampunk.  Shave and Grooming Kits

 

Filled with amazing shave cream and after shave balms.

Will the winter not leave?  No?  Well, I had a wonderful weekend prior...knowing the storm was fast approaching.  I always try and make the very best of the situation.

Started Saturday with some shooting!

 

 

Knowing the storm approached I made fresh pizza dough and some rustic pizzas.  Created the farmhouse pizza...topped with rosemary, olive oil, American chees, cheddar cheese, pepperoni, and roasted red peppers.  Nice Rhone wine to wash it down.

 

Spa night was in order, so are partook in some inventory depletion and created a beautiful bath, candles, some champagne, zen music....and of course...loaded with Cardinham | Killigrew Bath Bombs, Shave Cream, Soaps, and our Sea Salt and Jojoba Body Scrub.  Loving life!

 



 

To the Manor Born

 

Here at Cardinham | Killigrew we specialize in living life to the fullest.  Mixing modern culture and old-world style.  While we may have a boar hunt in Florida or jet off to St. Barths for the day the core value is to live in a very old-world style.  Artisan Cheeses, Rhone Wines, Quail Hunts, and Polo Matches.  The winter is dying down, but not without a fight.  She still may have a few gasps in her after all.  So, I think and prepare for my favorite time of the year.....Spring, Sumer and Fall.

I am preparing for festival season.  This is when I prepare to attend the Potomac Hunt, Middleburg Steeplechase,  Wine Festivals, and Point to Point Races.  My busy time.  Mixed in with business we have lots of pleasure. For example, I have to find a new fishing rod, thank you Cabelas.   I am looking for new wellies at a new favorite le chameau.  I prepare for wine harvest and bottling.

It's time to prepare for the fun in style.  I urge you to attend local equestrian and Polo events, get out and have fun.  In this I suggest a nice cocktail for that polo match.

The Polo Cocktail

1. 1 shot of guava juice
2. 1 sprig of mint
3. top up with a nice champagne

Now, what post without the appropriate plug would be good.  Enjoy a martini in a bath that hold a very nice Vive la France! Bath Bomb by Cardinham | Killigrew.  Also, enjoy the new shave products for the proper gentleman.

Long cold winter.....Perfect plan for a dreary cold and wet winter weekend.

So, we are having a bad winter.  We chug to work, scraping icy windows, warming up the car.  It's horrible, all we hear is complaints.  Hell, I was sitting under a palm tree last week, and will be again very shortly, but I enjoy my winters.  For some reason I get a bit "snuggly" when it comes to them.

Try this to brighter up your cold, rainy (or snowy) winter weekend.  Let's call this the French Weekend Winter getaway.  Sound good?  So, here is what you are going to do.

First, go to Cardinham | Killigrew and order 1...or 2 bath bombs.  Depends if you have a certain special someone you wish to do this with.  I suggest Vive La France Bath Bomb and a Champagne Bath Bomb.

Next start watching the weather for that perfect cold, dreary, snowy or rainy cold weekend.  Start your shopping on Thursday.  First, go to the wine store and buy a small bottle of nice Cognac, a bottle of Champagne or Sparkling wine, two bottles of nice red wine, and a desert wine like a French Sauterne.

Next hit the grocery.  Here is your list:

Beef Round Roast - Flour - Butter - Bacon - Bay Leaf  - Beef Broth - Garlic - Olive Oil - Yellow Onions - Thyme - Carrots - Mushrooms - Tomato Paste - Salt and Pepper - long Thin French Bread - Salted Caramel Ice Cream - Pick up a few nice cheeses from the cheese section (I recommend Gouda or Havarti) - some stone ground mustard - a small jar of blackberry jelly - Some Gourmet Crackers - in the Deli (1/4 pound of  Lorraine Swiss and 1/4 pound of Black Forest Ham) - An Italian bread. Some Pillsbury Croissants (in the dairy section), Also, have yourself some extra expensive and nice coffee, buy heavy whipping cream, and fresh natural sugar.  remember your treating yourself, so surge......

Ok, this seems like a lot but it's really not. - Welcome to your Rainy, wet, cold, Parisian Day!

Now.....Sleep in.  Hey, your in Paris now....relax.  As you feel you are slowly starting to make, run downstairs, fire up the coffee pot, heat the oven and put in the crescent rolls.  Set yourself an alarm in case you fall back a sleep.  Now, rouse yourself from your slumber...pour some heavy cream and sugar and coffee together, turn off your oven and have a croissant spread with blackberry jelly as you sip your creamy coffee.

Your lunch time has arrived, true Parisian style.  Takeout your Italian bread and slice off slices a little thicker then a normal sandwich slice.  Slather on some stone ground mustard, pile it with cheese and black forest ham. Now, butter (heavy) a frying pan.  Slowly fry the sandwich till the cheese is melty.  Enjoy your Parisian sandwich with a glass of wine.

Afternoon Appetizers, yes there is a lot of eating going on.  Stone ground mustard, Crackers, and your Havarti or Gouda.  Have some red wine.  Once we have completed our appetizers, we are going to prep dinner prior to our bath. 

The MAIN COURSE

Cube up the beef and remove any fat. Toss in Flour.  Set Aside
Chop onions and carrots into bite sized chunks.
Dice Garlic
Dice a side of Onion
Slice Mushrooms
Set out your ingredients and utensils.
Pop both wines and let them air.

Instructions: Be warned...you are dealing with hot oils...use your head. ;)

In a large pot - heated to a Hot-Medium. Cut up the bacon and sizzle in the pot.  Once its crispy and going nice, remove it and set aside. 

Add 1/4 cup of olive or vegetable oil.  Get it medium hot.  Drop in the cubed beef.  It should sizzle.  You are not fully cooking it, just searing the outside.  Let it sit for 20 seconds and then begin flipping the little cubes to sear the other sides.  This is also soaking up the bacon grease. Once done a minute or two later....remove them and set aside.

Toss in the garlic, onions, and carrots. Let them sizzle and par cook for a minute, stir, then let them sizzle a few minutes more.  Now the FUN...and Dangerous part.  BE CAREFUL!!!!!  Pour in a half cup of cognac and Immediately light with a long lighter.  STAND BACK!!!  It will flame up!  You will see a HUGE blue flame erupt from the pot...it will dies down after about 10 seconds.  This is burning off the alcohol and adding a beautiful flavor to the vegetables.  Now, once the flames begin to die, toss back in the cubed beef, the chopped up bacon, a little thyme, and a bay leaf.  Pour in a full can of beef broth, about a cup or so and add almost a full bottle of wine.  The liquid should just cover the vegetables and beef.  Stir in about a tablespoon of tomato paste.  Cover and put on low for about an hour and a half.


Bath Time. - Run a nice hot bath, put on some mood music, pop your bottle of Champagne, light a candle, and get into your bath.  Drop in your Bath Bomb.  Relax and enjoy your Parisian evening.

Sip your champagne, relax, catch a hint of the beef bourguignon simmering downstairs.  Listen to soft music while you relax.

Occasionally stir the simmering stew.

About an hour and a half later your beef bourguignon will be ready.  Taste, salt and pepper.  Server under candlelight with red wine and your French bread for sipping.  I suggest in large bowls.  Listen to soft music, sip your wine, enjoy your flavors, under the flicker of a candle.

 

Ah, Paris.  Once your meal is done. Serve up some of your caramel salted sea salt ice cream and sip the sauterne desert wine.  Your French evening is complete.  I hope you have enjoyed turning this dreary winter weekend into a special Parisian event.  It's all what you make it.....

Review: Garden and Gun (Cardinham | Killigrew Lifestyle?)

On a recent long-weekend vacation I took, I was laid over in south Florida for a day or so and saw this gem looking back at me from the news stand.  It seemed to call my name and say "Steven, we were meant to spend some time together."  After getting over the fact that I was having an imaginary conversation with a magazine I purchased the item in question.

The magazine ended up in my beach duffel and while sipping some 10 Cane rum in the tropical sun one day I pulled her out.  Doing a brief flip through to see whats doing I soon realized this was quite possibly the finest magazine I'd ever read!  This was a magazine for me.  I tend to aim for the finer things in life, going without to later have the best, enjoying baths (don't say a word), drinking fine wines and cocktails, and generally living life to the fullest.

So I flipped through, an add for shotguns, an article on moonshine, style, fashion, guns, alcohol!  Every page seemed to be written just for me.  There are even recipes for both wild game meats and southern cocktails.  I read every article and every ad!  I think this may in fact be the perfect magazine.....at least for me.

Garden and Gun

The Cardinham | Killigrew Multi-Leg Luxury Weekend

(South Florida and Saint Barths)

My time for a mid-winter interlude!  Sometimes, you just need to get away from it all and when flying back home into a recent snowstorm, landing on an icy runway, and going from high 70’s to 5 degrees, you start to appreciate the walk on the beach you had earlier that morning.  This is a guide for a true-cardinham styled multi-leg, over-the-top getaway over just a long weekend. Good to have friends in high places who can hook you up. Hope you enjoy.  Before you leave be sure to take a bath with the new Cardinham | Killigrew Vive la France! Bath Bomb to get in the island mood.




Fly to southwest coast Florida, Naples-to-Sarasota. Turquoise water, quiet, and abundance of stone crabs (mid-winter), white sand beaches, and mid-70’s temperatures.  Grab an evening sunset sail on the Black Duck out of Venice for a romantic, dolphin followed cruise on a double-masted sailboat once owned by Donald Sutherland.  This was simply amazing!
and eat Hedonist Chocolates.  Grab some stone crab claws at Captain Eddies to drink with sauvignon blanc later that night.  When you get done your cruise hit Bonefish for dinner - suck down some bang bang shrimp and fresh grouper.
Moet Chandon Imperial


Check social flights and jetsuite for empty legs private flight; you save a fortune and live the dream.  Fly to St. Barths or wherever they have empty legs flights on a private plane (just make sure you can get back).  In this case we'll do St. Barths. Stay at Eden Rock or Christopher Hotel.
Enjoy a Buffalo Mozzarella Sandwich at Indigo. Have dinner at “On the Rocks” (– try the Lobster with Citrus Glazed Carrots) - Cocktails and jet setting at Nikki Beach Club.  Laugh at the posts of those trapped in ice and snow in the northeast (forget the fact that you’ll be in their shoes in a day.) Lay on the beach in a day bed with more Champagne and read the latest edition of Garden and Gun. Fly back to the icy northeast after a little layover in south Florida liberally apply the Cardinham | Killigrew White Tea and Ginger Aloe Body Lotion.

 

 

 

 

 

Start you year off with a champagne bath truffle!  We've been adding new packing and updating our line of bath bombs and bath truffles. 

Bath Bombs Champagne Bath Truffle