Funky Cold Medina

So Vh1 Classic is doing a 2009 for 2009 video marathon where they're going to play 2009 straight videos (in alphabetical order! for those obsessives among us) and it is pretty clearly the greatest thing ever. It's like if someone created the wheel, except if that wheel was made of sliced bread; anyway it's awesome and you should all be watching it and it's just begging for a far braver and wittier soul to give it the Beavis & Butthead" or MST treatment. (like i mean for this video of Ray Parker Jr's "Ghostbusters"- that's ripe for mocking. Watch it... "Busting makes me feel good" I'm sure it does Ray, I'm sure it does)

But anyway I was watching it and on came Tone Loc's classic (and only hit?) Funky Cold Medina, and it put me in the mind of something I used to do in the before time of this site; encourage alcoholism with fun and different cocktail recipes-woo! And in case you don't know the song, here it is (and don't mind the blatant trans/homophobial the 80s weren't all together perfect)

and for you all, here is apparently all you need (minus whatever gives it that bubbly cauldron vibe- dry ice would probably work I guess)

Funky Cold Medina
1 oz vodka
1 oz Southern Comfort
1 oz peach liqueur
1 oz blue curacao liqueur
top with cranberry juice
top with ice

Pour over ice and top off with cranberry juice.
Serve in "Mason Jar"

I wonder what to add to make a Funky Warm Medina*...it's been snowing off and on for weeks, and that's just not ok.

*though after a few of those I think anyone is gonna be feeling quite warm and funky

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Drink of the Week: The Agent Zero

This comes from an overly revealing interview in Men’s Health with Washington Wizard’s star Gilbert Arenas aka The Black President aka Hibachi aka The East Coast Assassin aka Agent Zero.

When asked what his favorite drink was Gilbert replied
"I order a Corona and a Shirley Temple, then mix them 50-50 in an extra glass. I've been doing it for about a year now. It tastes like a sweet Corona. I call it the Agent Zero."



So in honor of Gilbert, here’s a “recipe” for the Agent Zero:

• One Corona
• One Shirley Temple
• 4 ounces Ginger Ale
• 2/3 ounce Grenadine
• 2 ounces Orange Juice
• Build in a highball glass. Add Ginger Ale and orange juice over ice and sprinkle grenadine over it.

• Pour into extra highball glass- 1 part Corona, 1 part Shirley Temple
  
• Stir
• Garnish with a lemon slice and cherry
  

I'm kind of interested in how that would actually taste- I guess I'll have to make one for myself unless somehow there's a bartender in this town who happens to be a huge and obsessive NBA fan and would whip one up for me.

And as always drink responsibly and remember to shave with new razors

(Image source)

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Drink of the Week: The Caesar, eh?

Earlier this week I was looking to see if I could find a sketch from the old Sid Caesar show, which spoofed DW Griffith’s "What Drink Did "as A Drunk There Was. I haven’t found the sketch yet but I stumbled upon the Caesar Cocktail, something I have never heard of before.
Some background from The Art of the Drink (the site that introduced me to the Caesar)

When someone says Caesar the first thing that might come to mind is a salad, or possibly and old dead Roman guy, but if you are in Canada you'll probably think cocktail. If you were to pick an official cocktail for Canada, the Caesar would be it. For some reason this cocktail is the most popular cocktail in Canada. It could be that it is a savory cocktail with nary a drop of sugar. It could be the multitude of garnishes that adorn this popular drink, some would even say it is a buffet atop the cocktail. It could be the spice, or the salt, or the overall combination. If you say it is just a Bloody Mary knockoff, you'd be short sighted. This may be a similar cocktail, but where the Bloody Mary is quiet and subdued, the Caesar is spicy and fun. Please note that it is not a Bloody Caesar, it is called a Caesar. The “bloody” part comes from a confusion with Miss Mary and doesn't belong in this cocktails title.

“The Bloody Caesar was invented in 1969 to celebrate the opening a Marco’s, a new restaurant in Calgary, Alberta. Bartender Walter Chell developed the original cocktail after three months of exploring different recipes. He came up with a spicy drink made of Clamato juice, vodka, salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce and a dash of oregano. It is Canada’s #1 selling cocktail, with more than 250 million sold each year.” The oregano has been replaced by Tabasco in most Caesars.

Now first I have to admit that I'm not a big fan of Caesars, but I've tried them, so I know what they taste like. But, if you like seafood and Italian cuisine, this is a drink you might very well enjoy. Hell, millions of Canadians enjoy them every week. On any Friday night behind the bar I make sure there are a few extra bottles of Motts Clamato in the fridge and a whole lot of extra Caesar garnishes. The Caesar seems to be the way to start off a weekend meal at a restaurant.

The fun part about the Caesar is that it lends itself to a boat load of garnishes. Originally celery and a lime were standard, but since the Caesar has become so popular, every restaurant felt a need to customize the garnish to make the drink unique. For example in some places you get pickles, olives, peppers, a spicy pickled bean, or pickled asparagus. Actually any type of vegetable works well and pickling it seems to up the flavour quotient. Even boiled sea creatures (shrimp) make an appearance in the garnish at certain restaurants. Some drinks look like an appetizer. If you find it in your crisper, you can probably put it in your Caesar.

The other part of the fun is that you can add different spices to the drink to spruce it up. Depending on the restaurant the additions to the Caesar are endless. Horseradish, in place of the Tabasco seems top be very popular, and wasabi is also pretty common. I've seen places add basil infused vodka and HP BBQ Sauce to sweeten the drink up a bit, and it goes really well with the tomato in the Clamato. The brine from pickles is often used and I've heard that it tastes like a McDonald's cheese burger, well at least the ketchup and pickle part of the burger. The latest addition to the list of condiments that goes in a Caesar is the White Wine Chicken Marinade (white wine worcestershire sauce) from Lea and Perrins. The base of this worcestershire is Sauternes and is actually quite tasty.

By all accounts, a well made Caesar is a great cocktail. It isn't tied to any traditional recipe, but follows a basic set of requirements, such as Clamato. Part of the fun is hitting different places to see what they've done to make their Caesar better. Every place is a surprise.

Canadians are weird. Incredibly bizarre. I'm not a fan of Bloody Marys either but I will try anything twice.

So here’s the Caesar Cocktail recipe

11⁄2 oz Vodka
3 Dashes Worcestershire Sauce
3 Dashes Tabasco
Salt & Pepper
Fill Clamato Juice

Line the rim of a glass with salt and pepper. Over ice, add vodka, fill with clamato juice, then add the remaining ingredients. Garnish with a celery stick.

Salute.

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It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere- Thank The Tasting Panel Edition

One of my high school friends works at The Tasting Panel magazine and consequently I've become part of her Facebook mailing group where every week they send out "drinks of the week" recipes, which is like a god send for me. And so here are the recipes they've sent out this month
(from January 4th edition)

Spiked Liquid S’More
In a warm, over-sized coffee mug, first rim the glass with crushed graham crackers, then pour in
1 to 1-1/2 oz. of your favorite spirit of choice, then fill the mug with hot chocolate. Garnish with melted marshmallow and a graham cracker on the side.

Barn Burner
In a small-medium Mason jar, throw in a stick of cinnamon, then add 11/2 oz. Southern Comfort and fill with hot apple cider. Garnish with a slice of lemon peel.

Hot Tub Heaven
In an Irish Coffee glass, pour in 3/4 oz. Hiram Walker peppermint schnapps, 3/4 oz. Amaretto di Amore, and 3/4 oz. Carolan’s Irish cream. Fill with hot coffee and garnish with whipped cream.

Stanley Steamer
In a warm mug, pour in 1/2 oz. Hennessey cognac, 1/2 oz. Tai Maria, 1/2 oz. St. Brendan’s Irish cream or Brennan’s Irish eggnog. Fill mug with hot coffee and garnish with whipped cream and top with a lace of Grand Marnier.

Chocolate Sin
Pour in a warm mug 1-1/2 oz. Myers’s dark rum, 1/2 oz. Maker’s Mark bourbon and 1/2 oz. Arrow dark crème de cacao. Fill with hot chocolate and garnish with fresh whipped cream.

Fireside
In a large tea cup, pour in 1-1/2 oz. VooDoo spiced rum and 3/4 oz. Tuaca. Fill with hot tea and garnish with slices of apple and a few small chunks of soft caramel on the side.

(1s from 1/11)

Between the Sheets Cocktail
Between the Sheets is a shake-and-strain drink that goes in a chilled cocktail glass, getting 3⁄4 oz each of the following: Beefeater gin, Bacardi white rum, Cointreau and lemon juice. Pour and garnish with a twist of lemon peel.

Black Stockings Martini
In a shaker add 2 oz Van Gogh Dutch chocolate vodka with 3⁄4 oz Chambord
black raspberry liqueur and 3⁄4 oz Godiva white chocolate liqueur. Shake till cold, then strain into the glass. Garnish with chocolate "legs."

Skinny Dippin'
11⁄2 oz Belvedere vodka, 1⁄2 oz Amaretto DiSaronno, 1⁄2 oz Bols peach schnapps and a splash of Ocean Spray cranberry juice. Garnish with a slice of fresh peach.

Strawberry Stripper
Start with 11⁄2 oz strawberry schnapps of your choice, close to fill with cold orange juice and top with a dash of cold cream. Garnish with a slice of fresh strawberry.

From the 18th of January

The Diddy Cocktail
2 ounces Ciroc vodka
1 ounce fresh lemonade
1 ounce pineapple juice
1 ounce cranberry juice
Maraschino cherry
Lime zest

Stir all ingredients in a tall glass over ice. Garnish with a Maraschino cherry and a strip of lime zest.

Yeah, she has a pretty sweet job.
If you're interested you can join The Tasting Panel Facebook group qui.

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It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere- "Baby Jesus Wants You Drunk" Edition

I mean he does. And these cocktail recipes should get you there (just like they did for Santy Claus)



Mulled Red Wine

Ingredients:
8 whole cloves
4 whole black peppercorns
4 (3 x 1⁄2 inch) strips fresh lemon zest
4 (4 x 1⁄2 inch) strips fresh orange zest
4 cups dry red wine (from two 750 mil bottles)
1⁄2 cup kirsch or other cherry-flavored brandy
1 1⁄2 cups water
3⁄4 cup sugar
1 (3 inch) cinnamon stick
1 vanilla bean, halved lengthwise

Garnish: cinnamon sticks
Special equipment: a 4-inch square of cheesecloth; kitchen string

Directions:
Put cloves, peppercorns, and zest on cheesecloth, then tie closed to form a bag.
Combine wine, kirsch, water, sugar, cinnamon stick, vanilla bean, and cheesecloth bag in a 4-quart saucepan and bring to a boil, stirring.

Simmer 10 minutes. Serve warm.


Hot Holiday Punch

Ingredients
2 Egg
2 tbs. Sugar
2 oz. Brandy
Milk

Directions:
Beat egg yolks, sugar and brandy. Pour into two warmed glasses or punch cups. Fill with hot milk, stir and sprinkle with grated nutmeg. Preferably fresh.

Steaming Hot Holiday Punch

3 cups Apple Juice
1.5 tsp. ground Cinnamon
0 cinnamon stick
0.75 tsp. ground Cloves
6 cups Cranberry juice
0.75 cup Maple Syrup
0.75 tsp. ground Nutmeg
3 cups Orange Juice
2 tsp. Powdered Sugar

Directions:
Combine all the ingredients in a very large heavy pan, except the cinnamon sticks. Bring to a boil and turn to simmer for few minutes. You can put the ingredients in a crockpot after it has boiled and keep warm over low heat.


Holiday Punch

2-48 oz. (1.36 L) cans pineapple juice
1-40 oz. (1.14 L) bottle cranberry juice
2-750 mL bottles soda water
1 litre strawberry, raspberry or lime sherbet
Fifth of.Vodka
Directions
In a punch bowl, mix juices. Pour in soda water. Top with scoops of sherbet.


Frostbite

-1⁄2 oz. Tequila
-1⁄2 oz. white crème de cacao
-1⁄2 oz. blue Curacao
-1⁄2 oz. cream

Pour ingredients into a mixing glass, shake, strain and serve in a chilled glass.


Christmas Love

1⁄4 oz. brandy
1 oz. sherry
Dash of lemon juice
1 sugar cube
3 oz sparkling white wine

Pour brandy and sherry in a flute glass, and stir in the lemon juice and sugar. Stir until sugar dissolves, and refrigerate. When you are ready to serve, add the sparkling wine.


Three Wise Men

1⁄2 oz. bourbon whiskey
1⁄2 oz. Tennessee whiskey
1⁄2 oz. Scotch whisky

Put ingredients in a glass, drink.


The Cranberry Celebration

3 oz. cranberry juice
2 oz.orange juice
1/8 oz. lime cordial soda water
frozen cranberries
11⁄2 oz vodka

Directions
In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, combine 3 oz cranberry juice, 2 oz orange juice and 1/8 oz lime cordial. Shake sharply and strain into a collins glass filled with ice. Top with soda water and sprinkle with frozen cranberries

The Chocolate Milk Whip

4 oz.chocolate milk
2 oz. cold coffee
whipped cream
shaved chocolate
2 oz. Bailey's

Directions
Fill a tall glass with ice. Add 4 oz. chocolate milk and 2 oz. cold coffee and Bailey's. Top with whipped cream and garnish with shaved chocolate.


Feel Like Holiday

1 cl.Vodka
1 cl. Grenadine
100 ml. Champagne

Directions:
Stir Vodka and Grenadine with Ice. Fill in a champagne glass without the ice and fill up witch champagne.


Black Santa
Liqueur, coffee 3/4 oz.
Schnapps, peppermint 1/4 oz.
Vodka 1/2 oz.

Pour the vodka and Kahlua coffee liqueur into an old-fashioned glass half-filled with ice cubes. Add the peppermint schnapps and serve.

Jäger Nog

Jägermeister 1 part
Eggnog 1 part
Cinnamon 1 sprinkle
Pour equal parts eggnog and Jägermeister into glass. Sprinkle with cinnamon.

Candy Cane Martini

1/2 oz. vodka
1 tsp. peppermint schnapps

Mixing instructions:
Mix all ingredients with ice in a shaker. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
Option: Garnish with a small candy cane or create a candy cane "rimmer" with crushed candy canes.

Grinch

2 oz. Midori
1/2 oz. lemon juice (fresh)
1 tsp. sugar syrup

Mix all ingredients with ice in a shaker. Strain into a chilled martini glass.
Option: Garnish this green drink with a red cherry.

Purple Jesus (I just really like that name)

1.0 oz Ginger Ale
2.0 oz Vodka
1.0 oz Grape Juice
Fill a Highball glass almost full with ice cubes. Pour all ingredients into Highball glass, stir well, and serve.

Santa Claus is Coming

0.5 oz. Cinnamon Schnapps
0.5 oz. Melon liqueur
0.5 oz. Rumplemintz
Layer in a large shot glass, top with whipped cream "snow".

Why Santa Has a Naughty List

Amaretto 1 oz.
Gin 1 oz.
Liqueur, banana 1 oz.
Grenadine 1/2 oz.
Sprite Fill with

Add gin and amaretto to a collins glass filled with ice. Fill almost full with sprite. Add grenadine slowly, then layer banana liqueur on top.

Santa’s Pole

1.0 fill with Lemon Lime Soda
2.0 splash Grenadine
1.0 shot Peppermint Schnapps
1.0 shot Vodka

Merry Christmas
1 oz. cranberry juice
1 tbsp. lemon juice
1 oz. Plymouth Gin
Schweppes ® Club Soda

Mixing instructions:
Stir the gin, cranberry and lemon juice in a highball glass filled with ice. Top up with soda.
Option: Sprinkle with dried, or fresh cranberries and a lemon wedge.


Drink and be merry...

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It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere- National Bouillabaisse Day Edition

I had nothing in mind to do for a "drink of the week" and so I decided to see if anything cool happened today that I could leech onto for an idea and on Wikipedia I discovered that an awful lot of important or famous things occurred on December 14th, though of course I'm sure over the entire extent of history something cool and exciting has probably happened on every day even if it wasn't recognized as such at the time.
Anyway I said all that to say here are a few recipes relating to things that have happened on December 14th

Today in 1542 Princess Mary Stuart becomes Queen Mary I of Scotland or Mary, Queen of Scots

Queen of Scots
1 tsp sugar
2 tsp water
1 tsp lemon juice
2 oz Scotch whisky
1/2 tsp Green Chartreuse®
1/2 tsp Blue Curacao liqueur

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.

Mary, Queen of Scots
1 Lemon Quarter
Caster Sugar
2-3 Ice Cubes
30ml/1fl.oz. Scotch Whisky
15ml/1/2fl.oz./1 tbsp Drambuie
15ml/1/2fl.oz./1 tbsp Green Chartreuse
1 Cocktail Cherry

Instructions
1. Rub the rim of a cocktail glass with the lemon then dip the rim into caster sugar to coat. Allow the frosting to dry.
2. Crack the ice (but don't crush it into too small pieces) and place in a shaker together with the Scotch, Drambuie and Chartreuse.
3. Shake well and strain into the frosted cocktail glass. Spear the cherry onto a cocktail stick and use to decorate.

On this day in 1819 Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state

Alabama Cocktail
11/2 oz brandy
1/2 oz lemon juice
1/2 tsp powdered sugar
splash Curacao

Mix ingredients with cracked ice in shaker. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Alabama Slammer
1 Shot Disaronno Amaretto
1 Dash Soda
Top up Cranberry Juice
0.25 Shot Lime Juice

and in 1959 The Motown record label is founded in Detroit, Michigan by Berry Gordy.

MoTown Recipe
2.0 oz Diet Coke Cola
1.0 oz Bacardi Limon Rum
Low-ball glass with plenty of ice. Pour Limon, then add Diet Coke

Other cool things that happened today:

• 1702 (according to the old calendar; January 30, 1703 by the new calendar) - The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of œishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master.
• 1825 - Advocates of Liberalism in Russia rise up against Tsar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist Revolt in St. Petersburg.
• 1959 - The Motown record label is founded in Detroit, Michigan by Berry Gordy.
• 1979 - Punk rock group The Clash release London Calling in the UK, a landmark album in rock music.

Famous people born on this day:

• 1503 - Nostradamus
• 1546 - Tycho Brahe
• 1895 - King George VI of the United Kingdom
• 1896 - Jimmy Doolittle,
• 1908 - Morey Amsterdam
• 1946 - Jane Birkin,
• 1946 - Patty Duke,
• 1946 - Michael Ovitz
• 1948-Lester Bangs
• 1949 - Bill Buckner,
• 1953 - Vijay Amritraj, (my friend’s dad)
• 1962 - Ginger Lynn (Ginger Lynn Allen)
• 1963 - Cynthia Gibb
• 1965 - Craig Biggio,
• 1970 Beth Orton, English
• 1971 - Natascha McElhone

People who died on this day

• 1920 - George Gipp,
• 1985 - Roger Maris,
• 1993 - Myrna Loy
• 2006 - Ahmet Ertegün (only reason I recognize that name is because Zeppelin put on a show for him)

oh I forgot one momentous event, I slacked off and came up with this. So inspired

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It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere- Pearl Harbor Edition

Remember Pearl Harbor (?)

Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives:

Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy -- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific.

Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in the American island of Oahu, the Japanese ambassador to the United States and his colleague delivered to our Secretary of State a formal reply to a recent American message. And while this reply stated that it seemed useless to continue the existing diplomatic negotiations, it contained no threat or hint of war or of armed attack.

It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago. During the intervening time, the Japanese government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.

The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. I regret to tell you that very many American lives have been lost. In addition, American ships have been reported torpedoed on the high seas between San Francisco and Honolulu.

Yesterday, the Japanese government also launched an attack against Malaya.

Last night, Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong.

Last night, Japanese forces attacked Guam.

Last night, Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands.

Last night, the Japanese attacked Wake Island.

And this morning, the Japanese attacked Midway Island.

Japan has, therefore, undertaken a surprise offensive extending throughout the Pacific area. The facts of yesterday and today speak for themselves. The people of the United States have already formed their opinions and well understand the implications to the very life and safety of our nation.

As commander in chief of the Army and Navy, I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense. But always will our whole nation remember the character of the onslaught against us.

No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.

I believe that I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost, but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us.

Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger.

With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph -- so help us God.

I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire.
(American Rhetoric)

It is December 7th and in honor of Pearl Harbor Day my original plan for this space was to, obviously enough, profile the Kamikaze but then I did a minimal level of searching and I cam across a few more drinks that, at least in my mind are easily tied together in a narrative so I decided to try it.

On December 6th all was peaceful and happy and there was a military base in Hawaii called
Pearl Harbor

1 oz vodka
1/2 oz melon liqueur
5 oz pineapple juice

Add ingredients to a highball glass with ice.
(optional garnish with a slice of pineapple and a cherry)

then the attack came on a Sunday and the idyllic Pearl Harbor became a
Bloody Pearl Harbor

1/2 shot V8® vegetable juice
1 shot Malibu® coconut rum
1/2 shot Stolichnaya® vodka
3 ice cubes

Stir well with ice. Adding a few drops of hot sauce for flavor is optional

and an iconic symbol for Americans to rally around.
After a few years of struggle and gains the US destroyed the Japanese Navy but the Japanese responded with waves and waves of many a soldier willing to sacrifice himself for his country as a
Kamikaze

1 1/2 ounces vodka
1 ounce triple sec
1/2 ounce fresh lime juice

Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Luckily they ran out of pilots before we ran out of ships and in late summer of 1945 two of these
Atomic Cocktail

2 oz. grapefruit juice
2 oz. pineapple juice
1/2 oz. Galliano
1 oz. Plymouth Gin

Mix in a highball glass 2/3rds filled with ice.

were dropped onto Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ushering us into a nuclear age fraught with terror and fear that at any moment
Pearl Harbor #2

Gin (Bombay Sapphire): 1 shot
Chartreuse, green: 1 shot
Liqueur, melon (Midori): 1 shot
Vodka : 1 shot
Pineapple Juice 2 splashes

Shake ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into glass.

will happen. Dum dum Dum [cue ominous music]


Bombs away.
(Too soon?)

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Drink of the Week: The Nancy Drew

I obviously got this from last night's 30 Rock. Anyway the scene is a cocktail party full of conservatives and Jack Donaghy is drawn to seemingly the only woman there CC who orders a whiskey straight up. Jack orders his own drink causing CC to state that she didn't know Jack was a University of Tennessee sorority girl. After mixing the drink, the barkeep (criminally underused word) and Jack have a brief exchange that went something like

Barkeep: And here's your Nancy Drew-
Jack: When a man orders it, it's a Hardy Boy.

so I guess for those of us in-between it can be called " The Nancy Boy"-sometimes things just come together so easily and unexpectedly- or "Hardy Drew" whichever way you go, I suppose.
Anyway here is a recipe for the Nancy Drew/Hardy Boy
(Jack didn't give proportions but I think this would be a decent ratio)

1 part White Rum
2 parts Diet Ginger Ale
a splash of lime

(I guess Nancy Drew is a little more...[hardcore] spunky than Shirley Temple.)

That should work out well, if not, more rum always helps.
Salute.

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My Friday Post

or Making Up For Lost Time.

I had to fix my computer this weekend, which was why, as you may have noticed Friday was bare. So this is the post where I try to condense all of my Friday "regular" features into one post. Andiamo

Coonie Tunes

Wow that was racist

Liquid Fantasies:

• Vin Mariani, a wine infused with leaves from authentic coca plants
• Gold Flake Martini
• Gérard Bertrand's "Numerology Wine" based on personality
• The Beer Sccop.
• and the Tiger Woods' sports drink, not to be confused with the Tiger Woods cocktail:

• 1 oz vodka
• 2 oz lemon juice
• 2 oz cranberry juice
• Fill a highball glass with ice, add the vodka, lemon juice and cran. Garnish with a lemon wedge and serve.

Drink Of The Week-
The Three Day Weekend
1 part Jagermeister® herbal liqueur
1 part Malibu® coconut rum
1 part pineapple juice
1 part grenadine syrup

Fill a hurricane glass with plenty of ice. Add Jägermeister and rum first. Top off with pineapple juice and grenadine. Shake well.

And I would have had a post asking how Viva Laughlin ever got on the air, and also wondering what would be the next predictable celebrity arrest- Kid Rock at a Shoney's? (close) [just kidding]
before ending the day with an upbeat danceable Stuck in My Head Song of the day

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Drink of the Week: The Homecoming

So yeah this is Homecoming Weekend at Duke, and a few other places as well. I had never planned on going because I am nowhere near ready to go back to Duke (and deal with way too much stuff), and plus it seemed imprudent when I'm this broke to fly across the country for two days to drink in a parking lot (and see old friends of course.) But I also didn't realize that everyone basically went back and so not going now makes me a little sad.

And what goes better with sadness then drinking? (whew; found a segue.) So in honor of Homecoming (and the fact I couldn't think of a more creative idea) here are two Homecoming Cocktail recipes- the first is the more well known and popular but the second seems funner and has actual alcohol in it! (plus a cherry!) Bottoms up:


Homecoming Recipe
Ingredients
1 1/4 oz Amaretto
1 1/4 oz Irish Cream

Directions
Pour amaretto and baileys into an ice-filled rocks glass. Add a stirrer, and serve.



Homecoming
Ingredient
Brandy, apricot 1 3/4 oz.
Gin 1 3/4 oz.
Vermouth, dry 1 3/4 oz.
Lemon Juice 1 tsp.
Cherries/Maraschinos 1 whole

Shake all ingredients (except cherry) in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with a cherry.

Duke, Dear ol'.

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Drink of the Week:Proust Edition

because I am the preeminent Proust scholar in America.
Anyway I saw that I think next weekend is Homecoming Weekend at Duke and people were excited about seeing each other again and at tailgate and so I got desperately nostalgic, desperate because I had no ideas for a cocktail for "drink of the week", and nostalgic because of boredom. Being nostalgic made my mind turn to a remembrance of things past or À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) and from their to the idea of if Proust mentioned a cocktail recipe or if, in the subsequent decades, in elite literary dives a drink had been inspired by him and enjoyed by the intelligentsia
I didn't find anything that well known or popular but I did find an article by Alison Hallet reviewing the portland restaurant teno1 where her friend had "the Proust." Simply amazing- i love google sometimes.
Here are the ingredients- it being a drink prepared by a bar, i don't have the ratios but experimentation with drinks is the best form of alchemy (and if you know what the official recipe is, if you would send me an email I would love you forever :)
The Proust
cognac
grenadine
champagne
mint

But of course when you think of Marcel, as you obviously do, only one food comes to mind- the madeleine:
She sent for one of those squat, plump little cakes called "petites madeleines," which look as though they had been moulded in the fluted valve of a scallop shell. And soon, mechanically, dispirited after a dreary day with the prospect of a depressing morrow, I raised to my lips a spoonful of the tea in which I had soaked a morsel of the cake. No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me. An exquisite pleasure had invaded my senses, something isolated, detached, with no suggestion of its origin. And at once the vicissitudes of life had become indifferent to me, its disasters innocuous, its brevity illusory - this new sensation having had on me the effect which love has of filling me with a precious essence; or rather this essence was not in me it was me. I had ceased now to feel mediocre, contingent, mortal. Whence could it have come to me, this all-powerful joy? I sensed that it was connected with the taste of the tea and the cake, but that it infinitely transcended those savours, could, no, indeed, be of the same nature. Whence did it come? What did it mean? How could I seize and apprehend it?


so here's a recipe for madeleine cookies as well. I wouldn't recommend dipping it in the Proust-tea probably works much better

Madeleine Cookie Recipe
8 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
Pinch of salt
3 large eggs, at room temperature
2/3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

1. In a small heavy saucepan, heat the butter over medium heat just until very light golden brown and fragrant, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool until tepid.
2. In a small bowl, using a wire whisk, stir together the flour, baking powder and salt until well blended.
3. In bowl of electric mixer, beat the eggs and sugar at medium-high speed until the mixture has tripled in volume and forms a thick ribbon when the beaters are lifted. Lower the speed to medium and beat in the vanilla.
4. Using a large rubber spatula, fold the flour mixture into the beaten eggs in three additions. Fold in the cooled melted butter in three additions, then fold in the chocolate chips. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes, until slightly firm.
5. Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 375 degrees.
6. Generously butter two, l2-mold Madeleine pans with 3-inch long depressions (available at Williams-Sonoma or other kitchen specialty stores). Using a pastry brush, paint the Madeline cups with a light coating of the browned butter and flour mixture, wiping any pools that form in the bottom of the molds; set aside (refrigerate in warm weather). Could spray pans with Bakers Joy instead.
7. Drop a generous tablespoonful of the batter into the center of each prepared mold, leaving the batter mounded in the center. (This will result in the typical "humped" appearance of the Madeleine.)
8. Bake the Madeleine for l2 to l5 minutes, until the edges are golden brown and the centers spring back when lightly touched. Batter will spread out to fill the cups, and will gradually swell up into a hump in the middle.
9. They are done when lightly browned around the edges, and when they begin to shrink very slightly from the molds. Remove the pans from the oven and rap each pan sharply against a countertop to release the Madeleine. Transfer the Madeleines, smooth sides up, to wire racks to cool.
10. When serving dust with confectioners sugar.

all you need for a great weekend-cookies and cognac.
salute.

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Drink of the Week: The Vesper

I had totally forgotten to think of a certain drink, or drink theme for this week but then I remembered the scene in Casino Royale where James Bond, at the card table gives out a drink recipe. It sounded cool and classy and so I thought it was perfect. I thought it would take some "leg work" but it was actually (embarrassingly) easy to find the recipe and information about it (I got mine here.)
It is called The Vesper,which I find to be an exotic and elegant name for a very sophisticated drink:

• 3 measures of Gordon’s gin
• 1 measure of vodka
• 1/2 a measure of Kina Lillet ( I had never heard of it either-you can buy it here)
  

Shake until ice cold and serve in a deep champagne goblet with a large thin slice of lemon peel.

According to Fleming Bond invented this drink because " I never have more than one drink before dinner. But I do like that one to be large and very strong and very cold and very well-made. I hate small portions of anything, particularly when they taste bad."

Hmm I think that's how I like my everything "large, very strong, very cold and very well-made"- James knows my taste well.

Stay Classy out there.

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It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere-The Spoils of War

Newsweek published an article about the effects that war has on the zeitgeist, or more specifically the making and naming of drinks that evoke a certain conflict, or that at times can be used to mock the enemy. I had never really thought about it why, for instance the kamikaze shot is named kamikaze, but it makes sense. Or "getting bombed" or sake bomb or whatever. I know in my normal converstion I use the term "get blitzed" to mean get wasted inspired by the wreckage and quick force and power that the blitzkrieg was all about. Anyway I picked out the recipes from the article and compiled them here for easier consumption.

Osama bin Laden
1 oz Absinthe (or Pernod liquor)
1 dash(es) Tabasco Sauce
take as a shot.

Guantanamo Bay Breeze
a shake-up of 1 part citrus vodka,
tablespoon pureed pineapple and
2 part cranberry Juice

Jihad Cocktail
2 oz. Finlandia vodka,
3 oz. of lemon-lime soda, and
2 oz. of orange juice

Shock and Awe
a 100-proof shot of whiskey
dropped in a glass of Red Bull
taken as a shot

Afghanistany Whore
4 oz rum
1 can root beer
4 oz vodka

Dirty Bomb
2 oz absinthe (or vanilla liquor and jager)
1 can red bull
drop absinthe (or vanilla liquer/jager) into red bull
take as a shot

French 75
1 1/2 oz gin
2 tsp superfine sugar
1 1/2 oz lemon juice
4 oz chilled Champagne
1 slice orange
1 maraschino cherry

In a shaker half-filled with ice cubes, combine the gin, sugar, and lemon juice. Shake well. Pour into a collins glass. Top with the champagne. Stir well and garnish with the orange slice and the cherry

Kamikaze shot
1 - 3 oz vodka
1 oz triple sec
1 oz lime juice

Napalm
1/2 oz Aftershock® Hot & Cool cinnamon schnapps
1/2 oz cinnamon schnapps
1 splash 151 proof rum

Pour into a shot glass in order; aftershock, schnapps, rum. Ignite the rum, allow to burn for a few seconds, extinguish, and serve.


Bombs away, bitches.

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Drink of the Week:Totally Random

So as I was flipping through the channels one night, looking for salvation, who knows, I flipped to the navy CSI show on CBS and for some reason I didn't turn past it immediately. I don't know if I dropped the remote, the dog was barking or I was too preoccupied in doing something else that I didn't turn. Well at some point one of them mentioned a drink that they had invented and my ear perked up, being the intrepid thief that I am. I decided that it was Providence that led me to that station and such a fortuitous happening could not be forgotten or cast aside so carelessly. So your Drink of the Week is called the Hairy Hangover (courtesy of NCIS)
Hairy Hangover
3 shots jagermeister
1 shot cherry soda,
2 shots vanilla vodka,
1 tsp lemon juice
and a splash of tabasco sauce

Very interesting. I'm sure that would leave a pretty hairy hangover indeed (and please let me know how it is if you actually try it). If you're not into that I happened to buy some vanilla vodka the past week because it had a really pretty vodka, and what I've found is if you mix that with some iced Starbucks coffee it's exquisite. Just trying to help you out. Happy hunting.

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It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere- Speakeasy Style

This week I was inspired by an article from those Libertarians at Reason Magazine. The story was about the Politics of Prohibition and it stated that contrary to popular conception that Prohibition was repealed because citizens and politicians realized that temperance and sobriety weren't in fact possible to achieve on a national level but rather the 18th Amendment was repealed because the government needed money.

"By 1920, the income tax supplied two-thirds of Uncle Sam's revenues and nine times more revenue than was then supplied by liquor taxes and customs duties combined. In research that I did with University of Michigan law professor Adam Pritchard, we found that bulging income-tax revenues made it possible for Congress finally to give in to the decades-old movement for alcohol prohibition....Prohibition appeared to be here to stay -- until income-tax revenues nose-dived in the early 1930s.From 1930 to 1931, income-tax revenues fell by 15 percent.
In 1932 they fell another 37 percent; 1932 income-tax revenues were 46 percent lower than just two years earlier. And by 1933 they were fully 60 percent lower than in 1930.
With no end of the Depression in sight, Washington got anxious for a substitute source of revenue.
That source was liquor sales."

So two lessons can be learned from this; if you want to get "The Man" to do anything you need to squeeze and strangle his life blood, or mess with his money, and more importantly, that booze saved America. What a noble substance.
Anyway in honor of this tidbit and me learning stuff here are a few Prohibition Era drinks that I found and selected because I liked their names. You can find more here. Or in this book.

White Lady
Sophisticated Prohibition Era Cocktail
Ingredients:
1 1/2 Tbsp Gin
1 1/2 Tbsp Cointreau
1 1/2 Tbsp Lemon Juice

Mix all ingredients and strain and pour into a Cocktail Glass.

Parisian
1920s Cocktail
Ingredients:
1 1/2 Tbsp Gin
1 1/1 Tbsp Noilly Prat

Combine all ingredients with ice and shake. Strain into cocktail glass and add a couple of blackcurrents to the glass.


Pink Pussycat
Sweet and Saucy Gin Cocktail
Ingredients:
3 Tbsp Gin
4 Tbsp Pineapple Juice
3 Tbsp Grapefruit Juice
2 Tsp Grenadine

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a tall glass. Garnish with a piece of grapefruit.

Bennett
1920s Short Drink
6 Tsp Gin
2 Tsp Lime Juice
2 Dashes Angostura Bitters
Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.

Cream Gin Fizz
1 1/2 oz Gin
1 1/2 oz milk
3 tsps sugar
4 tbsps lime juice
4 ice cubes
1/2 cup crushed ice
Seltzer

Combine all ingredients except crushed ice and seltzer into a cocktail shaker. Mix vigorously. Strain into a highball glass filled with crushed ice. Garnish with a slice of lime

Luigi
1920s Classic Cocktail
6 Tsp Gin
6 Tsp Dry Vermouth
1 Tsp Grenadine
Dash Cointreau
Juice of Half an Orange

Shake with ice and strain into a glass. Garnish with a segment of tangerine.

Horses Neck
1 Lemon
3 Tbsp Gin
Ginger Ale

Hang an entire lemon rind cut in a spiral shape, from the edge of the glass. Mix gin with ice and top with ginger ale.

Or if you want to really get in the spirit you can wear your Flapper costume and make your own moonshine. You can find quite a few here, or just google; you'll be amazed

Whiskey

INGREDIENTS:

10 lbs. Whole kernel corn, untreated

5 Gallons Water

1 Cup Yeast, champagne yeast starter

DIRECTIONS:

Put corn in a burlap bag and wet with warm water. Place bag in a warm dark

place and keep moist for about ten days. When the sprouts are about a 1/4" long

the corn is ready for the next step. Wash the corn in a tub of water, rubbing

the sprouts and roots off.. Throw the sprouts and roots away and transfer the

corn into your primary fermenter. With a pole or another hard object mash the

corn, make sure all kernels are cracked. Next add 5 gallons of boiling water

and when the mash cools add yeast. Seal fermenter and vent with a water sealed

vent. Fermentation will take 7-10 days. When fermentation is done, pour into

still filtering through a pillow case to remove all solids.

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It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere-Animated Edition

I've had a horrible day so far so I really need a drink, but when you're talking about the Simpsons only one drink (besides Duff of course) comes to mind; The Flaming Moe,errr, Flaming Homer:

The Internet is full of people's attempts to recreate the Flaming Momer, because the ingredient "every kind of liquor in the house" is a little vague, so here are a couple of variations:
From about.com

• 1 oz brandy
• 1 oz peppermint schnapps
• 1 oz sloe gin
• 1 oz blackberry liqueur
• 1 oz strawberry juice
• cough syrup

1. Pour all ingredients except the cough syrup in a highball
2. Stir.
3. Add cough syrup.
4. Ignite and extinguish before drinking.

From idrink.com (and here's the Flaming Moe spinoff)1.0 oz. Blackberry Liqueur
1.0 oz. Brandy
1.0 oz. Peppermint Schnapps
1.0 oz. Sloe gin
1.0 oz. Strawberry juice
Directions: Mix all ingredients in a tall glass. Add cough syrup and ignite. Extinguish and drink.

MMMMM... just remember happiness is just a Flaming Moe away


Flaming Moe's (mp3)

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It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere- Keeping the Love Alive

The research I do for this site. Anyway I went to Webtender and searched 6 thousand plus recipes for cocktail recipes that evoked for me a sense of love and beauty and happiness, or at least had names to that effect. It's pretty remarkable how many drink names are so violent and sexual in nature. If I wasn't such an Aristocrat I might have been offended. Anyway these are the ones that made me happy and I liked so here we go.
A Smile
Ingredients:
* 1 1/2 oz Vodka
* 1 1/2 oz Light rum
* 1 1/2 oz Creme de Cassis
* 6 oz Orange juice
* 6 oz double strength Lemonade
* 1 oz Grenadine
* 1 scoop Whipped cream

Mixing instructions:
With three ice cubes put vodka, light rum, cassis, orange juice, and frozen lemonade made at double strength into a shaker. Shake well. Place half the grenadine in the bottom of each white wine glass, pour in shaken mixture till withine inch of rim. With a large spoon drop whipped cream carefully in glass. Take small spoon spread to all the edges and to look nice.

Beautiful
Ingredients:
* 1 oz Cognac (Hennessy)
* 1 oz Grand Marnier

Mixing instructions:
Pour each ingredient into the snifter and serve.

P.S. I Love You
Ingredients:
* 1/2 shot Bailey's irish cream
* 1/2 shot Grand Marnier
* 1 splash White Creme de Menthe
* Nutmeg
* About 75 ml Cream, single
* Ice

Mixing instructions:
Mix the Baileys, Grand Marnier, and single cream together with some ice in a shaker. Shake thoroughly, and pour into a cocktail glass. Pour a splash (about 1/3 shot) through the mixture to the bottom of the glass. Shake nutmeg over the top of the cocktail

Secret Place
Ingredients:
* 1 1/2 oz Dark rum
* 1/2 oz Cherry brandy
* 2 tsp Dark Creme de Cacao
* 4 oz cold Coffee
* crushed Ice

Mixing instructions:
Pour all of the ingredients into an Irish coffee glass filled with crushed ice. Stir well.

Sunshine Smile
Ingredients:
* 2 oz Vodka
* 2 oz Orange juice
* Fill with Champagne

Mixing instructions:
Shake Vodka and Orange Juice. Top glass with Champagne. Garnish with a slice of orange.

Sweet Heart
Ingredients:
* 2 cl Parfait d'Amour (Bols)
* 1.5 cl Amaretto di Saronno (ILLVA Saronno)
* 1.5 cl Vanilla syrup (Monin)
* 1.5 cl fresh Cream
* 0.5 cl red Curacao (Marie Brizard)

Mixing instructions:
Shake. Garnish with cinamon-powder, cherry, mint, lemon-peel

and the
Warm and Fuzzy
Ingredients:
* 1/3 oz Triple sec
* 1/3 oz Southern Comfort
* 1/3 oz Cherry brandy

Mixing instructions:
Pour southern comfort, triple sec, and then cherry brandy.

If those don't get you into a happy place, this has to:

(ha! it's already stuck in your head isn't it?)

And since Harry's fate will be revealed at midnight (local time) here's a site with a few Potter inspired drinks
Harry Potter
1 oz blackberry liqueur
1 oz DeKuyper® Buttershots liqueur
1 oz Chambord® raspberry liqueur
1 splash cranberry juice

Shake ingredients together in a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes.

and of course here's the recipe for Butterbeer which I'm sure you can Irish up on your own.

Okay you crazy kids, enjoy.

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It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere- America Edition

Since this week we was our 4th of July (that's right, they don't have it in other countries) I thought I'd share some pretty true (red,white &) blue drink recipes. I just found these online so I can't attest to the greatness of them, but with some of the recipes you really can't go wrong. Or I think I'm going to try instead to do drinks with American place names. I'm sure I don't know them all, so if you know any that you'd recommend that I've forgotten feel free to add them in the comments ( o ye mythical reader). Of course none of this are really canonical recipes so I'll put which ever one catches my fancy, or the first one I find, which will probably catch my fancy.

The California Iced Tea

fill with 1/2 sweet & sour mix
1/2 oz Orange Curacao
1 oz light rum
1/2 oz tequila
1/2 oz gin
1/2 oz vodka
fill with 1/2 orange juice
1 splash 7-up

(and if you wanna make it Italian style, just add a jigger of absinthe)

Blue Hawaiian

1 oz light rum
1 cherry
2 oz pineapple juice
1 oz Blue Curacao
1 oz cram of coconut
1 pineapple slice

Blend light rum, blue curacao, pineapple juice, and cream of coconut with one cup ice in an electric blender at high speed

The Long Island
1 part vodka

1 part tequila
1 part rum
1 part gin
1 part triple sec
1 1/2 parts sweet and sour mix
1 splash Coke

Mix ingredients together over ice in a glass. Pour into a shaker and give one brisk shake. Pour back into the glass and make sure there is a touch of fizz at the top

The Miami Vice

5 oz Bacardi 151
1 package frozen pina colada mix
1 package frozen daiquiri mix

1. Mix pina colada with 2.5 oz. of rum w/ ice. Set aside.
2. Mix daiquiri with 2.5 oz. of rum w/ ice.
3. While frozen, add pina colada mix to a cocktail glass. Add the daiquiri mix on top, keeping it seperated from the pina colada mix.

Colorado Bulldog

1 shot vodka
1 shot Kahlua
milk
1 splash Coke

In a shaker mix Vodka, Kahlua, and milk. Pour into a rocks glass and add a splash of Coca-Cola.

Cape Cod
(it's a cranberry and vodka)

Lynchburg Lemonade
1 part Jack Daniels
1 part sweet and sour mix
1 part triple sec
4 parts sprite

Missouri Mule

2 parts Bourbon 2 parts applejack 2 parts lemon juice 1 part campari 1 part contreau

Manhattan

3/4 oz sweet vermouth
2 1/2 oz bourbon
1 dash bitters
1 maraschino cherry
1 twist orange peel

Combine the vermouth, bourbon whiskey, and bitters with 2 - 3 ice cubes in a mixing glass. Stir gently, don't bruise the spirits and cloud the drink. Place the cherry in a chilled cocktail glass and strain the whiskey mixture over the cherry. Rub the cut edge of the orange peel over the rim of the glass and twist it over the drink to release the oils but don't drop it in.

Alabama Slammer

1/2 oz amaretto
1/2 oz Southern Comfort
1 splash orange juice
1 splash sweet and sour

Pour above ingredients into a stainless steel shaker over ice and shake until completely cold. Strain into an old-fashioned glass and serve.

and here are so more drinks named after America. Of course there are other drinks that just reek of America, like a Mint Julep, a Boilermaker or the All-American
So however you do it, do it well. I think you can have a good weekend now.

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Drink of the Week: Rock Star Edition

This week's drink is reported to be Amy Winehouse's favorite, and as a woman who loves her alcohol , like really loves it, that seems to be a good an endorsement as any. The drink is called the Rickstasy, and I had never heard of it before. So much to learn to become a booze connoisseur! The recipe is as follows:

3 parts Vodka

1 part Bailey's Irish Cream

1 part Banana Liqueur

1 part Peach flavored Bourbon

Prepare a tall glass full of ice then add the Vodka, next add the Peach flavored Bourbon, next add the Banana Liqueur, next add the Bailey's Irish Cream.

I haven't tested it yet myself, but it seems pretty perfect for the summer or any time really. And it must be strong too,(here Amy seems to be under the influence of few of them) as Amy Winehouse declares that

“By the time you’ve had two of them you’re like, don’t even try and go anywhere. Sit down and stay down, until the birds start singing."

I can't wait to try it, to experience for myself why "they tried to make [her] go to Rehab" to which she replied quickly "no no no" That's my kind of drink.

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Drink of the Week: The Original 527

(I feel kinda bad about writing this after the last post, especially because if made correctly this drink will get you good and pissed. Whatevs.)
Named after an infamous campaign finance loophole the 527 was created in November of 2004 while on the way to Awaaz, Duke's huge annual South Asian cultural showcase. Consisting of merely Seagrams Lime Twisted Gin and lemonade, the 527 is a simple but potent drink for the simple reason that if mixed correctly it will taste exactly like a less tart limeade.
Because of its effectiveness the 527 became a popular drink in K-Ville and at many parties ( well at least when Jay and I were involved.
Warning; this is not a sipping, formal social setting drink. Only drink if you have nothing to do that night and you want to relieve your college days.

1 part Seagram's Lime Twisted Gin
1 part lemonade (or add more of either as taste and tolerance go. Equal parts of each is a pretty solid ratio.)
Stir
Pour into any container that's handy. (a jug works wonders or of course the Bubba Keg is always good for causing trouble)

There you have it, the original 527. Enjoy your weekend!! (Take that Wiki-Nazis)

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