MamaBloo Loves Ice+Clink+Drink
Today I am featuring a new blog by an amazing mother and fellow drinker named Janice. I met Janice 5 years ago when she was on baby #2 and I was on baby #1. She has all the things I like in a person: she is a Coug, a great mom, her kids have manners (and frankly her daughter is so cute I have threatened to kidnap her on more than one occaision), she is a writer, tequila doesn’t scare her, and she has just the right mix of down-to-earth, smarts, and funny.
Her husband recently gave her a cocktail recipe book as a gift ands she has turned her adventures in experimenting with new mixed — ahem — beverages into a fun, well-written, and clever blog named Ice+Clink+Drink.
Here is an excerpt:
If It Weren’t For Those Muddling Kids:
I don’t think Scooby Doo and the gang were making many cocktails (Shaggy was likely smoking his intoxicants), but they might view muddling as a mystery. Since this is a prominent part of making many cocktails today, let’s get it out there.
Muddling is pressing ingredients with a pestle-shaped muddler in order to release the juices, oils and flavors of fruits, herbs and chile peppers. If you’ve ever ordered a mojito, you’ve seen this technique in action, as the bartender muddles the mint in the bottom of the glass with sugar before adding the rum, lime juice and club soda. If done well, you get a pretty drink with greenery and a nice mint taste. If the drink mixer has aggression issues, you get a whole lot of leaf pieces shooting up your straw with each sip – where you know they’ll probably lodge between your teeth like you’ve been eating salad. Or, in the case of a frustrating blackberry mojito I had at the Ritz Carlton (where you’d think they’d know better) in Lake Las Vegas, a straw jammed with blackberry seeds.
See? See? Good stuff. Give her a try, eh?
