Everybody knows that the mind tends to get a little fuzzy as we grow older. I can still be surprised, however, by the extent of the effects of my own fuzzy brain.
As for instance last evening, when I decided my aperitif would be one of my newer favorites, a Tom Collins.
I put light rum, lime juice and simple syrup in a tall glass, used my tiny battery-powered frother to mix it thoroughly, added ice cubes, then filled the glass with club soda, stirring with a wooden chop stick (more on that some other time).
It was terrible. Well, okay, maybe not terrible, but not good. It basically tasted like carbonated lime. Adding a little more sugar syrup helped, but it was still a disappointment.
I mentally reviewed every step I had taken, and found no fault. In case I had gotten the proportions wrong, I looked up the recipe I always use. It then became perfectly clear that I had used the correct manner and method for a Tom Collins with the ingredients for a Daiquiri.
Maybe old people with fuzzy brains should drink fuzzy navels.
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Friday, April 14, 2017
Monday, March 14, 2011
Libation of the Nameless
One of my favorite potables is a very simple cocktail consisting of vodka and tomato juice. I've been trying for years to determine if this concoction actually has a name. I’d like to be able to order it by name in a restaurant or bar.
There is an interactive web site where you can enter the ingredients you have, and it will return all the drinks that can be made with them. I listed vodka and tomato juice, hoping it would tell me what that combination is called. It told me there is no drink that can be made out of just those two ingredients.
A bartender in an Indian casino in Sault Ste. Marie once told me this drink was called a Caesar. I tried to confirm that, but every recipe I’ve found for a drink called Caesar (or sometimes Bloody Caesar) is made with Clamato juice, plus such things as hot sauce, Worcestershire, celery salt, etc., which makes it too much like a Bloody Mary, which I don't care for at all.
So, I guess I’ll just have to continue asking for vodka and tomato juice.
Speaking of Bloody Marys, however, reminds me of a brunch at an elegant restaurant at which my sister-in-law, unable to recall that the alcohol-free version is called a Virgin Mary, shocked the daylights out of the waiter by telling him she wanted a Bloody Virgin.
Eewww.
There is an interactive web site where you can enter the ingredients you have, and it will return all the drinks that can be made with them. I listed vodka and tomato juice, hoping it would tell me what that combination is called. It told me there is no drink that can be made out of just those two ingredients.
A bartender in an Indian casino in Sault Ste. Marie once told me this drink was called a Caesar. I tried to confirm that, but every recipe I’ve found for a drink called Caesar (or sometimes Bloody Caesar) is made with Clamato juice, plus such things as hot sauce, Worcestershire, celery salt, etc., which makes it too much like a Bloody Mary, which I don't care for at all.
So, I guess I’ll just have to continue asking for vodka and tomato juice.
Speaking of Bloody Marys, however, reminds me of a brunch at an elegant restaurant at which my sister-in-law, unable to recall that the alcohol-free version is called a Virgin Mary, shocked the daylights out of the waiter by telling him she wanted a Bloody Virgin.
Eewww.
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