This week, we begin our cocktail of the month experiment with – The Martini! For those of you who want to drink along at home, this week’s recipe is as follows:
Hendrick’s gin – kept in the freezer
Dry Vermouth
Ice
Cocktail shaker
Martini glass
Cucumber
Slice a cucumber as you would for salad or veggie dip, put aside. Pour about a capful of dry vermouth into a martini glass, swirl it around to coat the glass, then drink the vernouth. Add ice and gin to your cocktail shaker, shake vigorously until frost appears on the outside of the shaker. Pour your gin into you prepared glass, garnish with a couple slices of cucumber, and enjoy.
Salsa reports back from Mondo, the annual juggling festival in the Twin Cities. Apparently, there is a hell of a lot of juggling talent in the metro area. Who knew? Finally, we talk about the Uncanny Valley effect in movies, and wonder if it can be used effectively on purpose.
The longest drink name I’ve run across
“151 Canadian Vampires Burning Pentagrams In A Swedish Pumpkin Patch” http://www.barmeister.com/drinks/recipe/6833/
I think there’s a typo in the description calling 8 Seconds vodka rather than whiskey
A friend invented a drink called a “U-boat” which was blue for the ocean and had a few drops of some cream liquor which curdled and represented the se(a)men…
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