Christmas weekend is finally upon us. Hopefully you’ve got all your shopping done, both for gifts and for food. Food especially since in my opinion, Christmas dinner is the dinner of the year, and it absolutely sucks to be missing a key ingredient for that and have to go on a trek to go find it at a store that is open somewhere.
Not like I’m speaking from experience here or anything…
I digress. This week, I’m tackling eggnog. Now you may be asking yourself “Eggnog? Didn’t you already do that?” You would be correct. However, the main difference here is that this drink is meant to be a one off, and not a serving for a party. This drink comes from the “How To Drink” channel on YouTube. I highly recommend this channel, and this guy is what I hope this regular post turns into. Everyone has to start somewhere right?
.5 oz. Simple Syrup
.5 oz. Maraschino Liqueur
2 oz. Bourbon (or in my case rye)
1 whole egg
3 oz. Whole milk
Nutmeg
Orange zest (optional)
Add the simple syrup, maraschino liqueur, egg and whiskey into a shaker. Dry shake to break up the egg yolk. Add 1 whole large ice cube, and cracked ice from another cube. Shake and strain into a rocks glass. Top with the 3 ounces of milk and add nutmeg and orange zest if you have an orange on hand.
This smells like the holidays. The nutmeg aroma coming off of this thing is the first smell I get, and certainly the most powerful. I detect a slight hint of the maraschino hidden in there if I’m not mistaken.
The sip is excellent. It has a very smooth and creamy mouth feel, but thankfully is not as heavy as regular eggnog is. It doesn’t coat your palate so you avoid the feeling that your tongue has a coating of eggnog on it for 5 minutes after you’ve taken a sip. The milk acts as a solid base for the other flavors to build on, and the flavor that really dominates is the maraschino liqueur. I get a lot of that bright, boozy flavor about a second or two after taking the sip. That flavor is pretty constant throughout the sip, but after a second or two, the rye comes in. I don’t get a lot of rye flavor per se, but I get its spice and alcoholic zip that adds a little more of a burn underneath the cream and cherry flavors working in concert early on.
The finish maintains the flavor status quo established when the rye enters the fray. The maraschino does hang out on the palate for a good 5-10 seconds after you finish, so if you were hitting this drink hard, you may start tasting more maraschino, but I’m guessing that wont be a problem for the majority of drinkers, since egg and milk based drinks don’t really make the best shooting and/or chugging cocktails.
Definitely go ahead and make this one if you want to go outside the box (or carton) and get a little creative with eggnog, but not have to make an entire batch that should feed 10-12 people. I also recommend you use this as a reward for cooking or baking christmas delights. For example, Mrs. Sharkbait makes killer molasses cookies, but working the dry ingredients into the wet needs to be done by hand since the dough gets so thick it poses risks to the motors of stand mixers. So 2 batches of dough mixing had me earning one of these. Anyway, enjoy the holiday, and Happy Christmas everyone!
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Kentucky Straight Bourbon for me in my egg nog.
I just cleaned the upstairs bathroom and the kitchen. Like seriously cleaned, mopping and scrubbing the tub and everything! I’m gonna go smoke a doob and wallow in the tub. Do I know how to party or what? Later on it’s tamales and some sort of Christmas movie for me and the old guy. I did not drag the tree out of the garage, that seemed like too much work.
As I posted two months ago
How to make eggnog:
–Buy a carton of eggnog and a shitload of bourbon
–Open eggnog and pour it down the sink
–Drink bourbon directly from the bottle
–Pass out
Can we get the molasses cookie recipe ?
/asking for me
Pardon the stains on the paper, but enjoy!
Thank you
This is perfect. I like creamy drinks, but in very moderate moderation, so never seemed worth it to buy even the smallest store bought size of eggnog. I will give this a try when I get home!
Ment to mention earlier that the LDB challenge is over for this year. Congrats to all that made it to the end. Its still a dumb song but yall can heard it now without being out of the challenge
I made it, woot!
Me too! Avoiding malls and society has its perks!
/shakes fist at cloud (and by cloud I mean SiriusXM)
They’re right when they say not to go grocery shopping when you’re hungry. I turned into Andy Reid. “Sure, let’s toss a ham in the cart, too. Just for sandwiches and snacks, you know.”
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$790 million! Merry Xmas, DTZM
I have been saving this one for Christmas Eve!
Merry Christmas everyone. I hope your day tomorrow is everything you need.
Merry Christmas to you, good sir!
Seasons Cleavage to you too!
No Hawaii Bowl? Man, we’re going to very hard-pressed (“hard” “heh heh heh” “huh huh huh”) to watch.
That said, it’s Christmas Eve, so there’s no shortage of things to complain and/or wager on!
Later, Princess Fiancé gets her first royal treatment to WCS’s Christmas Eve Tradition: Die Hard on DVD and BluRay.
She has seen Die Hard before, right?
She says she “doesn’t remember.”
Hear that? That’s every Habsburg spinning in their grave.
The Nakatomi Corporation deserves what happened to them for having the company Christmas party on Christmas Eve.
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I’m sticking to Rumchata tonight as I bake the cookies. Already made, just like the cookies.
¡Feliz Nochebuena!
Random discussion topic – the fanciest Xmas/Chaka Khan/Kwanzaa/Festivus gift you ever bought anyone.
On a vacation tag-along (then-wife’s business trip), we browsed this really cool rock/blues vintage photograph store (Morrison Hotel, in La Jolla). My personal favoUrite was a Jimmy Hendrix (goddamn you, auto-correct), with his arms spread like Christ on the cross. Very powerful.
But I wasn’t buying for me, and ended up spending $1,200 (during that brief period where we had two family incomes and no child care bills) on a James Taylor picture (composing in his home, as a young, wild-haired hippie).
That’s always been her favoUrite artist (I know, I know), and she liked it so much that she didn’t’ even break/sell/throw away same after the divorce.
Yes, our cat “JT” was named after him, as well. Taylor is a crazy cat person now (in Maine), it turns out.
I whipped up Phantom of the Opera tickets in photoshop to “give” to Mrs. Sharkbait. The original plan was to go to New York for it but life got in the way and we never could pick a weekend. Fast forward a couple years and we’re doing a trip to London and I snag tickets for it in the west end. Still counts!
Damn right it does!
I mean it is Phantom, so… half credit?
/Still better than Cats… yeesh.
//Yeah, I just don’t love Andrew Lloyd Webber shows, even Jesus Christ Superstar gets tainted by the blatant Mendelssohn Violin Concerto theft.
Jewelry for La Doña, purchased yesterday. The clerk put it in a “Modern Bride” bag, but I then demanded a package “without nuptial allusions—for now”.
I’d loved to have heard the conversation between you and the salesperson.
“¿Estás loco/loca? ¡Me vas a comprometer, (insert your favourite cussword)!”
Wait, whoa, WHAT? Have you discussed this romance here before, and I just missed it? I did not know you were seeing someone seriously enough for jewelry presents! Is she worthy of you? Because you are awesome, my good man, and you deserve the best!
She’s great! Her dog’s in the banner of the Titans (¡Uuuuuuuu!) preview.
I normally end up getting the fam several small things, so the biggest single thing might be the beauty and wellness kit I got Senorita Weaselo this year. Which she has loved.
Buuut it was on her Christmas list, so there was no surprise there.
For Chaka Khan one year I brought a Rufus doll for the kid…
Tell me something good!
It’s not fancy, but the first Christmas Gumby and I were married, we were staying at a friend’s apartment because he was leaving in February for a 6 month Med cruise, and I was going home to have the baby, so we weren’t renting a place until he got back. We decided it would be dumb to get a Christmas tree. Until Christmas Eve, when we decided we absolutely had to have one after all. We drove to every store that was still open, and finally found the saddest artificial tree you’ve ever seen at a Walgreens. It literally looked like asparagus stalks stuck to a pole. And the only ornaments we found were these cheap foil things and a couple of plastic elves. I still have all of the ornaments, we use them every year. This year we were supposed to be closing on a condo in 4 days, so we decided not to bother with a tree. It’s Christmas Eve, and I’m leaning towards going down to the garage and getting the crappy artificial tree my sister in law has, that looks like stalks of asparagus stuck to a pole. 40 years later, not much has changed!
I’ve done lots of dumb gestures but I can’t think of any massive ones for the holidays. For a dating anniversary I bought Lady BFC pretty expensive earrings, and she was super uncomfortable with wearing jewelry that expensive, so I returned the earrings and turned that gift into an awesome couch.
I later bought her the earrings as a “hey we’re getting married here are those earrings you loved but thought were too expensive and are a small fraction of that rock on your finger” present.
Let’s go Afrique Football Elite! (a Flacco enterprise in Mali??)
Did Real España prove its authenticity last night?
No, they’s was SO FAKE smgdh
This ceremony is stupid and I hate it. They’re not going anywhere, they’re just changing the name of the arena.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/32932249/los-angeles-lakers-bid-adieu-home-arena-final-game-staples-center
It reminds me of all the nostalgia ABC pumped out for the “final” Monday Night Football — it was just moving to another network, and even some of the personnel were moving to, so did anyone who wasn’t part of the crew give a shit?
Oh, perfect timing! I may try this *tonight*.
Also, we bought some oat milk based eggnog and it’s terrifying. It’s all clumpy.
For the record, Greg is right. Hood is the superior store bought eggnog
Love the How To Drink channel! Fun fact: Greg looks very similar to a certain Mr. BFC. At least he reminds me of him a lot. I always pretend it’s BFC doing the show.
Guess i need to watch it?
“If you really want to up the quality of this drink you should get milk from a bag.”
-Me, GameTime, Litre, Maestro, etc.
I’ve probably asked this before, but what are advantages/disadvantages of bagged vs. carton?
Waste volume, I reckon.
That’s the thing that’s always bothered me about boxed wine. It’s in a bag inside a box. Why??? Just sell it in the bag, save a few trees, sheesh!
The box provides structural integrity while the bag is full, which is very handy, but certainly doesn’t require a new box each time. They should sell the bags as ‘refills’
Yes, that would work. That’s why you are the Doktor!
The PR variant is with rum, called “ponche”.
The more traditional here is “coquito”, which substitutes egg for coconut cream. In lieu of gifts or cards, I’ve given bottles of coquito.
It’s the Ex’s recipe; she made the best one.