Man Fridays before a long weekend suck huh? I don’t know about you guys but today is going to drag. In keeping with the warm weather theme (as well as the actual weather) I’ve gone and made a classic that I’ve been surprised I haven’t made before: a mojito!
Surprising isn’t it? I know. For some reason I never really think about mojitos when thinking about rum based cocktails. I tend to stick to daiquiris or tiki rum drinks and I’m afraid I’ve been missing out by neglecting this classic.
Because it is a classic, I’ve decided to go original on this. I used the recipe from The Gentleman’s Companion, which comes from Sloppy Joe’s Bar in Havana:
Put several lumps of ice into a 16 oz collins glass, toss in 1 tsp sugar or gomme, insinuate a spiral green lime peel about the ice, turn in 1 1/2 jiggers of Bacardi; white, or Gold Seal, and the strained juice of 1 small green lime—not a lemon. Stir once, fill with really good club soda and garnish with a bunch of fresh mint. .. . If for a lady, use grenadine instead of sugar.
The scent is not what I was expecting. I get some lime from the peel that is sticking out of the top of the drink, and the mint garnish is fragrant as mint usually is. I was thinking and expecting more rum, since all that is in here is rum, lime juice and soda (more on that in a second).
The flavor is cool and refreshing, which is most excellent this time of year. After about a half second, the lime starts to take over, adding a citrus-y sour flavor that is pleasant. That lime dominated flavor stays pretty constant, until you get down towards the end. About halfway through the drink starts to sweeten up a bit from the sugar. Of which, is a much slower dissolve than using simple syrup. Which, If I’m being honest I would have thought to have used. The result here is like a multi layered drink that goes from sour to sweet, which is different but nice. I get very little of the rum though. I kinda wish there was more here. Though to be fair, it does make it a bit easier to go down on a hot summer day.
The only thing that I would change is completely my fault. The soda water needed to be bubblier. Though, how can I know that soda water would checks notes start to go flat after a day. I mean it’s kind of insane how fast soda water starts to turn. Sorry, didn’t mean to go on a slight tangent there, but I was a little disappointed in the little carbonation that I was able to get from what I had.
Don’t get me wrong, I very much enjoyed this version of the mojito. I just wish my soda topper hadn’t gone off. I’ll attempt this again more in the summer, when I make sure all my ingredients are fresh and/or sealed.
(Banner image courtesy Matthew Tetrault Photography)
Good news, I am off until Wednesday.
Bad news, first night of the Sagra but it’s supposed to rain. I’ll need to give my dance card a raincheck till tomorrow I guess. Poor ladies.
Me too. I could use the break. Anyone want to borrow a mother-in-law for a few days?
grumble grumble
I don’t want to sound like an extremist, but I think both the far right and the far left should both be sent to death camps. To avoid political bias, I will be the sole judge of where the cutoff is on the ideological spectrum. Thank you for your time.
Apparently Elmo Mush wasn’t satisfied with the progress in digging Twitter’s grave, so he switched out the shovel for a backhoe.
You can’t even view a tweet now without signing in. Good luck with your ad revenue, numbfuck!!
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/23779764/twitter-blocks-unregistered-users-account-tweets
Saw that this morning trying to see something from r/hockey. From one dying platform to another.
That just leaves Truth Social. Yeah, I’m gonna go play Frogger on the highway.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12250115/Maryland-professor-fired-harassment-inspecting-female-students-breasts.html
They knew it wasn’t legit because he wasn’t wearing the official t-shirt.
How does someone in theory educated enough to teach a college class be dumb enough to think that shit was gonna fly.
And answering my own question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_phone_call_scam . It’s a sad society we live in, where some guy on the phone convinces a fast food manager to strip search the female employees, and the manager and the ladies fall for it.
” YOU GET A SCOTUS DECISION! AND YOU GET A SCOTUS DECISION! ERRYBODY GETS A SCOTUS DECISION!!! AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!11!!ELEVEN!!!!!!”
Yup. A friday at the end of a session with a SCOTUS packed with partisan shitbags?
Get ready for some shitty, shitty rulings.
Like a college freshman realizing the semester ends in a week, they’re cramming everything in before the Fourth weekend.
This has been your lame sexual innuendo (itself a questionable word) statement GTD will use next week.
Just going to have to borrow Andrew Jackson’s take on Supreme Court shenanigans. “Marshall has made his decision. Now let him enforce it.”
THIS PLAINTIFF FROM THE WEBPAGE CASE, I CALL HER GEORGE SANTOS BECAUSE SHE MADE THE WHOLE THING UP AND WON ANYWAY.
Yeah we need a societal reset where about 40% of the populace is shot into the sun.
DFO Private island?
Yes, we can call it “California” or “Massachusetts”
We don’t have to bring Gavin Newsom, tech bros, or most of Massachusetts though, do we? And can we treat farm workers like people too?
YOUAH CAHHNT LIVE WITHOUT US YOUAH NEED US NO ONE DENIES THIS
A good chunk of Massachusetts doesn’t suck. Let’s keep inside 495, and the Cape and we’ll call it a day
Theoretically, some homo could have asked her to build them a gay website.
Damn homos, always asking for their gay websites.
Yup. Gotta legally protect all those ‘christians’ from having to treat gay folks the way that Jesus would have wanted them to be treated.
“tHaT’s tHe ReaL PErSeCUtioN hEre, PEopLe!!!!”
Will someone tell the Far Right to knock it off?! I’m getting a migraine from all the Conservative Dog Whistles they are blowing!
Now that we’re resuming student loan payments, I assume that’ll fix the inflation matter?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqkT4B-9MGk
It seems to be working in Europe, what with their largely free college education and low rates of infl…
Hold on, I’m getting something from my producers.
I just….is that why no place has staff? Is like student loan payments the only thing getting people out of bed?
And, if I understand, it only applies to like a certain part of the overall plan so a bunch of relief is still being provided.
Did you try the grenadine version? I have some amazing Cajun Grenadine I might give it a try with, I love the crunch when made with raw sugar, but could be interesting
I have not. I need to find good grenadine. Roses is shit
Darn fumble fingers. Pic below.
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Interesting article about Chartreuse, economics, religion and the French.
The TL;DR version: There is great demand for Chartreuse, but the French monks that make Chartreuse are being very, well, French about it and refusing to step up production to meet demand. So, if you like Chartreuse, ya might want to stock up while the gettin is good.
https://aeon.co/essays/chartreuse-economic-theology-and-the-french-spirit-of-capitalism
Good for them, I enjoy the drink but have sworn off it after the high sugar content gave me one of the only bad hangovers of my life and possibly killed part of my pancreas
I bought a bottle a while back, and found out that Chartreuse over the rocks gives me the Mother of All Headaches. I’m now scared to drink it.
I think I’ve used my bottle 3 times? Two nuclear daiquiris and a last word. That’s it
It’s quite good on its own, and you can’t beat the color for showmanship, but the sugar content alone requires caution and moderation. I wouldn’t even have 2, it’s a single sipper after dinner instead of dessert
To clarify, I’m talking green chartreuse, although I think these caveats apply in general
I also feel the (probably stupid) need to point out that this doesn’t actually go against anything in classical econ, utility is not derived from money alone and despite what the article says leaving money on the table is not an economic sin whatsoever. I suspect the author has nawt taken econ 101 but maybe read an Ayn Rand book or something instead
I read something about this in the Times, (oh, do you not read the New York Times? Pity.), and my takeaway was that the monks were taking the position that “we/re monks and our primary reason for being is worship and contemplation, not cranking out Chartreuse for all you boozehounds. Deal with it.”
I kind of admire them for that.
Of course I subscribe to the Times, sir! And yeah, my point is that they’re behaving totally in accord with economic theory as they derive their utility from being monks, and they’re gonna make Chartreuse in the manner and quantity that gives them the most utilty for being monks. They aren’t being anti-capitalist or whatever, they’re setting the market.
Yup. They’re all like: “Pour le Chartruese, nous sommes le marche.”
Goes right along with the rest of the French, who seem to generally value quality of life over “production”. No wonder the Faux Noise/corporatist crowd hates them.
We don’t have to bring Economics vs. Contemplating the Holy Mysteries into it. “Always leave them wanting more,” works for marketing as well as show biz.
Living to make money you can’t enjoy is a sin.
-International Brotherhood of Deadbeat Dads
RISE AND FUCKING GRIND on CBS
https://www.nfl.com/news/j-j-watt-joins-cbs-sports-as-nfl-studio-analyst
By what week will he be on IR?
I’ll take lockjaw in week 4, after he steps on a rusty nail but refuses to take time off to go get a tetanus shot because it would interfere with his film breakdown schedule.
“The tetanus vaccine gives you AIDS!” – RFK Jr., eating a handful of rusty nails to build up immunity
He does have impeccable credentials on the environment, although given his family background I can see why RFK Jr. accepts the dangers of lead poisoning while questioning everything else.
A good mojito is one of life’s great pleasures. Just perfection. Always been curious about making it with a darker rum, but not that curious since I don’t routinely go around fixing things that ain’t broke (probably why I kinda hated being in tech)
I planted some mint specifically for mojitos, and it’s now a constant battle to keep the mint from taking over the yard. There are a lot of worse things that can take over, but still…
Smells really good when you mow it!
Oh yeah. Best part. Well, only good part, of weedeating.
I’m exaggerating about taking over the yard. I leave a big patch next to the house for mojitos.
Yeah it’s a weed, although I have managed to kill a mint plant through lack of watering
That reminds me, I should plant some mint in that little plot where I can’t get/don’t want anything else to grow.
“The only thing that I would change is completely my fault. The soda water needed to be bubblier. Though, how can I know that soda water would checks notes start to go flat after a day.”
‘Stir once, fill with really good club soda and garnish’
Well there’s your problem right there. The recepie clearly calls for really good club soda, not day old half flat club soda.
Will the $0.89 Krogers do?
Not all of us come from Rockefeller money smgdh
What was your good club soda?
not just ‘good’ club soda, but ‘really good’ club soda.
Sloppy Joe don’t fuck around with his club soda.
I used Schwepps. But if Fever tree made a club soda (I think they do) I’d probably use that.
Huh. Well I learned something new today…
‘Gomme sirop’ or ‘gum syrup’ is sugar syrup with the addition of gum arabic, the crystallised sap of the acacia tree, which adds mellowing mouthfeel to benefit many cocktails, especially sours.’
“Mellowing mouthfeel.” Is that what the kids are calling it these days? I can’t keep up!
“Mellowing mouthfeel” is soon to become the big buzzword in upscale cannabis shops.
(buzzword, heh.)
Gonna piss in a cracked martini glass, spill half of it down my shirt, garnish it with an orange that wen bad three days ago, (and I mean the whole fucking orange, not just a slice), mix in some rotgut whiskey, and call it ‘The Supreme Court’
Garnish with a giant turd and I think you’re on to something
Too general. I’d call this a “Kavanaugh.”
Now come up with drinks for the rest of SCOTUS!
The Clarence Thomas one is easy. Coke with a pube on it with porn on in the background
It would have to be Pepsi Clear; Thomas hates anything dark.
I remember learning about Thomas (and Thurgood Marshall) in high school. I knew then that Clarence Thomas was nothing more than a soft-shoeing token house N for the republicans.
It’s always amazed me that the entire nation acts like this isn’t the elephant in the room, especially when discussing the candidates delivered by the Heritage Foundation.
‘garnish with a case of Natty lite and a flaccid dick waved around in public’
The Roberts: Half a martini, half a Manhattan, garnish with dashed hopes and regret
The Alito: a mug of Campari and the bitterest of bitters
The Alito would be just piss and vinegar, and reminds me of one of my favoUrite New Yorker cartoons
Maybe just a splash of Campari for color? I wanted to tie in the Italian-American therefore diverse bit
If you add color to it you’re just inviting a dissent from Thomas.
The Barrett: Kool-aid, sacramental wine, and fertility drugs
You have to charge millions of dollars for it, under the table.
Is burning down Blackout Brett Kavanaugh’s house protected speech under this Supreme Court? It is if I hold a bible in one hand and quote a bible verse while I do it!
Just to be safe we should probably declare him a witch first
If I’m on the jury I can promise you won’t be convicted.
Some Kentucky Jelly on the rim might help.