Monday, October 4, 2010

Mixing drinks is a lot like cooking.....

I’m glad they didn’t have all these wonderful flavors of alcohol back when I became legal. Some of this stuff is dangerous! Way back when, if we wanted something that tasted like candy, we drank peppermint Schnapps. We always knew how strong a drink was by how hard it made us gag. But we were real troopers, we persevered and choked it all down. Of course, sometimes it came back up.


But now…….there are so many flavors, you can make a million drinks that don’t taste like alcohol! So here’s where the similarity to cooking comes in…. Cooks are always substituting ingredients. So why not bartenders? The other night someone ordered a Lemon Drop. Didn’t know what went in it, so I selected a couple of lemony liquids, poured them in a glass, and…….they liked it! Back in the day, when someone ordered a Planter’s Punch or a Mai Tai, I’d pour some rum in a glass, add fruit juices, a little grenadine for color, and voila! A tropical drink. And yes, it was the same recipe for all of those.)

The other day I went off on a chocolate tangent. I created my own liquid box of chocolates. I made a chocolate orange cream, always one of my own personal favorites. And a chocolate covered hazelnut, a chocolate raspberry cream, and a heavenly milk chocolate delight. Some of this stuff is dangerous!

So if you order some weird drink from me……it may not be exactly the one you had somewhere else…..but it’ll taste good!

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