The Theme for This Week - Drinking

Posted By Blackfive

"We had gone out there to pass the beautiful day of high summer like true Irishmen - locked in the dark snug of a public house." - Brendan Behan

First, thanks to everyone who visited last week while I was out. Also, thanks for the feedback on the stories. While I am NOT writing a book, I have a lot more to go. That was the first 8 weeks in a 15 year career. Next up will be how I went from Airplane Mechanic to Paratrooper - you can blame the Army.

Anyway, this week's theme will be drinking. Some of you are not surprised, and, in fact, are wondering what took me so long to get around to it. In the spirit of drinking, I am slightly overdue with the next round of Shirley Temple Awards - stay tuned today. I have been struggling with one guy who seems to keep returning to the list. Why a theme? Well, I need the help since I have been really busy trying to run down some stories for Front Line Voices. It's up and running. Check it out.

Next, in a bit of blogger news, Argghhh! has moved to a stronger, faster site. This is good news as the Donovans are moving from BlogSpot. Check it out and let them know what you think.

Finally, in a bit of drink humor, here is a recipe from the WASP Cookbook, by Alexandra Wentworth (one of the funniest cookbooks of all time ISBN:0-446-91210-7):

Wasp Dry Martini (for the Harvard Homecoming game):

Question: How many WASPs does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Answer: Two. One to change the lightbulb and one to make the martinis.

6 tablespoons vermouth
6 ice cubes
3/4 cup dry gin (Ed. Blackfive prefers Bombay Saphire)
6 cocktail olives

Pour the vermouth over ice cubes in a glass; let stand 2 minutes. Pour the vermouth out, leaving a film around the ice cubes. Pour in gin and gently stir. Strain liquid into martini glass and daintily drop in olive. (Ed. skip the daintily part)

Now, that makes me thirsty...

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Comments

[hln]

Book. We want a book. :)

hln

[LC Taylor, Imperial Tender of Bars]

Good recipe for Martinis except:

Do not pour the vermouth over ice.
Chill the Martini glass (and only use the classic Martini glass).
Chill vodka over ice in mixing glass.
Pour chilled water / ice from Martini glass and dry inside of glass.
Pour vermouth into Martini glass, swirl, pour out, shake remainer of vermouth from glass.
Strain vokda into Martini glass.
Spear three small stuffed olives and drop in glass to marinate.

When drinking a Martini, take a bit out of olive and a sip of Martini, chew, swirl, swallow.

I had a really hard-core Martini drinker teach me how to build a Martini when I first started tending bar. I made them like every time and NEVER had a complaint. In fact, I had several people tell me that I made the BEST MARTINI EVER.

Enjoy - and have one for me!

[Blackfive]

Thanks for the recipe. BTW, the one that I posted is for tailgating so martini glasses are probably not conducive to safe tail gating. It might be heresy, but I would drink a martini out of a plastic cup (depending on circumstances).

I'll try yours out except for the olives. I can't stand eating 'em.