Cocktail Hour
May. 17th, 2020 05:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kevin_standleeGuy Gavriel Kay put out a call on Twitter a couple of days ago for a "virtual cocktail hour" starting at 4:30 ET on Saturday. We were all encouraged to post pictures of ourselves with a drink of our choice, and were encouraged to dress up nicely. Unlike Guy, I do not own a tuxedo, but I did the best that I could.
This shows off our fireplace nicely, I think.
For the first time since I won it in a promotion at the Fernley Nugget casino, I had a use for the drink glass here.
But what to drink? I don't like the taste of alcohol, so what sort of "mocktail" could I make? With a nudge from Cheryl Morgan, I found a mixed drink I find I like.
This is a modified version of a "Gunner": equal parts lemonade and ginger ale. (Other versions use ginger beer.) In this case, hold the Angostura bitters, which I don't have around here anyway. This drink is apparently popular "in Singapore, Hong Kong and other parts of the Far East and India formerly under British colonial rule."
Instead of a mint sprig, I added some blueberries and sliced strawberries for color (they taste pretty good, too), and also brought in my display copy of the 2002 Hugo Award trophy because there aren't many opportunities for me to show it off.
I discovered that this non-alcoholic (and in this case sugar-free except for the fruit) drink was quite nice and I think I'll be drinking it more often. I might even get some lime cordial that appears to be also part of the recipe. Not sure about the bitters, even though it is still considered to be nominally a "soft" drink with only a dash of them. Maybe I'll try the "full" version sometime when I'm somewhere with access to all of the ingredients and feeling slightly adventurous. I know that it's a good thing that wasn't an alcoholic drink, because if it had been, I would have been sloshed to the gills given how many of them I drank once I discovered how much I liked it.
This shows off our fireplace nicely, I think.
For the first time since I won it in a promotion at the Fernley Nugget casino, I had a use for the drink glass here.
But what to drink? I don't like the taste of alcohol, so what sort of "mocktail" could I make? With a nudge from Cheryl Morgan, I found a mixed drink I find I like.
This is a modified version of a "Gunner": equal parts lemonade and ginger ale. (Other versions use ginger beer.) In this case, hold the Angostura bitters, which I don't have around here anyway. This drink is apparently popular "in Singapore, Hong Kong and other parts of the Far East and India formerly under British colonial rule."
Instead of a mint sprig, I added some blueberries and sliced strawberries for color (they taste pretty good, too), and also brought in my display copy of the 2002 Hugo Award trophy because there aren't many opportunities for me to show it off.
I discovered that this non-alcoholic (and in this case sugar-free except for the fruit) drink was quite nice and I think I'll be drinking it more often. I might even get some lime cordial that appears to be also part of the recipe. Not sure about the bitters, even though it is still considered to be nominally a "soft" drink with only a dash of them. Maybe I'll try the "full" version sometime when I'm somewhere with access to all of the ingredients and feeling slightly adventurous. I know that it's a good thing that wasn't an alcoholic drink, because if it had been, I would have been sloshed to the gills given how many of them I drank once I discovered how much I liked it.
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Date: 2020-05-18 05:37 pm (UTC)