"jmcquown" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:In this month's issue of 'Food & Wine' - a Cucumber-Basil Martini! Good
lord, they'll call *anything* a martini these days, won't they? And look
at
the first ingredient (shudder):
1 Tbs. Sugar
1 Tbs. hot water
1 tsp. finely grated fresh ginger
1 three-inch piece of cucumber, peeled, seeded & diced plus 1 round for
garnish
3 basil leaves, 2 torn
2 oz. gin
1 Tbs. fresh lime juice
In a small bowl dissolve sugar in hot water. Press the grated ginger
through a fine strainer over the bowl releasing the juice.
In a cocktail shaker, muddle the diced cucumber with the 2 torn basil
leaves. Add the ginger syrup, gin, lime juice and a handful of ice.
Shake
well, then strain into a martini glass. Garnish the martini with a slice
of
cucumber and the remaining whole basil leaf and serve.
Makes 1 drink
Hell of a lot of work for one drink, don't you think?
Jill
Yeah....definitely not worth the trouble.
In a bar recently, I saw two young women drinking something that looked like
little bits of cottage cheese floating in coffee with a lot of milk. I don't
recall what they said was in it, but they said "...burp...it curdles more in
your mouth. It's really cool". No comment.
Then, there was the test tube drink trend, which has largely vanished, I
think, at least the bit about serving drinks in test tubes. Out with some
friends years ago, at a chain restaurant, there were a couple of plastic
hotties (hired by Seagram) using their cleavage to get guys to buy these
guaranteed-to-make-you-puke brightly colored drinks in test tubes. They kept
approaching our table and not noticing 6 guys all drinking either beer, or
Jack Daniels, neat. Not very good at reading the market, although they were
selling plenty of it to the next table full of (not surprisingly) young
women, who were really living la vida loca.
