Red Apple

It's that time again: 5 o'clock somewhere! This week's cocktail is more of a "normal" color (i.e. not blue or green) by request. It's also Twilight-related, which you know is my favorite theme...

Yum!

As we used to say in baking school, I assembled my mise en place...

Wait a minute...

I don't know how closely you read the recipe above, but you may have noticed "lemon juice" was one of the components of this drink. I always have one of those little lemon-shaped lemon juice things in the fridge, so I didn't check to make sure I had it before I went grocery shopping, and, sure enough, no lemon juice in the whole house. So I did what any lazy person does: I scoured the house to find a suitable substitute. Someone had given us a little four-pack of just-add-liquor cocktails, and on the far left there you see the lemon drop from that pack. It was the best I could do (without putting in actual effort), so we'll see how it turns out! (Does this remind you of a certain V-8/tomato juice drink??)

I take a new picture of ice in my shaker every week. Isn't that silly?

1 oz apple juice
(I made mine from frozen concentrate)

1 oz vodka

1 T "lemon juice"

1 t grenadine

It got a little messy up in my kitchen this week. There was no way to salvage the grenadine for a photo and clean up the mess at the same time, so you get what looks like a mini-E murder scene...

Shake
I take a new one of these every week, too. What a goof.

Well, it's not green or blue!

It's a lovely shade of red! Cheers!

Yum! This is like something I would order for a pre-dinner drink, almost like a cosmo or something. It's sweet, and has a little bite to it. I'm betting it would have more bite and be less sweet if I'd really used lemon juice instead of the lemon drop mixer thingie - that thing has sugar in it. I'll have to try it again with actual lemon juice and let you all know.

Survey says: drinkable!

I am currently loving that only one of my drinks so far has been absolutely awful. This experiment is going well and my stomach and tastebuds are glad for it. Now, I wanted you all to know that if you find any drink recipes you want me to try (especially if they have Twilight-related names), please e-mail them to me and I will do my best. (No guarantees, but that's life!)

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling. ~ Frida Kahlo