Entries from The Amateur Gourmet tagged with 'drinks'
Homemade Ginger Ale
On a Sunday afternoon, lounging around my apartment watching "Terms of Endearment" on HBO, inspiration suddenly strikes and I am compelled to make ginger ale from scratch. It would take a team of behavior specialists and Debra Winger fans to analyze this phenomenon, but suffice it to say: I was hot and I had ginger. I recalled a recipe for homemade Ginger Ale in Jean-George's book "Cooking At Home with a Four-Star Chef", so I tore myself away from Aurora Greenway and studied the recipe....
Drunk Monkeys
I was going to write a thoughtful, intelligent post tonight but instead here's a video about drunk monkeys. [via Metafilter]...
Your Drink
So I was watching "Groundhog Day" for a bit on TV last night and there's that scene where Bill Murray is trying to seduce Andie MacDowell in a bar. He memorizes facts about her so that when the day happens again, he can win her heart. One of these facts happens to be what drink she likes: sweet vermouth on the rocks. When he orders that for himself the second time around, she says, "That's my favorite drink." My regular drink isn't so singular: it's a Tanqueray and Tonic. I stole the drink from my dad and now it's what I order when I go out. Would I be seduced if Bill Murray crept up next to me and ordered a Tanqueray and Tonic? Probably not. I'd be more impressed if he sang a song from Pippin. This begs the question, though, reader: what's YOUR drink? How did it become your drink? How important is your drink to you? The Bill Murrays of the world want to know....
