Me: Guess what?
You: What?
Me: I suck at blogging.
You: Yes, you really do.
I realize I should probably update this a little more often, but I just can’t seem to sit down in front of a computer and bang something out. I have a lot of admiration for those of you that actually do it. For the rest of you I’ll direct you here and here and here for some good work from some interesting people with far greater discipline than I.
Well it’s hot here in Oregon. 96 degrees hot. Patrick Ewing sweaty hot. And that makes me especially lazy. Luckily one of my favorite drinks for a hot weather day is also one of the laziest drinks to construct. I’m talking about the ti’ punch. Very simply, it’s about 2 oz. ( or however much you feel like pouring) of Rhum Agricole (traditionally an unaged, but I like to use one that’s seen a little wood), a bit of cane sugar syrup and a lime peel. All on the rocks, using the biggest, coldest ice cubes you can wrangle up. The beauty of this drink is it gets better as the ice melts, which means it doesn’t matter if you forget you made it and leave it sitting on the counter for half an hour while you take a cold shower to try and cool off. I’d take a picture and put it up here like a good little blogger, but I just don’t feel like it. Imagine.
So if you are wondering about B&F and the possibility of having me make you one of these in the nea future, well we’re in the midst of a “design review” with the city at the moment so we’re all going to have to wait and see what $4000 buys from the city.
I did get a chance to go down to the desert for a spell and happened across a fantastic little (actually it was big) antique shop with an owner who has a thing for antique glassware at affordable prices. I spent some money and started planning a return visit. I have a love of glassware that goes beyond what is socially acceptable and I’ll be writing about that in the near future. Well, maybe.
Other news: The new cocktail guide from Food And Wine Magazine (you can read some more info about this publication here (remember I’m lazy)) is out and there is a recipe for a drink I used to do at Park Kitchen that I called “CK @ PK”, but since I don’t work at Park Kitchen anymore I just called it what it is, a celery kamikaze. I kind of liked the old name, though, because it satisfied my urge to use symbols in drink names. Also, check out the new issue of Imbibe Magazine , the summer drink guide has a recipe for my “Zanahorita”. Hmmm, that sounds kind of good right now too. Gotta go!
