Mudslide

Grown up chocolate milk. Amazing. Do it up.

3/4 ounce vodka

3/4 ounce Kahlúa

3/4 ounce Irish cream liqueur

-Shake ingredients with cracked ice and strain into chilled cocktail glass.

Enjoy and bottoms up!

Orgasm and Gin & Tonic

The name of this first drink is deeply misleading: so not in any way comparable to an orgasm. Peppermint schnapps and Bailey's? Should be great, but it's just alright. Not even "good." What's more disappointing than being promised an orgasm and getting meh.

1/2 ounce Irish cream liqueur

1/2 ounce peppermint schnapps

-Serve in a shot glass.

I had a gin & tonic before at a bar, and I was really unimpressed, but those were the days before I liked gin at all. This time, it was better, but there was still a weird aftertaste that I didn't really care for. I sliced a strawberry to put in it, which made it better. Actually, the best part of the whole deal was eating the gin & tonic soaked berries at the end. Beautiful.

2 ounces gin

tonic water

-Add gin to iced highball glass and fill with tonic water. Garnish with lime.

Enjoy and bottoms up!

B-52 and French Kiss

I'm combining these two drinks even though I drank them on different nights because they taste very similar and because they are floats if I can call them that. They both involve floating one liquor on top of one or two other liquors, something I have not thus far been able to do. However the B-52 was my first success story:

1/3 ounce Kahlúa

1/3 ounce Irish cream liqueur

1/3 ounce Grand Marnier

-Float ingredients in the order listed.

It really looked like the picture above! In the past, I have read to use a spoon and hold it steadily with the tip just below the surface of the first liquor. Then, carefully and slowly pour the next liquor down the length of the spoon. I used this technique only with a butter knife and found it much easier. It still takes patience and a steady hand, but it can be achieved.

This picture for the French Kiss is not accurate. I was unable to find a suitable picture of the real drink, much to my dismay (surprisingly, drinks aren't what come up when you google "French kiss"). I thought this one did portray the deliciousness of said drink quite nicely so you can get an idea.

1/2 ounce Amaretto

1/2 ounce créme de cacao

1/2 ounce Irish Cream liqueur

-Carefully layer all ingredients into a shot glass. (I doubled the amounts and put it in a cocktail glass).

You will notice the use of a non-vegan ingredient, which leads me to inform you that I have officially taken myself out of the properly vegan category and into the "complicated eater" category. I still love the trees, but I need to eat something besides carbs.

Enjoy and bottoms up!

Wet Martini

Oh dear sweet, classic martini. We've had quite a go of it: me hating you, you getting me too drunk. They certainly have been classic times, but now we've come to the end. The wet martini is the last variation on the classic martini in my little black book. And after all the fun, I've finally come to appreciate the combination of vermouth and vodka.

A friend of mine described enjoying martinis because they taste "clean" which I laughed about at the time. Now, I have to agree - there's a purity to the taste of a martini. I think I might order this at a bar sometime.

1 1/2 ounces gin or vodka

1 1/2 ounces dry vermouth

-Stir with ice cubes and strain into chilled cocktail glass.

In other news, I just finished reading the play for which my blog is named: Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill. I enjoyed it, and didn't realize when I named my blog how appropriate the title would be. They drink like crazy throughout the entire thing, so I think I might have a whiskey rocks at the end of the project in acknowledgment of the namesake.

Enjoy and bottoms up!

Alabama Slammer

1 ounce Southern Comfort

1 ounce amaretto

1/2 ounce sloe gin

dash of lemon juice

-Shake and strain.

Children's cherry flavored cough syrup.

Enjoy and bottoms up!

Slow Comfortable Screw and Sloe Gin Fizz

My most recent trip to the liquor store (the one downtown that is kind of shady but easiest to get to) resulted in the purchase of two new items: Southern Comfort and Sloe Gin. SoCo I've had before, mostly in the form of SoCo and Lime shots over the summer. Is alright. Sloe gin, however, is a completely new experience. Despite the name, it's actually not gin at all but rather a liqueur made from slow berries. It looks all purply in the bottle but makes most drinks look pink. The bottle I have looks something like this:

As for the taste, it wasn't bad when I just had a tiny taste by itself. Pretty sweet and syrupy but I could imagine it tasting good when mixed with other things. Kind of like a naughty Italian Soda.

The first drink I had, the Slow Comfortable Screw, is first of all a ridiculous name for a drink and a member of that completely unhelpful category of drinks in my book: drinks with naughty names. I still don't understand how that is a useful category to a bartender. Anyway, the drink is so named because it is basically a screwdriver with Southern Comfort and sloe gin added. Cute, eh?

1 ounce vodka

3/4 ounce Southern Comfort

3/4 ounce sloe gin

4 ounces fresh orange juice

-Shake with cracked ice and strain into iced highball glass.

I found this similar to a Sex on the Beach - very fruity and girly. However, since the fruity flavor is achieved more through booze than juice in this drink, it doesn't have that freshness and lightness of SotB. It's almost too sweet like strawberry and grape soda.

The sloe gin fizz is basically another version of a collins, and is one of the few that actually tastes substantially different than the original. I found it okay, but again the sloe gin is a little too sweet for me and left me feeling that my drinking palate had developed a bit beyond sweet pink drinks with fizz.

2 ounces sloe gin

1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice

splash of simple syrup

soda water

-shake all ingredients well in cocktail shaker and strain into iced highball glass. Fill with soda water.

Enjoy and bottoms up!