Up to this point, most of the drinks I’ve provided have been pretty simple and straightforward. The recipes here will start getting a bit more complicated, and include one easy to find, but not usual ingredient: egg whites. If you’re making drinks for the elderly, the young, or those with compromised immune systems, spend a little extra and grab pasteurized eggs. Otherwise, be aware that there’s a risk with raw egg whites (you didn’t think we would be cooking them, did you?).
Since we’ll be working with egg whites, you’ll need to know how to separate your egg whites (I use the third option shown in the video). Save the yolks for some other purpose (perhaps a good lemon curd?). To make things more complicated, we’ll be adding a technique called dry shaking, even though it’s all liquid. Even though I disagree with the name, it’s a simple technique. It’s adding the ingredients to a cocktail shaker with no ice, and then later adding ice to the shaker to chill the drink (be aware of splashing when adding ice).
But enough about ingredients and techniques, let’s get to the drinks. We’re going to start off with the bane of college aged drinkers everywhere. The whiskey sour. Fear not, there will be no fluorescent yellow sour mix anywhere near this cocktail (unless that’s your preference). There will also be no top shelf whiskey involved, go with a mixing whiskey (but one you still enjoy drinking).
- 2 part whiskey
- ½ part lemon juice
- ½ part lime juice
- 1 part simple syrup
- 1 egg white
Building the drink is easy, add the ingredients to your shaker, give it a vigorous dry shake for 10-15 seconds, add ice, and shake for another 7-10 seconds to chill it down. Strain into your chilled glass, and garnish with a maraschino cherry (if you must). If you want to simplify it more, drop out the lime juice, and just step up the lemon juice to compensate (the splitting up of the ingredients is something we’ll really get into when I talk about tiki drinks)..
The next drink is one that fits more to the theme of the holiday:
- 2 part gin
- 1 part triple sec/Cointreau/orange curacao
- 1 part lemon juice
- 1 egg white
Building this drink is the same as the Whiskey Sour, just with a different base liquor, and a different sweetening agent. Traditional garnish for this is a lemon slice or a lemon twist.
Finally, one that has the color to match the holiday:
- 3 part gin
- 1 part grenadine/raspberry syrup
- 1 part lemon juice
- 1 egg white
If you’ve been paying attention so far, you should know how to build this. You can use either store bought grenadine or raspberry syrup, or make your own (that may be another column). And if you’ve been really paying attention, you should be able to see a similarity between all of these recipes and the ratios I referenced last time.
That’s it for today. Once again, I’ll open it up for what you lot want me to write about next time. Either start diving into the mess that is the classic (and *spit* modern) martinis, or starting to branch into some of the more “exotic” bitters and liqueurs to make drinks with.
Egg whites? WTF is wrong with you?
They add body, cut down the acidity a bit, and add a splash of flair with the foam floating on top.
I was equally dubious until I had three or eight Ramos gin fizzes at a cocktail joint once.
That’s kind of a large spread there.
I’m assuming you stopped counting after three.
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Egg whites in sours are the bee’s knees. Seriously. Plus, then you have the yolks left over to make Hollandaise sauce with. It’s a delicious and intoxicating cycle that usually ends with me hung over and bloated…
I actually had no idea that egg whites could be part of a sour. Looking forward to that experiment.
Pisco sours are excellent, although it’s not super common to see pisco behind the bar.
My local does a fantastic New York Sour.
But it depends on having some leftover red wine around, which would be anathema to this crew.
Ooh, that’s pretty. I think I have all the ingredients…
Mmmm… tasty.
Also give the Frisco Sour a try. Just take the first recipe and substitute Benedictine liqueur for the lime juice. Such goodness…
We’re going to start off with the bane of college aged drinkers everywhere. The whiskey sour.
Ahhh. Yes. My first legal drink in a bar was a whiskey sour.
Back in my day the bane of inexperienced college freshman girls was the sloe gin fizz. Always seemed to lead to unusually colored and distinctively pungent puke in the dorm hallways.
So fancy.
They just drank what we called Johnny Depp Punch at our parties.
After a couple, we all looked like Johnny Depp to them.
“sloe gin fizz”
That is/was my mom’s favorite drink. I’m pretty sure sloe gin is the reason I am here (she had me at 17).
I gave a hand job to a this retarded guy in Helsinki. Being dyslexic doesn’t help when making a slow gin fizz.
*snort*
That took me a minute.
*golf clap*
“Took me a minute”
I’m not giving you a hand job, too.
Don’t be stingy with that hand pussy.
I’m gonna have to circle back to that.
I prefer linear to circular motion.
Another popular one with the young women was Amaretto and Coke. It tastes like diabeetus.
Yeah, I used to do Amaretto and 7-Up or Sprite. Never was a cola drinker.
No Fresca or Squirt?
Not in the dorm’s vending machine.
Coed stories are always welcome here.
Or, the good ‘ole Southern cough syrup, ahem, I mean Comfort.
Mine was a stinger
“If you want to simplify it more, drop out the lime juice”
Or if you want to make a whiskey sour 🙂
My way is 2 jigger Canadian, 1 oz lemon, tsp bar sugar. No water, no egg white.
(I use the third option shown in the video)
I go with 4 but I’ve maybe separated eggs twice in 50 years.
One year, I made a souffle every two weeks or so. It lets you get pretty creative. For example, I made a tequila sunrise souffle. It looked like a tequila sunrise because it had beets on at the bottom. It also had tequila.
Every time I do that I break a yolk or get more white on my hands than in my drink. #1 gave me a V8 moment – I will have to try that one.
“That’s a yolk, son!”
/Foghorn Leghorn
Tonight I’m drinking vodka with Crystal Light Blackberry Lemonade and eating jalapeno olives straight out of the jar.
#sophisticated
*raises pinkie while sippin’*
I like my whiskey straight. But speaking of ice
https://www.freep.com/picture-gallery/news/local/michigan/2021/02/13/straits-mackinac-and-blue-ice/6743757002/
So after my IRS phone escapades yesterday, I got a notice that in haven’t filled my 2019 taxes today, which is exactly why I called them yesterday because I sent them in months ago and they haven’t processed them.
At this rate, I’ll have my 2020 taxes processed before they get to my 2019 returns. Fuck me.
I’m fighting with the IRS about my 2019 taxes. I entered an amount on the wrong line and I sent in an amended return as soon as I noticed it. THEY SAY I owe $1900. I SAY that they owe me $128. Because of the balance owed they will not process my amended return. Too bad I can’t reach through the phone to slap them.
Like you, I probably won’t get my 2019 refund until after the 2020 taxes are processed.
That’s fucked, dude. Customer service is nonexistent when you’re the only game in town.
The State of Ohio said that there were errors on my return one year. When I called them for an explanation of the errors, they said they didn’t have one on file at all. I’m quite certain I filed them (why else would they say they found errors on it??)
Long story short, they fined me $700. I looked into the process for appealing that – drive to fucking Columbus on the second Thursday of every month between the hours of 3:30PM and 4:15PM (hours are subject to change without notice). Maybe I could have negotiated it down, but I have zero faith that they take those appeals seriously at all.
It’s ridiculous that we have this system where *I* have to tell the government how much I think they owe, they check my work, and slam me with fines if I’m wrong.
I read somewhere that Stevie Ray Vaughn’s usual breakfast was a glass of whiskey with a raw egg in it followed by a black coffee chaser. I think technically that is a mixed drink.
I think you forgot an eight ball in there.
Close. Stevie Ray Vaughn’s usual breakfast was a glass of Wild Turkey with a large bump of cocaine. I would consider that to be straight liquor with a garnish.
Jinx!
Caption time.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EuD5-dsUcAMT1qh?format=jpg&name=900×900
The Secretary of Transportation conducts research on the preferred drinks of subway denizens.
Tough to top that one.
Mixed drinking
How to kick off a spit roast.
Pete shows he knows how to suck on a cold one
Mayor Pete courting the Black vote.
“What a refreshing forty – is that how you say it?”
For all you alkies who ended up drinking 40’s out of a brown paper bag in the alley, I STARTED drinking 40’s out of a brown paper bag in an alley!
Dyslexic drinkers.
Lucky
PierrePeteJust got an email from my health insurance provider inviting me to get the vaccine. Against my better judgement, I signed up, mostly to mollify my GF who has bought into the hysteria (she does have comorbidities).
Make me feel good about my decision.
There was extended chit-chat about this at the end of another long meeting today. I was mostly nodding off but everyone else was excitedly comparing the success rates of the different pricks and I was wondering how they could credit any of that information. About half the crowd were taking a wait-and-see approach, and the other half were gimmie-it-now. It was my first contact with widespread public opinion on this stuff in the wild.
The pharmacists at work were ranting about it one day. A quote jumped out at me: “People get all the other vaccines, so what’s the difference? Why don’t they get this one?”
All those vaccines were developed decades ago, and they didn’t have any choice in the matter because they were babies?
It’s based off of unproven technology?
Happy GF, happy life.
It will help you get laid.
You’ll be able to go everywhere without a mask! Oh, wait…
I like you. Some day we should have a drink together.
Hyperbole! You didn’t even last an hour on the zoom? COME BACK!
We need your signs!
The recipes here will start getting a bit more complicated,..
Out.
At least until I’m at your house!
It’s not quite at the Blue Blazer cocktail level (known as the most dangerous cocktail to make it involves pouring a flaming drink between two mugs).
Dude, I like beer, wine and whisky. Booooooring.
Oh, and kinnath’s mead.
No worries. I have several friends who blame me for them going into the world of mixed drinks. 🙂
I got my kids drinking White Russians, if that’s any consolation!
Sooo good, sooo fattening
Welp, stuffed to gills with prime rib. It cost me about 10 bucks a bite, but it was worth it. Wife got her b-day dinner. Would’ve cost more to go there and eat in. Especially with the booze.
Got lazy and was not feeling the braised short ribs I cooked all day and instead ordered pizza. Which will go well with beer.
You too, huh? I got a bunch of NY Strips on sale, but couldn’t be arsed (and honestly wasn’t hungry enough) to actually cook one tonight. I ended up eating a brick of ramen with a couple soft-boiled eggs, and drinking box Cabernet.
Friday night.
Yeah, I can’t be arsed to cook either, not after a long week of work.
Put split pea soup from last night on, instead of making the tonkatsu that was planned.
I love split pea soup
So do we.
This is the one we did last time
https://www.simplyhappyfoodie.com/wprm_print/4681
That looks good. I love the use of bay leaves.
I just discovered we have a tree full of bay leaves at our house. California bay laurel is called myrtlewood north of the border.
I, too, like split pea soup, but the carbs…
Despite Kristen’s evil suggestions, I made chicken and cauliflower. Now I’m drinking martinis because that was enough healthy food.
Well, I’m in deep kimchee with Mrs. Dean. Turns out she wasn’t planning/ was too lazy to cook, so we said a few days ago I’d get takeout tonight (I’m told). Guess who didn’t get takeout, and who had to throw dinner together, and who is in the doghouse with two flatulent pit bulls.
Hitler?
Too lazy to cook. Wasabi scallops w/ roe and a baby spinach salad. The spinach, japanese cukes and tomatoes are home grown. I also picked a couple of lemons to make French 75s for after dinner.
Movie selection for tonight is “The Cruel Sea”.
My interisland sail for this weekend was postponed because the winds will shift to the south (aka Kona Winds) and fail. Tomorrow we will race.
You should really join us on Zoom. I’d love to see you. Search for Neph on the previous thread.
I was wondering why there isn’t ferry service between the Big Island and Maui, until I read about conditions in the Alenuihaha Channel.
“interisland sail” sounds potentially hairy…
We were going to go Molokai (overnight), Lanai (overnight), Maui (Honolai overnight), and return along the north side of Molokai. Like anytime at sea the same passage can run the extremes, and this weekend was going to be flailing around w/ no wind.
There are four big interisland races each year year. Molokai to Oahu (Feb), around Oahu (Jul), Oahu to Kauai (Jul), and Maui to Oahu (Sep). 2020 only had the first, 2021 CX the first and we are hoping for the rest.
Watching the Prada Cup finals is making me miss sailing – it’s been years since I’ve been out on a boat.
And how is that an excuse for not joining the Zoom. Maybe on Saturday you could join us.
Seriously join us. I’d love to chat with you
Can I get in without Zoom on my computer? I can’t load Zoom because I use it for work.
You’ll have to load the zoom
You can load Zoom on a phone or tablet.
The grossest meal I’ve ever had (liver isn’t a meal, it’s punishment) was salad shrimp and bulk processed cheese over rice. No side. Just big dollops of that mess. It was my childhood friend’s family, who were the whitest trash I ever knew until I met my high school buddy and his family.
Dunno why I thought about that.
Vegetarian tacos with poblano and sweet potato
Friday Funbags’ new musical Bring in da Tits, Bring in da Funk.
https://archive.li/E3h6o
Bring on the pain, bring on the noise
Made an offer on some land in Fairbanks but the seller took it off the market (iknowrite? wtf?). So back to the drawing board: still lookin’.
Left Wing Empathy™
This just showed up in my youTibe recommendations.
I think they’re watching us.
To bay or not to bay leaf.
https://youtu.be/3-Iksy2CNmg
Musik
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Manner and Muzik.
So oft getanzt
Need moar zoomers!
Get yoah ass to Zoom!
There is no way this is real…
https://jouerv.com/product/geforce-rtx-2080-ti-xc-ultra-gaming-11gb-gddr6-dual-hdb-fans-rgb-led-graphics-card-11gp42383kr_876827.html
That is a $1600 retail.
The link says that is $87.99, not $1600
$86.27, actually
I’m enjoying the new Netflix series, “Spycraft.”
Documentary series about surveillance tech, some interesting accounts of various past operations, etc.
I’m about to watch Episode 2, which deals with assassinations.
I’m a sucker for this stuff, having read some good spycraft books about the same topics. The old Cold War anecdotes are some of the best.
Also, I closed on my refinanced mortgage today. Yay! Now I get to pay off some credit cards on which we racked up debts, some relating to the move and home improvements to our old house to sell it in Minnesota and some to other things.
I hate racking up debts. Emergencies come quickly, and then the fallout sticks around.
In GlibFinance fashion, I’m going to chart my debts and see which one I want to focus on first, pay it down, move to the next, etc.
This years tax refund will probably go into the savings account that is linked to my checking account so that I have my emergency fund there instead of having to charge it.
Feels good. Sure, it’d be better not to have gotten in debt to begin with, but I’m dealing in reality now and just need to face it head on.
Congrats! I’ve got to take some steps to get this house paid off. There’s been a lot of development in this little town (even during the unconstitutional COVID lockdowns) so I’m guessing the value has gone up.
Good luck with home improvements!
There are certainly lenders who will beat a path to your door to refi, so hopefully you can take your pick.
I’ve previously only been a brick-and-mortar gal, but Wells Fargo has lost standing in my eyes in the past several years.
I went with Quicken Loans/Rocket Mortgage this time and couldn’t be more pleased with the experience. I dealt with one agent and had a direct email and cell phone for him, so I could always ask questions and get a quick reply or just discuss options, etc.
(I can share his contact info for any glibbie who wants it.)
Good stuff.
Yup! It’s a good feeling, even though it’s a long road ahead. Having a plan and taking steps to advance the plan is a far better feeling than “what am I gonna do about this debt?”
I’m tired of renting money.
Now if I can survive all the Proggie taxes that are intended to steal my wealth and spread it around more “equitably” I will be able to retire someday.
I’m beginning to see hammer and sickle behind every smiling face proclaiming “Better Together!” And “We’re all in this together!” or “It Takes All of Us’l
It’s just doublespeak for “We are going to need to take your money to placate the masses who keep us in power. Sorry, not sorry.”
Exactly right. They’re sick euphemisms at best.
But you can only control you, loving your future plans.
Going to a gun show today. First one since before the Kung Flu.
I’m not even looking for anything, this is for the gf, who is looking for a complete AR upper.
Maybe something will catch my eye, but I tend to be a bargain shopper and those look to be in short supply these days.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/pr_newswire/pr_newswire_food_beverages/say-i-do-with-dunkins-first-ever-wedding-merch-collection/article_d14e9877-b32a-5751-b830-86c4b662eae7.html
Why?
https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/advancelocal/BFMJOULDF5HG5KHGRFQNG3AXA4.jpg
Not even subtle.
One of them is definitely dunkin.
Brikh ṣafro!
https://mobile.twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/1360340252267790337
Woke racism.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps317u9Rhl0
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