Cocktail Hour: What's Your Poison?

[Paula]

try them with Key limes--lots more squeezing, but they are fantastic.
For those of you who've never tried this drink--you cut limes into quarters or even 1/8ths and juice them, but they stay in the glass. Muddle the juice and the limes with superfine sugar, add two jiggers of cachaca, mix well, add crushed ice and enjoy. Great with fish for dinner or any Brazilian or other spicy Latin American food too.

Well, I decided to try out the caparhina (sp?) after several years of not having one. I pulled out the bottle of Pirassunanunga (a type of cachaca that is fondly known as "Pinga" in Brazil) that I received as a gift from Brazil several years ago. I followed your recipe and it was so delicious -- I don't know how I let so many years go by without having this fine tasty drink again. It was truly so delicious -- the fresh crushed limes certainly made the drink. Thanks for the reminder and recipe! So simple, so good. And absolutely perfect for a sunset at the beach. I think we now have a new tradition when we go to the beach...

 

[Kimmifunn]

i rarely drink guinness. but there is a place in jax that has guinness for $1

Excuse me. Are you forgetting Hand Grenades?

I was slamming $8 Miller Lights at the Sugar Bowl because I was afraid you and T-Bag were going to be wasted. Instead you were both saving yourself for Hand Grenades. And Hurricanes...

 

[whiteyfunn]

My friend likes Budweiser.

 

[Smiling JOe]

Excuse me. Are you forgetting Hand Grenades?

I was slamming $8 Miller Lights at the Sugar Bowl because I was afraid you and T-Bag were going to be wasted. Instead you were both saving yourself for Hand Grenades. And Hurricanes...

That guy looks much like JC. Are they sisters?

 

[Paula]

We also like sambuca, a sweet Italian licorice tasting liquor (sp?). The black sambuca is very smooth. Traditionally, you're supposed to drop 3 coffee beans in it and each one represents a "toast" or "wish" of your choice. We like it most when the weather starts getting cooler, beginning with Halloween where we live.

 

[Miss Kitty]

Also love some COLD limoncello! I tried some on ice with some club soda...pretty tasty and sparkling!

Edit: spelling, thanks to shaken!

 

[shakennotstirred]

Had both sambuca & limoncello over the weekend. Fresh off of the plane from Italy. Very tasty!!

 

[Kimmifunn]

That guy looks much like JC. Are they sisters?

Who's JC? That right there it T-Bag :clap_1:

 

[Smiling JOe]

Who's JC? That right there it T-Bag :clap_1:

This is JC's avatar:
http://www.sowal.com/bb/image.php?u=185&dateline=1124755018

 

[Paula]

Thanks for the recommendation. I'll try limoncello next. I guess we know what will be kept in some locked owners' cabinets in rentals...