Life is a dream when the week ends at cocktail night. This week is was more dreamy than usual-- our theme being Fairy Tales! We didn't get very Grimm but nonetheless it was a lovely, tasty evening.
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| The Hansel and Gretal Martini |
I had the first drink of the evening, inspired by the story of Hansel and Gretal.If you remember, it's the touching story of a cannibalistic hag who lives deep in the forest in a house made of candies. After their trail of breadcrumbs (worst idea ever) is devoured by birds, the little brother-sister pair are at the mercy of the half-blind hag. She stuffs them into an iron cage and tried to fatten them up before she slaughters them for dinner. I focused more on the candy.
The Hansel and Gretal Martini
- 1 ounce vanilla vodka
- 1 ounce Frangelico
- 1/2 ounce butterscotch schnapps
- shake over ice
- add 4 ounces of ginger ale
- garnish with a stick of gum drops (to tempt little children)
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| There's one now! Quick! The iron cage! |
The next drink was Arjen's cleverly modeled after the story of a very wily family of billy goats. Apparently a terrible troll was guarding a certain bridge. This troll was really looking for trouble, and dinner (I detect a theme). When a little billy goat came to cross the bridge the troll stopped him and threatened to attack him and feast on him. The little goat was very cunning and told the troll to wait until his older brother came-- the older brother was bigger and would have more meat on his bones. So the troll agreed, letting the little goat pass. Sure enough, the older brother came along and the troll made the same ugly threat. But, like the youngest goat, the brother was clever and told the troll to let him pass-- the oldest brother would be along soon and he was far bigger and therefore juicer. So the idiot troll lets the middle brother pass over the bridge and, sure as sh*t, the oldest brother comes along. He is bigger and meatier. But he's also stronger and apparently a hellishly difficult goat to beat in a battle. The oldest goat was able to defeat the troll and the whole family was saved.
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| The Billy Goat's Gruff |
The Billy Goat's Gruff
- 1/2 ounce sweet vermouth
- 3/4 ounce jonge jenever
- 1 ounce oude jenever
- garnish with a cherry
(the strength of the drink increases in increments, like the ascending strength of each new goat) (clever!-- and this drink will give you a POWERFUL kick!)
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| It wouldn't be fairy tale night if we couldn't snack on magic bea | ns? |
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