It is so cold out. It is so cold out and it is snowing. I had my entire day planned - to grout the tile floor in the mud room. You know how much I like to grout. However, when I went to mix the grout, I realized I had bought concrete patcher instead of grout - so no grout work. What do you do on a cold day with your project cancelled? Drink!
Now, Tim may be the cook in the family , but I am the drunk, I mean mixologist. Tim and I default to our favorite cocktail which is usually tequila and Fresca or vodka and Fresca. However, since we had a less then productive day ahead of us - I decided that it's time to explore our cocktail heritage. We had all the fixings, right? Well, no bitters or cherries - a quick grocery trip to Price Choppers and all of those worries are behind us. We decide that over the Polar Vortex, Arctic Blast Winter we are having - that it is a perfect opportunity to drink. We have cut out liquor from our diets during the week so why should we kill ourselves on a cold polar weekend?
We decide to explore classic cocktails. A Manhattan comes to mind.
Manhattan
2 parts whisky
1 part Sweet Vermouth
Dash of Bitters
As many Cherries as you want to have in a cocktail
Yum. It's what I like in a drink. A little bitter, a little sweet, lots of alcohol and a sweet little treat at the end. I am partial to Negroni's too with this same kind of bitter sweet taste but this definitely enhanced a very cold, wintry weekend. Now if we could just get a pizza delivered upstate - it would be perfect.
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