Firewater Friday - The Prisoner

The Prisoner


1 Part Ginger Liquor
1 ½ Parts Light Rum
1 ½ Parts Pineapple Juice
Lime 

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice and add ginger liquor, rum and pineapple juice.  Give it a good shake.

Squeeze the juice of half a fresh lime into a chilled martini glass. Pour the contents of the shaker into the glass.

Garnish with a lemon wheel.

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Slow Cooker Cilantro Lime Chicken

Slow Cooker Cilantro Lime Chicken

24-Ounce Jar Medium Salsa

Juice From One Lime

1 Cup Fresh Cilantro, Chopped

1.25-Oz. Package Taco Seasoning

2 Jalapeno Peppers, Finely Chopped (Optional)

1 Large Tomato, Chopped

6 Boneless Chicken Breast Halves, Defrosted

 

In a slow cooker, mix together the salsa, lime juice, cilantro, taco seasoning, tomato and jalapenos.

Add the chicken and coat with the salsa mixture. Allow the chicken to cook, covered, in the slow cooker on low for 6 hours.

Shred chicken.  Serve over rice, as a taco filling or in a wrap.

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Firewater Friday - Frog in a Blender

Frog in a Blender

There's not actually a frog in this drink . . . it's supposed to look that way though.  Did it?  Kinda, a little, maybe.  Mmmm . . . but it tasted good.

1 Cup of Ice
2 oz Vodka
4 oz Cranberry Juice
2 Slices Lime

Place all the ingredients in a blender.  

Blend for 3-5 seconds.  You don't want it to be smooth, blended enough to chop up the "frog"/limes a bit.

Pour into a chilled hurricane glass.

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Firewater Friday - The mountains are calling and I must go

Mount Washington in New Hampshire is one of the most amazing places I've ever visited.  Home of the world's worst weather and record holder for the highest wind gust ever recorded in the northern hemisphere and second highest wind gust world wide at 231 miles per hour set in 1934.  









I've been to the top of the rock pile at least once a year for the past 10 years and several times prior to that.  Why visit the same place over and over again?  Because it's different every time I go.  I've been up in every season . . . fog, rain, hail, snow, sunshine, above the clouds.  It can be 80 degrees in the valley and freezing with snow at the summit.   You can drive up in the clouds and be above them at the summit.  It can socked in on the way up and clear blue sky day on the way down.  I've rarely seen animals up top and those I've seen are birds.  And it's always windy up there . . . that is except for my last visit last week.    There was just a whisper of a breeze.  



That was pretty cool but made it really interesting was the number of bugs.  I've never seen a bug on Mount Washington and this time there was a plethora of bug . . . so many varieties it was amazing.  Obviously, they're there all the time . . . they're usually just hiding out and laying low to avoid the weather and wind.


These are the bugs I encountered that day . . . stink bugs in a variety of colors, black flies,  stone flies, beetles and last but not least a yellow swallowtail butterfly.

Pretty neat, huh?






Fresh Lime Frozen Margarita


I think the secret to a really really good margarita is fresh limes.  Admittedly, its not as easy as pouring a margarita from a jug of TGIF mix . . . I guess it depends on how badly you need that margarita!


5 Fluid Ounces Tequila
3 Fluid Ounces Fresh Lime Juice
1 Fluid Ounce Sweetened Lime Juice
3 Fluid Ounces Triple Sec  
Ice Cubes
1 Lime, Cut Into Wedges
Kosher Salt


Measure the tequila, lime juice, sweetened lime juice and triple sec into a blender filled with 4 cups of ice.  Cover and blend at highest speed until drink is almost smooth.


Rub a lime wedge around the rim of a margarita glass and dip in salt.  Pour into a glass; garnish with lime. Serve immediately.

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Firewater Friday - What the dickens?

A Gimlet . . . or other such cocktail . . .  if you drink too many your head hurts like the dickens.

What the devil is a Dickens?? 

I thought it had something to do with the famous author.  I just didn’t know what the relation was.  You might be surprised that the phrase has nothing to do with Charles Dickens, as I assumed it did.  And, since there isn’t any correlation that explains that!

But that doesn’t clarify what the dickens the dickens is.  Way back in the day when knights were bold and maidens were fair and all that rot, dickens was a euphemism for the devil.  It started out as devilkins and was eventually shortened to dickens. 

Along the same vein, dickens is very much like deuce . . . as in What the deuce?!   . . . deuce is another old English name for the Devil.

So, there you have it . . .