The Freakin Weekend
Let’s be honest, it doesn’t have to be the weekend to drink, having our beautiful children entitles us to this magnificence any time we wish. A little wine, a lot of vodka, a beer or two- it doesn’t matter- it just makes you happy and really is the best invention ever. Thank you ancient Egypt for figuring out how to ferment and thus give us alcohol. Props to you. To save face with the all the haters, let’s call it our “start the weekend drink”, even though we all know better.
Normally my first post about alcohol would be paying homage to Patron the amazing, feel good, no inhibitions superness (yes, I make up words) of a tequila that I adore. I promise there will be plenty of posts about tequila, both good and bad, but through the summer I came to love the Mojito, drank quite a few and became a big fan. I especially love a twist, like adding any kind of fruit and revamping for fall like with this cranberry recipe. I also like drinks that aren’t too sweet, so if you are a tropical fruit, grenadine, hang-over juice drink lover, this probably isn’t for you. Â
I will tell you what to do but keep in mind this isn't writing class and I'm not a bartender so I may skip a step. At some point, you just have to use your imagination. It’s got alcohol in it so how bad can it be?
The ingredients for 1 perfect drink:
1 ghetto muddler (above is technically an avocado masher) Don’t judge me- I do own a real muddler. The whereabouts are unknown at the present time. I have used a wooden spindle bought from home depot as well. The point being: find and use what you can to crush/muddle these ingredients!
12 fresh mint leaves 1/2 tbsp brown sugar juice from 1 lime (I like a lot of lime) 1/3 cup cranberries
Put above ingredients in the bottom of a glass and gently muddle. You just want to mix the mint, cranberries and sugar- not make juice.
Add this to a glass filled with ice and 2 oz of Rum (whatever brand and obvs i use more than 2 oz but we have to stick to a recipe.) Â Top off glass with club soda If you want to make it pretty, add lime or mint garnish as desired. Normally I would leave these off... but we have to take a pretty picture.
Cheers to the freakin weekend people. It’s 5 o’clock somewhere! I’m putting my drink in a solo cup and going to the beach.














