My Mocktails Are Out of Control

While Russ and I were in Maine I bought him some fresh pressed apple cider. He used it as a base for a cocktail with bourbon. I tasted it and suggested adding lime juice and a cherry and a splash of ginger beer. It was a winner. He drank one a night for a few nights.

Getting jealous of his drinks I worked on my own concoctions. I could have had one of his. I don’t drink for any reason except that I lost my underpants in 1984 during a bad night of drinking too much and vowed not to drink again untilI found them.

As those underpants are still MIA I mostly drink iced tea, but I can’t after four in the afternoon or I won’t sleep. So when I tire of just water I make a mocktail.

Today at the farmer’s market I bought a muscadine and watermelon drink from my favorite guy in the green trailer who just sells drinks. I used that as my base, added lime juice, a cube of frozen grated ginger, a good shake of turmeric (might as well be healthy), goslings diet ginger beer, and topped it off with two cherries. Crushed ice makes this drink tops in my book.

It’s not too sweet, but is tangy in a perfect way and the turmeric gives it that cocktail feel. I used two cherries because they were the last ones in the jar and leaving one lonely cherry seemed sad.

I wish I liked to drink alcohol because I would love being a mixologist. Combining different flavors to make something new is so fast with drinks. It just takes longer to do it with food. For now I am going to have to be happy making these things for myself. BTW, Mocktail is not in my iPad dictionary and it keeps underlining it in red as if I am an idiot. Get with it, mocktails are here to stay.