Sidecar!
I just had/made the most awesome Sidecar. :D
1 oz Korbel brandy (hey, I'm not on a cognac budget yet)
1 oz Cointreau
1/2 oz freshly-squeezed lemon juice
Shake with 5 ice cubes until about 3 of them are melted. Or you have about 2 cubes worth of ice left, however you want to look at it. Strain into something fancy if you have it.
I don't always get the shaking right because I get impatient. I'm looking forward to having a fridge that makes crushed ice so it doesn't take so long to shake to the proper dilution. (Sometimes I give up and leave a couple of ice chunks in and just wait for those suckers to melt.)
I went to Red's the other day and asked for a Sidecar. The oldest bartender, Jimmy, looked at me funny and said that he doesn't often hear an order for one of those, especially not from people my age. And then he made it weird.
As far as I can tell, he put Korbel, Cointreau (?), Rose's lime juice, sour mix, and ice together, and then threw it in the blender. IN THE BLENDER. D: It ended up being a kind of blended Margarita made with brandy instead of tequila. It didn't taste bad, but still . . . wrong. Avoiding the floaty snowball in the middle was annoying. I had a Sidecar moustache. :/
The young bartender, whose name I don't know, makes an acceptable Sidecar. I've never asked Forrest for one, but when he's on, my Gold Cadillac is never empty and my Gin and Tonic mysteriously refills. S'magic.
1 oz Korbel brandy (hey, I'm not on a cognac budget yet)
1 oz Cointreau
1/2 oz freshly-squeezed lemon juice
Shake with 5 ice cubes until about 3 of them are melted. Or you have about 2 cubes worth of ice left, however you want to look at it. Strain into something fancy if you have it.
I don't always get the shaking right because I get impatient. I'm looking forward to having a fridge that makes crushed ice so it doesn't take so long to shake to the proper dilution. (Sometimes I give up and leave a couple of ice chunks in and just wait for those suckers to melt.)
I went to Red's the other day and asked for a Sidecar. The oldest bartender, Jimmy, looked at me funny and said that he doesn't often hear an order for one of those, especially not from people my age. And then he made it weird.
As far as I can tell, he put Korbel, Cointreau (?), Rose's lime juice, sour mix, and ice together, and then threw it in the blender. IN THE BLENDER. D: It ended up being a kind of blended Margarita made with brandy instead of tequila. It didn't taste bad, but still . . . wrong. Avoiding the floaty snowball in the middle was annoying. I had a Sidecar moustache. :/
The young bartender, whose name I don't know, makes an acceptable Sidecar. I've never asked Forrest for one, but when he's on, my Gold Cadillac is never empty and my Gin and Tonic mysteriously refills. S'magic.