The bitter taste of victory
Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 10:28 pm on 11/13/2006
Okay, so Mixology Monday, this thing that some food and drink blogs do. Apparently it’s all about responding to a theme ingredient - this time, bitters - and posting your results by Monday. Not actually doing your mixology on Monday, as we now know. We have just finished our mixing and have some drink in us, and now we frantically post before deadline. Those participants in Mixology Monday who chose not to be one with the evening’s events in the way that we are, well, you suck, we rule, let’s drink.
Ouroboros, the instigator of my involvement, is a fiend for all things bitter, anise, and difficult, in spirits as in music. He lined up at least a dozen things that’d qualify as bitters (well, I was impressed anyway, ya snobs) and we stood contemplating them for a moment waiting for inspiration to hit. For me, the obvious place to start was the homemade bottle of lavender bitters, in the recycled Robitussin flask. (more…)