Birthday Booze!

It's birthday season around here! If you can believe it,all three members of our little family have a birthday in the month of January.  We just call it birthday month. To celebrate my birthday since we didn't get around to making our 10th cake of the month we made:

Boozey Birthday Cake Shakes

1 Pint of Ice Cream

2 Shots of Bourbon

Whipped Cream
Food Color (if desired)

Sprinkles

Could we have any more balloons?

Now, the thing about this particular drink is that it's the last one we'll be enjoying 'till March 1.  Boo! Hiss! We're going to make it a Dry February and try and work off some of that birthday cake, holiday weight and booze.  So if no one has any objections, and since I think all of three people read this blog and likely don't care.... February posts won't have anything to do with booze! (Egads!) but I promise to try and make them equally fun.  Keep in mind February is a short month and the booze posts will be back before you know it! 

Cheers!

Like a Virgin

I thought this was too funny NOT to share.  However, I don't feel sorry for people that don't drink.  That's there prerogative. My parents don't drink and I often think of them as two of the most fun people I know.  Of course, my Mom does give me the concerned look with a "Are you sure you guys are o.k. to drive?" after two glasses of wine over 6 hours on Christmas day, but that doesn't mean she's a stick in the mud.  PLUS if we ever DO drink a little too much and need a DD, we always know they're 100% sober.  I digress.  Today I thought I'd share one of my favorite virgin drinks.  

The Shirley Temple

1 1/4 ounces grenadine

1/2 ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice

1/2 ounce freshly squeezed lime juice

Ice

3 ounces club soda

2 maraschino cherries

I know it's a rather old fashioned drink (heck, it's named the Shirley Temple!) but it's seriously yummy. It's also a super fun drink to order.  People will give you a double take 9 times out of 10.  I even had one waiter ask me what was in it. 

Cheers!

Put a cork in it!

Last year we got into the habit of saving our corks and displaying them in a decorative vase.  I often think of this as the adult version of displaying all the bottles of alcohol you've consumed on your windowsill in your dorm room.  Not really sure why this is an acceptable decorating practice, but since places like Pottery Barn and Ben Franklin sell corks as "decor" if you aren't "sophisticated" and "classy" enough to be drinking enough wine with corks to create a similar statement it's o.k. with me!  This year's number..... 110.  That's a bottle every 3.3 days (I was so hoping it'd somehow be Tebowesque and be 3.16! Dang! In case you are wondering, you need to drink 115.5 bottles to get that number) yikes..... kind of seems like a lot.... However clearly that didn't even come close to filling our decorative container so we'll just have to try harder this year.  

Cheers!

It's beginning to look a lot less like Christmas

Well, Sunday was the day we took down the Christmas decorations. Always a day of mixed emotions, sad because the house looks empty happy because the house looks clean and fresh.  Regardless! What better way to celebrate such a day than to be drinking Mimosa!  This one was premixed blood orange concoction that we got at World Market.  Upon my first sip I thought... it reminds me of something... so I reached way back into my memory banks and came up with........ Mad Dog 20/20.  I haven't thought about Mad Dog 20/20 in 10 years. Yuck. There is a reason you only drink Mad Dog when you have about fifty cents to your name... it's terrible! Do they even sell it any more?  Eric thought it was more like Boone's Farm.  Another one you aren't probably going to be reaching for any time soon.  If you're over 25 that is.....  Either way, it wasn't good.  Do yourselves a favor and stick to fresh OJ with sparkling wines that cost more than $10.

Of course, none of this means we didn't polish off the whole bottle.  Those decorations weren't taking themselves down!

Cheers!