Cinco de Mayo and Derby Weekend:
Thought for the Day:
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert Camus
JQP’s Trifecta:
Sweetnorthernsaint, Sharp Humor, Brother Derek. In that order.
(Bet the farm on it. Thats how I roll bitches, now get daddy a Mint Julep.)
Your Drinks for the Weekend:
Mrs. JQP’s Big Melon Margaritas
There are few drinks that are as satisfying, ie: the chicks love it and the get drunk and show me their tities. You can buy frozen honeydew melon year round in your area grocery stores. If you have fresh, at least 6 hours in advance, cube a large ripe honeydew melon and freeze it. You can buy and cube the melon well in advance and keep it in the freezer for up to 6 months. For a more potent drink, float a shot of Midori on top of the glass before serving or drop a few roffies in it.
4 cups frozen cubed honeydew (some say she wont but I always say Honey Do) melon
3/4 cup cheap ass white tequila, or go big with the 151.
1/3 cup fresh lime juice, the key being fresh not that plastic lime shit you have had in the fridge since last summer.
6 tablespoons sugar
Place all of the ingredients in a blender and pulse until smooth. Serve in chilled glasses.
Makes 4 servings.
JQP’s Mint Julep:
You will need:
2 cups granulated sugar
2 cups water (branch water is ideal)
Fresh Mint
Crushed Ice
Kentucky Bourbon (2 ounces per serving)
Make a simple mint syrup* by boiling sugar and water together for 5 minutes; cool. Place in a covered container with 6 or 8 bruised mint sprigs. Refrigerate overnight
.
Make a julep by filling a julep cup (silver mugs and yes I have a set) or glass with crushed ice, then adding 1 tablespoon of mint syrup and 2 ounces of bourbon. Stir rapidly with a spoon to frost outside of cup or glass. Garnish with a fresh mint sprig..
*This makes enough syrup for about 44 juleps.
Extra Tips:
Always use a premium Kentucky bourbon
Use crushed or shaved ice and pack in cup.
To bruise mint, place in a cup and gently pass the back of a spoon between cup and the leaves a time or two. You want the mint to release some of the fragrant oils.
Add a straw cut to protrude just above the rim of the cup and serve. You should be able to get a faint whiff of the mint sprig when you're sipping.
Keep the covered syrup in the refrigerator (after removing the mint leaves) if you don't plan on drinking all the servings.. Enjoy later....
Today’s Bill:
SONNET 151
Love is too young to know what conscience is;
Yet who knows not conscience is born of love?
Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss,
Lest guilty of my faults thy sweet self prove:
For, thou betraying me, I do betray
My nobler part to my gross body's treason;
My soul doth tell my body that he may
Triumph in love; flesh stays no father reason;
But, rising at thy name, doth point out thee
As his triumphant prize. Proud of this pride,
He is contented thy poor drudge to be,
To stand in thy affairs, fall by thy side.
Quote for the Day:
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Saki
I remain, hanging out at the back of the bus with all the cool kids:
JQP esq.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert Camus
JQP’s Trifecta:
Sweetnorthernsaint, Sharp Humor, Brother Derek. In that order.
(Bet the farm on it. Thats how I roll bitches, now get daddy a Mint Julep.)
Your Drinks for the Weekend:
Mrs. JQP’s Big Melon Margaritas
There are few drinks that are as satisfying, ie: the chicks love it and the get drunk and show me their tities. You can buy frozen honeydew melon year round in your area grocery stores. If you have fresh, at least 6 hours in advance, cube a large ripe honeydew melon and freeze it. You can buy and cube the melon well in advance and keep it in the freezer for up to 6 months. For a more potent drink, float a shot of Midori on top of the glass before serving or drop a few roffies in it.
4 cups frozen cubed honeydew (some say she wont but I always say Honey Do) melon
3/4 cup cheap ass white tequila, or go big with the 151.
1/3 cup fresh lime juice, the key being fresh not that plastic lime shit you have had in the fridge since last summer.
6 tablespoons sugar
Place all of the ingredients in a blender and pulse until smooth. Serve in chilled glasses.
Makes 4 servings.
JQP’s Mint Julep:
You will need:
2 cups granulated sugar
2 cups water (branch water is ideal)
Fresh Mint
Crushed Ice
Kentucky Bourbon (2 ounces per serving)
Make a simple mint syrup* by boiling sugar and water together for 5 minutes; cool. Place in a covered container with 6 or 8 bruised mint sprigs. Refrigerate overnight
.
Make a julep by filling a julep cup (silver mugs and yes I have a set) or glass with crushed ice, then adding 1 tablespoon of mint syrup and 2 ounces of bourbon. Stir rapidly with a spoon to frost outside of cup or glass. Garnish with a fresh mint sprig..
*This makes enough syrup for about 44 juleps.
Extra Tips:
Always use a premium Kentucky bourbon
Use crushed or shaved ice and pack in cup.
To bruise mint, place in a cup and gently pass the back of a spoon between cup and the leaves a time or two. You want the mint to release some of the fragrant oils.
Add a straw cut to protrude just above the rim of the cup and serve. You should be able to get a faint whiff of the mint sprig when you're sipping.
Keep the covered syrup in the refrigerator (after removing the mint leaves) if you don't plan on drinking all the servings.. Enjoy later....
Today’s Bill:
SONNET 151
Love is too young to know what conscience is;
Yet who knows not conscience is born of love?
Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss,
Lest guilty of my faults thy sweet self prove:
For, thou betraying me, I do betray
My nobler part to my gross body's treason;
My soul doth tell my body that he may
Triumph in love; flesh stays no father reason;
But, rising at thy name, doth point out thee
As his triumphant prize. Proud of this pride,
He is contented thy poor drudge to be,
To stand in thy affairs, fall by thy side.
Quote for the Day:
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Saki
I remain, hanging out at the back of the bus with all the cool kids:
JQP esq.
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