Please Drink Responsibly:

Your Drinks for the Weekend:

Mojito de Public

1 1/2 oz white tequila
1/2 oz creme de cassis
2 lime wedges
12 fresh mint leaves
1 - 6 oz 7-Up® soda
Muddle sugar, mint and squeezed lime wedges in mixing tin until mixture smells like spearmint gum. Fill with ice, add tequila and cassis, shake until the tin is icy to the touch. Pour into a Collins glass, top with 7-up and garnish with a sugarcane stick (no kitchen should be without) and fresh mint. A few of these and you will want to swim to Cuba.

JQP’s Homemade Absinthe

1 pint Everclear
3 tsp crumbled wormwood
2 tsp crumbled anise seeds
1/2 tsp fennel seeds
4 cardamom pods
1/2 tsp ground coriander
2 tsp chopped angelica root
1 pinch of Allspice (I add it to everything)
Steep wormwood in vodka for 8 to 12 hours. Remove, add the rest and steep for one week. Try this is under your own risk, please note: I am told the blindness is only temporary. I might try to make this later this month.

Hail Britannia (it’s a long story):

JQP