The Blood of My Enemies (mocktail version)

Happy Halloween!

I have important plans to watch The Craft and eat candy tonight so I thought I ought to create a cocktail to go with the experience.

Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this...

The Blood of My Enemies (mocktail version)

Ingredients:
3 oz unsweetened cranberry juice
0.5 oz lime juice 
0.5-1oz grenadine (to taste)
4 oz club soda
spoonful of sugar
Optional: cayenne or black pepper

First, rim the glass. Mix together sugar + a little bit of grenadine and cranberry juice until it is a mostly thick paste. If you are feeling sassy (I am always feeling sassy) add a small pinch of cayenne or black pepper to this mixture. Arrange the paste in a circle on a plate, about the size of the mouth of your glass. Put your glass upside down in your paste, circle it around to collect as much as you can and, voila, fancy rim.

Now mix your drink. Add the wine, cranberry, and lime to your glass. Stir carefully and add your soda. Now add grenadine to taste (maybe sip through a straw to test the sweetness if you don't want to mess up your rim!)

You're done!

The Blood of My Enemies

Happy Halloween!

I have important plans to watch The Craft and eat candy tonight so I thought I ought to create a cocktail to go with the experience.

(Want a mocktail version of this? Here you go.)

Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this...

The Blood of My Enemies

Ingredients
3 oz red wine
1.5 oz unsweetened cranberry juice
0.5 oz lime juice 
0.5-1oz grenadine (to taste)
3 oz club soda
spoonful of sugar
Optional: cayenne or black pepper

First, rim the glass. Mix together sugar + a little bit of grenadine and cranberry juice until it is a mostly thick paste. If you are feeling sassy (I am always feeling sassy) add a small pinch of cayenne or black pepper to this mixture. Arrange the paste in a circle on a plate, about the size of the mouth of your glass. Put your glass upside down in your paste, circle it around to collect as much as you can and, voila, fancy rim.

Now mix your drink. Add the wine, cranberry, and lime to your glass. Stir carefully and add your soda. Now add grenadine to taste (maybe sip through a straw to test the sweetness if you don't want to mess up your rim!)

You're done!

Cream of Garlic & Onion Soup with Fresh Tomato & Pepper

I majorly needed some comfort food today so this is what I made with what I had in the house. Came out delicious.



Note: this is not a healthy soup! We don't have to be healthy all the time. :)

Ingredients:
Water
1 knorr vegetarian vegetable bullion cube
6 oz cream 
10 oz water
A little butter
1/3 of a red onion
5 garlic cloves
Parsley
Fresh pepper
Smoked salt
1 small chopped tomato
Some fresh mozzarella
Potato flakes (to thicken)
Serves: 2

Chop your garlic finely and dice your onions. Place with some butter in a pot; cover and put on low or medium to soften. Dice up your fresh mozzarella and chop your tomato up as well; set aside.

When onions/garlic have cooked a bit add your water + bullion cube plus a few generous shakes of dried parsley. Stir and allow to simmer for a while (until you feel like everything is cooked and the bullion has dissolved). Add your cream and then add potato flakes slowly, stirring until it is a little less than your desired thickness--it will thicken further. A few tablespoons of flakes is probably sufficient. Add your mozzarella, stirring to allow to melt evenly. When good and melty, remove from heat and ladle into bowls. Throw chopped tomatoes on top and garnish with fresh pepper and smoked salt, if you have it. (Regular pepper and any nice salt will do, you don't have to be captain fancy!)