This is the girlie drink you ought to make:
Cosmopolitan
- 2 parts cranberry juice cocktail
- 2 parts triple sec
- 1 part vodka
- 1 part lime juice
Shake with cracked ice; strain into chilled cocktail glass.
Some notes:
Always use fresh lime juice.
If you skip or skimp on the fresh-squeezed lime juice, ice, or shaking, you are not following directions and you will screw it up.
The vodka and triple sec proportions were inverted from the original recipe. The different tastes are better balanced this way, especially if you use Cointreau. Using more vodka makes it smell like your drunk Auntie.
Lesson 1. If you eat chicken or fish, you are not a vegetarian. There are at least half a billion people who would also consider dairy and eggs non-vegetarian.
Lesson 2. If your cocktail doesn’t consist of gin and vermouth, it’s not a martini. At best, it’s a cocktail with a proper name that you’ve misnamed. At worst, it’s an alcoholic jolly rancher that probably ought to be served in a plastic novelty cup or a large, hollowed-out tropical fruit, not a cocktail glass.
There’s nothing wrong with not eating beef or pork and there’s nothing wrong with drinking a girlie drink. Just don’t butcher the language because I would really really like to know what you’re talking about when you say vegetarian and martini.
Here’s the silver lining to the whole sluggish economy thing: the interest rate on my Stafford loans have gone from 7.22% to 4.21%. That’s lower than the rate on any of my other debt. It sounds like I can consolidate the two loans and therefore lock in the lower interest rate. For those of you who have done this before, is there anything I need to look out for when doing a student loan consolidation?
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