Things Your Mother Never Taught You » Drink Me http://thingsyourmothernevertaughtyou.com Girls' Guide to Everything Mom Didn't Tell You Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:46:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Rock on Russia….Rock on! http://thingsyourmothernevertaughtyou.com/2011/10/26/rock-on-russia-rock-on/ http://thingsyourmothernevertaughtyou.com/2011/10/26/rock-on-russia-rock-on/#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:46:32 +0000 admin http://thingsyourmothernevertaughtyou.com/?p=2682

I like the Russian people as a whole. They are scrappy group who seem to have weathered that whole communism thing with a good attitude. Happy to be free and all that jazz. There also seems to be something in the frigid water that makes the women 10 feet tall and staves off puberty and the growth of their hips. Seriously if you look at any magazine more than half the models seem to have names like Olga Kerochenkov. What is about the good ol’ USSR that makes the ladies who hail from that country more likely to grace the cover of Sports Illustrated than any other country. I don’t know but this drink is called the Russian and I am hoping if I drink enough of them I might join their tall, leggy, hipless ranks. Ooh or maybe I could be a Russian Bond girl or at least be toasted enough to say things like ‘Ver is za Plotonium?’ with a straight face. Za zdarOvye*!

*That’s cheers in Russian..obviously!

The Russian

1 shot Vodka
1 shot pomegranate liqueur
Champagne or sparkling wine

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I love being a woman. As Jackie Kennedy said “I am a woman above all else”. But being “the woman of the house” sometimes feels like more like being the social director of the carnival cruise from hell. I feel like no matter what I am doing I am supposed to be doing something else. If I am working my kid needs me, if I am with my kid my husband needs me, and if I am with my friends my boss needs me. A lot of the time it feels like whatever event is happening, which I’m supposed to be at on this little cruise called life is, on the deck of the ship and I can’t get to it!!!!

Well tonight I am serving cocktails on the Lolito deck. The Lolito deck being my balcony at home and the cocktails really just being fabulous Mandarin Orange Vodka Mojitos!  If anybody needs the social director (boss, kids, hubby, or friends) you know where to find me.

PS: I quit.

Blood Orange Mojito

What you’ll need:

2 oz Vodka
3 Fresh Mint Sprigs
2 tbsp Sugar
3 tbsp Fresh Lime Juice
2 oz Blood Orange Juice
Soda water

Directions:

Muddle the mint, sugar,  lime juice, and blood orange juice in a collins glass. Fill it with ice, add vodka and top it with soda. Shake or mix the drink; garnish it with a lime wedge and fresh blood orange slices.


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