Let's celebrate me surviving the winter. Let's celebrate me starting to make a commitment to something!
Let's forget the fact that I made months and months of delicious, warming comforting food and yet did not document it.
We shall forget! Yes?
And celebrate the future with a sweet, minty, bright, potent drink!
Blueberry Whiskey Smash
(Loosely adapted from Serious Eats from Kelly Carambula)
Recipe makes One Drink. I found it best to make them to order.
Ingredients
6 blueberries
3-4 fresh mint leaves
1.5 ounces of bourbon (I (Daum) chose Jim Beam as the bourbon of choice, but there are plenty to choose from and any will work.)
1 ounce lemon simple syrup (recipe to follow)
seltzer
lemon
Directions
Fill a highball glass with crushed ice. Set aside.
Add blueberries and mint to the bottom of a cocktail shaker. Muddle together until the berries release their juice and the mint leaves are bruised and fragrant. I didn't have a fancy cocktail muddler (not quite sure that's a word) so I used the handle of a wooden spoon, which is now stained purple.
Add a hand full of ice and top with the bourbon and simple syrup. Cover the shaker and shake vigorously to combine the flavor. According to Daum this should be about thirteen times. Why, you ask? Not a clue.
Pour over the crushed ice and top with a splash of seltzer and a squeeze of lemon juice.
Lemon Simple Syrup
Bring 1 1/2 cups of water and 1 1/2 cups of sugar to a boil in a sauce pan. Add in the zest of one lemon and the juice of half. Let the sugar dissolve.
When the sugar dissolves take the pot of the heat, cover and let the lemon steep in the syrup until ready to assemble the drink.
I'm not a bourbon fan and I downed three of these bad boys. They were light and refreshing. The citrus kick to the simple syrup made the drink and the blueberries just made it pretty! Seriously, Daum forgot to muddle his berries one round and the drink came out a weird taupe color.
Cheers!
Don't forget to muddle!
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