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Vitamin Sea Martini

written by Ali

If you can’t make it to the beach this weekend, you can at least sip on this Vitamin Sea Martini. In my case, I live near enough to the water to be able to enjoy it on a regular basis, but will more than likely be drinking this martini this weekend and watching the fog creep in off the coast. It seems that summer is taking its time getting here this year. Regardless, we’ve been able to enjoy all the great things the Oregon coast has to offer.

Last weekend, we were fortunate to be included in an excursion for some out-of-town guests (students from South Korea) to go crabbing. As you might know, one of the culinary highlights of living in Oregon is access to fresh Dungeness crab. And in theory, you can bait a crab pot, dump it off a dock, tie it off, and catch some crab. The catch is that the crabs need to be a particular size and male to be legal to keep to eat. As it turns out, this is easier said than done. After nearly four hours of watching crab pots go down and then come back up, we ended up with zero Dungeness crabs. We did, however, get a close up look at the Charleston (Oregon) fishing fleet, saw several harbor seals playing in the bay, and learn that Dungeness crab are really feisty and pretty grumpy about being caught. I also have a whole new found respect for why Dungeness crab is expensive. We gave up, bought stuff to grill, and bought some already cooked and cleaned crab from the seafood shop at the dock. Totally worth it – sunburn and all.

The experience also inspired me to create this Vitamin Sea Martini. I’m all for blue-green cocktails this time of year. To me, the quintessential summer drink is one with plenty of pineapple juice and blue curacao. For this cocktail, I also used a hearty couple of shots of vanilla vodka. So wherever you might be this summer, make a Vitamin Sea Martini and imagine relaxing in a light sea breeze.

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Vitamin Sea Martini

Ingredients

3 ounces pineapple juice
2 ounces vanilla vodka
1 ounce blue curacao

Instructions

Combine all ingredients in a shaker with ice and shake. Strain and serve. Could serve 2, but would also make 1 very happy. Enjoy!

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July 14, 2017 0 comment

Beverages

The Storm Cocktail

written by Ali

The Storm Cocktail is my homage to X-Men, which is the focus of this month’s Fandom Foodies. So here’s the long story of how I came to be inspired this month to make The Storm Cocktail. First off, this cocktail is inspired by the X-Men character, Storm. So you might wonder, why Storm? (Ok, you might not wonder, but I’m going to tell you anyway, which is where the long story comes into it).

Many years ago, I lived in Colorado. I actually grew up in Lakewood, Colorado, but spent a lot of time as a young adult in Denver (going to college, working, hanging out). One of my favorite places to go was Café Euphrates. I’m pretty sure that Café Euphrates was on Pearl Street, so it wasn’t too far away from my alma mater, the University of Denver. I’d go there to hang out with my ex and one of his friends. The place served the best hummus I’ve ever had and absolutely lovely coffee. I was still in my mocha phase, so I know that I drank probably several hundred mint mochas at Café Euphrates. But my absolute favorite part of going here was the X-Men Arcade game that was in the back corner.

Prior to Café Euphrates, I’d never played much in the way of arcade video games. I played some Pac Man and loved some really rudimentary computer games. However, growing up, there was no Nintendo, no Atari – none of that. I don’t think I was actually all that interested, which was probably a big part of why this never entered into my life. But for some reason, I loved X-Men. And I always, always, played Storm. If you’ve ever listened to the song “This Tornado Loves You” by Neko Case, you’ll get it. I’ve always taken some pride in a stormy personality. Storm was, by my estimation, powerful and perfect. If I had a super mutant power, I’d want hers.

I can’t remember the last time I went to Café Euphrates. I grew up, moved far away, moved closer and then moved further away again. I didn’t think much about this place and time at all, except as I started to think about what I would do for X-Men for Fandom Foodies and it all came back in a beautiful rush. I’m ok being my older self, but I have a lot of fondness for that young woman, who was optimistic but moody, reserved but with lots of big dreams. I think that time period might have been the first time in my life when I started to really appreciate my nerdy side and stopped trying so hard to fit in with everyone else.

So the storm cocktail is my homage to my favorite arcade hero. I haven’t gotten much into the X-Men movies (though I do think Hale Berry rocks in the role). I do think every time I drink this cocktail this summer, I’ll think about that younger self and smile.

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The Storm Cocktail

Ingredients

2 ounces white rum
2 ounces coconut milk
2 ounces pineapple juice
1 ounce blue curacao

Instructions

Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice and shake. Strain into cocktail glass with more ice. Enjoy!

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This post is linked up to March’s Fandom Foodies hosted by Heather at Food ‘n Flix. Check out the Fandom Foodies page for a schedule of all the great inspiration for this year!

March 17, 2017 2 comments