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Cocktail Friday
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April Showers Cocktail
Ingredients
3 ounces gin
1 ounce fresh lemon juice
1 ½ tablespoons agave nectar
6 ounces ruby red grapefruit juice
Edible flowers for garnish, optional
Instructions
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add the gin, lemon juice, agave nectar and grapefruit juice, shake vigorously for 10 seconds. Pour into a coupe or martini glass.
Garnish with edible flowers (optional)
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Cocktail Friday
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Ingredients
- Celery salt, to rim glass
- 1 ½ ounces vodka
- 4 ounces Clamato juice
- 2 dashes Worcestershire sauce
- 2 dashes Tabasco sauce
- Prepared horseradish, to taste (optional)
- Garnish: cucumber spear
- Garnish: lime wedge
- Garnish: celery stalk
Steps
- Coat the rim of a tall glass with celery salt, fill with ice and set aside.
- Add the vodka, Clamato juice, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco and horseradish into a mixing glass with ice.
- Pour back and forth into another mixing glass a few times to combine.
- Strain into the prepared glass.
- Garnish with a cucumber spear, lime wedge and celery stalk.
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Cocktail Friday
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Ingredients
- 2 ounces cucumber-basil-infused vodka*
- ½ ounce Grand Marnier
- ½ ounce basil syrup**
- ½ ounce lime juice, freshly squeezed
- Garnish: lemon wheel
- Garnish: cracked peppercorns
Steps
- Add the infused vodka, Grand Marnier, basil syrup and lime juice into a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled.
- Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.
- Garnish with a lemon wheel and a few cracked peppercorns.
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Cocktail Friday
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Cocktail Friday
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Ingredients
- 1 ½ ounces Benedictine
- ½ ounce Old Grand-Dad 114-proof bourbon
- ½ ounce lemon juice, freshly squeezed
- ¼ ounce honey syrup
- 3 dashes Angostura bitters
- Garnish: lemon wheel studded with cloves
Steps
- Add hot water into a footed glass mug to heat.
- Add all ingredients into a shaker submerged in warm water to heat.
- Once the mixture has warmed, discard the hot water from the mug and pour the mixture into the mug.
- Top with 4 ounces hot water and stir to combine.
- Garnish with a clove-studded lemon wheel.
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Cocktail Friday
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Ingredients
- 1 ½ ounces applejack or apple brandy
- ¾ ounce lemon juice, freshly squeezed1/2 ounce grenadine
- Garnish: lemon twist
Steps
- Add the applejack, lemon juice and grenadine into a shaker with ice, and shake until well-chilled.
- Fine-strain into a coupe glass, and garnish with a lemon twist.
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Cocktail Friday
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Cocktail Friday
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Cocktail Friday
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Cocktail Friday
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Cocktail Friday
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Cocktail Friday
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Cocktail Friday
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Cocktail Friday
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Atole De Elote
Place one can of corn with its liquid and ½ cup water in blender; cover. Blend until smooth. Pour through fine mesh strainer into large saucepan, pressing pulp against mesh to release liquid. Discard solids. Repeat with remaining cans of corn and 1 cup water.
Stir in sugar, cinnamon stick and salt. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low; stir occasionally.
Bring evaporated milk and remaining 1 cup water to a boil in medium saucepan. Stir milk mixture into corn mixture; remove from heat. Remove cinnamon stick. Pour into mugs. Garnish each serving with reserved corn kernels.
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Cocktail Friday
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Cocktail Friday
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- “Our familiars seem really into each other huh you wanna go grab a coffee?”
- “We’re in the same practice space and you are terrible at magic and you keep hurling stuff at my face STOP IT.”
- “We are neighbors and you are terrible at magic and keep making noise and hurling stuff at my house/apartment walls STOP IT.”
- “I do magic tattoos and you want something illegal. Like really illegal.”
- “You’re a street artist who uses magic in their art and I see your work everyday on my commute.”
- “You drag me to an underground meeting of mages plotting to overthrow non-mages. Little do you know I’m a non-mage.”
- “You drag me to an underground meeting of non-mages plotting to overthrow mages. Little do you know I’m a mage.”
- “I’m in the science camp of mages who believe that everything can be boiled down to equations and formulas. You’re in the natural camp of mages who believe that magic comes from feeling, spirituality, passion, and other non-quantifiables. Something happens that prove us both wrong in some way.”
- “My regular dealer of spell ingredients got raided the other day. Now I need a new source.”
- “I have some disorder that makes magic emerge from me differently than others. Or at least, the doctors call it a disorder.”
- “Wow, who cursed me in Klingon, can’t be that nerdy kid next door who bragged to me about his working phaser last year.“ *side-eye*
- “My magical cosplay is better than your magical cosplay.”
- “I’m the first non-mage in my family in generations and nobody understand how or why and it’s really awkward.”
- “So this spell went wrong and my body disappeared into the aether and I’m now a disembodied voice please help.”
- “So I summoned a demon, but it never appeared. Clearly didn’t work. So why are my dishes washed and my clothes put away and my doors opening when I’m about to walk through them?”
- “I made a golem to mind my kid while I’m at work, but I think it’s doing more than I’m expecting. Do golems throw raves?”
- “I’m a burglar who uses magic to do what I do, but then I try to break into your house and find out you’re a way more powerful mage than I am and I am screwed. Or am I?”
- “Note to self: do not try to con a former mage-master.”
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Fantastic Guides:
Traversing The Antarctic
1 - Bring a coat. Duh.
2 - Travel while the sun is out. It gets lonely sometimes and will help guide you in exchange for company.
3 - Wear goggles.
4 - If you think you saw the mountains in the distance moving, you didn’t. Keep going.
5 - Use the night to rest. And hide.
6 - Don’t let the whispers scare you. Focus. They might be trying to help.
7 - If the ground cracks, don’t move.
8 - If you see the Spire, head for it. You’ll never reach it, but your path towards it will be safe.
9 - Bring a jar of cookie butter. You’ll understand once you’re there.
10 - If you see the Mountaineer, turn around. Do not approach it.
11 - You can eat the hot meals you find, but always leave some behind.
12 - Don’t be afraid to take risks, it’s one of the things life is all about after all.
13 - Seek shelter during blizzards, they can grow stronger during them.
14 - Ice cream is forbidden.
15 - Just because something appears to be human, does not mean that it is. Be observant.
16 - Let it snow.
17 - Keep your distance from the trees. The lights might attract you, but you must not get close.
18 - The Shrouded hide in the distance. You may seek them out if you wish, but keep in mind they don’t always welcome strangers.
19 - Don’t start fires. They don’t like fire.
20 - Ignore the singers, don’t let them distract you.
21 - Be sure to leave an offering for the old ones, for their sake and yours.
22 - Don’t. Pollute.
You’re an immortal vampire who can only be killed by a wooden stake through the heart. In a dying universe, you’re now in a spaceship, looking for wood before it’s too late.
“And that, class…” the professor concluded, “…is why humanity is believed to be the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall, docile known species in the cosmos. Any questions?” You, the only human in the class, raised your hand.
