MxMo LXIV February 20, 2012: Tiki!

This is my first time participating in an MxMo event but I've followed many of them and I hope it won't be my last time joining in. This month's round is brought to us by Doug Winship at the Pegu blog and the theme is tiki.

"Cracking Jenny's teacup" is said to be pirate-speak for a night spent in a house of ill repute. True or not, it's easy to imagine it being tossed about on the boat after a night ashore... so I went with it. This is my first serious attempt at creating a drink so I hope I haven't angered the tiki gods or (perhaps worse) the tiki faithful. I suspect the tea aspect may be taking liberties so toss me in the volcano bowl to appease them if necessary.



Crackin' Jenny's Teacup

1 oz Kraken Black Spiced rum
1 oz Appleton Estate Extra rum
3/4 oz lime juice
3/4 oz tea syrup (1:1 strong black tea and sugar)
1/2 oz pineapple juice
1/4 oz ginger syrup (1:1 syrup infused with fresh ginger)
1 dash roasted pineapple bitters
1 dash chai tea bitters

Shake with ice, strain over crushed ice.

The roasted pineapple and chai tea bitters are from the Canadian company House Made. A cottage business and I don't know if they're interested in growing larger but the bitters are really nice. I used them mainly to reinforce the pineapple and tea in the drink and to enhance the spice notes from the Kraken. Also, as is evident in the picture, I have a lot to learn about garnish but I had fun and enjoyed the result.

Anyway, if you try it, or even if you don't, let me know what you think. I have a lot to learn about creating drinks and feedback from those who know what they're doing is one of the best tools I can think of for helping with that.

Wake up time.

I admit it, I'm a horrible blogger. I put this blog to bed a long time ago due to lack of content and updates. I'll go ahead and state for the record that that's probably not going to change much. The posts will probably be few and far between and very unlikely to be seen by anybody. That's okay, I can live with that.

The truth is, sometimes I need this as a vehicle for other things I want to do. Participating in online food and, hopefully for the future, drink challenges is something I enjoy. Those challenges usually require some way of providing access to what you do to those who are participating and this blog is a way of providing that access. There will almost certainly be posts not related to online challenges when there's something I want to share but they are not likely to appear often enough to sustain any sort of interest.

In case this sounds like I'm saying "get off my lawn", I'm not. I enjoy the world of sharing made possible by the internet. I just don't want to give any false impressions that this is ever going to be a fountain of entertainment. That said, glad you stopped by...