This month's Mixology Monday is hosted by Rowen at the Fogged in Lounge, one of the blogs I always enjoy visiting during my daily blog pilgrimages. The theme for this month is Drink Your Vegetables.
I guess I knew this theme was coming. I actually came up with this drink while looking at the pan I baked some sweet potatoes on for Easter dinner. Just in time to try it and have it ready to use for this month's MxMo. So here it is...
I don't have a name for it (I'm open to suggestions) and it's not very practical to make unless you happen to eat a lot of sweet potatoes but I enjoyed it.
Wash a couple (or more) of large sweet potatoes. Poke them all over with a fork, digging in deep. Bake them on a pan in a 400 F oven for about an hour or until you see a syrup cooking out of the holes you poked and collecting on the pan.
Deglaze the pan with just enough water to dissolve the sticky sweet potato syrup. Stir it around and get it all to dissolve, the extra-cooked stuff on the pan adds a nice caramelized taste and a pleasant background bitter note. Roll the baked potatoes around in the liquid to collect the syrup on the skins as well. Fine strain the liquid and add sugar at 1:1.
Express the oils from a piece of orange zest into a glass, add a drop of toasted walnut oil. Wipe around inside the glass with a stirrer or something.
2 oz bourbon
2 tsp sweet potato syrup
1 dash Angostura bitters
Stir with ice, strain into the above prepared glass.
I originally strained it over a big piece of ice in a rocks glass since it's just an Old Fashioned with a sugar substitution but the big ice cubes are the one thing I forgot to prepare for this post... so I drank this one sans ice and still enjoyed it.
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