HAPPY DAYS
Ginger Infused Vodka
Pineapple Juice
Soda Water
Today was
indeed a happy day for me. Not only was it the first day of Autumn, my favorite
season, but I got to spend it at one of my favorite places, Athens, Ohio. I was
showing Ohio University to my niece Hannah, a senior in high school checking
out colleges. I’m a proud OU alumni and we ended the day meeting a friend of
mine from those college days who never left Athens. Known as “Emo” to friends,
she had adopted five dogs by the time she graduated from OU and she couldn’t
exactly go back to her parent’s place in Jersey.
Today,
Emo is doing great, still in Athens and still rescuing pets. I drink a cocktail
a day and she rescues an animal a day. She told me the story of the pet she had
rescued that day, a mouse that her cat had brought in, as I smiled and drank a
HAPPY DAYS cocktail. The cocktail was made for me by the bartender at Casa
Nueva, an amazing worker-owned Mexican restaurant that uses local, fresh food.
They also make their own infused vodkas. Infused vodkas are new to me, and I’m discovering
that they are the best way to enjoy vodka. To make them, you steep different
fruits, vegetables and other ingredients in vodka until they are ripe and ready
for consumption. The creative Casa has used items like bacon and bubblegum, but
the infused vodka I tried was ginger. When combined with pineapple juice, and
soda water in the HAPPY DAYS cocktail, it was indeed happiness in a glass.
The HAPPY
DAYS cocktail had a strong ginger taste from the vodka that was entirely
pleasant, and not overwhelming. The pineapple juice gave it a tropical feel,
but the ginger balanced it so that the cocktail wasn’t too sweet. If I didn’t
have to drive, I would have happily had about three more. Sadly, the happy day
had to end, but the memories, especially those of the infused vodka, will last forever.
Drink Up^
Cocktail Connie
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