Basiljito
I have a very unrefined sense of taste. In a blind taste-test between a $2, $30, and $200 bottle of wine, I could maybe pick out the Two-Buck Chuck, but I would be lost between the other two. I don’t think this is a bad trait to have: as long as I don’t need to impress anyone, I can save a lot of money. But it also means I subject everyone downstream of my “cooking” to my gustatory caprice. I also make a bad bartender.
I probably shouldn’t have been in charge of making drinks at the dinner party the other night, but I wanted to make mojitos. You get to make sugar water, and then you get to smash leaves with a stick, two of my favorite activities in preschool. No one complained about the drinks, either. It turns out that if you put enough sugar, lime juice, and rum in something, people won’t really notice that they’re drinking basiljitos. Or, if they do, at least they won’t complain about it to your face.
That is, until the host points out that the box of mint leaves is still sitting unopened on the other counter. Then they all laugh at you. And then they get to try little-shards-of-glass-jitos.
June 26th, 2006 at 6:12 pm
Hilarious!!!
About time for a new post!
July 9th, 2006 at 8:57 pm
Even after the revelation, most attendees at the party did finish their bohitos / basijitos. Except the person with shards of glass (sorry Alisa!). So – they’re actually pretty decent. Congrats on the creation of a new drink…
July 23rd, 2006 at 12:48 pm
Sugar water is the basis of all the great drinks: Mojitos, Mint Juleps, and Mr. Pibb.
September 22nd, 2006 at 8:28 am
My mom makes something that I’ve dubbed Trailer Park Mojitos. Take a can of Minute Maid lime juice, a can of vodka, and mint and sugar and put it in the blender. It’s deliciously plebeian!
June 1st, 2007 at 2:54 am
wait.. Where do you find vodka in cans? am I missing something here… just a little question