Try this: a scoop of vanilla ice cream, drenched in a shot of vodka.

It's called Glace de Colonel. Invented by by second cousin's grandpa.
RSN | 08.23.04 - 1:01 pm | #

YUCK--to Maccer's post.
Robotnik | Homepage | 08.23.04 - 1:53 pm | #

You should mix large quantities of this in a bathtub, to keep you company.
L'Emmerdeur | Homepage | 08.23.04 - 4:21 pm | #

...and, to once in a while, bathe in it. Probably better for your skin than all that exfoliating nonsense.
Robotnik | Homepage | 08.23.04 - 4:34 pm | #

So then I can bathe and weep into it literally. How fantastic. Vive le mélodrame!
maccers | Homepage | 08.23.04 - 4:53 pm | #

From this week's NYTimes Magazine

Blackberry Martinis
(Adapted from ''The Berry Bible,'' by Janie Hibler)
1 cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar
2 cups blackberries
1/4 cup berry brandy or creme de cassis
4 lemon wedges
Superfine sugar
1 cup gin (or vodka)
2 tablespoons Triple Sec
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice.

1. In a small saucepan, combine 1 cup of the sugar and 1 cup water. Bring to a boil and stir until the sugar dissolves. Set aside until cooled.

2. In a food processor, puree the berries, brandy and remaining tablespoon sugar until smooth.

3. Prepare four martini glasses: rub the rims with lemons, then pour a layer of superfine sugar on a plate and twirl the glasses in it. Place them in the freezer.

4. Fill a martini shaker with ice, then add the gin (or vodka), Triple Sec and lemon juice. Add 2 tablespoons of the culled sugar syrup and 1/4 cup of the berry puree. Shake robustly for 10 seconds and strain into the glasses. Serve immediately but sip slowly.
rogdon | 08.23.04 - 5:34 pm | #

"2 pints gin" is more my kind of cocktail.
Eurotrash | Homepage | 08.23.04 - 5:42 pm | #

ha! exactly, mothers' ruin - that's me.

Fuck those blackberry martinis sound like they are fucking getting made v soon.
maccers | Homepage | 08.23.04 - 6:01 pm | #

intense!

love,
jason mulgrew
internet quasi-celebrity
Nass | Homepage | 08.23.04 - 6:09 pm | #

Listen, Eurotrash is on the money. Don't let them fool you--Martinis are made with GIN. Not that Vudky bool-sheet, comrade.

And feck them if they give you static about the juniper taste.
Robotnik | Homepage | 08.23.04 - 6:35 pm | #

I got a pint of mandarin sorbet, another pint of coconut, and a bottle of Boodles to get me through this weekend's stupid effing heatwave. (85ºF is too hot for San Francisco, dammit. Where's my fog?) I was thinking with some lime and maybe tonic they'd make nice floats. But a tonic float sounds gross, and I can't imagine putting 7 up in with Boodles. What do I do?

(I know what to do. Thank heaven I'm not sac, in Sac, where it's fucking 98ºF tomorrow.)
Jessica | Homepage | 08.27.04 - 2:51 am | #