migdd wrote:Vodka Gimlet with extra water and ice in a tall glass. Refreshing on these hot summer nights.
Yum. Vodka gimlets are a fave of mine. Make me one, please. Another crisp, sour fave is vodka + grapefruit juice, which for some reason is called a Greyhound. Fits, somehow, no?
As to Margaritas, I have an excellent tip: if you can't be bothered with all the traditional ingredients and instead use a bottled mix, try substituting with cans of frozen limeade. Less sweet, more limey, really fresh-tasting. You'll never go back.
For now: fresh, piping hot black coffee. The temperature has dropped to a gorgeous 62 degrees, so it's the first day I've craved hot (rather than iced) coffee in months.
My current brand is Trader Joe's organic shade-grown Nicaraguan. I read somewhere that if you're going to buy only one organic product, it should be your coffee, because the pesticides leach so directly into what you drink, and also because coffee is not regulated the same way as food and so the standards are more lenient. But I can't confirm that that's true. Anyone know?