Boozening!

Something completely different: booze! I had a bunch of cocktails, and ideas for cocktails, recently, and I thought I'd share them.

First, and my favorite because it involves both the booze core and the space core, is the Michael Collins. No not the IRA guy, the guy who piloted the first Apollo orbiter. The recipe:

Michael Collins
ice cubes
2 oz. vodka
2 oz. Tang
soda water

Mix the Tang—2 ounces uses 1.5 tsp of powder; 1 tbsp of powder makes 4 oz. Place ample ice in large glass. Add vodka and Tang. Top up with soda water and stir well. Serve with a straw).

Yeah, since you replace the gin with vodka, it's basically an Astronaut Screwdriver. But, an Astronaut Screwdriver doesn't have soda water—the other name for the Michael Collins is the Low-Torque Screwdriver.

Speaking of Screwdriver variants, swap the vodka in one for tequila and you have a Trotsky's Ice Pick.

I also have two boilermakers. One is actually just a boilermaker, but I find they're best with Dos Equis and Jack Daniels. The other is the Carpenter Bee, which is J. W. Dundee Honey Brown and that whiskey-based honey liqueur.

Next up is the Mounds Bar, which recipe is as follows and I quote:

Mounds Bar
ice cubes
2 oz. Malibu
1 oz. Crème de Cacao
Milk

Place small amount of ice in large glass. Add Malibu and crème de cacao. Top up with milk, stir well, and serve.

There's also the Whack and Unwrap (i.e. "chocolate orange"), which is the same as the Mounds Bar but replaces the Malibu with triple sec.

There's also my mother's Plum Margarita, which replaces the limeade with prune juice and the triple sec with slivovic. Try it, you'll like it.

Another thing I realized about Tang, is if you use tang powder as the flavoring in icing, you can totally make icing that tastes like a Hostess orange cupcake.