I tried to quit once for 6 months, and it took me 2 years before,i was able to quit quitting. Quitting is for quitters
J/k- stopped in early 2000. Never got into mixed drinks- why waste valuable time mixing when you could be drinking lol j/k.
I used to live in Martinez California and never knew the martini was created there.
I like mine dry with 3 olives on the rocks. 😊
What!? I thought this was Juneteenth! /s
My dad liked martinis and tended to have one or two every day around 6:00 p.m. just before dinner.
I never much cared for them but I liked eating an olive that had been in a martini. Whenever my dad was coming to visit, I always made sure I had plenty of gin, vermouth and a jar of olives on hand.
Mrs. BBB333 likes vodka martinis (Luksusowa - fine Polish potato vodka).
No vermouth but either capers or a cornichon.
Hopefully we can celebrate today around 1:30 PM when she returns from a an appointment with a client.
So WASPs who have been told not to invite themselves to any Juneteenth celebrations can hereby honor their own heritage instead.
Before my liver went to hell (NOT alchohol related) My special drink was a gin martini with about 3 or 4 olives in it (my wife liked eating the olives, too).
Martini purist! Bombay Sapphire, vermouth, and olives. Once I made one, on a whim, w/3 parts gin, 1 part vermouth, and one part vodka. It was pretty good!
The vodka mellowed it out a little bit, but I couldn’t drink more than one.
Have one for me today!😀🍸
“...the only thing that makes drinking a martini better, is drinking it in the proper lounge setting...”
Ain’t that the truth! Life’s finest moments are in a dimly lit lounge with some great Brubeck, attractive company, a fine Macanudo and double Beefeater martinis! Unfortunately, politicians have pretty much killed off this most civilized of scenarios.
So today is Father’s Day, Junteenth, National Martini Day, and Ethel and Juluis Rosenberg Day. Wow. What to do? Suggestions?
True dat, every afternoon is martini time for me with my best buddy Cootie the cat.
There is NO VODKA in a real martini. There's an old saying that a martini is the marriage between the gin and the vermouth, a union that is oh so brief but oh so glorious. Vodka and vermouth don't have the same "chemistry," either literally or figuratively.
And any bartender worthy of the title knows you never bruise distilled spirits, so it's stirred, not shaken.
BTW, do you know why Russians say they always gulp their vodka? Because what's the point in prolonging the suffering?
The first appearance of the (oxymoronic) vodka martini in the Fleming novels was in the final passages of 1954's "Live and Let Die." The oxymoron became de rigueur a few years later once distiller Smirnoff became a major sponsor of Cubby Broccoli's product-placement-heavy Bond film franchise.
Similarly, Bond wore a Rolex wristwatch in the Fleming novels but an Omega in the films because Omega paid for the product placement. It had nothing to do with being true to Fleming's work, it had to do with lining Cubby's pockets. Then again, if Fleming had had his way, Hoagy Carmichael would have been hired to play Bond (not kidding).
When I buy a jar of cocktail olives I pour off the brine and replace it with vermouth. And I keep the gin in the freezer. So it I'm not showing of to guests, I make a martini by pouring ice cold gin into a glass, adding three olives,* a spoonful of vermouth, and stirring twice, gently.
* Old gin lore, it's impolite to serve a martini with an even number of olives.
We watched a short Juneteenth video in church. Great photos and some history I didn’t know.
My Vesper Martini
Large lemon peel peeled in a singular line around the lemon. Twist it from one end tight and drop into center of glass. When the drink is poured, the peel opens to look like a yellow flower.
3 shots Bombay Sapphire
1 shot Crystal Head vodka
1/2 shot Cocci Americano
Put in large mixer filled with ice and swish it in fast, circular motion.
Pour into glass with lemon peel.
I’m old enough to remember three martini lunches.