This is my first blender drink. It seems like a lot of hardware just to mix a drink, but the results sure are delicious.
This version uses 12 oz. pina colada mix, 4 oz. rum, and 3 cups of ice all blended into a frothy concoction.
I’m really dropping the ball on this month of cocktails. Interspersed between cocktail recipes I should be spinning tales about the exotic history of the spirits that make up the drink or the secret history of the cocktail, or at least name-dropping cocktails in movies and books.
I suppose my favorite movie cocktail moment is early in the first Thin Man movie when Myrna Loy walks into the bar where William Powell is drinking and asks him -
“How many drinks have you had?”
“This will make six martinis.”
“All right. (To the bartender) Will you bring me five more Martinis, Leo? Line them right up here.”
When did drinking and drunks stop being funny? Is MADD to blame? I remember as a child watching Foster Brooks (who was a tee-totaler) doing his hi-lar-ious stand-up drunk routine. (Hilarious to the child version of me.)
Here’s a clip of Brooks performing at a roast of Don Rickles in 1970. Brooks is probably the only one there NOT drunk.
