29 June 2007
Captain Morgan Mojito
Found this recipe for a mojito made with Captains, haven't tried it yet, but it should be interesting it calls for no muddling of the ingredients. Try if for yourself.
My new favorite store
I just found this site and I truly think I need to get a new credit card just to go on a shopping spree. They have a great supply of mojito glasses, sets, muddles, caipirinha glasses and sets, fresh sugar cane sticks and everything you ever wanted. Check it out for your self, click on the logo above.
I don't even watch the Today show...
...but I love them! For this morning's special 'Rum 101'. Their site has an entire breakdown by their food editor Phil Lempert on all of the different types of rum and the history of rum. Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! Check out the article, its good stuff.
Besos!
Besos!
22 June 2007
Why me?
So my friend T and I went out last night, for the first time in what seems like forever and had a blast. BTW - I am paying for that shit today though, because your girl had to be to work at 6:30 am this morning and didn't get home until 2:30am. Oh well, just a little reminder that I am not 22 years old anymore. Anywho, pretty much every time I go out some off the wall mess happens to me and I don't understand.....WHY ME? I mean what did I ever do to anyone to make me deserve such treatment? So I'm just wondering does any of this stuff ever happen to anyone else other than me and my friends? Just to give you an idea of what I am talking about, here are a few situations I have come across:
1. Pregnant Smokers - Who are these chicks who at 8 mos pregnant feel the need to go out and kick it hard like they don't have a little person growing inside of them. And then to top if off they sit up in the club and smoke a cigarette. WTF! I am calling Child Protective Services as soon as I see you start to have contractions!
2. Bad Pick-up lines - Last night this guy was trying to spit game at T and why did he say...wait for it..."I like to cuddle." Oh hell naw, the 3 cool points you had, just got taken away. Take your mama's chi-chi's out of your mouth, walkaway and exit stage left! You gets no play talking about wanting to cuddle!
3. Announce your cell phone number to everyone why don't you - So the last time my friends and I went to Toronto for Caribana, we went to Nelly's party at The Docks. When the night was over my friend L and I took a cab back from the club to our hotel. While sitting at a stop light why did this dude who was walking down the street try to holler. As the cab drove off this fool was screaming call me, my number is 416-blah blah blah blah. Mutha sucka, do you really think I am about to call some random man that decided to yell his phone number out to everyone at 4 am in the middle of the street? Errr...no let me disconnect your ass before we pick up the phone.
4. Scary Performers - Saw this guy performing with his band last night, playing guitar, he was decent, not as good as the lead guitarist in my band, but he was decent. So the band gets on stage he takes off his shirt to reveal what else but his skinny pale body adorned with a wife beater, already sweating and he ain't done shit yet. Everyone else in the band appears to be geeked to perform and he just has this crazy psycho stare on his face. Ummm, dawg you are there to entertain, not terrify.
5. Did you just hit on my feet? - So my friend's husband (who's also in my band) hosts karaoke a few times a week a some local bars and every once in a while I will make an appearance. His shows are usually at some dive, towny bars so its great when I don't feel like getting dressed up and looking cute. So one fine night I decided to hit up the show, I had on nothing exciting a wife beater some jeans and flip flops maybe. Well, I have a tattoo on the top of my right foot. I had my feet propped up on a chair and this man walks over and runs his hand over my foot. Ummm....did you just touch me? If you want to keep that hand you might want to keep it off of me. He continues to stand there and compliment my feet and wants to have a whole conversation about them. Finally, I had to get up and walk away, I mention something to my friends husband and he says, "Oh yeah, he's got a foot fetish he's kind of weird." Umm thanks for telling me now that my foot just got molested. Remind me next time I come and he's around to wear moon boots!
6. Dancing Queen - So T and I are at the club and its almost bar time, and they lights go up and the dj starts playing some old R.Kelly "Step in the Name of Love." Well, contrary to popular belief I do know how to follow directions so of course I start stepping in the middle of the dance floor by myself, because that's how we do. So I see this white chick out the corner of my eyes, she looks scraggly and dirty, her pants are hanging off of her ass (I can't tell if they are capris, floods or some pants she stole off of a 10 year old somewhere) and to complete the outfit, this bitch has got NO SHOES ON!!!!! Why does she start coming my way. Gets right in front of me and start dancing. Ummm, what are you doing? T is cracking up, I try to be slick and do a little spin to escape and she pops up right next to me again. I turn my back and she fucking touches my back. Look I don't know if you are lonely, stoned or just have a death wish, but if you don't want me to knock you the fuck out up in here, I'm-a need you to keep your hands to yourself. In the words of the wise wise man named Luda..."Move bitch get out the way, get out the way bitch get out the way!"
7. Can I taste that? - Now I know with my love for mojitos, that not everyone has had them. So when I go to bars that actually make them, I often have people looking at my drink asking what it is, or how it tastes. A few years ago I was at a bar with a friend and was drinking a mojito and this girl starts asking me about my drink. Do you know this chick had the nerve to ask me to taste my drink? You're kidding right? I don't know you or your mouth and you will not be putting your soup coolers up on my glass. I got a way for you to taste one, walk right over to that bartender just like I did and pay $6.50 and you can taste away!
8. I'm strictly dickly - Now I have no problem at all with people deciding that they need to live, as the politically correct would say, an alternative lifestyle. However, lately my sexy bitch quotient has apparently increased because I have been getting hit on by chicks and I can't understand it. I went to karaoke one night with my sister-in-law and another friend. We are sitting, laughing at people and this chick comes over and asks them if she can steal me away????? Errrr? What the heck are you asking them for? I had sang a few songs and apparently had gotten a following in the bar that night. So the chick gets up there and is trying to sing Mary J Blige, "Not Gon' Cry." So I start helping her out, I catch a glimpse out the corner of my eye and notice this chick ain't just singing but she's singing in my direction and getting closer by the second. Hold the brakes, backup butch bitch I don't get's down like that.
9. Crazy-Ass Murderers - So L and I were once again out and about alone, this time in Miami and after a night at the club we decided to hit up the pizza spot next door, to grab a bite to eat. We sit down, minding our own business and this cat comes up and pulls a chair over and just sits down at our table. So we pretend to be friendlier than we really are and entertain him as he strikes up a conversation. Apparently, we came across as the trustworthy cool type, because after a while dude starts telling his whole freaking life story. Until he pulled some crazy, "I killed a man just to watch him die" type shit. He goes into how he was with this woman or married and some guy threatened her or did something to her and he ended up kidnapping the cat and putting him a warehouse and torturing him. If this cat was telling the truth, he's stupid why would you go around telling people. If he was lying, he needs to see a doctor to talk about what kind of shit is going on in his head that makes him create lies like that. Me and L look at each other like, I think I am full and make a bee line out of there without letting on that we are trying get as far away from him and as fast as possible. We just nod and smile and pretend like its everyday that we meeting deranged murderers. As we walked away he said, "You want me to walk y'all back to your hotel, it's not safe for pretty ladies to be walking around by themselves this time of night." Uhhhhhh, no thank you!
Seriously though, I haven't done anything to hurt anybody! Why me? I just needed to vent. This post became longer than I intended it to be. It's time to go make a mojito! Have a great weekend.
Besos!
1. Pregnant Smokers - Who are these chicks who at 8 mos pregnant feel the need to go out and kick it hard like they don't have a little person growing inside of them. And then to top if off they sit up in the club and smoke a cigarette. WTF! I am calling Child Protective Services as soon as I see you start to have contractions!
2. Bad Pick-up lines - Last night this guy was trying to spit game at T and why did he say...wait for it..."I like to cuddle." Oh hell naw, the 3 cool points you had, just got taken away. Take your mama's chi-chi's out of your mouth, walkaway and exit stage left! You gets no play talking about wanting to cuddle!
3. Announce your cell phone number to everyone why don't you - So the last time my friends and I went to Toronto for Caribana, we went to Nelly's party at The Docks. When the night was over my friend L and I took a cab back from the club to our hotel. While sitting at a stop light why did this dude who was walking down the street try to holler. As the cab drove off this fool was screaming call me, my number is 416-blah blah blah blah. Mutha sucka, do you really think I am about to call some random man that decided to yell his phone number out to everyone at 4 am in the middle of the street? Errr...no let me disconnect your ass before we pick up the phone.
4. Scary Performers - Saw this guy performing with his band last night, playing guitar, he was decent, not as good as the lead guitarist in my band, but he was decent. So the band gets on stage he takes off his shirt to reveal what else but his skinny pale body adorned with a wife beater, already sweating and he ain't done shit yet. Everyone else in the band appears to be geeked to perform and he just has this crazy psycho stare on his face. Ummm, dawg you are there to entertain, not terrify.
5. Did you just hit on my feet? - So my friend's husband (who's also in my band) hosts karaoke a few times a week a some local bars and every once in a while I will make an appearance. His shows are usually at some dive, towny bars so its great when I don't feel like getting dressed up and looking cute. So one fine night I decided to hit up the show, I had on nothing exciting a wife beater some jeans and flip flops maybe. Well, I have a tattoo on the top of my right foot. I had my feet propped up on a chair and this man walks over and runs his hand over my foot. Ummm....did you just touch me? If you want to keep that hand you might want to keep it off of me. He continues to stand there and compliment my feet and wants to have a whole conversation about them. Finally, I had to get up and walk away, I mention something to my friends husband and he says, "Oh yeah, he's got a foot fetish he's kind of weird." Umm thanks for telling me now that my foot just got molested. Remind me next time I come and he's around to wear moon boots!
6. Dancing Queen - So T and I are at the club and its almost bar time, and they lights go up and the dj starts playing some old R.Kelly "Step in the Name of Love." Well, contrary to popular belief I do know how to follow directions so of course I start stepping in the middle of the dance floor by myself, because that's how we do. So I see this white chick out the corner of my eyes, she looks scraggly and dirty, her pants are hanging off of her ass (I can't tell if they are capris, floods or some pants she stole off of a 10 year old somewhere) and to complete the outfit, this bitch has got NO SHOES ON!!!!! Why does she start coming my way. Gets right in front of me and start dancing. Ummm, what are you doing? T is cracking up, I try to be slick and do a little spin to escape and she pops up right next to me again. I turn my back and she fucking touches my back. Look I don't know if you are lonely, stoned or just have a death wish, but if you don't want me to knock you the fuck out up in here, I'm-a need you to keep your hands to yourself. In the words of the wise wise man named Luda..."Move bitch get out the way, get out the way bitch get out the way!"
7. Can I taste that? - Now I know with my love for mojitos, that not everyone has had them. So when I go to bars that actually make them, I often have people looking at my drink asking what it is, or how it tastes. A few years ago I was at a bar with a friend and was drinking a mojito and this girl starts asking me about my drink. Do you know this chick had the nerve to ask me to taste my drink? You're kidding right? I don't know you or your mouth and you will not be putting your soup coolers up on my glass. I got a way for you to taste one, walk right over to that bartender just like I did and pay $6.50 and you can taste away!
8. I'm strictly dickly - Now I have no problem at all with people deciding that they need to live, as the politically correct would say, an alternative lifestyle. However, lately my sexy bitch quotient has apparently increased because I have been getting hit on by chicks and I can't understand it. I went to karaoke one night with my sister-in-law and another friend. We are sitting, laughing at people and this chick comes over and asks them if she can steal me away????? Errrr? What the heck are you asking them for? I had sang a few songs and apparently had gotten a following in the bar that night. So the chick gets up there and is trying to sing Mary J Blige, "Not Gon' Cry." So I start helping her out, I catch a glimpse out the corner of my eye and notice this chick ain't just singing but she's singing in my direction and getting closer by the second. Hold the brakes, backup butch bitch I don't get's down like that.
9. Crazy-Ass Murderers - So L and I were once again out and about alone, this time in Miami and after a night at the club we decided to hit up the pizza spot next door, to grab a bite to eat. We sit down, minding our own business and this cat comes up and pulls a chair over and just sits down at our table. So we pretend to be friendlier than we really are and entertain him as he strikes up a conversation. Apparently, we came across as the trustworthy cool type, because after a while dude starts telling his whole freaking life story. Until he pulled some crazy, "I killed a man just to watch him die" type shit. He goes into how he was with this woman or married and some guy threatened her or did something to her and he ended up kidnapping the cat and putting him a warehouse and torturing him. If this cat was telling the truth, he's stupid why would you go around telling people. If he was lying, he needs to see a doctor to talk about what kind of shit is going on in his head that makes him create lies like that. Me and L look at each other like, I think I am full and make a bee line out of there without letting on that we are trying get as far away from him and as fast as possible. We just nod and smile and pretend like its everyday that we meeting deranged murderers. As we walked away he said, "You want me to walk y'all back to your hotel, it's not safe for pretty ladies to be walking around by themselves this time of night." Uhhhhhh, no thank you!
Seriously though, I haven't done anything to hurt anybody! Why me? I just needed to vent. This post became longer than I intended it to be. It's time to go make a mojito! Have a great weekend.
Besos!
20 June 2007
Coconut Mojitos
A friend asked if I could find any coconut mojito recipes, here are a few I came across:
From Recipezaar (BTW love this site since they include the nutritional info on recipes):
Cojito (Mojito W/Coconut Rum) Recipe #231135
Give your Mojitos a little twist by using Coconut flavored rum!
by Bev
6 servings
5 min prep
3 cups fresh mint leaves
3/4 cup sugar (to taste)
8 ounces freshly squeezed lime juice
24 ounces Malibu rum
Garnish
4 limes, cut into thin slices
In a pitcher, add the mint, sugar, and lime juice and muddle with a wooden spoon to crush the mint leaves.
Stir in the rum, making sure the sugar has dissolved, then add 4 cups of ice.
Garnish each tall glass with lime slices and make sure some mint goes into each cocktail.
Another recipe I found at Food and Wine:
Coco Mojito
ingredients
12 mint leaves
1/2 ounce fresh lime juice
2 ounces coconut rum
1/2 ounce Simple Syrup
1 ounce cream of coconut from a well-shaken can
Ice
1 to 2 ounces chilled club soda
directions
In a cocktail shaker, muddle the mint with the lime juice. Add the rum, Simple Syrup, cream of coconut and ice and shake vigorously. Strain into an ice-filled highball glass and top with the club soda.
The second recipe really sounds yummy! If you ever try any of the recipes let me know how they are and I will do the same although a lot of these I have tried and I just love a mojito, no matter the flavor. Enjoy...I know I will!
Besos!
From Recipezaar (BTW love this site since they include the nutritional info on recipes):
Cojito (Mojito W/Coconut Rum) Recipe #231135
Give your Mojitos a little twist by using Coconut flavored rum!
by Bev
6 servings
5 min prep
3 cups fresh mint leaves
3/4 cup sugar (to taste)
8 ounces freshly squeezed lime juice
24 ounces Malibu rum
Garnish
4 limes, cut into thin slices
In a pitcher, add the mint, sugar, and lime juice and muddle with a wooden spoon to crush the mint leaves.
Stir in the rum, making sure the sugar has dissolved, then add 4 cups of ice.
Garnish each tall glass with lime slices and make sure some mint goes into each cocktail.
Another recipe I found at Food and Wine:
Coco Mojito
ingredients
12 mint leaves
1/2 ounce fresh lime juice
2 ounces coconut rum
1/2 ounce Simple Syrup
1 ounce cream of coconut from a well-shaken can
Ice
1 to 2 ounces chilled club soda
directions
In a cocktail shaker, muddle the mint with the lime juice. Add the rum, Simple Syrup, cream of coconut and ice and shake vigorously. Strain into an ice-filled highball glass and top with the club soda.
The second recipe really sounds yummy! If you ever try any of the recipes let me know how they are and I will do the same although a lot of these I have tried and I just love a mojito, no matter the flavor. Enjoy...I know I will!
Besos!
My new favorite gum...
...What could it possibly be other than Mint Mojito Orbit. Its like a spearmint gum with 
a hint of lime. I love it, except for the fact that it seems like it gets out of flavor pretty quick, maybe I'm just chewing too hard. I really need to keep this at work in case I feel the need to have a drink after someone says something stupid which is all the time.
Crazy enough as usual people never have enough to complain about so some advocacy group has started to protest that Wrigley's, the maker of Orbit gum, aren't thinking of the children in promoting this gum. Some folks just really need a hobby. What 7 year old sees the flavor mint mojito and decides that they need to go get a shot of rum? I found an article about this issue, I loved the comments from the readers. My favorite being from a user named hatless, "Rum Raisin ice cream totally turned me into a lush. It's been pina coladas and mojitos for me ever since I was 9." No matter what I am still chewing and will be even when for all the politically correct nutcases they decide to change the name to "Limemint."
a hint of lime. I love it, except for the fact that it seems like it gets out of flavor pretty quick, maybe I'm just chewing too hard. I really need to keep this at work in case I feel the need to have a drink after someone says something stupid which is all the time.Crazy enough as usual people never have enough to complain about so some advocacy group has started to protest that Wrigley's, the maker of Orbit gum, aren't thinking of the children in promoting this gum. Some folks just really need a hobby. What 7 year old sees the flavor mint mojito and decides that they need to go get a shot of rum? I found an article about this issue, I loved the comments from the readers. My favorite being from a user named hatless, "Rum Raisin ice cream totally turned me into a lush. It's been pina coladas and mojitos for me ever since I was 9." No matter what I am still chewing and will be even when for all the politically correct nutcases they decide to change the name to "Limemint."
19 June 2007
In Stores Today!
This girl is ridiculous, and her album is out today. As soon as I can get to Tar-jay this week I have to pick this up. If you don't know about her, you really should.This is what music is supposed to sound like. Check her out for yourself on MySpace and see if she's coming to your town!
Besos!
Update: So I couldn't wait, downloaded the cd on iTunes and I am loving it. My favorite songs are Let's Rock, Good Girl, My Joy and Golden so far, but its hard to chose, because I love them all! Seriously, just go get it!
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