Ahem, Ladies and Gentlemen, but mostly Ladies,
For the second year now, two of my friends celebrate their 1-week-apart birthdays by organising a cocktail party. I've tended the bar on both occasions and I'd like to share some of my lessons learned.
- You need one dedicated bartender per 15-20 people, or 20-25 people if you have a dedicated bar monkey to wash glasses, refill ingredients, get ice, etc... Ask one of your single male friends to do it. Bartenders are sexy by default and if he plays his cards right, he won't go home alone.
- Compose a menu of somewhere around 10 different cocktails. You can limit the amount of ingredients you need, it's easier for undecisive drinkers and unexperienced barkeeps. Make sure your menu is varied: don't make it all rum-based or only sour drinks. Mix classics with popular cocktails and some more obscure drinks or maybe your own creation. If your barkeep has some experience he'll know what he can make with the present ingredients outside the menu as well (and maybe impress someone), but knowing beforehand what people are gonna ask takes away a lot of stress.
- Buying bags of ice is really handy. You'll spend weeks freezing it yourself if you have an average built-in freezer, considering you will need about 1 kg of ice per 3 people. Storebought ice is usually of better quality too. Some drinks will call for crushed ice, so if you don't want to spend your evening pounding an ice bag with your shoe, get an ice crusher.
- Plenty of cocktails call for lime juice. On a calm night you might have the time to juice your limes as needed, but it's a better idea to be prepared: get a nice glass bottle, make sure it's clean, and juice about 1 liter of lime juice per 50 people. Funnel the juice into the bottle and put on a spill-stop pourer on.
- You can get limes cheap if you buy 'em in large quantities. The fruit guy on the market can probably get you a good deal on juicy limes if you ask him a few days before the party.
- Don't juice all your limes! You will have to slice a couple of them up for garnish, and if you want to impress that special person, nothing says "I have strong hands" like squeezing a fresh lime into her mojito.
- Talking about garnish, most cocktails will need some garnish. This is often slices or wedges of lime, lemon, orange or strawberries, mint sprigs, olives or rims around the glass.
- To rim your glasses, use small deep plates: fill one with (orange) juice and the other with what you want to rim the glasses with: sugar, salt, coconut shavings... To make colored rims, use fruit syrups. Again this is dependant on what's on your menu. Don't rim glasses that come with straws, it's pointless. Add a swivel stick in a rimmed glass.
Het perfecte meisje:
- is intelligent en heeft een goed hart
- is een stil water met een diepe grond
- houdt van kleren en schoenen maar is het liefste naakt en loopt op blote voeten
- is creatief, zowel met photoshop als met lijm en papier of klei
- heeft heterochromia iridis of weet toch ten minste wat het betekent
- laat me soms winnen op de Wii, ook al pwnt ze mijn ass als ze wil
- heeft ambities, zowel persoonlijk als professioneel als relationeel zonder arrogant te zijn
- heeft ros haar op haar hoofd en nergens anders
- leest en schrijft, denkt en spreekt, zingt en danst, werkt en speelt
- She and her teeth are mostly straight and all clean
- is zowel intellectueel als op ander gebied uitdagend
- weet dat klagen niets oplost
- is als België: minstens 2talig
- heeft japanse borsten en een braziliaanse poep
- heeft een geweldig gevoel voor taal, humor en taalhumor
- gebruikt om mij te versieren de pickupline: Hi, you look like a smart person, so I'd really appreciate your input.
- is ruimdenkend op alle gebied en probeert graag nieuwe dingen uit
- staat haar mannetje
- is sportief en heeft er het lichaam naar
- fluistert op een feest dat ze onder haar ongelofelijk sexy kleedje niets aan heeft.
- houdt van samen koken, samen eten, samen drinken en samen afwassen
- heeft haar rijbewijs en een fiets
- is soms ook bob
- rookt niet
- is niet te preuts om achter een bosje te hurken. When you gotta go, you gotta go.
- is kietelachtig
- gebruikt een Apple
- heeft een mooie lach, ook al knort ze soms een beetje
- heeft een meetbaar libido
- weigert compleet afhankelijk te zijn van iemand
- ziet er goed uit, ook volgens mijn vrienden
- heeft een positief zelfbeeld
- straalt het ook uit
- weet het
- trekt zich toch niet te veel aan van wat andere mensen van haar denken
- ziet er geweldig uit in bikini en draagt meestal maar de helft ervan
- heeft vriendinnen en vrienden
- heeft beide al eens gekust
- heeft eindeloos geduld
- houdt ook van mij
What are some of your favorite, forgotten albums that have stood the test of time?
Submitted by PeterGibbons.
Remember that one Friends episodes where the guys make lists of celebs they are allowed to have sex with in a relationship? The rerun was on tv here a while back, and so I decided to make my own list. So here goes:
- Milla Jovovich
- Shakira
- Natalie Portman
- Christina Ricci
- Scarlett Johanssen
So, who is on your Laminated List?
This is as good a time as any to try out mobile blogging. This week i'm gonna release a new cocktail vid and reshoot my mashed potatoes for my man Derek from poorboys.tv
It's the 5th!!! So if you're in the Antwerp area in Belgium, feel free to drop by at my place say around 20h00ish (GMT+1) for a dose of wall-sized Technolust !!!
Details:
- Where? dJOEk's Plaze
- When? September 5th 20h00 GMT+1 'till about 23h, it's a school night ;-)
- Why? Hak.5 Episode 2x02 projected hugely to a wall
- What? It's BYOBAC, so Bring Your Own Beer and Chips
UPDATE: It's done! Pics are Here!
Take a picture of your reflection.
Pimpin' my Hak.5 T-shirt!
Making great Mashed Potatoes is easy! Peel, Slice and Boil some potatoes until they are soft, but not to the point that they lose their consistency. Add one or two egg yolks, a crushed clove of garlic (use a mortar!), and a lot of fresh nutmeg. Toss in some small cubes of butter, real butter, not margarine, none of that liquid stuff. Add some milk, or if you're not on a diet :-(, cream. Add a rich amount of pepper and salt, and start mashing! I like my mash to have a little bit of lumps in it, but that's personal preference. Enjoy!
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