I just returned chez nous to find my beloved ready to celebrate my 21st birthday in style. Now that it's legal for me to imbibe, he purchased a bottle of the new French pear-flavored vodka by Grey Goose. We scrambled around for other ingredients that we already had on hand to concoct an original cocktail (exactly like they do in all those fancy-schmancy Michelin 3-star restaurants...) and here's what we came up with! Read on for the recipe.
3 parts Grey Goose La Poire Vodka
1 part Cointreau
2 dark Morello cherries
1 sliver crystalized ginger
1 pear slice
Mix the vodka and Cointreau in a cocktail shaker with plenty of ice. Place the cherries and crystalized ginger in the bottom of a cocktail glass. Strain the vodka mixture into the glass and garnish with the pear slice.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Bon Anniversaire A Moi!
Bienvenue to Our Paris: Variations on a Theme
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3 comments:
In French Canada since we just have to be different then the anglos our national poet Gilles Vigneault wrote a song that has replaced "Happy Birthday" for the past two decades. And it goes like this:
Le temps que l'on prend pour se dire: je t'aime
C'est le seul qui reste au bout de nos jours
Les voeux que l'on fait les fleurs que l'on sème
Chacun les récolte en soi-même
Aux beaux jardin du temps qui court
Mon cher Truffaut c'est à ton tour
De te laisser parler d'amour
Mon cher Truffaut c'est à ton tour
De te laisser parler d'amour
Joyeux anniversaire, mon ami.
Happy to find you here, Truffaut! Missed you at the TA Paris forum and now I know where you (and others) are! This is a lovely site! Thanks for providing it!
Doug, almost three years and I found this post. Your birthday will be coming up again soon and you can have this drink again.
A little too late for mine by a good week but I do have that glass in my cupboard. I think I'll try that fine cocktail you invented......
Lilia (aka framboise-et-rose)
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