Food: A Fiend for Mojitos
One of the stupidest (or coolest, depending on your perspective) lines in the recent Miami Vice movie was Colin Farrell claiming to Gong Li that he was a "fiend for mojitos." I'm not sure how an undercover cop can say something like that with a straight face, but it was a funny line. In fact, it's probably the only piece of dialogue I remember from that movie.
Anyway, Mom felt like some mojitos, so Dad and I gathered up the ingredients and went to work. We bought an absurdly large (1.75 L) bottle of Bacardi Gold just because it had a muddling tool attached to it. We grabbed a sackful of mint, a bagful of limes, and some club soda, and we set off to make the drinks.
1. Throw in a palmful of mint leaves
2. Throw in half a lime, diced into smallish pieces
3. Pour in some sugar or simple syrup, to taste
4. Muddle
5. Add a shot of rum
6. Muddle again
7. Add club soda to taste
It's really pretty easy, and the homemade mojitos were 10 times better and 10 times cheaper than the resturant or bar versions. With so much rum, we could make them a heckuva lot stronger than any competent bartender would, and we piled in huge amounts of mint - very refreshing.
posted by Mulliga @ 8:33 AM
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3 Comments:
I thought you were supposed to make 'em with white-rum? Not that I'm picky or complaining, they're good! Also good made with that Brazilian quasi-rum, Cachaça.
Intersting book called "Rum" by Ian Williams, positing it as the original globalizing force - but do read the Amazon comments.
I was going to use white rum - but the big honkin' bottle of Bacardi Gold had that plastic muddling thingamajig. Strangely enough, the tool worked pretty well.
I estimate the total cost of our mojito, with way more rum and mint than you could buy almost anywhere, at about 80 cents each.
You gotta go with what moves - for muddling I use the end of a thin, tapered, rolling pin so I don't smack my hand against the shaker. ;-)
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