Cocktail Wednesday - Friday Edition

I'm a little late for Cocktail Wednesday, but I wanted to be sure to post pictures and let y'all know that I did participate this week.

The ingredients for this week's cocktail, named the Brown Cow from Hell are milk, Kahlua, and chocolate syrup.

2 - 3 oz Kahlua® coffee liqueur
1 glass milk
3 - 5 squirts chocolate syrup

I threw it all in a blender with ice and mixed it up so it was nice and frothy.  It was tasty.  I would drink it if someone made it for me but I probably wouldn't make it again.  I'd just as soon have Kahlua and cream (which I had last night).

Just an aside, my mother used to refer to rootbeer floats as "black cows" so I imagine that's where the name came from.  Honestly, I'd rather have the rootbeer float (with A&W rootbeer of course).

Week 4: Jan 25-31

Jan 25 - Walking the dish (again).  

Didn't see any coyotes - maybe next time...

Jan 26 - homemade artisan bread

 Jan 27 - YD and the devil cat ...

Jan 28 - no picture

Jan 29 - cucumber cosmo preparation

Jan 30 - no picture

Jan 31

I missed two days this week.  Hoping to get all 7 next week. I think about it, but then I just don't take the pictures.

Cocktail Wednesday

I got to pick the cocktail this week .. so I went with a Cucumber Cosmopolitan. A friend of mine mentioned that she had one and liked it so I thought it might be worth trying -- defintely more so than my coffee fiasco.  

 

I got the recipe from here.  The ingredients were, gin, triple sec, cucumber water (see the bowl on the left), cucumber spears, lime juice, white cranberry juice, and ice.

 

A great summer cocktail (let's not remember that it's the dead of winter here in California) -- though it's been warm lately so a summery drink was not so bad.

This was not my favorite drink but I would probably have one if offered.  My favorite so far was the cranberry/vodka in December.  That one ranked a 5 (out of 5) for me.  This is probably a 3.5.

New Beginnings .. a linky party

Each month this year, I want to start a new quilt or project.  I'll post about it and then put a linky at the bottom.  Please link up if you'd like to share your new projects. 

My January start is a baby girl quilt.  I blogged about it here.

I'm actually hoping to finish this this month as well, but we'll see. 

Week 3: Jan 18-24

 Jan 18 - Fort Funston (my Saturday walk in San Francisco,
by the Pacific Ocean)

Jan 19 - "Q" key - replaced!!

Jan 20 -- finished quilt top

Jan 21 -- oops! I forgot

 Jan 22 - Wednesday Cocktail

Jan 23 - My fitbit

Jan 24 - NY snow globe

Cocktail Wednesday

This week's cocktail is Caipirinha, apparently the national cocktail of Brazil (who knew a country would have a national cocktail??). It's made with cachaça, lime, and sugar.  Cachaça is Brazilian rum.  Fortunately, I had no problem finding it or the limes. Don't hate me - the limes were 3 for $1. I had three or four types of Cachaça to choose from so I went with the prettiest bottle.

 

The recipe came from here. Basically, the drink was a lime, two teaspoons of sugar, and 2 oz of Cachaça (oh and crushed ice).  Simple.  However, I didn't read the directions completely because I didn't add crushed ice until after the first sip - note my pathetic looking drinks.

One thing I didn't mention is that I detest rum (but I didn't let that stop me from joining in). I had a very bad experience with it about 35 years ago and had not had any since, until last night. I only had one drink last night because I felt I was pushing my luck just sipping it .. no bad consequences though so I may try this again .. or I may modify it by using vodka or some other alcohol. (Marg tells me that if I use vodka instead of Cachaça it's called a Caipiroska.) 

Both Shay and Marg (Quilting in My Pyjamas and Sunshine? Paradise?) gave Caipirinha a 5 out of 5 rating.  I haven't figured out my rating scale yet, but I would probably give this a 3 or a 4.

Today is brought to you by the letter ...

Q

My "q" key on my computer was broken for the last couple months.  It's been a real pain especially since I frequently talk about quilts.  It was super inconvenient.  I went to the Apple store on Saturday and they fixed it, in about 5 minutes.  So tell me, why did I wait so long to take it in?

Happy Monday!

Help! Please!

I'm going to start a linky party for the monthly new projects but before I can do it, I need a catchy name.  Monthly Starts just doesn't sound cute enough.  Any and all suggestions welcome.

Thanks.

Week 2 - Jan 11-17

Jan 11 - walking the dish

 Jan 12 - diaper motorcycle

Jan 13 - Christmas Cactus

Jan 14 - handmade gift bag


Jan 15 - New Project

 Jan 16 - my room

Jan 17 - Weezer

January's Start

One of my goals this year is to start a new project each month -- preferably a quilt -- but at least some sort of project.  I'm thinking something that takes more than one day being the qualifier; or maybe something that takes several hours. hmmm.  Well, whatever.  I'll decide if something qualifies as I go.

This month I started a quilt.  A jelly roll, similar to the one I just finished, but larger and pinker. 

 

#1 Finish

Under the pressure of an upcoming baby shower, I have my first finish of the year. Although I made the quilt top last year, I just finished it today.   The pattern came from here and the fabric is V and Co Simply Style (I totally copied from here, though my quilt looks smaller ...).

It is a small baby quilt -- I think it's about 36 x 36.  I love the flannel on the back -- the rocket ships are great!  I should probably get more in case Katie's baby is a boy ...  of course, Katie may already know what she's having, but she hasn't shared it with me ..