Drink of the Day: New Orleans Buck
Happy Fat Tuesday! Time to get all your partying out of the way to kick in the Christian time of Lent. What are you giving up this year?
Because I know we will be seeing a lot of Hurricanes and Sazeracs on the special lists in blog land, I wanted to introduce you to something that you probably haven’t heard of before, but bears the name of the city where the biggest party of the year will be taking place.
Since you will want to spend time enjoying yourself and not making cocktails, I also wanted to keep this the least complicated. It won’t take you too much time to whip one of these bad boys up.
Enjoy your day and tonight! I wish I had a great excuse on calling off work for you tomorrow morning. Just to make you feel better, I can bet that you won’t be the only one with that self-induced sickness at work. Enjoy the festivities, but remember you are still in the middle of the work week.
New Orleans Buck
1 1/2 oz. White Rum
1 oz. Orange Juice
Juice from 1/2 Lemon
Ginger Ale
Method: Place the first three ingredients to measure in a mixing glass with ice. Cap and shake to blend. Strain into a highball glass filled with ice. Top off with ginger ale. Garnish with a half wheel of lemon on the rim of the glass.
This Day in History:
1801 - An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr was broken by the House of Representatives who chose Jefferson as President.
1817 - Baltimore, Maryland became the first US city to be lit by gas.
1864 - The Confederate submarine, Hunley, used a protruding spar with an explosive at its end to ram and sink Union ship Housatonic off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina.
1904 - Puccini’s opera, Madam Butterfly, premiered in Milan.
Notable Birthday:
Basketball great, Michael Jordan was born on this date in 1963.
Notable Quote:
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” - Michael Jordan
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