Pickletini

It’s fkn brine time

Brooke has brought countless wonderful things into my life, most topically, pickled things. I made this one afternoon and then, presumably based on demand, many afternoons afterward.

Ready In: 5 Minutes

Serves: 2, but 1 & a sidecar is completely fine too.

Do not fear the dill grubbins in the pickle juice. Embrace the swamp.

Ingredients

  • 100 ml Tito’s vodka

  • 300 ml Grillo’s pickle juice

  • 1tsp olive juice

  • 2 cups ice

  • 1 Chalkidiki olive, halved

  • 1 pickle spear, cut in 1/2” chunks

  • 1 long toothpick

Preparation

  1. Throw it all in shaker.

  2. Assemble your garnish with pickle, olive, pickle, olive, and munch on the rest of your pickle spear.

  3. Shake the living fuck out of your shaker for 30 seconds. It should be an embarrassingly physical endeavor, but it makes a difference.

  4. Serve asap while it’s still frothy.

Tips

The ratio is just 3:1 PJ to vodka, with a splash of olive juice, so if you’re making this in a batch, as I am often asked, using a mason jar’s markings is a great alternative to measuring out your shots.

Piña Colada

It's a patio slammer to really kick off the weekend.

I want a Piña Colada almost every day of this goddamn existence.

Ready In: 5 Minutes

Serves: Me, bitch.

Ingredients

  • 100 ml rum

  • 100 ml pineapple Juice

  • 100ml coconut cream

  • 24 oz ice

Preparation

  1. Throw it all in a blender.

Tips

Get a mason jar out of your cupboard, go to Goodwill, and find a blender with a pitcher that has the same threading as your mason jar. It’s probably going to be an old Oster line. Buy it. Toss the pitcher and whatever Ninja bullshit you bought in college. Now you have a blender that you can fix yourself with some light googling, get parts at any Goodwill, and instead of dealing with that fat pitcher fuckery, you can just screw on literal mason jars and toss them in the dishwasher when you’re done. Added bonus is a 32oz mason jar already has the 100ml markings on it.