Last night was amazing and I felt like a beauty queen. I am constantly reminded of how fortunate I am to have so many wonderful women in my life; my Teacup, Kathleen, my sisters, the Babe Squad, Danielle. Such supporting and endearing friends. Such a perfect evening.
This was our first date after he got back from Afghanistan. It was weird, and exciting, and a little scary. I wanted to show him all the placed I’d discovered while he was away, but he was still a little twitchy (he had a pretty bad deployment) and the crowd wasn’t his favorite. It was so good to just be together again, to get back into the way we were, or the new way we would become.
Hammerhead’s was a great place to start. We have always bonded over food and our mutual love (obsession?) with it. Those fried mushrooms and my favorite heart attack hamburger (chorizo burger, add pork belly and an egg and that amazing sundried tomato aioli) were the perfect beginning.
We are so much better now than we were even when he left. It took us months to get back into the swing of things, but we are back, baby. I can’t wait to marry him on May 31.
What I’m drinking now.
I’m not a bourbon connoisseur, but I think this is the best bourbon I’ve tasted. This is a very smooth drinking whiskey. This is the 10 year small batch bourbon, I think I paid around $40 for this bottle.
Working through a backlog here. Let’s see…
First, a Porteño:
1 oz bourbon
1/2 oz Fernet Branca
1/2 oz maraschino liqueur
1/2 oz simple syrup
1/2 oz lime juiceShake with ice and strain into chilled little glass — salud.
and
Spanish Harlem
1 1/2 oz tequila (lacking añejo, I used reposado)
1 oz sweet vermouth
2 dashes angostura bitters
rinse (1/4 teaspoon) maraschino liqueurStir with ice and strain into a chilled glass — that’s just one regular twist in there, but do you like the parallax effect from the glass?
OH MY GOSH YOU HAVE TO TELL ME HOW YOU LIKE IT! We got a gift card there for Christmas and spent all of it but like two dollars. So technically we still have some money to spend there, but it’s an ineffectual little two dollars…anyways. SO delicious! Service can be a little slow, but so worth it.
thank you! Always nice to hear some encouraging words!
Sunday Brunch at Ramsi’s by michellej on Flickr.
There was this one time Teacup and I went on a ghost tour of Bardstown road. And honestly…not a lot of haunted stuff around Bardstown Road. Basically it was just this lady with lantern telling us that Avalon’s old building is haunted, and someone disappeared around Cherokee circle this one time. Not the creepiest.
So GQ named The Silver Dollar, on Frankfort, one of the ten best whiskey bars in America.
Well deserved! Go you, Silver Dollar!
