Dark and Stormy

Ok. We’ve been gone for a while with birthday parties, weddings, wedding-planning, job applications, holidays, family visits, basketball playoffs and the like, but we are back! We have still been cooking, though admittedly ordering more take-out Indian than usual, we just haven’t had a chance to post some of the things we’ve been doing. We will. In the meantime, we are easing back into things with a drink. Cheers!

A quick back-story on our love of these drinks — A’s aunt hosts an annual summer bash complete with delicious food (including fresh lobsters), plenty of booze and of course, excellent company.  We went once when we were first dating and we owe this drink to that party.  Said aunt’s fantastic girlfriend asked Z if he had ever had a Dark and Stormy.  She responded to his “no” by promptly making one and it went down easy.  Z was still getting to know the family and it is safe to say that the cocktail below was part-delicious and part-necessary-social-lubricant.

Since then Dark and Stormy’s have become a household staple.  We made them for friends of friends of friends who stopped by to charge their phones and take showers in the Hurricane Sandy aftermath.  We’ve made them for less-distraught dinner guests and for the most part we make them whenever we are in the mood for something refreshing (and alcoholic).

 

Dark and Stormy

(Makes 1 drink)

2 oz dark rum

2 oz ginger beer (or more depending on your tastes)

Slice of lime

Ice cube

 

Slice the lime.  Put 2 ice cubes in your glass.  Pour in the rum and ginger beer.  Squeeze the lime into the drink and toss it in.

Relish and relax.