Cocktail Hour – The Stiletto

All right, all right, all right. It’s cocktail time (I don’t subscribe to the conventional “It’s 5 o’clock somewhere” because, if I’m conscious, it’s drink:thirty – that’s why mimosas were invented). If you remember, last week I told you that I had made a cocktail that was so disgusting to me that I almost wiped my tongue off like a petulant child. So I decided to go with my all-time favorite drink for the next “installment.”

The Stiletto

1.5 oz. bourbon (let’s be honest, I start at 3 oz.)
3/4 oz. amaretto
splash of simple syrup or sweet and sour
maraschino cherries

Just the sound of the shaker makes me happy. I think it also soothes Ralph and Ted. They know “mommy” is about to get a whole lot mommier.

I felt kinda bad that I didn’t take a picture of all the ingredients, but I was a little embarrassed by our container of maraschino cherries. It’s a…one gallon jar. NOW. Let me say that is NOT because I drink Stilettos so often that Ryan thought it would just be more economical to buy the gallon jar. It’s just because he buys everything in bulk. I swear. I was then going to just put a couple of cherries in a jar for the picture, but then I realized I had gotten cherry juice on my Justin Timberlake t-shirt and…I just need to drink the drink, man. Just accept that you are not reading A Beautiful Mess and we can all move on.

By the way, Ryan said the picture I took was really cool. Then he asked me if I accidentally had my thumb over the lens. NICE!!! Thanks for the vote of confidence in my photographic ability! (And for those of you who know how bad I am at pictures, let me assure you that the answer to his question is no).

Oh, and I just have to say that drinking a couple of these caused me to write a very long post on Lindsay Lohan’s reality TV show on OWN. By the light of day, I realized it was a little nonsensical and maybe people don’t really care about Lindsay Lohan’s reality TV show on OWN, so I didn’t publish it. You’re welcome.