Kumquat Dry Soda Cocktail
So, I went to an auction. It seems to be auction season in our part of the world, where people organize fabulous dinner events, with choice items to bid on, in the name of raising money. I wonder to myself if people are spending as much this year as they did last. The economy is a bit on edge: I went to the auction with a budget.
I spent my entire budget on one item. Well, 8 cases of one item.
I bought dry soda; it is a sexy soda based out of Seattle. It transcends corn syrup, sideswipes sweetness and ushers in unusual, savvy, urbanite flavors (lavender, kumquat, lemongrass and rhubarb). You might consider wearing shades while sipping from these clairvoyant bottles.
Their website is as hip as their sodas. I noticed they had a few cocktails on their site, many of which boasted a long list of ingredients. Never fear, my impatience is near. I just borrowed genius from a lemon drop and created a kumquat version:
Kumquat Drop
triple sec
vodka
fresh squeezed orange juice
Kumquat Dry Soda
Per drink: 1/5 fresh squeezed orange juice, 3/5 vodka, 1/5 triple sec, 1/5 kumquat soda. Shake with ice, strain into martini glass; pierce a few kumquats on an olive pick for garnish. Note: feel free to substitute fresh squeezed lemon juice for the orange, or a combination of the two… and skip the sugar rim. It isn’t necessary.
Orange you glad its a kumquat?
Kumquats are awesome; have you ever tried one? It is nature’s lemon drop candy; the candy that is so, so sweet yet makes you pucker straight to the back of your jaw. You can eat kumquats whole, though we usually slice them in half and remove the larger pits. I slice the halves and put them in my boys’ lunch. On my old site (didn’t have time to run two sites, though there is a chance I may resurrect it), Brown Bag Blues, I wrote a post on kumquats that you might find useful (click here).
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Comments
[…] Posted on 29 February 2008 by Giulio Kumquat Dry Soda Cocktail […]
I absolutely love your site ‘Talk of Tomatoes’, but I discovered it thru “Brown Bag Blues’ and I soooooo miss it. I know it would be tough to write two sites, but if there is even a remote chance of resurrecting it, I vote “Yes!” (It was so helpful to us brown-bagger, lunch-packers.)
Frankly, I need all the help I can get!
Thanks.
Barb: wow, what a nice thing to say. Seriously. I appreciate the feedback! I will let you know when I decide to reinvigorate BBB!!!
Looks good.
now this is my kind of cocktail. lovely!
I discovered the kumquat last year when I was at college in Santa Barbara. Our campus had little kumquat trees and my friends and I would pick them and pop whole ones in our mouth on the way to class. Then I discovered Dry Soda at a market in Dallas last semester and loved the subtle kumquat flavor. Mixing it into a cocktail is brilliant!