When the Smoke Clears

Army Wife is over at her place asking folks for recipes for the upcoming Fourth of July. It’s at the end of another one of her experiential posts but the real insult is in the phrasing. She has the unmitigated gall to ask for recipes from the LADIES as if there aren’t a few men around the blogosphere who happen to know a thang er two about cooking. (Speaking of, has anyone ever found their gall mitigated, or is it usually in its unmitigated format? Did you have to put anything on it? Like maybe an ointment? or a salve?)

So I will not present a cream cheese desert, oh no. I’ll not share a recipe for food. I’ll share a recipe for alcohol. If you want to celebrate the 4th as an adult, fix up some of these for your friends after the kids are tuckered out and sleeping. Raise one for me. I’ll be in-processing somewhere at an Army base near you.

You will need a shot glass and a spoon.

Pour clear Creme de Cacao into the shot glass to fill it about halfway. Turn the spoon over and gently pour red grenadine syrup over the spoon letting it drop down the side. It will settle on the bottom. Clean the spoon and again, with the spoon turned over, edge of the spoon against the side of the shot glass, gently, and very slowly, pour in Blue Curaçao. If the top layer mixes with the bottom layer, you will get permanent purple and lose the effect.

The effect is a red, white and blue shot of stuff that you take in one quick gulp. It ends up tasting like a chocolate-covered cherry with a hint of orange. Behold the Viking Medic with his very own:

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