A cherry and lime martini cocktail with an egg white foam head to resemble the clouds of a hurricane. Drop 2 Luxardo maraschino cherries down the center of the egg white foam to get the hurricane eye effect.
It’s the 3rd cocktail in my Liquor.com take over and we are going to deep dive in on this Hurricane Eye. If you need to catch up on what the Liquor.com take over start here.
I hope this one speaks for itself but here is some background. Cocktail 3 this week is the Hurricane Eye. As I noted yesterday, I like to tell the stories of my life through what I create. That includes the bad. This week marks a year after Hurricane Harvey hit my area. Time and time again the word catastrophic is used to describe the event and it was exactly that. I correct myself, it is exactly that. If you live in any area that sees major weather systems, you know it takes years to come back from. That same thing lies true here. People are still recovering.
If there was any cocktail I went back and forth about adding to this line up this week, it’s this one. In no way do I want to come off as celebrating Harvey. No. The mere thought of Harvey makes my stomach drop. What I do want to honor is the people of this great city and cities effected by this storm.
In the days that followed after Harvey this city came together to help it’s own. When the media left and we no longer made head lines, it was the community that helped carry the weight of what so many lost. People are resilient and good. It’s easy to forget that in this day but I’ll never forget the words and actions I’ve seen since Harvey hit. If anything came of Harvey that was positive, it was the power of this community and the love it has for it’s people. So that’s what I wanted to honor today. The people of South East Texas. For you are the the shinning light it a dark time.
And because of that, I kept the cocktail in the line up. It’s a roll of a dice but I hope you understand where I’m coming from. Just like that week of Harvey this cocktail is dark and brooding but what lies underneath is smooth and sweet.
HURRICANE EYE
To sum the taste of this cocktail, it’s a cherry and citrus cocktail that’s had an egg white shaken into it, to smooth it out. It’s a sweet sip but not tooth aching sweet. I feel sometimes our sweet palette friends get left in the dust in the cocktail world. I use Luxardo maraschino cherries, if you use the bright red ones in the jar, this drink will probably tip too sweet. USE GOOD CHERRIES. This drink can also be made with dry gin if you don’t have vodka on hand. B and I did 3 or 4 tasting rounds on this one deciding between gin and vodka. Vodka won out by a smidge.
A cherry and lime martini cocktail with an egg white foam head to resemble the clouds of a hurricane. Drop 2 Luxardo maraschino cherries down the center of the egg white foam to get the hurricane eye effect.
- 1.5 ounces Vodka (or Dry Gin if you prefer)
- 1 ounce Lime Juice
- 0.5 ounce Blue Curacao
- 0.25 ounces Maraschino Cherry Juice (USE GOOD CHERRIES)
- 1 Egg White
- 2 Maraschino Cherries
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Into a cocktail shaker, vigorously dry shake vodka, lime juice, blue curacao, maraschino cherry syrup, and egg white.
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Add ice into the shaker and shake again. Strain into a coupe glass.
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Drop two cherries into the center of the foam to create “the eye”.
So that’s cocktail 3 on Day 4 of my take over. This week has been, hard. A lot of emotions have resurfaced from a year ago. It’s an event that I will never forget. If you want to read my Hurricane Harvey post from last year, you can do so here. I was in between visits of mucking out my best friend’s house and a shift at the animal shelter. My emotions needed a release at that point from carrying a lot weight, so if it’s grammatically terrible, oh well.
I make cocktails, I don’t wax poetry.
If you would like to read more of my deep dives from this weeks takeover with Liquor.com, you can check out the other days here.
DEEP DIVES OF THE TAKEOVER
COCKTAIL 1 | COCKTAIL 2 | COCKTAIL 3 | COCKTAIL 4