#aka boston

[lessercowboy]

Long live the new fresh

[through-rosey-glasses]

The Old Ironside: A Recipe and Ramble

In preparation for the first games of the Professional Womens Hockey Leauge (PWHL) I am testing out cocktails for each team that hopefully will make an appearance at my watch party. First up I am making a drink for the Boston Fleet.

The Old Ironside (thank you to everyone who voted) is inspired by nautical history and Boston history as well. The special ingredient here is an earl grey syrup that is basically an infused simple syrup. (Recipe for that can be found here) While I understand that an earl grey tea blend we drink today would not have been what was originally thrown overboard, it is a close match that has orange in it. And that orange pairs nicely with the orange juice used in the recipe. The orange and rum lean more to the nautical history of sailors while the tea is a reference to the Boston tea party.

Technically there are three recipes included here. How to make a single glass, how to batch for a party, and a mocktail option. Even if you are not a Boston Fleet fan, this cocktail is a fun and bright refreshment that can be really fun at a party.

(Unfortunately there has been an ant takeover in the kitchen and there isn’t a clean or pretty surface to take pictures of the cocktails right now. Pictures will come when things are clean and there isn’t ant poison in the background.)

 Old Ironside for One  

½ ounce earl grey syrup

1 ounce orange juice

2 ounces rum

Tonic water

Ice

Fill a cocktail glass with ice and pour in the syrup, orange juice, and rum. Give it a bit of a stir before topping it off with tonic water. You can add an orange peel to make it feel fancier.

              Old Ironside Batched

              Keeping a 1/2/4 ratio in mind, fill a pitcher with one part earl grey syrup, two parts orange juice, and four parts rum. I usually use a mason jar when doing this at home, but you can use any measurement that makes sense for you. Invite guests to fill a cup with ice and pour in the cocktail mixture a third of the way in, top off with tonic water, and enjoy!

Old Ironside Mocktail

There are two options here. First is to simply remove the rum from the cocktail. This really lets the earl grey syrup shine. The second would be to replace the rum with a nonalcoholic options, something like the seedlip grove 42 could work well here. (Seedlip is the only nonalcoholic brand I have tried before and why I am sharing it as an option)

Thank you if you read this far! I hope to update with pictures as soon as possible and I am testing out the next drink right now.

[slythernnn]

Had my boobs squished in a machine today

[silentstudiosyt]

"What if Magnus was raised in the Greek world-" WHAT IF ANNABETH WAS RAISED IN THE NORSE WORLD??

[chuckschippedchomper]

matt grzelcyk come home the kids miss you

[starscelly]

and at the end of the day. you can dream and you can aspire and by god you can feel the fiery rage in your heart. but you will never. NEVER. be a bigger hater than some guy from boston.

[gearofthegods]

“You died with a weapon in your hand,”

“I did?” He doesn’t remember that. Just a lot of fire and someone that wasn’t him screaming.

“I’m going to try to argue that a giant metal dragon counts as a weapon.” The valkyrie explained. “Either way, once you reach Valhalla, you can’t leave—“

“Like Hotel California. Wait, is that why it’s called Hotel Valhalla?” Leo held an invisible microphone to his face and began to hum. “You can check out when you like but you can never eva leave. Except I’m pretty sure Hotel California is a reference to drug use.”

He’s probably annoying her. The pinched look on the valkyrie’s face says a lot. To be fair, she deserves it for deciding that a scrawny fourteen year old deserved to be a backup warrior for Viking doomsday.

“What? No, Odin just rebranded a few years back. To appeal to the modern era. Stop asking me questions though, because I need to get your tour over with before heading back to class.”

“You have class?”

“I go to Emerson College. Literally right outside of here.”

“Oh.”

“Valkyries aren’t taken from the dead Valdez.”

“Oh.”

[quentinfiletmignon]

Not the Czech hockey fans being angry that the Bruins made it into round 2 🙄 Some of them were actually hoping they'd lose so we'd get Pasta on the national team for the 2024 Worlds. Like... Sure. I'd be happy if we could have Pasta there. But as a Bruins fan I'm elated that they still have a shot for the Cup.

[national-hockey-gay]

—Alicia Mountain, “The Book is a Hungry Darkness”

[bisexualpixiebabe]

Minnesota I think you mean WINNESOTA!!!

💜🏆💜🏆💜🏆💜🏆

[to-be-spared]

one thing only friends is doing with a clarity i haven't seen very often is show how when you say something, maybe just because you're angry or hurt or frustrated, that weight off your chest ends up on somebody else's shoulders

[sesamestreep]

For the fake fic titles: "Tort Law and Other Aphrodisiacs"

for this ask game! - send me a title and I’ll write a fake fic summary to go with it! 🍓

In the span of six months, Don learns much more than he ever wanted to about what you can reasonably sue someone over in the surprisingly lawless American legal system. In the same six months, he also learns which places have the best breakfast by Sloan’s apartment and the weird trick it takes to get the water in her shower to come out at a normal, habitable temperature. So, it’s not all bad…

[ AKA - Don and Sloan, from Election Night to Patriot’s Day, roughly]

[spilladabalia]

Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band - Bills Corpse [Isolated Tracks]

[leenaur143]

guess who finally started only friends!!!! the way I have been liking posts about it since even before it aired but never actually had the guts to go watch it but the TIME WAS RIGHT yesterday and I watched it and why is it... so flipping good?

[youwillfindilluminating]

patrice bergeron is retiring nobody fucking touch me