Hallo ihr alle da draussen...today...i did a lot of soul-searching. Sorted out my thoughts about her...and today...i will present to you a mosaic of all my jumbled screwed-up thoughts...the fact hangs heavily upon my heart...a chip in the glass fabric of my heart - a heart carefully rebuilt out of broken crystal shards...and after speaking with kelvin for a tad, it struck me that although she was here in Singapore, she was further away than rain was to kelvin in the United Kingdom. Komisch, oder? It's not that i'm now suddenly crippled - far from that - but today i went around with a sense of loss...it was like suddenly missing someone who you know will disappear from your life forever and ever...and that you'll never see her again in person...
Blame me if i do sound too fatalistic, but i get this little ache...this little feeling of nothingness where there was once light. Okay, so it dimmed recently - as i said before, even i saw the end before it came...there's also this feeling that she's slipping away...much, much too fast for me to do anything...
And all there is to do is to stand and watch.
Please don't blame me if i have to be the one to spread it to the entire world - funny how i should know huh? And please don't look for the person who sold you out - i think that i would have to know in the end anyhow, and knowing it now is better than knowing it later - i'd rather keep the impression that you were one of the closest friends i had than as someone who was nothing more but a heartbreaker.
That's that. Today i finally made a proper Cointreau Caïpirinha - don't ask me how to pronunce it because i can't as well...finally got my hands on one of those huge U.S. Limes...which are basically huge limes the size of lemons, only green. So geht's...
Cointreau Caïpirinha
Half a lime, halved and quartered
45 ml Cointreau
Ice
I cracked one of my tumblers when i tried to muddle the lime quarters in a tumbler with my momma's trusty old pestle...which obviously knocked around a lot...but! it's a good reason to get new tumblers. Okay not to digress - place the quarters into a glass, add sugar - maybe 2 teaspoons or so and then, using a pestle (or better, a muddler - a mini-pestle i gather) and muddle those limes. The sugar not only helps to sweeten the lime juice a tad, but also helps to draw the essential oils of lime out from the skins. After that, place ice on top and then top it with the Cointreau. And voilà! The drink is complete.
Cointreau is sweet but don't get me wrong. Despite the liqeuer and the sugar, the drink is sour. Very sour! The lime sees to that. And the drink is very presentable, as it is...i shall take a picture of it next time and show it to you. Basically...it's citrus extreme, although the orange taste of Cointreau is kinda overshadowed by the extreme lime...
A word of warning, though...this cocktail is not for the faint-hearted or the alcohol-intolerant: Although the alcohol is mostly masked, it is very strong! Even so, it's a fancy summer drink, classy and stylish, but without any hippy implications like most tutti-frutti drinks around. But...the Cointreau really makes someone hot...so...maybe you won't appreciate it in the hot sun. Unless you believe that feeling hot improves tanning. But it's a joy to drink cold...ice-cold.
posted by quatscherei @ 20:38
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