Swine flu! Haven't been able to work. To top it all up, my idea for a cocktail article was rejected by an ignorant editor. It would have been a page turner. Me, my best friend, the lead singer of HIM Ville Valo and the Swedish artist José Gonzales at my place, add the cocktail guru Victor Über to teach how to make gorgeous cocktails, a photographer, and a party! Guess what the editor said? 'I don't have a format for that in my mag'. WTH??? Who cares about formats?! Not my fans, one thing I know for sure.
Went for a doctor. Considering my occupancy, he told me to keep to moderate alcohol consumption even when ill, although not advicable to anyone below the heavy drinker line, whom, frankly, I don't know any. (At least we're not pot heads. Drinking is legal, and if it's legal it cannot hurt). Cutting a decade long habit cold turkey would be simply dangerous. But told the doctor, I do need to mix some vitamins into my alcohol.
So, the story goes, it all turned into something productive: I learnt to mix my own drinks. Finally. Which places me one step closer to my dream, running my own cocktail bar! And now I have a winner concept too: health cocktail bar! Maybe alongside a spa.
Here are my tips for healhty cocktails you can do at home now.
1. Agave syrup caipirinhas. Juice of one lime per drink for vitamin C, a tablespoon of healhty Agave Syrup, ice and a generous gulp of energising yet relaxing cachaça.
2. Ginger syrup. Ginger cures anything. Make your own delicious cocktail syrup by melting sugar together with water and sliced ginger in a pot with low heat, cooking for a half an hour. Let cool and store in your fridge. Try with gin, pineapple juice and a dash of ginger ale.
3. Cinnamon syrup. Melt brown sugar together with water and a cinnamon cane in a pot on low heat. Let cool and store in your fridge. Mix in vodka, apple juice and a dash of soda.
It's good for you!
Details? At the stage I'm in? Ha ha ha ha ha.
