The Case for Cocktails

With spring in the forecast for this weekend, at least where we are, "The Case of Cocktails" is certainly an appropriate post!

Strawberry Daiquiri

The honorable occasion of EnglishMuffin’s own Bess’s birthday a few weeks ago was celebrated with a Strawberry Daiquiri, whose recipe (slightly modified) from the book, “The Ultimate Bar Book” by Mittie Hellmich is as follows:

Frozen Strawberry Daiquiri
2 ounces light rum
1 ounce fresh lime juice
½ ounce simple syrup (equal parts sugar and water, boiled and chilled)
½ cup sliced strawberries
¼ ounce crème de framboise
garnish: lime slice or strawberry

Shake the liquid ingredients vigorously with ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish.

If you’ve never had them, try Daiquiris in classic, strawberry, banana, watermelon or peach.

Other drinks to try: Margarita, Martini, Fuzzy Navel, Mint Julep, Mojito (mo-HEE-to), Kir, Whiskey Sour, Long Island Iced Tea, Mai Tai, Pina Colada, Tequila Sunrise, Bloody Mary, Cosmopolitan, Manhattan, White Russian, Caipirinha (pronounced Car-pre-EEN-ya).

- The Guerilla Gourmand

The Jelly Boys

St. Paul's Cathedral

I saw this in the New York Times and thought it was so funny! For more pictures, and the full article check out the Dining & Wine section of the NY Times.

Eggcelent design!

I'm starting to see Easter decorations everywhere I look! It's a big holiday here in Vienna as the Austrians seem to be very devout Catholics. Easter is also a big deal here as it is part of the Spring semester break, where students get about a week and a half off of school. Yay!!

These pretty wooden eggs are from Domestic Candy in Hamburg, Germany. They are available here.

The Butter Flying

Mobile - Spring Rainy Clouds

I thought these cute and quirky mobiles from The Butter Flying would be a perfect spring time post. Montreal based designer, le ptit papillon's mobiles and garlands are available in her Etsy shop. You can also check out her blog here.

Mobile - Spring Rainy Clouds

Mobile - Return of Fishing

Jewel Garland

Jewel Garland

Mobile - Jellyfish Flowers

Mr. and Mrs. Guerilla Gourmand

This weekend we were treated to some lovely Indian food and Japanese treats from our friends, the Gourmand's. Here are a few pix I snapped of our yummy meal.

Fritters

The main entree

It was Mr. Gourmand's birthday,

but we're the ones that got the cool presents! Here's a pic of my very own see through Japanese dollar store umbrella.

Some "Fine beer jelly in chocolate" for Big Chuck.

They even look like little beer mugs.

An authentic Japanese girl lunchbox - complete with chopsticks!

This was part of the dessert, I really like the snowflake design.

Hope you had a good weekend too!

New in the shop

Hi guys, I just wanted to let you know that I've added some new 123 Printables to my Etsy shop.

Ex Libris
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Happy Friday :)

Open That Bottle Night

Photo via Flickr

Every last Saturday in February since 2000 is Open That Bottle Night. The inventors of this brilliant celebration are Dorothy Gaiter and John Brecher, who write a weekly wine column in the Wall Street Journal called “Tastings”. The purpose is to get people to take that special bottle of wine and open it for enjoyment.

For the last year's celebration, they wrote an article that painstakingly described how to treat an old bottle of wine.

At the household of the Guerilla Gourmand, we may possibly be more (frequently) inventive than Dorothy and John. We try to find fun and legitimate excuses to try all our wines at any whim-of-an-excuse. We believe that the “Special Time” for that “Special Wine” is now.

Our motto is: Wine should be enjoyed. Personally, I would never consciously store wine to the point where dust would accumulate on it. But if you must be sentimental, go ahead and store it, preferably in a temperature-controlled environment. However, I ask that you make plans to consume it within the year, or at maximum, two years. That way, you get to look forward to it for when your milestone is met and thus mark something special with, well, something special!. And, the wine will actually still taste good, too!

- The Guerilla Gourmand

A robot a day... well, you know the rest.

Silver Robot Pouch

A robot a day is the adorable art project of Anatomy of a Skirt designer, Erin Wilk.

These handy little robot pouches are great for storing "change, hair clips, Ipods, money, secrets, little things, maps to hidden treasure, a beer can, juice boxes, fruit snacks, square cookies, bits and bobs, ribbon, bits of string, a spare pair of socks, batteries, nuts, bolts, jewellery, hundred dollar bills, nickels, pennies, a very small diary, important things, origami paper, seeds, a pair of glasses, love notes, something you want hidden, something you want to remember, thread, scissors, make-up, tape."

Erin makes a robot everyday, Monday to Friday, in an effort to create her very own robot army, as well as make use of vinyl scraps from her purses, diverting them from the landfills. It was hard to choose which robots to feature here, so be sure to check out the oodles of robots on her website, robotaday.com.


Jaunty Sailor Bot
Oktoberfest Robot Pouch
Mummy Robot Pouch
Mermaid Robot Pouch

Beaver Robot Pouch