Friday Night Cocktail Party Strawberry Daiquiri (Kind of)
The ingredients of a daiquiri are Lime, Sugar, Rum! * Papa Hemingway is credited with the addition of Maraschino * Then someone with a bad mustache and a Hawaiian shirt added strawberries and a blender. (I'm hoping David Wondrich is reading this email and corrects me with the real origin of the strawberry daiquiri) * Some large corporation then made a strawberry daiquiri mix, with lots of chemicals and preservatives. * Then the cocktail revolution happened and real daiquiri's re-appeared, sometimes containing fruit! While we don't like generic strawberries in our daiquiri, we find that local strawberries go VERY, VERY well in the daiquiri formula. It's not a true daiquiri because we also add an egg white. This really adds this wonderful fluffy character to the whole thing and opens up the flavors like no blender ever could! It's going to be a very, very short season for local strawbs this year. The rain pretty much washed out the first 65% of the season's crop. We got some great ones in yesterday and they are destined for your cocktail glass Friday night, and as long as they last through the weekend! Come see us. On Friday evening at The Cocktail Bar at Catherine Lombardi, we will offer NJ Strawberry Daiquiri (kind of) for $9.
Hors d'Oeuvres will be passed until 9 PM. The most tasteful cocktail enthusiasts of The Garden State will be in attendance, as is their custom. We hope you will join us!