WARNING: SHAMEFUL PROMOTION AHEAD.
Next Thursday, May 18th the Old Ellicott City community is bringing back GIRL’S NIGHT OUT! I don’t mean to shout, but every piece of normalcy returned to our community is another piece of the painful puzzle put in place that we are slowly assembling. One day it will be complete and the pain will be less, maybe even gone when it’s not raining.
This is also exciting because Tersiguel’s is finally getting on this train, and this month’s theme is Mules. Not the shoe, the cocktail. Oh, and the detail that it’s Girl’s Night Out, so maybe you need to gather up your girlfriends and hit the town for a few hours.
The Mule idea really sparked my interest because it’s a favorite cocktail of mine, and I really love that old, classic cocktails are making a resurgence. Plus, it’s an example of how much sour citrus fruit has rained down on our town, and we are making some limeade.
Last week I started working on cleaning out the vegetable garden beds for summer planting, and unfortunately my rosemary bushes were looking pretty beat up. I pruned them back, so that’s another gardening experiment to add to my list, so I had a ton of rosemary in our garage. I thought Chef would take them in, but it was a market day, and he didn’t really have an immediate need for it. The wheels were a turning.
I grabbed a bag of limes from Costco. Let’s pause for just a second – you can get a whole lotta limes for a great price a Costco, and by a whole lot I mean more-limes-that-you-can-ever-use-before-they-go-bad, so unless you have big plans for all the limes, make big plans to be squeezing a lot of limes. This only about a third of the bag.
On the stove top, I boiled four cups of water, with one cup of sugar, and 7 rosemary sprigs. While that was working, I squeezed limes. This Orange X can be used for more than Orange Crushes. ?
I added one cup of fresh squeezed lime juice to the water, sugar, and rosemary. I let it cool over night and strained the rosemary leaves. Yup, zero pictures of that happening.
For a little Wednesday afternoon cocktail, I gathered up my ingredients and copper mug.
While serving a mule in a copper mug is traditional, it’s not necessary peeps. Reach of the solo cup.
Does this not looking refreshing?
If you are in these Central Maryland neck of the woods, stop by next week and have one. If not, grab some rosemary on your next shopping trip.
Rosemary Mule
1 1/2 oz vodka
1 oz rosemary lime simple syrup
1/2 cup ginger beer
sliced lime and rosemary sprig for garnish
Fill a copper mug or cup of your juice with ice and pour all the ingredients over it.
Rosemary Lime Simple Syrup
Makes 1 quart
4 cups water
1 cup sugar
1 cup lime juice
7 sprigs of rosemary
In a medium sauce pan over high heat, boil the water and sugar. Once the sugar is dissolved, add the lime juice and rosemary. Remove from heat. Let steep for two hours minimum, or let set on stove top over night. Strain the rosemary and store in an airtight container in the fridge for several weeks.