You never know when the “create my own drink” mood will strike. Recently it struck as I was looking for a way to use up the VAST QUANTITIES of mint. The results are a refreshing, “too early for the bar bell” version of a mojito.
MY OWN MOCK-JITO.
Assemble the following items:
- A sturdy tumbler
- Lemon-lime soda
- Dash of either lemon juice or lime juice. Even better a slice of lemon or lime
- Ice
- Mint leaves.
Take the following steps:
- Muddle the mint with a slice of fruit or a squirt of lemon juice (or lime juice) at the bottom of the tumbler. Use the handle end of a wooden spoon if you don’t have a wooden muddler.
- Add lemon-lime soda and stir. No need to use sugar in the muddling as one would do with an actual mojito because the soda has sugar in it already.
- Add ice, stir briskly.
- Add bendy straw (cause ALL my drinks involve bendy straws)
- Drink.
If you’ve heard the bar bell, imagined the bar bell or just figured the bar bell must have rung SOMEWHERE – switch from mock-jito to mojito and add rum to taste. Or vodka – also to taste. It won’t be a mojito in the strictest sense of the word but if it tastes good, who cares?