Sunday, November 29, 2009

A Night With A Free Daiquiri Recipe And A Broken Bottle Or Three

By Den M Smythe

Finding my first free daiquiri recipe on the web certainly helped reassure me that I was going to be able to put together a terrific cocktail do for my friends. We all enjoy cocktails, but more often than not they're created by other people - professionals at bars that juggle the ingredients. What I needed the reassurance of was a step-by-step guide to cocktails that would really work.

Daiquiri recipes have been proving popular ever since they were 'invented' in'05, and for anyone who's ever tried one, it's not hard to see why. Perhaps besides the great tastes, daiquiri recipes are popular because of their enormous flexibility. I'm often astonished at the seemingly haphazard way fantastic cocktails seem to be put together, yet they taste extraordinary.

The idea behind the planned cocktail party was that we'd all come along armed with various drinks and ingredients suitable for rustling up some daiquiri recipes. However, as the host I accepted that there may well be something of an expectation that I would be capable of producing a daiquiri cocktail worth the ingredients. It was time to tap the faithful keys and look for a free daiquiri recipe online.

It wasn't long before I came across a website suggesting I download a completely free strawberry daiquiri recipe. Never one to pass up an offer with the word 'free' in it (especially when connected to the word 'cocktail'!) I download, mixed, poured, and prepared myself for the real test. From the first sip to the last, I proclaimed my success as a cocktail waiter!

But the experience wasn't to end at merely a successful strawberry daiquiri recipe. Whilst savouring the last drops I noticed that the website which had provided me with my taste of success was also offering an entire ebook of daiquiri recipes. I breathed a sigh of relief, calm in the knowledge that my social reputation was safe, and downloaded the key to daiquiri success.

Naturally I felt a moral obligation to sample a few of the daiquiri recipes in the ebook - after all, I wanted to make sure I gave a polished performance on the evening! Having quickly surmised the layout of the book I felt ready for whatever ingredients or drinks my friends brought. Just a swift glance through the ebook and another custom daiquiri cocktail was served up.

As the evening progressed I confessed that I had acquired my astonishing skills thanks to a daiquiri recipe ebook, and showed them a few of the recipes. At that point I couldn't make any more cocktails, because everyone was flicking through the book choosing their own favourites to try out! Fortunately we now all have our copy of the ebook and are taking turns to host an evening of mixing!

But the story doesn't end there, because no matter how marvellous it was to get hold of a free daiquiri recipe and a whole ebook of popular daiquiri recipes, my reputation for hosting dazzling cocktail parties is now in serious jeopardy since everyone found out that I can't balance a cocktail mixer and a bottle of rum on my nose whilst pouring a drink. Perhaps I need to search for another ebook...

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