Loose Ends and MoCCA
By Tea Berry-Blue on February 23rd, 2010Posted In: Everyday Life
So, you have probably noticed there were no comics last week, and the week before there were only a few.
I am not giving up on comics, but I do need to cut down on the number I am doing for now, because I have to take time to do my homework for class, and also, I need to spend more time preparing for MoCCA, because I WILL have a table. If you are going to be in NYC on April 10 or 11, you should stop by and see me! After then, I will try and figure out the right schedule for comics. I think it will be three days a week.
I am super excited about this whole thing. But I need to do a lot of work to get ready. I am crocheting hats, and working on minicomics. ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
shinyredtype and I are working on an awesome little project for it.
If you offered to send something for the charity raffle– or if this is the first time you’re hearing about it– please contact me privately and I’ll work this out with you. You have about a month to send things.
One thing I need to do is make a business card! I’ve never made business cards before. Here is my first shot at one:
What do you all think? I deliberately didn’t include my phone number, as I prefer working via email and I don’t want to give my phone number out to crazies. Also, I like the idea of putting “cute stuff” as opposed to a specific jobby-job because I do so many things, and cute is probably the best unifying term. Suggestions, advice? Let me know what you think!
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This week, I experimented with two flavors of bitters from Bittermens and The Bitter Truth, which my mother bought me as a Valentine’s gift! Here are the results:
1) Rabbitini
Rabbitini
Ingredients:
3 oz Hendrick’s Gin (this recipe is intended for Hendrick’s and not another brand of gin)
1 Kirby (small) cucumber, or 1/2 large cucumber
2 tsps white sugar
1 pinch celery seed
1 oz Dolin’s Vermouth
4 dashes The Bitter Truth Celery Bitters
Ice
Chill 2 martini glasses
Slice 2 slices cucumber and reserve
Chop remaining cucumber, muddle in shaker with sugar and celery seed
Add gin, vermouth and bitters, shake
Remove ice from glasses and pour
Garnish with cucumber, serve
This drink is crisp and refreshing, with a nice celery-cucumber taste. It’s great with seafood and salads– we had it with a scallop and green apple salad.
2) Red Chocolate
Red Chocolate
Ingredients:
1 blood orange
3 oz bourbon (I used Buffalo Trace)
4 dashes Bittermens Xocolatl Mole Bitters
1 tsp white sugar
1 tsp unsweetened cocoa powder
Chill 2 martini glasses
Slice two half moons of blood orange, reserve.
Squeeze juice from remaining blood orange into shaker
Add a few slices of blood orange peel from squeezed orange to shaker
Add bourbon and bitters
Mix sugar and cocoa together on a plate
Moisten edge of glasses with water or tiny bit of bourbon
Remove ice from glasses, rim glasses with cocoa-sugar mixture
Add a small bit of water (about 1/4 tsp) to remaining cocoa-sugar mixture and stir with fork until dissolved
Pour cocoa-sugar mixture into shaker
Shake and pour
Add lood orange wedge for garnish
This drink has a wonderfully complex flavor that starts out very bitter for the first few minutes after pouring but then opens up and becomes smoky and rich. It would go well with beef or pork– we drank it with flank steak.
I have been doing Hourly Comics For Hourly Comics Day
Click to see all the hourly comics from today so far!
More tomorrow when I can get things scanned!
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