January 11, 2015

MxMo XCIII: Blue

January needs a bit of color - or perhaps the month after all the holiday mania makes you feel.....blue?

Either way this months Mixology Monday is a chance to live those emotions out.

You can dazzle us with a brilliant blue drink or you can share that blue feeling with a melancholic drink ?

Blue has been predicted as a new cocktail trend several times in recent years, and I have seen it on several menus, but more as a ironic statment than wholeheartedly love. I will say however that the Shark I had this October at PDT tasted like love to me.

But any mixer of blue drinks is faced with a bit of a dilemma as there is nothing “natural” about E133 - the most common of blue food colors: Do I really want to mix chemicals into my prefect mixture of fresh juices and good booze.

Feel free to interpert blue as freely as you wish - if natural is the way you want to go blueberries, violets, cornflower or red cabbage could be good ingredients to work with.

Me? I just started my homemade blue curacao - as seen in the photo above. And I am prepared to go all in with E133.

Here's how to play:

  • Find or develope a recipe that demonstrates your take on the theme of blue
  • Make the drink and then post the recipe, a photo, and your thoughts about the drink on your blog, tumblr, or website or on the eGullet Spirits and Cocktails forum.
  • Include in your post the MxMo logo and a link back to both the Mixology Monday and Ginhound sites. And once the round-up is posted, a link to that summary post would be appreciated.
  • Provide a link to your submission in the comment section here, tweet me at @husejer, or send an email to andreadoria56-at-gmail.com.
  • The due date is Monday, January 26th and as I am in Copenhagen, Denmark I will interpret it as before midnight here. If your late send me and email, and I will include your entry in the round-up.
Indsendt af kl.
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18 comments:

  1. fredericJanuary 21, 2015 at 7:49 PM

    Double the pleasure, double the fun:

    the Blue Peter (boozy):
    http://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2015/01/blue-peter.html

    the Blue Girl (mockail):
    http://mocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2015/01/blue-girl.html

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 25, 2015 at 4:21 AM

    I made this a lot harder than it should have been, but, as always it was fun! Thanks for hosting. Here is our entry: http://docelliott.net/2015/01/24/mxmo-xciii-blue-blueberry-sage-gin-and-tonic/

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  3. RejiggeredJanuary 25, 2015 at 3:47 PM

    Thanks for hosting! Here's a link to the lavender old-fashioned. I had trouble with the links in the text and will try to relink in a bit. http://rejiggered.tumblr.com/

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  4. AnonymousJanuary 25, 2015 at 5:24 PM

    The Flowering Quince, sure to help you shake off your blueshttps://drinkshrubs.wordpress.com/2015/01/25/mixology-monday-goodbye-blues-2/

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  5. Mike BasistaJanuary 25, 2015 at 10:28 PM

    Thanks for hosting this month, you can see mine here:
    http://drinksburgh.blogspot.com/2015/01/winter-blues.html

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  6. UnknownJanuary 26, 2015 at 1:40 AM

    Thanks for hosting!!

    http://www.foodietails.com/2015/01/26/mixology-monday-blue/

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  7. AnonymousJanuary 26, 2015 at 5:17 PM

    Here's my MxMo: An English Sailor. http://homebargirl.com/2015/01/26/mxmo-an-english-sailor/

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  8. Doug WinshipJanuary 26, 2015 at 7:20 PM

    Here's mine!

    http://www.killingtime.com/Pegu/2015/01/26/mxmo-xciii-blue-surf-savaii-sour/

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  9. Whitney MunroJanuary 26, 2015 at 9:02 PM

    Thank you.This theme makes me deliriously happy!

    http://www.tipicularfixins.blogspot.ca/2015/01/mxmotiki-in-snow.html

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  10. JoelJanuary 27, 2015 at 12:40 AM

    I didn't run into any hitches this time and with a dose of classicism & Shakespeare, may I present the Badges of Woe - http://southernash.com/2015/01/mxmo-mciii-badges-of-woe/

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  11. AnonymousJanuary 27, 2015 at 1:15 AM

    Just Bluing around over here. thanks for hosting! http://ratedrcocktails.com/2015/01/26/mxmo-blue-silk-and-surf/

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  12. AnonymousJanuary 27, 2015 at 2:39 AM

    Great theme and thanks for hosting. We couldn't resist usingthe blue Curacao...so here you go:

    http://putneyfarm.com/2015/01/27/mixology-monday-xciii-cocktail-the-beautiful-corpse/

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  13. AnonymousJanuary 27, 2015 at 3:19 AM

    Fun theme! I enjoyed trying push myself creatively. I'm now inspired to start a whole series of color inspired cocktails... Cheers!
    https://the3archers.wordpress.com/2015/01/25/blue-in-green-mxmo-xciii/

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  14. Ian LauerJanuary 27, 2015 at 5:17 AM

    Hey there, Andrea: thanks for hosting! Here's my entry, the Blue Sky:
    http://wp.me/p1Fl3I-Iq

    Cheers!

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  15. Muse of DoomJanuary 27, 2015 at 8:51 AM

    Thanks for hosting Andrea! Here's a little Azulandro: http://feu-de-vie.blogspot.com/2015/01/mixology-monday-january-2015-blue.html

    Cheers!

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  16. UnknownJanuary 27, 2015 at 3:15 PM

    Thanks for hosting, here's my share http://arcanepotions.blogspot.com/2015/01/mxmo-blue-sapphire-shards.html

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  17. Laura CloerJanuary 27, 2015 at 10:01 PM

    I know I'm super late! Can you still take this entry? Thank you for hosting, and Happy Ginuary!

    http://www.sassandgin.com/2015/01/mixology-monday-mciii-blue-siren-blue.html

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  18. AnonymousJanuary 28, 2015 at 7:57 AM

    Better late than never... here is my post with my reflections on the Aviation cocktail.
    https://tartinestotikis.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/reflective-blue/

    Thanks for hosting!

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