mint julep update

Wikipedia came to the rescue, of course, with the following links to Alton Brown's mint julep recipe and another one from a bourbon company. Drawing on the bourbon company recipe, I made some sugar syrup with mint (by cooking down equal parts sugar and water with a whole lot of crushed mint leaves) and mixed up a tablespoon of the syrup, two tablespoons Maker's Mark Kentucky bourbon, a few mint leaves, ice, and seltzer in a mug, which was passed around the table for sampling. "Who'd like one of her own?" I asked.

Then another Badger satellite arrived with a bottle of Maker's Mark as big as my head, and he made a pitcher of julep using only mint, whiskey, syrup, and ice. Those of us who were Not That Satellite diluted our drinks with seltzer or still water, but they were still heady. Good but WhoaStrong.

In other news, it's Monday, I accomplished very few of the things I wanted to over the weekend, and my tailbone/pelvis/bottom vertebrae hurt. Bah.