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July 13, 2005
hail the discipline brick, bringer of teeth!
Editor's Note: Since I'm so busy, today Molars will take another detour into the recipe section. Lots of good music to write about (I want to write something more about that Wooden Wand solo album), but not enough time to do so (I'm leaving my current job and home in Virginia to move to Pennsylvania at the end of the month, so a lot of stuff is up in the air right now).
Anyway. I first heard about this Lemonade Shake from Ms. JW, who spoke of it in a manner that made it sound like it was possibly the most perfect beverage ever crafted by human hands. In Chicago, it's apparently served at a certain Costa Rican restaurant (don't know the name- but that should narrow it down, there aren't many restaurants in Chicago, right?), and it has lots of ice and lots of mint in it as well. I couldn't find any comparable recipe online, so this one is a cobbled together mosaic of a Lemonade Shake, frankensteined from many different sloppy lemon-derived drink recipes. Feel free to adapt it to your own tastes.
Lemonade Shake
1 1/2 cups vanilla ice cream
1 cup lemon sorbet
1/2 cup lemon juice
(optional) 1/4 cup champagne
garnish with a mint leaf (or blend them in, if you're feeling adventurous)
If any of you make it, let me know how it turns out. Music again tomorrow.
Posted by Kevin at July 13, 2005 09:36 AM
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irazu is supposedly the only costa rican restaurant in chicago. they serve two types of salsa that both taste like paste, but a sort of delicious, addicting brand of paste that comes in either red or green. milkshakes can be made with milk or water and one or the other MUST be specified (this is why people stay away from the lemonade shake: they ask themselves 'milk or water? would milk be good in lemonade? is that how the costa ricans do it? what if the waitress looks at me weird for wanting water in my shake? water doesn't shake right!' what they do not know is that the costa ricans are taking care of everything. they know what's best).
i might have imagined all the mint. but the drink is still the best thing since egg nog.
Posted by: jw at July 14, 2005 10:36 PM
Yes, Ms. JW! Thanks so much for writing down the correct origin story for the shake. I was going to make up something about how you won the recipe off of a drifter in a high-stakes poker game, but that just didn't seem right. I'm glad you came by to deliver the true background for the drink. Also I like the name Irazu.
Posted by: Kevin at July 15, 2005 10:30 AM