It’s hot outside … or at least it was. I can’t keep track of things. I’ll catch up with you: this week has done bad things to my brain. Starting the week at a scorching 115 and ending it at 75 broke me in a unique way. I never liked being hot, but now I fear the heat – but at least my garden made it.
That kind of heat – the unprecedented, scorching, alien heat of 115 degrees – isn’t the kind of heat that makes you have beach chair cocktails, but now that the “normal” heat is back, I think we are can start again. I originally wanted to start this long weekend with strawberry daiquiris shaken with homemade hood strawberry jam, but I’m out of rum so we’re using cachaça, which is sometimes called “Brazilian rum”, so checkmate, bar wagon!
And yes, I know I’ve written about a lot Jam cocktail, but this one is worth highlighting. The jam is sweet and has an intense strawberry flavor at the same time, and the cachaça makes it interesting – and all you have to do is shake it and strain it. Jam also tends to add a “breakfast vibe” to any drink it touches, so you can start drinking much earlier and not feel weird about it. To make this light pink cachaça cooler you will need:
- 2 ounces cachaça
- 3 tablespoons of strawberry jam
- 1 ounce lime juice
Combine everything in the shaker with ice and shake until the shaker gets too cold to hold. Strain through a fine sieve into a coupe glass and stir the jam in the sieve with a spoon so that it does not clog. Drink in the sun while you’re still getting on well with the thing, or sip in the shade or indoors or in a cool basement.
