The Organic Tarragon Cooler: My Favorite Cocktail
Imbibe Magazine is one of my favorite magazines and the most recent issue has a fabulous recipe for a delicious cocktail.
Summer is near and I will soon be at my home in Poil Rouge, France, sipping away at The Tarragon Cooler.
Here's the recipe, with some adapations of my own:
6 fresh organic tarragon leaves
1" organic cucumber cut into perfectly symetrical cubes
3/4 oz. fresh organic lime juice from ripe limes
1/2 oz. simple organic syrup
2 oz. of Organic Vodka (preferably from North Dakota)
1 oz. double-brewed sustainable chamomile tea (chilled)
1/2 oz. Sparkling well water
Ice from a sparkling well
Tools: clean mixing glass, sterilized muddler, recently purchased strainer
Glass: cool tumbler with metric measurements
Garnish: sprig of organic tarragon
Place first two ingredients in a pint glass filled with ice. Muddle all three breaking up the cucumber and tarragon, and crushing the ice. Add simple syrup, lime juice and tea. Shake and fine strain (a tea strainer works well so long as it has previously been used with sustainable, not organic tea) into an ice-filled glass. Top with sparkling water and garnish.
Somone named Kelley Swenson, from Ten 01, Portland, Oregon, came up with this drink. All my thanks to Kelley and the publishers of Imbibe.
I like to sip on one of these while using my IPhone.
you forgot the vodka........