Cheers to The Daisy Cocktail

I was thinking it was about cocktail time in my kitsch-en. Every year my very special group of friends who I trained with to be a docent at the DIA get together for a little reunion party, usually at the studio of Jerrie Sasson, who amongst many other accomplishments is a fabulous artist.This year was no exception, and Jerrie always asks Mark to be the mixologist. He revels in creating, reinventing, and or renaming a cocktail in honor of the event. This year, it was decided we would feature The Daisy (which for the evening we renamed The Jerrie in honor of our hostess with the most-ess). The Daisy, in one incarnation or another, has been around since the turn of the last, last century. Rum, Bourbon, and Brandy are all daisy varieties. We went with rum. One rule, never to be broken, is that it is always served over ice with a seasonal fruit garnish. I suggest you let the spirit move you, because it's always five o' clock somewhere.

Cheers (filmed in front of a live studio audience) was a sitcom set in Boston (but not filmed in front of a live Boston studio audience). Sam and Diane, will they or won't they? Yes, and then no and then Shelly Long leaves for "greener" pastures. Enter Rebecca, which I frankly never quite figured out (but I'm a bigger Parker Stevenson fan than a Kirstie Alley fan, no pun intended). Coach and then Woody (Dumb and Dumber foreshadowing perhaps?). Carla hates Cliff. Frasier loves Lilith then doesn't and moves to Seattle. NORM! The great cross-town rivalry with Gary's Old Town Tavern. An NBC juggernaut from 1982-1993. Wouldn't it be nice to get away? It is always nice go where people are all the same, you know, where everybody knows your name.


The Recipe:

2 oz light rum (or whatever moves you)
1/2 oz grenadine
1oz lime juice
1/2 tsp sugar (unless using pre-sweetened grenadine & lime, then forget the extra sugar)
ice
fresh fruit garnish


Special equipment: drink swords

Add rum, grenadine, lime juice and ice in a cocktail shaker. Shake and pour into an ice-filled tumbler. Garnish with fresh fruit (on little swords). Umbrellas optional. Makes one Daisy. To make a whole pitcher, repeat six times.