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stevenpiziks) wrote2022-08-07 01:20 pm
stevenpiziks) wrote2022-08-07 01:20 pm
Poker Night With New Drinks
Since the pandemic started, our poker parties have become more irregular, but we still have them. This time, Darwin and I were hosting in our new house. It's fun to have it here because I can make party food I rarely get to play with. This time, the centerpieces were home-made mac and cheese and a pavlova, which is a frothy, meringue-and-fruit dessert perfect for summer evenings.
When the players began to arrive, our friend Carol produced a housewarming present: a 2-liter of the new Vernors Black Cherry , which is difficult to find. Vernors, for those who aren't familiar, is a brand of ginger ale you can only find in the Great Lakes part of the country. It's one of the few regional treats left.
I tasted it and liked it and remembered I had in the freezer a bottle of cherry vodka I'd bought from a specialty brewery in Traverse City. And a new drink was born. I declared the name to be a Cherry Popper. (Because it's made with cherry pop. What did you think I meant?)
CHERRY POPPER
8 oz. Black Cherry Vernors
1 oz. cherry vodka
ice
Combine ingredients in cocktail glass and stir. Garnish with fresh or maraschino cherry.
It turned into the drink of the evening!
The game itself was weird. We had long, long streaks of dull hands. The flops had no face cards. Few of us got pocket pairs. The big moment, though, came when two players went all in and turned their pocket cards, only to show they BOTH had a pair of kings. (!!) The flop cards didn't have the right combination to give anyone a flush, so no matter what other cards showed up, it would have to be a tie!
It was a fun evening of food and cards.
When the players began to arrive, our friend Carol produced a housewarming present: a 2-liter of the new Vernors Black Cherry , which is difficult to find. Vernors, for those who aren't familiar, is a brand of ginger ale you can only find in the Great Lakes part of the country. It's one of the few regional treats left.
I tasted it and liked it and remembered I had in the freezer a bottle of cherry vodka I'd bought from a specialty brewery in Traverse City. And a new drink was born. I declared the name to be a Cherry Popper. (Because it's made with cherry pop. What did you think I meant?)
CHERRY POPPER
8 oz. Black Cherry Vernors
1 oz. cherry vodka
ice
Combine ingredients in cocktail glass and stir. Garnish with fresh or maraschino cherry.
It turned into the drink of the evening!
The game itself was weird. We had long, long streaks of dull hands. The flops had no face cards. Few of us got pocket pairs. The big moment, though, came when two players went all in and turned their pocket cards, only to show they BOTH had a pair of kings. (!!) The flop cards didn't have the right combination to give anyone a flush, so no matter what other cards showed up, it would have to be a tie!
It was a fun evening of food and cards.