I had my brunch cooking buddy help me pick out recipes this time. She is really big on tea and loves rum and so naturally she came across a brunch booze recipe for green tea mojitos. I figured we could give it a try even though I'm not big on green tea or mint in anything but hot tea. She found it on a website, and I don't have it with me or else I would post a link to it. Sorry, whoever's website that was!
So I brewed the green tea Saturday night. This same night I went all over town (the town of heathens as I mentioned in my baked brie post) looking for mint because that is a completely necessary ingredient for mojitos. As I said in my blueberry banana bread post, it was not to be gotten. So, I did something radical. Because we were already making tea, I figured I'd just add peppermint tea and everything would be fine.
I put the green tea in the fridge overnight unsweetened, and I made the peppermint tea in the morning when my cooking buddy brought it. We brewed it and mixed it all in and then added rum and sugar according to the preference of the guest.
I'm going to leave the critique to my brunch cooking buddy whom I'm going to call Hatty because the name amuses me. She says, "About the green tea mojito, you should make the tea with a lot of sugar if we do it again. And more mint is needed (so more mint tea). Also, the limes need to be squeezed in and not just used for garnish (I forgot that part). The way I made them, they weren't that great." No, they were not great, and it seems the guests thought the same.
The midmorning was saved by the fact that I just bought a blender last week. I had bought yogurt for brunch as requested by my brunch partner (and no one was eating that either) as well as some fruit. When the tea didn't pan out, I suggested they made fruit and yogurt and almond/coconut milk smoothies with rum or vanilla vodka. That was astoundingly successful. So I count this as a fail/win. I only won because I have a sizable liquor cupboard from so many brunches that had leftover liquor.
Also, I told you I was going to post both my failures and successes, and there you have it.
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