Undead Undead
Between this and "The Lost Weekend", Welcome to the Basement has invaded the vernacular of my household irrevocably. So it only stands to reason that we drink to our health, and the health/death of the Undead Bela Lugosi.
There's a tropical drink named "Van Helsing" that I based this cocktail recipe on, since we've got the undead theme going on. But you have to serve it in a full pineapple and I ain't got that kind of crazy money to throw around. Plus, we're dealing with a dead man here. Got to get that spirit to where it needs to go. And how to do you get restless spirits out? Burning sage. I don't have experience in this area, and I'm writing this instead of teaching my Geometry class what special right triangles are, so I'm going to stick to sage.
So here's to you, my fellow basement dwellers. May your bodies be free of wandering spirits and may your tummies be worthy of a Dead Man's Party.
The Undead Bela Lugosi
Recipe:
Ingredients:
2 parts pineapple juice
1 part tequila
1 part raspberry vodka
Juice of two lime wedges
2 medium slices of cucumber
1 sage leaf
Instructions:
1. Shake together the pineapple juice, tequila, raspberry vodka, and ice in a shaker. You want this drink to be cold! Like a dead person!
2. Smoosh (or muddle, if you prefer the technical term) together a slice of cucumber and the sage leaf in the bottom of your serving glass. I could specify a martini glass, but let's be honest- we all just use whatever's clean.
3. Pour your deadly concoction on top of your healthy muddled bits, and serve with a cucumber wedge on the rim.
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Monday, August 20, 2018
Theme Songs
If this blog were to have a theme song, it would probably be The English Beat's "Mirror in the Bathroom", mainly because you can interchange the main lyrics with "Dinner in the Basement" pretty easily.
Despite many a proposal that "Mirror in the Bathroom" is about cocaine, lead singer Dave Wakeling, the King of Ska, insists that he never partook of any nose candy. Instead, he tells the story of going to a restaurant, checking himself out in the glass tables, and thinking "huh... that's weird." He probably forgot about a song deadline weeks later and parsed together one of the greatest songs of all time from a passing thought. (Because bands have song deadlines? That's a thing, right?)
That's why we're here today- a passing thought. Every week for date night, my boyfriend and I plop down on our own small, pleather couch to watch the inimitable YouTube show "Welcome to the Basement", experimental drink in one hand, homemade dinner in the other. We then place the drink on the coffee table so that we can eat our dinner because we don't simply plunge our faces into the plates like animals. (We're mostly civilized, thank you.)
We watch, we laugh, we discuss, we make grand promises to rent the movies Matt and Craig subject themselves to for our enjoyment. And, of course, we always look at each other and vow to send in money the moment it doesn't feel like we're living paycheck to paycheck. Until then, I wanted to give something back to the community, something that can help make your Basement experience as special is ours is every week.
On this blog, I'll be sharing the recipes I've created for our date nights and the episodes that inspired them. I hope you enjoy them! And if you have any suggestions, please shoot me a message here or @ceraphimfalls on whichever of the social medias the kids find cool this days (because my Twitter stomping grounds are still definitely where all the cool kids hang out).
Here's to you Matt, Tona, Craig, Ernesto, Tiger, Sadie, and Cecil! Thank you for all you do! Skol!
Despite many a proposal that "Mirror in the Bathroom" is about cocaine, lead singer Dave Wakeling, the King of Ska, insists that he never partook of any nose candy. Instead, he tells the story of going to a restaurant, checking himself out in the glass tables, and thinking "huh... that's weird." He probably forgot about a song deadline weeks later and parsed together one of the greatest songs of all time from a passing thought. (Because bands have song deadlines? That's a thing, right?)
That's why we're here today- a passing thought. Every week for date night, my boyfriend and I plop down on our own small, pleather couch to watch the inimitable YouTube show "Welcome to the Basement", experimental drink in one hand, homemade dinner in the other. We then place the drink on the coffee table so that we can eat our dinner because we don't simply plunge our faces into the plates like animals. (We're mostly civilized, thank you.)
We watch, we laugh, we discuss, we make grand promises to rent the movies Matt and Craig subject themselves to for our enjoyment. And, of course, we always look at each other and vow to send in money the moment it doesn't feel like we're living paycheck to paycheck. Until then, I wanted to give something back to the community, something that can help make your Basement experience as special is ours is every week.
On this blog, I'll be sharing the recipes I've created for our date nights and the episodes that inspired them. I hope you enjoy them! And if you have any suggestions, please shoot me a message here or @ceraphimfalls on whichever of the social medias the kids find cool this days (because my Twitter stomping grounds are still definitely where all the cool kids hang out).
Here's to you Matt, Tona, Craig, Ernesto, Tiger, Sadie, and Cecil! Thank you for all you do! Skol!
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