Pomegranate Gin Fizz for the Holidays

One of the problems I have when I am documenting things I make and do is that I am a witchy cook who often eyeballs and cooks by feel and whim. It sometimes makes it difficult to recreate some very amazing things. I also am a big fan of tweaking things to suit your needs, so I often include many variations. I always feel like it gets wordy and annoying, and then I go browse other blogs and have to scroll through fifty of the same fucking picture and a large text wall before I get to an actual recipe and I'm like, huh, not doing too bad.

I'm also a poor person who has been struck with unfortunate circumstances in her twenties, working two jobs and contending with a debilitating disability which makes it difficult to sit in chairs for too long, so my blogging is pretty sporadic. Fortunately I have so many things to be grateful for: a loving and supportive community and friends, a wonderful foodie mother, and the best and most wonderful partner, after years of misery and disappointment. Anyhoo. My depressing, but happy and contented life aside, I was going to post a nice drink recipe but I'm rapidly running out of time before I have to listen to Schaffer the Darklord while getting ready for one of my jobs.

Tomorrow I work the other job, and Friday I get to experience a nightmare day of working back to back, no breaks - not even a real lunch hour - twelve hour day. I often work at a preschool during the day and then have to immediately head in to one of the restaurants that I also work at. This weekend is going to be particularly miserable bartending at the Italian joint I work for because it is graduation weekend, and not only are we going to be extremely busy, but the servers are going to make a lot of money, and I'll be lucky if I take home 40 bucks. Fortunately these moments are few and far between and I will be back to watching a Rocky marathon in the background while doing some light bar cleaning and drink brainstorming, making my minimum wage for getting to hang out in a restaurant. Can't complain about that because I love being around good food and drinks.

Here's a recipe for a simple Pomegranate Gin Fizz:

1 oz gin
1 oz PAMA pomegranate liqueur
club soda to fill
lime to garnish/squeeze into drink

Fill a glass: pint, highball or other 8-16 oz glass. The size of your glass and amount of ice you use will determine how strong your drink is. It might be helpful to mix 2 oz of booze with 6-10 oz (strong-weak) of club soda and THEN pour that over your ice cubes.

Or make a pitcher! But that might involve math! Fortunately it is very simple math that even I, as someone who hasn't graduated college bc of an algebra 2 class, can wrap my head around. You can use about 10 oz booze (5/5 pama/gin) to a liter of club soda. Adjust to taste because I like 'em strong!