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SUMMER SIPS: Dirty Pickle-tini
Published: 5/16/2012 7:30 AM
Last Modified: 5/10/2012 5:10 PM


If you can do a dirty martini with olives, why not one with pickles? Just askin' ...

Years ago, I was in New Orleans with a friend, and we ate at a hotel restaurant on Canal Street. Can't even remember the name of it.

What I do recall, however, was the 10-cent martini lunch they offered. Apparently, several restaurants -- or dozens, I don't have a clue -- offer 10- or 25-cent martini lunches. I'm not the biggest martini fan, but I had a couple. Thankfully, they were weak.

My dining companion had a dirty martini, which I hate. Sorry, love black olives when they're cooked in things or, best yet, stuffed with cheese and deep-fried. But I can't stand the olive juice mixed with a martini. I guess it's an acquired taste.

And so is today's libation in this week's SUMMER SIPS series: A martini that's dirtied up with pickle juice instead of olive juice. Disgusted yet? Then stop reading.

For my fellow pickle lovers, though, here ya go.

Dirty Pickle-tini


Serves 1
2 ounces vodka
1 tablespoon dry vermouth
2 tablespoons pickle juice
Pickle slice for garnish (oooh, or maybe a pickle spear instead of a stir stick, hmmm ...)

1. Pour ice in a cocktail shaker, then add vodka, vermouth and pickle juice. I shake-shake-shake to the count of 40 or until my hand hurts because the shaker's so cold.
2. Pour into a martini glass, then garnish with pickle slices or do that pickle spear thing I suggested above.

Peace, love and puckery potables ... XOXO


Reader Comments 1 Total
futureview (9 months ago)
Dang, that sounds good...the photo makes me want to go have a two-martini lunch...mouth watering!

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