January 26, 2011
Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup Martini
Yes, this exists, but only God knows why. A martini infused with rum flavored with grilled cheese sandwich and tomato flavoring.
From the NYTimes blog here:
At Clive’s, a popular craft cocktails joint in Victoria, British Columbia, is an original creation that fuses childhood comfort food and molecular mixology. The result is what he calls a grown-up cocktail equivalent of a “toastie” (an Australianism for a grilled sandwich) and tomato soup.
The bar at Clive’s.Soole starts with his own batch of “grilled cheese rum” — dark, viscous Mt. Gay “washed” overnight with a real-live grilled cheese sandwich, a seeping process to extract essential flavors and infuse them into the rum, before adding fresh-muddled tomato and basil, salt, Lillet Blanc and Glenfiddich Scotch whiskey. The effect is extraordinary: the grilled cheese rum leaps off the palate with flavors of cheddar, bread and butter, mingled with a dark sweetness, while the Lillet Blanc prevents the texture from veering into Bloody Mary territory. Topping the cocktail off with a drop of Glenfiddich adds a hint of off-the-grill smoke and evokes sipping, grilling and dunking.
Yummy? Why not just blend a real grilled cheese sandwich with tomato soup and vodka or rum in a blender with ice?