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What The Drink You Order Says About You- The Lebanese Version- Round 2
Local Wine:
2 reasons. After long years of abuse, your hard liquor days are over and you now have managed to regularly order a drink that you can sip at a constant pace, without getting drunk and silly. Best ordered for a drink out with colleagues. You’ve even come to enjoy its tipsy effect only because you’re usually asleep before you can do anything silly.
Or, you spent all your money on hard liquor and local wine is the cheapest and fastest way you can get drunk without burning a hole in your pocket.
Beer:
You’re either broke or super-hungover. If you allow yourself 6 or more, there’s a high probability you’ll be switching to hard liquor very soon. Which defeats the entire purpose of why you had beer in the first place. If you’re a girl and you’re ordering it “Mexcian” style you actually can’t stand beer but it looks good at the beach so whatever….
Vodka 7 Up
It took you years to evolve into this drink. You first did the whole screwdriver thing. Then you joined the vodka Redbull wagon, but after numerous drunken episodes, losing a bunch of friends, switching from Medicine to Business, and wrecking daddy’s car along the way you finally realized it wasn’t the best mix. You didn’t wanna give up the Vodka all together, but needed a good companion. Then you saw an older friend drink it with a Seven-Up and it’s been love ever since. When you’re feeling sophisticated you order it with a slice of lemon.
Rum and Coke:
You first ordered rum cause you wanted to stand out and frankly you liked the way it sounds. Then when you hit your twenties you outgrew it. But if you’re still drinking it, you do it cause you consider yourself a bit of a lefty, you like to hang out at hippy-ish pubs in Hamra where foreigners hang out in packs and girls don’t brush their hair or because you’re still friends with those who didn’t outgrow rum.
Mojito
You enjoy torturing bartenders. You wanna see him chop those mints, manually mix-in that brown sugar all the whilst making the final product look good. Yet, you still ask the waiter why the drink you ordered is taking so long. Cause you’re annoying that’s why! Bisoux
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Cooking get-togethers are the new thing in Lebanon right now. It’s not just about making something at home and taking it to someone’s house, but more about making it with friends. And that’s exactly what my girls and I did last Friday.
Everybody loves a good spaghetti bolognaise, it’s one of my favorite classic Italian dishes that never seems to get old (at least in my books). So we whipped up some pasta for dinner before getting to dessert. Feast your eyes…
Then comes my favorite part- the baking. It can get super messy, especially when you have four strong heads in the kitchen trying to take the lead. Picking a recipe wasn’t easy, so we tossed a coin and ended up with these two lovelies. First we prepared the batter for some decadent chocolate-chip muffins and next we decided to go with a heavenly pink vanilla frosted strawberry-flavored cake. If you’re wondering how it turned out so pink on the inside we used a mix of food coloring and strawberry puree made from frozen sweetened strawberries. Impeccable! Take a look. Bisoux