(November 21, 2015 at 10:41 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: It's not exactly Mediterranean, but it does solve(?) problems with in-laws, and you can always substitute the major ingredient for whatever fits the dinner motif.
Cthulhu's World-Famous(*) Dry Manhattan.
Fetch ice from the freezer, a jar of marischino cherries from the refer, and bourbon and sweet vermouth from the liquor cabinet.
Pour a healthy dose of bourbon into a standard bar shaker. More than that. Keep it coming, I'm thirsty. Little bit more.
Return the unused ingredients to their respective storage location.
Decant the drink into a pint mason jar. Or don't. Bottoms up!
So basically all I have to do is make a drink that calls for an olive and then make it a Kalamata. I like the way you think.