Afternoon Tipple (Professor Layton - Nintendo DS)
Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz Earl Grey Tea infused Gin
1 oz White Creme de Cacao
3/4 oz Cointreau
2 oz Cream
1 sugar cube
Orange Bitters
Directions: Infuse 3oz Gin with 1 tsp loose earl grey tea, let steep overnight. In a shaker, saturate 1 sugar cube (1 tsp) with 2-3 dashes of orange bitters and muddle until dissolved. Add rest of the ingredients and shake with ice.
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A Cocktail for the King of Kings.
Ingredients:
1oz Crown Royal Whiskey
Splash Cointreau
1 sugar cube (1tsp sugar)
Orange bitters
Champagne
Directions: Saturate sugar in 2-3 dashes of orange bitters, place in bottom of champagne flute and cover with splash of Cointreau. Pour in Crown Royal whiskey (optional: stir sugar until dissolved) and then top with Champagne, or your dry sparkling wine of choice.
Just in time for New years! A champagne cocktail dedicated to our favorite monarch here at OIFTC. I’d like to think that it was a couple (dozen) of these that the King of Cosmos knocked back before the establishing events of Katamari Damacy, since he seems like a classy guy who’d enjoy the occasional brut.
Also! Check out the SPECIAL NEW YEARS EVE addition of Saturday Drunkscussions on the Facebook page! I’ll be posting some special previews of my super sekrit pokemon battle! shots project as well so be sure to hit “Like”!
Welcome, 200 new followers?!
I’m still not sure what’s going on, but apparently my Venn diagram circle of nerdy cocktails managed to intersect with one labeled “Homestuck”, and witchcraft magic happened.
I thought I’d give a small update on the state of the cosmos, however, since I’ve been a little, ah, neglectful these past weeks?
The Pokemon Battle! drinking game is only a couple drinks away from completion! I’ve been hard at work (not really) putting the finishing touches on the last … 6 drinks I need to post? But! I’ve also been working on reshooting all of the photos for the entire set, and possibly putting together a special bonus with them! We’ll see if it pans out, since I hope to accomplish it by the new year.
The facebook page! Has been somewhat equally neglected BUT I do have some neat Facebook exclusive drinks (plus the Issun sake cups), and as always you can post your own cocktail requests or recipes, along with my tumblr ask box! I actually got my first cocktail submission from a fan, and it’s awesome, it will definitely be making an appearance in the wild soon.
I feel like I should have a third thing here but I can’t really think of anything. Maybe what the future holds? Besides the end of the world. Well, depending on how lazy I am well Pokemon Battle! is received there might be a booster pack in the works. If that’s what it’s even called now, I’m sorry, I haven’t been hip on TCG lingo for 10 years, back in my day…
This is a random bolded sentence to finish off the post with a witty quip and gracious goodbye and thank you!
owlswithnarcolepsy asked: hey i dont 100% understand this pokemon drinking game i think the idea is epic but i would love to understand the rules better :P and some dont have effects on them or own D:
Because I’m a lazy bum with a knack for rolling cars, I’ve been slacking on getting the final couple posts together, along with the big rule post.
Outrage (Pokemon Battle! shot)
Dragon type - x50hp
3 round attack, afterwards the user becomes confused and with each subsequent attack they must roll. If the number is even they have hurt themselves. Confusion wears off after 4 rounds.
Ingredients:
Everything.
Directions: Add splashes of an assortment of random liquors to a shot glass, preferably behind your (former) friends’ back. The more OUTRAGEOUS the combo, the better.
So I’ve been down with the mononucleosis for the past week, and let me tell you, fair internet, it sure does suck. Thankfully though, I had a brand new copy of Muramasa: The Demon Blade to keep me company.
30 hours of company.
The thing is that Vanillaware seems to have this weird obsession with cooking. It’s featured in the PS2 JRPG Odin Sphere, and again in a similar role in Muramasa. Eating food results in “spirit” which is used with souls collected during battle to forge increasingly powerful swords.
And while I don’t have access to a ghostly swordsmith doomed to forge blades in the fires of hell for all eternity, I sure could use a little spirit in dealing with this cold. 
Enter Nabe, or Nabemono, a style of one pot cooking where ingredients are simmered together in a large earthenware pot. Or, you know, whatever kind of pot you happen to have.
There’s an infinite number of variations, but honestly, most of the recipes basically come down to “boil some broth and then stick a bunch of stuff in it.”
The broth is usually Dashi, while the stuff is entirely up to you. Here’s a video for Mizore Nabe from Cooking With Dog which includes a basic Dashi recipe, along with the general procedure.
Up there I had some seared tofu, aburage, daikon radish half moons, lotus root slices, shirataki noodles, mushrooms, green onions, and napa cabbage, with a very large glass of Sapporo and a hot glass of Sake on the side.
I’d just like to let everyone know that Pokemon Cooking is an actual thing that actually exists. This video here is a Swinub inarizushi, with other recipes including a Sudowoodo log cake, and an Eevee hamburger steak.
Rock Smash (Pokemon Battle! shot)
Fighting type - 40hp
Ingredients:
1oz Whiskey
Splash lemon juice
Splash Mint syrup*
Directions: Shake all ingredients over ice and serve in a shot glass. To make mint syrup, infuse simple syrup with large handful of fresh mint.
*Alternately: Muddle 3-4 mint leaves and 1 cube (tsp) of sugar with lemon juice until sugar is dissolved. Top with ice, add whiskey, shake.
A “Smash” is a cocktail made by muddling sugar and mint leaves with the subsequent addition of a spirit, similar to a Julep. I was scraping the bottom of the pun barrel here, okay, I’m sorry.
Bullet Punch (Pokemon Battle! shot)
Steel type - 30hp
User always attacks first, regardless of their speed.
Ingredients:
30ml Bourbon or Brandy
15ml cream
1/2 tsp powdered sugar
Directions: Shake ingredients thoroughly over ice and pour into shotglass.
Based off of a ‘milk punch’. Yes, I’ve basically devolved into puns at this point.
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