What’s your favorite before-dinner drink, alcoholic or otherwise?
What’s your favorite with-dinner drink, alcoholic or otherwise?
What’s your favorite after-dinner drink, alcoholic or otherwise?
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What’s your favorite before-dinner drink, alcoholic or otherwise?
What’s your favorite with-dinner drink, alcoholic or otherwise?
What’s your favorite after-dinner drink, alcoholic or otherwise?
campari
wine or beer
port or a riesling or more beer
It depends entirely upon the meal. I’m not going to drink coke with grenadine with Indian food, nor would I have a mango lassi with Italian. 😉
Depending entirely on my mood, it could range from
water
water
coffee
to
Martini
wine
single-malt whisky or Drambuie
Sure, sure. 🙂
But let’s say it’s a middle-of-the-road kind of thing. What then?
What’s campari like?
Ooh, riesling.
Is Drambuie the licorice one?
Nope; it’s a liqueur distilled from single malt. Lovely stuff, that.
i can’t just go about this simply… 😉
water, preferably good, ice-cold water from an aquifer 70 feet beneath the house I grew up in
tea, either sweet or hot. if cold, no lemon flavoring. ugh. that stuff is creepy and tastes like pledge. not to mention, i really don’t need ester of wood rosin in my drinks. if hot, preferably not lipton. i’m not picky about the *kind* of tea, but i prefer that it not be oversteeped, nor made with the wrong temperature of water. 😉
now… if what i’m eating isn’t terribly strong flavored and isn’t prone to causing indigestion (like vegetable maki), i might have a hard cider (but it can’t be woodchuck), a gin & lime & tonic, a midori sour, a vodka cranberry, or a skip and go naked.
if i’m driving and don’t trust the water/tea options–coke with grenadine
eating out with my in-laws: white wine.
right now, i’m eating homemade vegetable soup and drinking a white wine (rockbridge winery, tuscarora white, damn if i remember the year)
since i’m so darned picky, i often just get water or a coke with grenadine. if it’s indian food, though, i must have mango lassi.
i’m going to the tea house tonight. i’ll probably pick a nice cherry sencha. boy will probably get a white tea of some sort. i will, no doubt, finish his pot because i can drink several pots of tea in the course of a couple hours.
and if an establishment has good rootbeer, all other bets are off.
I bet you’d like it. It’s a very, very herbal liqueur. I like it, both its flavor and its schtick. 🙂
As for me, it depends. Really, I can’t make this simple. I like almost everything liquid (except soda, which is okay in a pinch but I don’t choose, and very sweet drinks). It would depend heavily on my mood and the weather and where I was and what I was eating whether I’d want tea, coffee, good red wine, good white whine, bourbon, mint tea, water, melty lemon granita, limoncello… you get the idea. 🙂
before dinner:
Belvedere vodka martini, extra dirty, up
with:
really, really depends, but let’s say a good Shiraz or Chardonnay
after:
The Mega Troubles Galore, from Betty’s (a restaraunt down the street from me.) It’s vodka, Lindemann’s Framboise Lambic and champagne.
Alcoholic:
wine
wine
cognac, grappa or Grand Marnier – or wine 🙂
Non-alcoholic
water or iced tea
water or iced tea
tea, coffee or water
I used to drink a lot of soda, but I went off it a few years ago, around the time I quit smoking. Probably because I was drinking a *lot* of water to help with the nicotine withdrawal.
bitter, somewhat citrus-y. Not sweet.
I quit drinking alcohol a year and a few months ago. I try to drink water or tea during and around every meal. though i’ve fallen back into drinking soda.
It depends entirely on what I’m eating.
Hot water with lemon.
Water with no ice.
Hot water with lemon.
I pretty much only drink water, ever, for any reason. Boring, aren’t I? 🙂
I do like nonalcoholic pina coladas sometimes, if the weather’s hot and I want to be decadent.
(I used to be a big soda drinker, but in an effort to cut at least one bad-for-me thing out of my diet, I quit cold-turkey 5 or 6 years ago.)
Alcoholic:
Non-alcoholic:
I don’t match wine to food much, primarily because most of what I read in the course of my cookbook/cooking-mag perusals speaks specifically and only to meat pairings, and secondarily because I haven’t yet taken the time to hunt up the amazing wine-with-tofu website I’m sure is out there somewhere :-).
::wonders if anyone would notice if she brought a bottle of wine in for lunch tomorrow…::
Rum & Coke
Wine
Coffee with Bailys