The Perfect Alibi, Goat Cheese Quesadillas, and Buca-cino

Before: I came into this week knowing that one of the worst sounding drinks had to be tackled soon. It's called a buca-cino and it involves gin, sambuca, and milk. Gross, I know. I tried to convince myself that it couldn't possibly be as bad as it sounded, but, as you will soon see, I was dead wrong. I made goat cheese quesadillas to make up for any lingering gross drink tastes. Since, it was gin week, the perfect alibi seemed as good a pairing as any.

The ridiculously named perfect alibi is basically a manhattan made with gin instead of whisky. You may ask why someone would want to make a manhattan with gin. The answer is because they are crazy. Manhattans are tasty and awesome. The perfect alibi is neither. It's not awful, it's just not good or in any way necessary. Like most of Sandra's drinks, there is just no reason for it to exist. Now, the recipe calls for half a shot of bitters, which seems excessive. So, we initially made them with a just a couple of dashes.  Later, we added more bitters to the drinks and they were actually better. It is frightening that Sandra was actually right about something. 

 

The reactions:

• Tastes like orange juice after you brush your teeth.
• It's kinda gross, then less gross, and then it gets gross again. 
• It makes me want meat.
• Why, why, why?
• It's actually better with bitters, Sandra Lee knew what she was doing. I never thought I'd say that.

 There's not too much to say about goat cheese quesadillas. Even Sandra would have a hard time screwing up quesadillas. She uses guava jelly in her recipe. Since I didn't have any guava jelly, I used some strawberry jalapeno jelly I found in my cabinet. The quesadillas were spicy, sweet and goat cheesy. Very tasty. I think you could put goat cheese on almost anything, though, and it would be good.

Oh, the buca-cino.  Where to start. The buca-cino is by far the worst drink we have had so far. I can't imagine anything would be worse. If there is someone out there that loves the combination of gin, milk, and sambuca, I would like to meet them and ask if they actually have functioning taste buds. The only positive thing to say about it is that it wasn't too sweet. Words can't really describe the gross. Licorice vomit? Pine flavored cream? I don't know. Between seven people, we didn't get more than halfway through two drinks. It's the only time alcohol was actually thrown away.

The reactions:

• The worst thing I've ever put in my mouth.
• Like milky cough syrup.
• This should be undone.
• It's like I'm drinking chemicals.
• Even my saliva tastes bad now.
• Why would you put this in a book?
• Actually needs sugar or just not to be made.

After this week, I think I will stick to gin and tonics. They are refreshing and delicious instead of disgusting and wrong. I feel bad for inflicting the buca-cino on others and worse for having had to through good gin away. Sandra Lee, you win this round.