Cocktails

[hot_pastrami]

I'm relatively new to the world of alcohol. I live in the heart of Mormon Utah (ugh), so alcohol almost has to be smuggled in. My first drink was about 3 years ago. I was at a friend's bachelor party in Wendover, Nevada, and a bunch of guys in the group were buddies who served together in the US Navy. Well, they decided it would be funny to see what I was like when I'm drunk. Being open-minded as I am, I thought I'd give it a whirl.

So they tell me they're going to get me something "light" for my first drink, and they order me a long island iced tea at te bar. This was the first of many drinks they ordered for me... an amaretto sour, a bloody mary, rum and coke, I forget what all of them were. It was about 12 mixed drinks by the time the night was through. And I shit you not, I felt nothing. No effect, except I had to pee a lot. I'm not that big a guy, about 5'10" and 165 lbs, but I have some uncanny resistance to alcohol... the navy guys were all buzzing from a dozen beers, and I was completely untouched by a plethora of mixed drinks. They still tell the story with a quiet awe.

I have since managed to get drunk, with the assistance of a Russian friend. But it took three glasses of wine and ten shots of tequila on an empty stomach to do it. And a big-ass cigar, heheh. I could still walk and talk normally, but I was definitely buzzing. And, I did lose containment a couple hours later, projectile-vomiting the whole mix into some bushes. Not a good end to the evening.

Anyway, back to my point. Has anybody got some really good cocktail recipes to post? I'm slowly putting together an assortment of alcohols, and some good recipes will help me decide what to keep on hand. I'm sure there are a few around here who know their way around a bar.

Oh, and the other crazy thing... I have never had a hangover.... in fact, on nights where I drink a lot, I wake up feeling great the next morning... it's night where I don't drink that I fel like shit when I wake up. Nutty.