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edith (fritillary) wrote in atlantisic,
@ 2024-01-30 23:17:00

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!: net, c: edith cushing, player: allie, player: kit, plot: weststar cruise, ~ex-c: draco malfoy, ~ex-char: rey skywalker, ~ex-player: dex

weststar au net: edith wyndham-beckford, architect
~~If I hadn't been doing this on a cruise I wouldn't be doing it at all, so I guess this part was a good idea~~

Crowdsourcing my biggest wedding planning challenge to date: tell me your favorite mocktails with interesting names. Whether or not you include the recipe.

Or, to make it a game, name a mocktail that doesn't exist and others can make up the recipe. Those others probably wouldn't be me, though, but that doesn't mean I will not be utterly pleased at seeing the results. They may or may not then be featured at my wedding.

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	drake brenner, bartender (testing sips on the rocks) pretentiousname 2024-01-31 05:48 am UTC (link)
	Not saying I'm not interested — this looks like a lovely post to stalk for the foreseeable future — but you're doing yourself a disservice, really, if you aren't also including your wedding's color scheme. If everything's all pinky silvers, you don't really want your most cherished response to produce something neon green and liable to stain, now, do you? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fritillary 2024-01-31 05:50 am UTC (link)
	Isn't that what food coloring is for? Anyway, Tavish loves bright colors of all kinds, so I think it's okay. I maybe don't entirely know the color scheme yet. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

pretentiousname
2024-01-31 06:03 am UTC (link)

Putting food colouring into your cocktails (or mocktails) virtually guarantees that you'll have colour variation between batches. There's no guarantee you won't, in drinks without — but the odds that they'll be noticeable differences are much lower. It's also difficult to find a colouring agent that has absolutely no impact on your flavour or volume, given that they tend to be either gritty powders (that need to be dissolved in something before being added) or some consistency of liquid.

There are already plenty of liquors and liqueurs that are brightly-coloured, not to mention fruit juices and assorted other mixers — but if you don't know your colours yet, you might be best off just collecting a larger list than necessary, at the moment. Then, when you do have the colours, and are actually fully planning out the menu, you can match not only colours but also flavours.

Did you specifically want only non-alcoholic drinks, by the way?

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	fritillary 2024-01-31 06:12 am UTC (link)
	The list will be exactly the length it needs to be! You may be the only response. Everyone on the ship who can read might reply. Who knows! I am open to every potential. And yes, only non-alcoholic, please. It's a dry wedding. (My niece is confused by this and insists that it is just a sober wedding, but most people know what I mean!) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

pretentiousname
2024-01-31 06:30 am UTC (link)

You may want to take your niece aside at some point and quietly point out that sobriety is not guaranteed by the absence of alcohol on the menu; there's no way to tell what people will get up to before they arrive, and that's above and beyond the various intoxicants in the worlds we've discovered that usually aren't blended with alcohol. About the only thing you can guarantee is that nobody will manage to smoke anything without being noticed.

Is there anything else about your theme you are certain on right now?

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	fritillary 2024-01-31 03:02 pm UTC (link)
	That's very well stated, I will try; she is twelve, so we'll see if it sticks, but it could be an excellent life lesson. Er, we're working with the general theme of 'whimsy,' and he's wearing cyan and I'm wearing a very pale yellow with pink accents. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

pretentiousname
2024-01-31 08:28 pm UTC (link)

Tavish the Lavish, is it?

Might want to try something with butterfly pea flowers, then — you can make a great show of how they'll change colour at service, and they honestly taste like almost nothing so you can add them to anything with a stronger flavour and scarcely notice.

(If you look at the colours involved and wonder "is that where such-and-such-big-company got their colour-changing Unicorn Drink from" — probably.)

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	fritillary 2024-02-01 05:28 am UTC (link)
	Well, it wasn't before, but I think it should be now, thank you much. Butterfly pea flowers. Are those exactly what they sound like? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

pretentiousname
2024-02-01 05:53 am UTC (link)

The deeper you go in researching them, the more they are, in fact, exactly what they sound like.

C. ternatea is the name, if I'm remembering it right — Southeast Asian, very traditional, if you do want to drink it straight and unflavoured it's something akin to a matcha.

Just... blue, instead of green.

Come by the Test Kitchen some time if you'd like to see some experimentation with it, yeah? With or without Mr. Lavish.

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