Kristin's Kitchen
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
It’s amazing the things you can learn by scanning barcodes in a grocery store.
Imagine finding yourself so bored that you would virtually say anything on your mind just to amuse yourself, to pass the time. You start telling customers dumb jokes, you hungrily admire every food selection that rolls across the automated belt and you can even accurately put together meals in your head based on what they are buying. I ring up tomato sauce, wavy pasta, romaine lettuce and ricotta cheese amidst a myriad of other dry goods, dairy products and produce. “So what time is dinner,” I ask them jokingly, imagining how delicious lasagna and a fresh salad would taste after an eight hour shift on my feet.
Sometimes, though, you can’t quite put ingredients together, and that’s when you ask what the customer is planning to concoct. If the customer is detailed enough in their description, you can often leave work with some interesting and exciting new ideas. Asking questions is the key.
A friendly woman came in the store one day and bought a bunch of different kinds of juice, along with some carbonated beverages. I suspected it might be some kind of punch, and she told me she was making it for a group of college students. The customer was more than happy to list all the ingredients multiple times so I could scribble them down on a piece of crumpled receipt tape just as I reached for the next set of groceries. Adults just love when you show an interest in their cooking. They act all surprised.
Sometimes, I swear it seems they don’t even know college students cook! What do they expect us to eat?
Though I can’t take credit for the recipe, I came up with the title myself. It’s not too creative, but it certainly fits the taste.
Tangy Punch
1 quart unsweetened pineapple juice
1 cup orange juice
One-quarter to one-half cup sugar, depending on desired taste
Half cup lemon juice
1 and one-half tablespoons lime juice
1 28 ounce ginger ale
1 28 ounce club soda
Directions
Mix the first five ingredients in a large mixing bowl or serving dish. Then, add the ginger ale and club soda at the end to complete a deliciously fizzy concoction.
This is a great party punch that is a slight variation from the typical sherbet, ginger ale combination most are accustomed to, and it is lighter without the ice cream.
Throwing a Halloween party?
Try the tangy punch to fizz up some fun with a little bubbly. Add a little dry ice to the mix, too, to create a cool smoking effect. Light some candles, turn down the lights, and you’ve created a surprisingly foggy effect for a seasonal get-together after the evening football game.
Just make sure to open the windows….so as not to set off the smoke alarm! That might turn too many heads
Source: theapp.appstate.edu
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