Blendy Drinks recap

Blendy drinks went well last night. I think that if you have some fruit, ice and rum, it's hard to go wrong.

Specific successes included:

• Blackberry Lemonade
  1 can frozen lemonade concentrate
  Frozen blackberries
  rum and some more rum - at least 1/2 C
  some sugar
  ice
  limes to garnish
  That will make two blenderfuls. It didn't taste of alcohol, but you could smell it. A lot of my drinks turned out like that
• The Pillowfight
  Vanilla ice cream
  Frozen strawberries
  Malibu
  Vodka
  Ice
  strawberry vodka is even better in this. This is the first of three milkshake like creations. They make Splenda icecream now!
• The Hummingbird
  Vanilla ice cream
  lots of PeachTree
  Malibu
  some amaretto
  Milk
  Ice
  This was made by some other people trying to recreate something they'd had in Jamaica at a beach shack. It would've been even more amazing with some real fruit in it.
• Mudslide without a recipe
  Vanilla ice cream
  Baileys
  Kahlua
  Milk
  Ice
  Chocolate syrup
  Amaretto
  I just looked up a recipe and apparently some vodka should've been included. Oh well. A little Kahlua goes a long way if people are sensitive to the coffee flavor.

It was a good night. Besides those, we also blended some Pina Colada from a can, and Mango Margaritas from a mix. I made iced teas as well - minty, lemony, and with some Good Earth Sweet & Spicy. My worries about running out of food or mixers means that now I have a freakish amount of juice to get through before it goes bad. and a freezer full of ice.

My new blender survived very well for a $20 investment. it made claims about having a design to assist with blendering ice, and it seemed to do quite well. We had one blender fatality, which made me feel bad. Someone volunteered their blender, and then it died :( At least they were the ones pressing the buttons when the dying happened.