I’m off now to get things needed for bartending at our college reunion. I’m the official bartender and its important to stock up.
The stuff that I already have:
Juicer Maker – picking this off the kitchen
Cocktail Shaker – a gift from my friend Mahesh
Cocktail Golf Set - a gift that a conference organizer presented for my talk.
Glasses – have a full set bought for the rooftop vodka cocktail get-together.
Knife – stealing this from the kitchen.
Ice and Ice Box – Buying about 30 kgs of ice. Incidentally my 4th standard classmate is running this business.
The stuff that I need to buy:
Toothpicks
Filter (strainer)
Tomato Juice Pack
Orange Juice Pack
Cranberry Juice Pack
Worstershire Sauce
Pepper sauce
Salt and Pepper cans
Sugar (grind into powder)
Straws
Tissue Papers
The following will have to be bought from the Koyambedu Fruit market. Am keeping this for tomorrow’s shopping.
Strawberries
Lemons
Watermelons (1)
Coconuts (10)
Grapes
Olives
Rose Petals
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On the 1st weekend of October, we have our college reunion. We are meeting after 14 long years. (gosh, I’m old!). I’ve self appointed myself as the official bartender. We are meeting in Pondicherry and you can be sure that alcohol will have very high priority.
I’m taking my role of bartender very seriously and looking for tips for the most exotic cocktails. I have a couple of books on cocktails and have covered the most popular ones a la bloody Marys, cosmopolitans, Sex on the beaches etc.
What I’m looking for is for exotic, custom made, self-created recipes. Like this one from Kanchuki and Kongkona sarma who gave me tips about injecting multiple doses of vodka into ripe watermelons and then chopping them up for munching.
Or the popular Pani Puris with Vodka water.
How about chopping off the top of tender coconut, adding in 3 drops of honey, a pinch of Jaljira and 90ml vodka. And drink it right off the coconut!
What other ideas have you got? Love to hear from you guys.
You can either leave the ideas in the comments below or email me at kiruba@kiruba.com . I will collate every idea on the blog so that all of us can benefit.
Fire away.
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Meeting D.Murali, Deputy Editor of The Hindu BusinessLine newspaper has been one of the interesting experiences I’ve had. Murali is one of the very few traditional journalists who have whole heartedly embraced social media.
He invited me to his office to conduct a video podcast interview. After the interview was done and we had lunch, he gave me a printed sheet of paper and asked me to fill for a column called ’60 Seconds Chief’. It was a questionnaire. It had 20 questions and was meant to be filled quickly which explains the 60 seconds. Oh boy, it took a much longer time than that. I remember spending over 20 minutes to fill it. I had fun doing it.
Most of the questions deals with aspects of leadership and I thought it was a very innovative concept of authoring a column for the paper.
Here is the original scan of the paper that I had filled.
Murali has an able support staff to back him up. A person called Ramesh then draws a portrait, on the lines of Wall Street Journal. Padmaja, who works at Hindu’s office then helps compile everything together. It then finally gets printed in the paper. My interview appeared in yesterday’s edition. Here’s the scan from the paper.
For more of such interviews, visit http://60secondschief.blogspot.com. To view Murali’s video podcast interviews with industry leaders, visit http://muralilistening.blogspot.com
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