Oops. This working thing has caused me to fall way behind on the blogging of chickens and the blogging of Disney food at home. Also, I’ve had a lot of naps. Naps will always win over blogging, I guess.
First, go back to Monday when I made the Monorail Pink drink. I have never had a monorail drink at WDW but I have heard of them. I’ve heard the Highway in the Sky tour people might be served some of these. I’ve also heard that the DVC Top of the World lounge in Bay Lake Tower serves them. TW said something about The Outer Rim having it. I’ve also heard that you can ask bartenders at random WDW bars and some know how to make these, and some do not. Whatever. This one has gin in it and I have a ton of heavy cream that I really need to use so I made it.
I had a lot of problems with this one.
I didn’t put the lid on the Vitamix properly and pink drink shot out all over my cabinets and countertops. It also shot out all over Buster. He approved of this. In fact he approved of it so much that from that moment on, any Monorail Pink that was left too close to the edge of the counter or left unattended on a coffee table was HIS. He actually tried to climb up into my lap to drink from a glass I was holding. The dog LOVES Monorail Pink. The rest of us enjoyed it as well. It sure did have a lot of heavy cream in it. I might reduce that just a WEE bit next time. I would like a little less cream and a little more… lemony flavor.
Not a great photo as I was also making Woody’s Lunchbox Totchos and dealing with Buster and his Monorail Pink issues.
Fast forward to the end of the same week and I decided to try a Night Blossom with Rum – to celebrate the re-opening of Walt Disney World and also celebrate Slurpee Day, since 7-11 cancelled Slurpee Day due to the pandemic.
I laughed all the way through the mess that was the home version of Night Blossom with Rum.
I should have known it would be a mess since I didn’t actually have all of the right ingredients. Do you know how hard it is to buy sherbet when you do not go into grocery stores? Hitchcocks only had Blue Bunny Lime sherbet and Walmart only had Talenti Raspberry sorbet. Walmart also had the single serving cups of rainbow sherbet so I went with the Walmart option… Oh, and I also didn’t have frozen raspberries, I had frozen raspberry/blueberry combo.
I just kind of threw things into the Vitamix, kind of following a recipe but not really. I also didn’t write down exactly what I did but just go with it. It will be fine. It might not look like a true Night Blossom (you can see that in the recipe I started with – see the kid holding the drink, wearing Minnie Ears? That’s a real Night Blossom – likely without rum, hahaha) or even taste exactly like one. But it will be good. Very good. (Oh yea, I did end up buying proper popping bobas – I found a slightly better price for six containers of them. I’ll take three to the grandkids later this month. They’ll like that!)
So yea, I started with that recipe:
- 1 Cup Raspberry Sherbet
- 1 Cup Frozen Raspberries
- 2 Cups Ice Cubes or Ice Chips
- 1 Can Sprite
- Lime Sherbet
- Bobas
In the blender, I tossed in about a 1 cup of Talenti Raspberry Sorbet, a cup of Schwans frozen raspberry/blueberry combo, 2 cups of ice, about a 1/2 can of (fake) Sprite, 6 oz – ish of Bacardi. I blended. And blended. And blended. It was pretty thick, even using the Vitamix tamper tool thingy, things seemed like they didn’t want to mix very well. It also tasted really raspberry. So I tossed in a couple more ounces of rum and another shot of (fake) Sprite.
I poured some (TOO MUCH) of the mixture into a tall glass, spooned out some of the GREEN sherbet from the little single serve cups and it promptly sunk to the bottom of the drink where it was mostly forever unseen. I used 8 of the little cups, trying to stick with only using the green sherbet in an attempt to have it looks SOMETHING like a Night Blossom. It was HYSTERICAL, which is why I said I laughed all through it. Skeeter particularly enjoyed this one since there was sherbet and sorbet EVERYWHERE and I used like 16 spoons trying to keep the different color sherbets out of the glass and trying to convince the green to NOT SINK.
Skeeter is very good at grabbing spoons, single-serve sherbet lids, and half-empty sherbet cups from the counter while one is trying to convince green sherbet to float and not sink.
In the end, I said to heck with it and spooned extra sherbet of other colors into the glass because IT DID NOT MATTER and I wasn’t going to waste all of that sherbet even if it only costs like $2 for 12 cups. Whatever. Skeeter was sad by this development as that reduced her grab-n-go options.
And…yes, bobas went on top. TW and her mother are not big fans of bobas. I don’t think they ate their boba since I found the sink strainer full of boba after their glasses were rinsed. They did both enjoy the drink, though. I also enjoyed it and I made sure to eat every single one of those bobas before I rinsed my glass. I enjoyed it enough that I’m thinking about making it again – this time using all of the sherbet in the cups right off the bat. Our freezer is overflowing and using up the frozen berries, sorbet, and sherbet would help with that. A lot. Yea, I’m going to do that right now – don’t tell Skeeter.
Here is a really bad photo of my home version of a Night Blossom with Rum. (Night Blossom can be found in Pandora at the same shop that you buy the Pongu Lumpia – right next to Satu’li Canteen.) I thought for sure I could get one decent drink made and get one decent photo. Nope. Note the raspberry colored wet paper towel under the drink. Classy, right? Look! A little green sherbet…also some orange but shhhhh.
