{"id":3904,"date":"2012-03-09T18:59:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T02:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adribarrcrocetti.com\/main\/?p=3904"},"modified":"2012-05-18T22:24:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T05:24:18","slug":"the-bloody-monty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adribarrcrocetti.com\/main\/the-bloody-monty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bloody Monty"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bloody Monty, or The Orange Monty Redux<\/p>\n

\"Bloody<\/a><\/p>\n

My regular readers may recall the delightful mix of orange juice and Amaro Montenegro that made its first appearance in my post Pazza per Amaro<\/em><\/a>. That drink, thanks to Brian of the site Live Like an Italian<\/em><\/a>, has come to be known as the Orange Monty. Since it is blood orange season, and since that season does not last forever, and since the Orange Monty is such a cool drink, I submit for your drinking pleasure the Bloody Monty.<\/p>\n

I was cutting and juicing blood oranges for a kitchen experiment, and when I saw all the juice, I felt the tug of distraction in my brain. For those who do not know me, I am somewhat, well, I’ll call it focus challenged. If I were a third grader, I’d probably drive my teacher nuts.<\/p>\n

\"Blood<\/a><\/p>\n

I looked upon the pitcher of remarkably, I mean completely, opaque blood orange juice. This particular juice had come from my Moro blood oranges. They are my favorite because their juice is dark as blood, consistently so, a trait not shared by the other varieties of blood orange, Tarocco and Sanguinello. I saw the juice, and I knew what I had to do. First, I went for the Solerno blood orange liquore, that amazing distillation of Sicilian blood oranges and lemons – the Sicilian sun in a bottle. Yes, Dear Reader, this is a step above. And I’ll make it simple – if James Bond were ordering this one it would go like this:<\/p>\n

“One measure of Amaro Montenegro, 2 of blood orange juice, 1\/2 of Solerno<\/a>, over cracked ice. Then add a thin slice of orange.” Just imagine sidling up to a bar and intoning those words.<\/p>\n

\"Bloody<\/a><\/p>\n

The Bloody Monty<\/em><\/h4>\n
makes 1<\/h6>\n

2 ounces blood orange juice
\n1 ounce Amaro Montenegro
\n1\/2 ounce Solerno blood orange liquore
\nslice of blood orange for garnish<\/p>\n

Fill an 8 ounce glass half full with cracked ice. Add ingredients, stir with a bar spoon, and garnish with a thin slice of blood orange. Serve at once.<\/p>\n

A couple of notes:<\/p>\n

Blood orange season does not last forever. Buy as many blood oranges as you can, and juice them now. Fill ice cube trays with the juice and freeze. Pop out the cubes and bag them for a supply of juice with which you can dazzle family and guests all year long.<\/p>\n

\"Bloody<\/a><\/p>\n

I have always loved the artwork from old fruit and vegetable crates. Italy, home to the world’s finest blood oranges, has a similar tradition of wonderful and whimsical produce artwork. Check out Elizabeth Minchilli in Rome<\/a> to view a great collection of charmingly beautiful Italian blood orange paper wrappings.<\/p>\n

I have no affiliation with any product, manufacturer, or site mentioned in this article.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Bloody Monty, or The Orange Monty Redux My regular readers may recall the delightful mix of orange juice and Amaro Montenegro that made its first appearance in my post Pazza per Amaro. That drink, thanks to Brian of the site Live Like an Italian, has come to be known as the Orange Monty. Since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[539,59],"tags":[1021,401,433,1218,1219,531,1220,372,1217,1216,374,820,373],"class_list":["post-3904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beverages","category-recipes","tag-amaro-montenegro","tag-blood-orange","tag-blood-orange-juice","tag-bloody-monty","tag-elizabeth-minchilli-in-rome","tag-james-bond","tag-live-like-an-italian","tag-moro","tag-orange-monty","tag-pazza-per-amaro","tag-sanguinello","tag-solerno","tag-tarocco"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pYzzK-10Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adribarrcrocetti.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adribarrcrocetti.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adribarrcrocetti.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adribarrcrocetti.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adribarrcrocetti.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adribarrcrocetti.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4376,"href":"https:\/\/adribarrcrocetti.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904\/revisions\/4376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adribarrcrocetti.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adribarrcrocetti.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adribarrcrocetti.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}