{"id":399,"date":"2011-03-17T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enrilemoine.com\/2011\/03\/17\/melon-bomb-a-green-shot-for-st-patricks-day\/"},"modified":"2018-02-17T22:17:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T03:17:27","slug":"melon-bomb-green-shot-st-patricks-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enrilemoine.com\/en\/2011\/03\/17\/melon-bomb-green-shot-st-patricks-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Melon Bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"
Melon Bomb, a green shot for St. Patrick’s Day.\"melon<\/a>Here is another emerald cocktail to toast to St. Patrick. My friend Orqu\u00eddea<\/a> found the recipe here<\/a> and, always helpful as she is, immediately sent it to me.\"Melon<\/a>After I mixed it, I couldn\u2019t help thinking of Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca\u2019s poem Romance Son\u00e1mbulo<\/em> (Sleepwaker Ballad), which starts: Verde, que te quiero verde<\/em> (\u201cGreen, how I want you green\u2026\u201d) no doubt\u00a0one of the most heartrending, yet beautiful, poems ever written in my mother tongue.\"Melon<\/a>Named after Midori<\/a>, the Japanese\u00a0melon liqueur that gives its color and refreshing flavor, this Melon Bomb is a nice, rum based \u2014of course\u2014 vibrant shot, perfect to toast to the Irish, hope and good luck!\"Melon<\/a>“May you have all the happiness
\nand luck that life can hold\u2014
\nAnd at the end of all your rainbows
\nmay you find a pot of gold.”<\/div>\n
Sl\u00e1inte!<\/em><\/div>\n
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