May
05
Tablet vs. Tablet
Drugs have all types of healing properties. Tylenol helps mild headaches, Midol gets you through when the first day of flow comes and you’re completely fucked. Tylenol PM makes you pass out (although it won’t keep you passed out). Alcohol on the other hand, well do I really have to explain the benefits/side effects? No.
God knows I’ve cut down on my drinking since college; now its down to once a week. Drinking is amazing, but I have to say nothing feels better than a razor sharp mind. At times it still makes me sick (drinking that is), especially when I don’t eat enough while drinking. But what exactly makes me reach for the bottle when I know I’ll be hungover with my head stuck in a paper bag all day? Nothing cuts your day loose like a good drink.
In the morning when I’m feeling nauseous or headach-y I reach for an alka-seltzer that cuts through my digestive system. And after I’m healed and I forgot the hell hole of nausea and headache I was in, I reach for some alcohol. When does this see-saw stop?
I’ve since experimented with a playful concept when it comes to drinking mojitos. Since alcohol and alka seltzer both have medicinal properties (one psychological/social, the other physical), I focused on both as medicinal “tablets”. Here I thought making frozen mojito tablets to be diluted into a drink the same way alka seltzer dilutes into water would be a fun gimmick. Also, I’ve always had the problem of preparing the drink for myself; every time I want a mojito in the comfort of my home means that I have to head out for fresh mint and limes.
Mojitos have three major ingredients..Lime juice, Mint, and white rum. These 3 could made into three different flavor tablets that are frozen….
All of these compartmentalized “mojito” tablets would make my life much easier. I would never have to buy fresh mint for 1-2 drinks and watch the rest of the mint turn brown in my fridge. Image of wilting brown mint in fridge = parents throwing money at a trust-fund hipster spawn with no goals but partying.
I have those types of hangovers in the morning where I not only feel headachy and extremely fatigued all day but I also get EXTREME nausea. Its weird. I’m not religious, but when I’m very nauseous, I fear for my death + I start praying because it is so excruciatingly painful. I think out of all types of sicknesses nausea for me is the worst. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
It’s true, nothing can cure a hangover….Except for, that is, drinking again…But if you want to cure your nausea I think Alka seltzer is the best thing ever. I don’t know what I would do without these on a morning after 5+ drinks.
Ingredients: Left to right, White rum, lime juice, Corn syrup, mint, Sparkly water, and Mint zest.
This is the mint zest and White Rum mixture…
Mint and Corn syrup mixture. Corn syrup is best for this kind of situation I think, because it mixes with the liquid easily.
I managed to find a perfect mold to mimic the Alka seltzer tablet shape, except it was a lot bigger of course…I froze lime meat with lime juice, then the corn syrup with mint, and then
Rum, water, and mint zest. Again, White rum won’t freeze on its own but if you mix it with
water it totally will.
Something about this mojito was better than any other mojito I’ve made. I think it was because I froze the mint and corn syrup mixture for a while and through this process the corn syrup (the sweetener in the mojito) became completely infused with the mint flavor, as opposed to just adding the corn syrup and mint separately. Not only was there minty flavor from the leaf but also from the syrup so it had a double impact flavor wise.
This is amazing!
Im too young to drink, but Ive had a mojito without the alchohol its mmmm-mm good
I’m definitely trying this. You are fucking brilliant.
WTF! awesome. Although, in the same way i eat Berocca by just putting it in my mouth (not in water) i’d be super tempted to just create a “mojito in my mouth”.
Love the idea of a mojito tablet, so cute. Although I have significantly cut down on my drinking, I still do it 4 times a week, but only because it’s part of my job.
xxx,
Tiffany
So immaculate. I adore the detailed nature of your pictures. The minutia of food is truly exhilarating.
fucking brilliant <3
greatest idea ever!
You’re on your way to a book publishing I tell ya’! I can see all these recipes in a delectable decontructed coffee table book or in a Luxirare restaurant like how a reader had mentioned.
This would speed up the process of serving a mojito but retain a very visual twist: actually being able to see it “made” in the cup as it melts.
Magic-alchemy-esque.
As I’ve gotten older, my hangovers have gotten worse. How I long for the days of binge drinking and then hopping out of bed, grabbing a bacon, egg and cheese and going to film class. You need to patent Luxirare Mojito Tablets ASAP. If you decide to hand out samples, I’ll take about 45.
this is a pretty good idea and even what makes it even better is that it actually turned out to be tastey. hangovers turn me off from drinking, i get nausea to and it is the worst thing int he world i cry and wish for death so for me one drink is enough once in a blue moon
Genius. Making my mouth water, too! This past weekend I went to this place that specializes in rum drinks and had a cucumber lavender mojito. It was like a garden in my mouth. Yum, but weird!
I just don't get it! You are sooo talented! <3
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Amazing as usual! I love mojitos.
fucking awesome. i love.
ahh great stuff like always!!
you should check out the bat at hotel plaza athenes drinksin paris kind of do the same shit sutff! it’s a tablet that you put in your mouth and you spray the alcoolick stuff on it, and it turns into a cocktail, it’s insanly bizare!!!
bonne nuit
la chauve-souris
Best post ever!
I am the exact same when it comes to hangovers. Its actually quite terrible because it puts me out of commission for an entire day. I’ll definitely have to try alka selzter. I never thought about using that as a hangover cure. But its better than what I’ve been doing for the past 2+ years, which is nothing other than laying curled up in my bed with the sheets over my head praying that I don’t die (and I’m not religious either :p).
Salivating!
OK. So, this is just genius!
brilliant.
that is such an awesome idea! i love the photos that go with it. mojitos are so good. I always had trouble with the flavours mixing well. im going to try this out!
oh neat! wish i had a doctor bag for my freezer now..
the fact that the thought of tablets brought you to think of this mojito project is brilliant. i always love how you label your finished products!!
This is effing amazing.
“parents throwing money at a trust-fund hipster spawn with no goals but partying.”
AHAHAHAAHHAAH
I’ve suddenly found this fascination with anti-hipster sites:
http://www.latfh.com/
http://www.diehipster.com
I want to get a mojito with you!!
Holy shit.
this is pretty awesome, I’m gonna have to try this
That’s a money maker. If you started getting entrepreneurial with Luxirare foods, this would absolutely do well. Keep it up!
genuis, really!!!! as for the hangovers, taking pepcid ac before drinking helps a bit (helps asians not turn red from drinking too). love all your food posts
-naiyana
you are something else. you need your own brand NOW. i will be the food tester!
now if i could just borrow that brain of yours for a day…all the crazy shit i could come up with!
i’m amazed at how complete your projects are..the packaging, teh perfect mold everything is so immaculate.
Fucking rad.
GREAT SCOTT MARTY!
Brilliant.
Joshua–
I wish! That would be kind of cool to be able to have those kinds of opportunities.
Nia–
Yea, but the thing is the fizzy tablet concept has already been appropriated by so many people. Also I think its hard to get patents for food.. I wonder why people haven’t already done this for other cocktails and tried to sell them cause god knows I hate to make cocktails from scratch!!!
vix–
YEA! Seriously I pray to God but I don’t believe in god. I usually can’t deal with hangovers and as Nia says as you get older hangovers do in fact last longer. I remember when I was a sophomore in college and I wouldn’t feel a thing the next morning and now it takes me about 2 days to get out clean.
Miss Kar–
Yea I like to push it one step farther for picture purposes. Its always fun to look at personally designed labels.
Miss A-
Yes, that money should go to charity care services are something more noteworthy.
To everyone else who commented;
I really had no idea you guys would be so into it! I think what I like best about it is that you can prepare it ahead of time and not have to worry about doing this from scratch EVERY SINGLE TIME.
you guys are all too tough to please jeeez
YOU ARE SO FUCKING COOL GIRL!
i love this. how many times have people said to me, “i wasn’t so sure about you, but now that you’re drunk, i like you”? alcohol is the medicinal cure for my insecurity and uptightness. the next day, more, but different, medicine. a wonderful and wretched neverending pattern!
How weird and cool. What’s next? Are you going to get all Willy Wonka and make some food tablets that taste like a whole turkey dinner with mashed potatos and gravy? I bet you could do it.
You. Are. Amazing.
Liz!
Perhaps “Thanksgiving” on a stick would be easier for now.
Although I wouldn’t doubt for a second that turkey dinner pills is the way we are going to eat in the future, if that is, the world doesn’t end soon.
Gynnephur-
Yea alcohol is synonymous with the term “social lubricant” for a reason. I don’t know how many times it helped me deal with people I wouldn’t normally talk to if I was sober.
i love you. i really do. you are seriously the most amazing person ever. this is just amazing!!!! :O
such a clever idea. It looks so refreshing. I seriously need a mojito now
that’s such a funny idea.
shut up. so fucking weird i am like the fucking queen of nausea especially the morning after i drink… envy all those that don’t get sick. freaked out when i read this a little haha
You are a genius woman! This seems not only convenient, but delicious at the same time. I might have to try this sometime! I love your simple, cute ways of packaging and arranging things. I get badddd hangovers too, any kind of motion at all or even loud noises just makes me feel horrible!
when i get a hangover it’s usually mostly nausea. memories of laying curled up on my best friend’s couch wanting to die are flooding back…
but it’s not enough to stop me wanting one of your instant-mojitos.
easily one of your best posts to date.
lol gettig a hangover and puking is not fun at all!
you feel like crap.
yet I seem to do it every saturday.. hahahaaa!
Haha that’s a brilliant idea!
you are freaking crazily talented and superbly brilliant.
dammit.
you just solved all my mojito problems.
brilliant.
fucking over the top brilliant.
i wished i thought of it.
su
WOW
is all i can say to every post.
sorry i have not yet expanded my vocabulary
but this is true genius!!!
YOU ARE FUCKING A FORCE, DUDE!
this sounds wayyy fun. i think i might test out your little tutorial and see if i don't completely fuck it up.
<3
OMFG! i can't believe you commented on my post recreating your brilliant mojito idea! thanks! you have made this lowly foodie blogger's day!
holy crap this is a brilliant post. I barely found you blog but I've dubbed it my favorite for sure. the fuzion of fashion and food. no better 2 things.
Really GENIUS!
I went to the Montreal Museum of Arts to check out the YSL exhibition.
The garments are much much MUCH more astonishing in-person when you see it draped around the mannequin.
One room had had a recording of YSL being interviewed while describing his work (the whole interview was emblazoned on the wall in french and english in case your french is terrible like mine)
I think one of the Russian-inspired outfit was in the same room. In short it was amazing.
Unfortunately I had to take some extremely sneaky photos 'cause they were guards EVERYWHERE.
Love your blog
I greatly admire your kitchen paraphernalia. Love your oxo measuring cups. Never seem them in a shape like that.
AMAZING. <3
are you shitting me with this stuff!??! you are a GENIUS, do you know that!?
LOVE this site!!
This is sick! I'm soooo going to try and do this!
I'm having a Mojito phase right now, just a whiff of the minty stuff when I'm in a bar sends me into spasms of cravings! It's not doing my bank balance much good. Maybe these Mojito tablets would come in handy for such situations. You're so clever! x
Could you sub the corn syrup with a regular simple syrup (ie sugar)?
“Image of wilting brown mint in fridge = parents throwing money at a trust-fund hipster spawn with no goals but partying.” hahahah Yes that’s the first thought that would come to my mind too
Btw this is so brilliant. It could revolutionize bars/restaurants, etc. with much more efficiency and tastiness