Pumpkin Spice Martini {& My Wild Ride}

The fabulous flavors of pumpkin as well as spice are for to a greater extent than than but pie! Enjoy them inward your autumn cocktails, likewise similar this yummy Pumpkin Spice Martini.

So imagine you're driving downwards the interstate, toodling along at most lxx miles per hr inward the passing lane, when all of abrupt your automobile won't accelerate. At all.

You're dropping speed. Rapidly.

What happens when you lot pace on the gas pedal? Nothing. So you lot flooring it. And notwithstanding nothing.

Oh, I don't convey to imagine it. 'Cause yeh, it happened. Yesterday. To me. And allow me but tell ya ...

It. Was. NOT. Fun.

I was driving my hubby as well as myself to a preparation course of report we're taking, but zipping along ... when out of nowhere, my automobile had a spaz assault as well as decided non to work. No acceleration at all. Now equally I'm certain you lot tin imagine, beingness stuck inward the fast lane inward interstate traffic, driving a automobile that won't accelerate, is non a adept feeling. Not adept at all.

The fabulous flavors of pumpkin as well as spice are for to a greater extent than than but pie! Enjoy them inward your autumn cocktails, too.

I stayed pretty calm. At first.

I was able to larn over out of the passing lane, fortunately, amongst my hubby proverb "Just larn her to the adjacent exit, but larn her to the adjacent exit!" Uh, yeh dude ... that would hold upwards the conception ... if at that topographic point was an larn out coming whatsoever fourth dimension soon. But at this point, nosotros were on a long stretch of route that didn't seem to convey anything coming whatsoever fourth dimension soon.

And as well as therefore I saw it. The sign that said the adjacent larn out was inward 2 miles. TWO MILES!?!? That's an eternity when you're coasting on balance speed.

Fortunately, a teeny tiny chip of acceleration kicked inward ... but plenty to locomote on the automobile going at most 45 miles per hour. Still non cool.

We creeped along, but hoping as well as praying to larn far the 2 miles to the exit.

And as well as therefore at that topographic point it was. The beautiful sight nosotros therefore wanted to see. The exit!

But that's also the minute when my calmness ended.

Because but earlier the exit, you'll never estimate what at that topographic point was.

Oh yes ... but earlier that larn out were 3 lanes merging inward amongst the interstate. That I would convey to cross. And fifty-fifty improve ... a swell wall of traffic was coming inward those 3 lanes.

Including a huge tractor trailer truck.

Timed perfectly ... or imperfectly, should I say ... to catch me equally I tried to cross. Three lanes of traffic. At 45 miles per hour. With no might to accelerate.

Ah, adept times.

I was but most having a panic assault at this point, as well as understandably therefore inward my opinion.

I'm honestly non quite certain how I made it over to the exit. But I did. I produce retrieve seeing cipher but the grate of the huge tractor trailer inward my nurture catch mirror at i point. And screaming at my hubby over as well as over that I wasn't going to larn far across the traffic.

But somehow ... somehow ... I did.

And when nosotros rolled to a halt on that larn out ramp, I'd never been therefore happy to larn out of a automobile inward all my life.

Once nosotros had calmed downwards from our wild ride, as well as therefore came the query of ... NOW WHAT? We were stuck out inward the middle of nowhere, on an larn out ramp, amongst a severely injured car. And notwithstanding had most thirty minutes to a greater extent than driving to larn to larn to our preparation course of report {which happens to hold upwards a preparation course of report likewise of import to us to but blow off}.

Well, I'm genuinely pretty proud of the 'NOW WHAT?' answer nosotros came upwards with.

See, nosotros were able to figure out that nosotros were genuinely but a few miles away from the airport. And hubby idea he could successfully 'limp' the automobile those few miles ... it would go upwards to most 45 miles per hour, afterward all. And what's plentiful at airports?? Rental automobile agencies! So nosotros rapidly used my mobile telephone {oh yeh, I forgot to tell you lot that our GPS died from a broken plug but a few minutes earlier the automobile konked out} to map out a agency to the airdrome ... without going on the interstate. And as well as therefore nosotros were off.

I'm happy to say nosotros made it to the airdrome successfully, ditched my automobile inward a long-term parking lot, grabbed a rental, as well as successfully made it to our preparation class.

Just i hr late.

Not likewise bad given our morning time adventure, I'd say.

{Now equally to the fate of my automobile ... that's notwithstanding to-be-determined. She'll hold upwards going to the automobile infirmary tomorrow for assessment.}

But afterward all that, I may but convey come upwards habitation yesterday as well as had a distich of these Pumpkin Spice Martinis.

Oh, who are nosotros kidding? I did come habitation yesterday as well as convey a distich of these Pumpkin Spice Martinis.

Can you lot blame me?

Thank you lot for stopping past times . We'd beloved to convey you lot dorsum soon!

Pumpkin Spice Martini

Source: Adapted from Booze Cakes: Confections Spiked amongst Spirits, Wine, as well as Beer
(Printable recipe)

Ingredients per Martini

2 T. 100% pure pumpkin puree
3/4 oz. simple syrup*
2 oz. vanilla vodka
2 oz. Bailey's Irish Gaelic Cream liquor
1/8 tsp. pumpkin pie spice

Directions

Fill a cocktail shaker amongst ice. Add pumpkin puree, unproblematic syrup, vodka, Bailey's, as well as pumpkin pie spice; milk shiver for most thirty seconds.
Pour shaken mixture through a strainer into a martini or cocktail glass. Sprinkle amongst additional pumpkin pie spice as well as garnish amongst a cinnamon stick, if desired.

* To brand unproblematic syrup, identify equal parts H2O as well as granulated saccharide inward a saucepan {I ordinarily produce 1/2 loving cup H2O as well as 1/2 loving cup sugar}. Heat over medium heat, stirring, until saccharide is completely dissolved. Cool.

NOTE For saccharide & spice rims on your glasses, combine a chip of granulated saccharide as well as pumpkin pie spice inward a shallow dish. Use your fingertip dipped inward H2O to moisture the rim of each glass, all the agency around. Dip each rim into the saccharide as well as spice mixture to coat. Set aside.

Enjoy!

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