The lazy man’s guide to mixology

Now this is a Top-Five list that I can wholeheartedly endorse:

Easy Mixing: 5 Cocktails for the Lazy

I don’t get the chance to be lazy too often. My workweek is frequently seven days long. Come Sunday afternoon I’m writing, preparing for an event, or responding to emails. Thankfully, I love what I do and, being that my job is what it is, I get to go out to bars and restaurants often. So it’s not all that bad.

Yet the feeling of swinging in a hammock, beneath the fiery mid-day sun with an ice-cold drink sweating in the palm of my hand and the intermittent sips the only thing keeping me from melting in to a pile of flesh and bones, beckons as the summer advances. Being lazy feels good.

He adds that the top five are, “my favorite drinks for the shiftless, idle and indolent. They go for simplicity and ease.” The drinks, for the record, are the Cherebita, the Dark and Stormy, the White Port and Tonic, the Ice Pick, and the Rickey. But I’m going to ask that you click through to the original for the directions, because I don’t want to rip the guy off. Come on, how lazy are you? Click.

There’s at least one comment there with an additional recipe, and if you’ve got any favourites of your own, add ‘em here. And then, if I can scrape together the motivation, we can have a Lazy Drinks Party.