Being in the cold and snow belt, the coffee’s always on and there’s a lot of soup being made. Without wine, I skip the heavier dining, and eat healthy. I usually come out of winter with only about 10 lbs to drop. That puts me back to w/i 10-15 lbs of my HS weight of long ago.
Substitute cognac for bourbon and then that all sounded so familiar!
My substitute in January is Pellegrino, would be so much harder to last the month without it.
+1 on Pellegrino as the substitute (thank you Costco). Squeeze of lemon or orange to make it interesting
In anticipation of Feb 1st I treated myself to a belated Xmas present–picked up my first Laguiole corkscrew, an En Aubrac Sommelier Corkscrew with solid horn handle.
Thank you all for putting this thread together to help convince me to do Dryuary. Plan on making it an annual event.
We do various herb teas in the evening when we would be opening another bottle or having a whisky. I enjoy mint, ginger or ginger and spice infusions, and they are very good for digestion. Fizzy water is what Jonathan drinks all day, so it doesn’t help with the need for an after dinner treat.
Ginger beer is my go-to in Dry January. A little zip with a meal. Good for mocktails or after dinner cleanser.
We got into ginger tea trekking in Nepal. Great thing to warm you up after showering at 15F! Have tried to recreate here but no amount of ginger has ever reached the flavor of that in the tea houses there…
Got a nasty surprise with an MRI yesterday that was supposed to show everything was good on my hip injury… and it showed the opposite…good time to be not drinking!
Seeing the end of competitive soccer sooner than expected now…would have been great cause to drink a bottle or three!
Sorry to hear that. Rest-up and get well.
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This is my third Dry January…Pelligrino is also my go-to beverage. Wife and I are in the midst of a long distance running challenge…We run outdoors weather permitting, on dreadmill in inclement weather so laying off alcohol helps keep weight down.
With being masked everywhere in public due to Omnicron raging, in honor of the NHL, I’m also thinking about doing a Scruffy January.
I’m a big fan of hot mulled apple cider during Dry January. I don’t drink it much during other times of the year, so it feel like my special “sober” reward.
It’s so freaking hot here I basically do it in August, January is one of my prime drinking the good stuff months.
I thought the August heat they made Lone Star beer. I’ve never seen it anywhere else other than Tx though. ![[stirthepothal.gif]](/uploads/db3686/original/2X/f/f40faec63ca1018898a40805efbf9f0066a3d205.gif "[stirthepothal.gif]"){kind=small}
Back to Patrick and music…great selection (again)
Tonight’s musical selection continues to explore the theme of harmony, in a way, and is also a nod to Dryuary post #50 from JA Miller. JA is from Healdsburg, CA. I couldn’t find a lot of musical info about that area, but did discover that Jack Sonni lived there for a few years. Who’s Jack Sonni, you ask? For a brief time he was the “other” guitarist in Dire Straits. He appears on the Brothers in Arms album and was a member of the touring band.
Small world - I know Jack Sonni pretty well…we worked together at Guitar Center in 2005-6 (he as VP Marketing, me as head of HR). Immensely talented guy on many fronts, and it turns out we grew up within 5 miles of each other in suburban Pittsburgh. Great story of how he teamed up with Knopfler, will save it for another day. Favorite memory at GC was the annual “Battle of the Bands” during the annual Sales meeting…lots of talent in GC, but Jack would always pull together a special group and just absolutely slay the crowd. He’s now put up stakes in rural Mississippi and had a weekly radio show.
5 days in and all is good. The only hard time is dinner - pairing wine with food is one of my favorite things.
My experience last year was that it seemed to get harder as the month went along - that little voice that says “ you have been so good for the past x days, one cheat date wouldn’t hurt” seems to get louder and louder as the days add up.
Oh Yeah!!!
I find exactly the opposite. The longer I go, the more good results I see, the less inclined I am to “ruin” it. For me it’s a little voice saying “you have been so good for the past x days, don’t be stupid now!”
Sarah and Jud, I have both voices. One on each shoulder.
JA - so cool that you have that musical connection!
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Five down, twenty-six to go.
Tonight, I attended a dry cocktail class at Goose The Market, a foodie destination in Indianapolis. Their sister shop “The Smoking Goose” makes world class charcuterie and participated in last November’s WineBerserkers NewbiePalooza. Be sure to check them out on BerserkerDay 13.
I made five cocktails, each paired with a different item on a charcuterie plate. My favorite was the Bee’s Knees. I’m also going to look for non-alcoholic Old-Fashioned and Moscow Mule recipes.
Still not sleeping regularly, but I’ll get there. No wine, no problem.
Tonight’s musical selection is “Kathy’s Waltz” by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Last year I posted “Take Five” but I don’t want to repeat myself. I had Brubeck on the brain, though, and “Kathy’s Waltz” may be an even better play on time signatures. It begins in 4/4, then shifts to an uptempo 3/4 waltz, complete with a lengthy sax solo by Paul Desmond. The best part is Dave’s piano solo. It begins around the 2:20 mark and starts out rather straightforward, following the waltz. Then, around the 3 minute mark, Dave shifts to playing lovely big chords in 4/4 time, but the drummer is still playing the waltz! The bass line also shifts from playing the downbeat of the waltz to the first and third beat in 4/4 time. It’s cool to listen to it a few times and focus on a different musician.
Enjoy!
No runner up or honorable mention tonight, as I need to hit the hay.
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