The drink of the summer

Apparently, I was a little bit ahead of myself when I declared this the summer of pickles. I have been making some delicious drinks from a new cocktail book entitled Spice and Ice which details coctails incorporating spicy ingredients like ginger on the mild end to jalapenos on the spicy end. My favorite of late is a blackberry poblano martini made with silver tequila. Very yummy - the lusciuos blackberries are a nice complement to the spicy poblano pepper (actually hatch green chili) which are muddled together before being shaken and poured.