Some of you may get the reference in the post's title. And then some of you may have been born after 1985 (or are Canadian). The phrase comes from Maxwell Smart, agent of the spy organization CONTROL, on the TV show Get Smart. When things went wrong for Smart (code name Agent 86), he often told the "Chief" that he "missed it by that much." His female partner, only ever known as Agent 99, would mostly just roll her eyes and then be super supportive (role filled by Rosemary, wife and sister-in-law).
These are the drinks year's calendar that we thought were a bit of a miss.
Kate's Misses
Jack Frost ... I really think there is something to a lemon/peppermint combo, but this version didn't capture what I had in my head. Need to change up the ingredients or something. Back to the drawing board...
Cold Miser ... A coconut rim is just, well, weird
The Hermey ... Personally, it just wasn't my favourite flavour combo.
Drew's Misses
Heat Miser ... The first of anything is rarely the best and I just didn't like this. I even hate the ingredient picture (which I took and poorly Instagrammed!).
The Cold Miser ... The second of anything is rarely the best...*shudder*. Hell, we technically even screwed up the name!
Yukon Cornelius ... It was just ok. It was our first attempt at bacon washing (see my comment about first of things above) and I remember having a hard time getting the amount of lemon right. It could've been so much better.
Notice that most of what we consider our misses are at the beginning. Once we got on a roll, our ways of thinking started jiving and we came up with some very successful cocktails. The new calendar is currently in development. Stay tuned to more information about it in coming posts and the first drink begins with the first Sunday in Advent (and Kate's Birthday) November 30th.
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