{"id":28127,"date":"2021-12-29T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=30000024257"},"modified":"2021-12-28T16:26:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T00:26:44","slug":"new-years-eve-cocktail-party-today-cheantay-blunders-an-old-fashioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/new-years-eve-cocktail-party-today-cheantay-blunders-an-old-fashioned","title":{"rendered":"New Year\u2019s Eve Cocktail Party. Today: Cheantay blunders an Old Fashioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Reporter Cheantay blunders an old fashioned\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6-IQtOTAK_E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Long Beach Post is here to help, and this week we are publishing a series of videos ahead of New Year\u2019s Eve on how to make our favorite drinks.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Hi-lo writer and videographer Cheantay Jensen shows us how she makes an old fashioned:<\/p>\n<p>I love the old fashioned. Sweet. Strong. And deceptively simple to make. My version of the old fashioned keeps mostly (not really) true to the traditional recipe, starting with a teaspoon and a half of simple syrup.<\/p>\n<p>I know traditionally it\u2019s supposed to be made with a sugar cube, but I opt for the syrup\u2014less grainy. You&#8217;ll need two ounces of it. Then comes the bitters: about four dashes.<\/p>\n<p>Add one large ice cube, then two ounces of your preferred bourbon and STIR THAT SUCKER.<\/p>\n<p>Then, take an orange and cut a slice of the skin off. And yes, yes I know you\u2019re supposed to burn the skin\u2014release the oil or whatever, blah blah blah, but who has time for that? Instead I just twist the peel a bit and rub it around the rim of the glass. Then I take that same peel and shave off a bit of zest. Kind of does the same aromatic thing burning the peel would do, but less work. We like less work. Then plop that peel into the drink.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I add one luxardo cherry, though any dark cherry will do. And voila. You just made an old fashioned. Look at you.<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Long Beach Post is here to help, and this week we are publishing a series of videos ahead of New Year\u2019s Eve on how to make our favorite drinks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":71867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31970],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[8767],"class_list":["post-28127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","tag-cocktail-party","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28127"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=28127"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=28127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}