New Year's Eve with the President

We are anticipating New Year's Eve with Barack Obama, and wondering what will be poured into the glasses with the White House seal. As the President has just returned from Hawaii, perhaps it will be Frosty Coconut Mojitos. If you would like to join in the mixing, you will need coconut rum (who knew?), coconut milk, coconut water, lime juice, simple syrup zipped up with mint leaves, and a handful of ice. Toss it all in the blender, and you're ready to party.

But considering the recent rapprochement with Cuba, the President might favor daiquiris, and one cannot get better than the Hemingway Daiquiri. The drink Hem used to call for at La Floridita in Havana (now dubbed the Papa Doble) is simply double rum, lime juice, and a dash of maraschino over crushed ice. It is said that Hemingway could put away twelve of these at a sitting, but that is probably one of those legends that keep on growing.

And resolutions? Obama has what might be called a resolution, and it's a good one. Looking ahead to his final two years in the Oval Office, and channeling his inner Marshawn Lynch, he said, "We are entering the fourth quarter, and really important things happen in the fourth quarter."