To peacock, -v:  to make a vainglorious display;  as in, strut like a peacock.

This is Ontario in the Fall;  Muskoka Ontario, however, takes the already dazzling up ten notches to resplendent.  Funny though, she chooses to flaunt her stuff after the crowds have left — the cottages shuttered for the winter, the boats put away, the docks pulled out of the water.  Does an exhibitionist without an audience still count?

Fall in Muskoka is also cranberry harvest season — this too a stunning display of ‘neature’ (neat nature, as my camp kids say).  I’ve never actually visited a cranberry bog, but it’s certainly on my Muskoka to-do list! (photo cred:  Johnston’s Cranberry Marsh, Bala)

So what better ingredient to salute in this last (boo hoo!) end-of-dock-season Docktails post?  But cranberry dear, you deserve more than the cliched and over-done Cosmopolitan or Vodka-Cran Soda.  A strutty little vainglorious number perhaps??

Muskoka Mule

• 4-5 cranberries
• 2 oz vodka
• 1/2 oz lime juice
• 4-5 oz ginger beer
• 1-2 oz cranberry juice

1. To cocktail shaker, add cranberries, vodka, lime juice, and ice.  Shake.
2. Strain into copper cup with ice.
3. Top with ginger beer and cranberry juice, proportioned to taste.
4. Garnish with cranberries

Enjoy in hip-waders in a cranberry bog!

 

Song Pairing:  Walk This Way, Aerosmith

‘Cuz if you look up ‘strut’ and ‘peacock’ in an audio dictionary, surely this song would appear?