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Pretty & Poppin’

April 4, 2022 by robertforto Leave a Comment

Pretty Poppin' cocktail Robert Forto

Delicate by design, this delight by J’Nai Williams asks that you lean in to detect all the surprising, soft nuances of Scotch, which are set afloat by a flurry of citrus and floral scents and flavors. Oh, and one more request straight from the drink’s creator: Do so while feeling fly with friends at the beach or by the water. Her highball is an homage to the women who unapologetically take the bull by the horns in life, and despite a mellow profile of grapefruit, elderflower, and lavender, it likewise struts with a confidence that comes from a base as assertive as single-malt Scotch.

Ingredients

1 ½ oz Scotch

1 oz grapefruit-elderflower barmalade

1 tsp agave nectar

4 dashes (not drops) lavender bitters

2-3 oz club soda

Shaken

Large Collins Glass

Instructions

  1. Add the Scotch, barmalade, agave nectar, and bitters to a shaker. Fill the shaker with ice cubes and shake vigorously until it is ice-cold and shows frost on the outside.
  2. Strain the shaker’s contents into a large 14 oz collins glass over fresh cubed ice, then top with the club soda, stirring softly to combine.

Enjoy!

Filed Under: Daily Post, Recipe Rants Tagged With: cocktails

Weeks 95-99 of 186 (BMAL 770)

April 4, 2022 by robertforto Leave a Comment

Weeks 95-99 of approximately 186 are in the books in my doctorate program.

March has been a very busy month! Not only did I start a new course, BMAL 770, Business Ethics but also traveled down to Washington for a four day, Wilderness First Responder re-certification in the pouring rain, a daily podcast for the Iditarod, but also had a booth at the local outdoorsman show, met with my team at Peak Experience to jump-start the business but also all of the spring chores that are popping up as the snow melts here in Alaska after a very long winter.

The new course, Ethics, is heavy on writing. We have five lengthy discussions of about 1000 words but we also have to do two replies each week and replies to replies on our own posts. That makes for a lot of research but it is good for understanding and concise writing that is required at the doctoral level.

Next week is our first big paper, it is a case study from one of our texts and the rubric is clear that it is only to be 6 to 8 pages.


Join hosts Robert Forto, TJ Miller, and Michele Forto as they discuss the 5 Dysfunctions of a Team on the Peak Experience podcast


Oh, if you are on Twitter, I highly encourage you to follow the hashtags, #AcademicChatter and #AcademicTwitter both are great threads with advice, motivation, and a very supportive community and if you wouldn’t mind, give me a follow at @robertforto and send me a tweet letting me know you found my blog helpful!

Also, my wife Michele is getting deep into her Master’s program as well and getting close to the finish line! Please do me a favor and follow her over on LinkedIn.

Score: */*

To read the paper:

No paper this week


Filed Under: Daily Post, Midlife in College Tagged With: BMAL 770, DSL, ethical leadership

Pancho and Lefty

April 3, 2022 by robertforto Leave a Comment

Pancho and Lefty cocktail Robert Forto

Like its namesake, the elegiac tune by Townes Van Zandt, this cocktail is a staggeringly deep number to wax wistful to while sitting around the campfire. In a play on just how much wood features in the makeup of Tennessee whiskey (maple charcoal filtering and charred oak aging), this old-fashioned finds Samir Osman doing the spirit one better by adding a maple syrup that itself features the flavors of smoked pecan wood. Despite all these like-minded elements, though, it’s all summer beauty and none of the burns when the delightful taste of peach puts a classic Southern spin on your night under the stars!

Ingredients

2oz Tennessee Whiskey

½ oz smoked maple syrup

3 dashes (not drops) of peach bitters

1 dash citric acid solution

1-2 spritzes white sage hydrosol

Stirred

Served in a Rocks or Nick and Nora glass

Instructions

  1. Add the whiskey, maple syrup, bitters, and citric acid solution to a dry mixing glass. Fill the glass with ice and use a bar spoon to stir until the mixing glass feels ice-cold.
  2. Strain into either a rocks glass over a large ice cube or a chilled Nick & Nora glass (without ice).
  3. Spray the white sage hydrosol over the top of the drink or if you’d like to have one on hand – shake a sage leaf to awaken the aromatics, and then place it on top of the drink.

Enjoy!

Filed Under: Daily Post, Recipe Rants Tagged With: cocktails

Feather Billet

April 2, 2022 by robertforto Leave a Comment

Feather Billet Robert Forto

Donny Clutterbuck’s radio is tuned to “Turn the Music Up” by the band PREP, a “Steely Dan-esque” song that inspired a Paloma riff that expands to include rose, chocolate and, of course, anejo!

Ingredients

1 ½ oz tequila anejo

¾ oz rose syrup

¾ oz lime juice

1 dash (not drop) chocolate mole bitters

1 ½ oz sparkling pink grapefruit soda

1 lime wheel (1/4 inch thick)

Shaken

Collins Glass

Instructions

  1. Add the tequila, syrup, lime juice, and bitters to a shaker. Fill the shaker with ice and shake vigorously until it is ice-cold and shows frost on the outside.
  2. Double strain the shaker’s contents into a collins glass over fresh cubed ice, then top with about 1 ½ oz of grapefruit soda – we recommend using your bar spoon to force the carbonation all the way down to the bottom of the glass. Place the spoon, standing straight up, down into the center of the glass. Place the mouth of the soda bottle near the top of the handle, right at the edge of the spoon, and pour, letting the soda spiral down the handle all the way to the bottom of the glass.
  3. Garnish by placing the lime wheel on the rim.

Filed Under: Daily Post, Recipe Rants Tagged With: cocktails

Week 94 of 186 (BMAL 755)

February 28, 2022 by robertforto Leave a Comment

Week 94 of approximately 186 are in the books in my doctorate program.

Do you remember a couple of weeks ago when I wrote out an outline for the research project that I said I was not going to use? Well, it proved partly true. Yesterday with very little research I sat down at the local Starbucks and banged out a 14 page, 3300 word research project on solution-focused coaching for a case study where an entrepreneur struggled with time management. A single cup of coffee and a bit of heavy metal got me in the groove. Who said anything about deadlines?

As Alanis once said, “Isn’t it ironic?”

Just one more week of this course and then a week off before jumping into the fire again tackling ethics in leadership. Oh, that should be fun!


Join hosts Robert Forto, TJ Miller, and Michele Forto as they discuss followership on the Peak Experience podcast


Oh, if you are on Twitter, I highly encourage you to follow the hashtags, #AcademicChatter and #AcademicTwitter both are great threads with advice, motivation, and a very supportive community and if you wouldn’t mind, give me a follow at @robertforto and send me a tweet letting me know you found my blog helpful!

Also, my wife Michele is getting deep into her Master’s program as well and is more halfway done! Please do me a favor and follow her over on LinkedIn.

Score: */140

To read the paper:

Forto, R. 755 Research Project


Filed Under: Daily Post, Midlife in College Tagged With: bmal 755, DSL, effective executive coaching

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