Recipe

• 50ml Passoã

• 30ml vodka

• 20ml lemon juice

• 1 cap vanilla extract

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.

It seems the only thing anyone knows about Passoã is that you can use it to make a Pornstar Martini.  I sometimes get tired of deliberately taboo cocktail names which tend to be slightly funny first time ("could I have an Orgasm please?") and then get more and more tedious when you're ordering your fifth one because you're an alcoholic.  Anyway, I tried a Pornstar Martini the other day in a bar, and it was quite good!  Sadly, you need at least prosecco and fresh passion fruit to make one, so I wasn't ready to make my own amateur drink just yet.

In lieu of the real thing, I copied this dodgy recipe from the side of the Passoã bottle, which gave it the unexpectedly conservative name "Passoã Star Martini".  I didn't even have vanilla vodka, so I just put in plain vodka and out-of-date vanilla extract. It turned out a bit sour and boring, and I couldn't really taste the vanilla.  I suspect real vanilla vodka would've had some extra sugar, but I also suspect this just wasn't a great recipe.  So I've decided to name it after the British Government's latest attempt to protect the public from immoral content online.

I'll try again when I've got fresh passion fruit.  And I'll try to post the results before the 15th of July – otherwise this blog might end up on a government list, and you'll all have to send me a copy of your birth certificate before you can read it.