{"id":31327,"date":"2015-01-14T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/?p=31327"},"modified":"2015-01-13T19:09:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T02:09:58","slug":"make-wild-gregs-best-homemade-pina-colada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/make-wild-gregs-best-homemade-pina-colada\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make Wild Greg’s Best Homemade Pi\u00f1a Colada"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We will get to adding the rum to the pi\u00f1a colada later.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Wild Greg makes<\/strong>\u00a0almost all of my drinks. That is because I am very picky and no one else knows how to do it right. He also frequently tastes my drinks in restaurants before I try them. A pi\u00f1a colada is one of my favorites. For me, he makes it with the barest amount of rum. I like rum a lot, but I don’t like it very concentrated. If there is a drink category that I have learned to like in my two or so years of learning to appreciate some alcohol at the tender age of 53, it is the category of drinks made with rum. Finding out I like rum is funny to me, because I previously only knew of it from stories of pirates! Anyone know why rum is associated with pirates when it has such a sophisticated taste? Oh, well. Can’t let the pirates have all the fun.<\/p>\n

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Here is how Wild Greg makes my pi\u00f1a colada:<\/p>\n

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A few of the pi\u00f1a colada ingredients standing ready.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

List of ingredients:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00bc cup cream of coconut, which we find as Coco Re’al made by Simply Squeeze<\/p>\n

\u00bd cup of coconut rum<\/p>\n

~ 3 tablespoons of frozen pineapple juice concentrate<\/p>\n

1 small can of pineapple juice, 6 ounces, NOT concentrate<\/p>\n

\u00bc cup granulated (white) sugar<\/p>\n

~ 1 can of club soda<\/p>\n

\u00be to 1 cup of milk<\/p>\n

one normal size tray of ice<\/p>\n

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This is about \u2154 of the ice Wild Greg put in blender.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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First of all, make sure<\/strong> that you have shaken your cream of coconut well. For our last bottle of this, he had to even stick a table knife down into it to get it going. It was just too solidified. Then, he started by putting some of the ice, the pineapple juice concentrate, the small can of pineapple juice, and the sugar\u00a0in our Kitchen Aide blender, which crushes ice very nicely. He added more ice cubes later, because being someone who usually improvises in the kitchen, he decided he needed more. In the end, it came to very close to a full ice cube tray of cubes.<\/p>\n

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This is how Wild Greg measures out the pineapple juice concentrate. That is really how he measures anything, whether it be in the kitchen or while mixing cement in his workshop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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After the ice<\/strong> was sufficiently chopped, he put in the other all of the other ingredients and ran the blender on the puree setting briefly, so that it was like a coconut pineapple rum smoothie. Or, in other words, a pi\u00f1a colada.<\/p>\n

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I always get the first pi\u00f1a colada.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I<\/strong> really should<\/strong> try to make some popsicles out of any leftovers. Except we never have any, because there always seem to be other people who show up to enjoy his drinks, too. He does add more rum, probably another \u00bd cup to the mix left in the blender, after he has served mine. That seems to be how everyone else<\/em> likes their pi\u00f1a coladas! However, now that he has shown me his secrets, I can make one when no one is looking. As long as I can shake the cream of coconut.<\/p>\n

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Shaking was not doing the job, so he resorting to stirring the cream of coconut.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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