Viejo Mujer!!

If you can read/understand Spanish, and if my translation is correct you will note that the title of this post translates to “Old Lady”.

Viejo Mujer is the name we gave to a new drink we “invented” today.

Grab a soda, get comfy and prepare yourself for the story of how this drink came to be.

To be honest, we may or may not have invented this drink. It may damn well already be a thing, but our Spanish, while it is improving……sucks.

As our Facebook posts have been reporting for the last few days, our friends Jason and Julia got here a couple days ago. One of the places we took them to was a market to pickup some fresh veggies. The lady that owns the veggies stand we went to is awesome! And nice as hell. Not to mention patient. We would point at random veggies or fruits we did not recognize and ask “Que es eso”. And the nice lady would smile at us as if we were her retarded grandchildren and explain to us what we had pointed to and how to use it in some sort of meal that she enjoyed.

Or she may have called me a dumbass gringo, and go on a 5 minute tyraid about how the hell could a grown man not know his vegetables….either way, nice lady.

Yesterday, we go to her stand again and as we are picking out some veggies I ask about a particular round red thing she had on display. She tells me what it is; Opuntia. Which turns out to be the fruit of the Nopoles (Prickly pear) cactus. She ask me to grab one and starts to cut it up and hands it to us to sample.

It was really, really good.

She then goes into a description of how to take this fruit and make a drink out of it. We only understood less than half of what she told us. We didn’t write anything down and by the time we got back to the boat and tried to write down what we thought she told us, we had a serious case of “broken telephone”. Remember that game?

Between the four of us we had an eclectic and very random recollection of how to make the drink and what ingredients to use. The one ingredient we all agreed on was the Opuntia. Beyond that, it was up for grabs.

What we ended up settling on:
Opuntia (muddled)
Shitty white wine (She said aqua, but honestly…fuck that)
Vodka (This was not mentioned by the lady, but we thought it was needed)
Peach Jumex (Niether was this)
A splash of 7-Up. (Or this….)
Fresh mint (we did not have this….next time)
Ice.

Really, we just took the ugly little fruit and added booze and ice. But we give full props to the nice lady at the Bravo Market in La Paz.

Mix all that together and enjoy.

Cribbage is optional.