Summer Drink Time

So last night I went out to dinner at the always fabulous No. 9 Park – part of the Barbara Lynch restaurant empire here in the Boston area.  It is a very refined place with complex small portions, and they usually serve an amuse buche.  They also have a nice bar with a fancy drink menu.  My parents usually get palmyras a citrus and mint concoction good for warmer weather.  I like the drinks with heat to them but they didn’t have my favorite with orange and cayenne.  So I tried a new drink, a Bone, with tequila and a ground black pepper rim.  It was very nice.  So we resolved to make up a supply of infused vodka’s and flavored simple syrups so that this summer we could easily have fun complicated drinks at home.  I made a batch of ginger lemon simple syrup this morning, and since it is well into the 80′s the next few days, we just might try it out this weekend.