In our company’s first portluck lunch for 2008, our team, the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) team, have prepared our very own recipe for the mocktail drinks as an exchange for the other foods.

We have named the mocktail MCE. If you realize, it originates from the team name (ECM). We merely just reverse it. At the same time, we have expanded MCE to also means ‘Mocktail Created by ECM‘.

Before the portluck session, I have volunteered to test out several mocktail recipes before suggesting them to the team. I spent the last weekend trying out several ‘wierd tasting’ mocktails. Since I was using pure fruit juices as the ingredients, I found out lime juice and grapefruit juice are the ‘anti-social’ type of juices that don’t blend well with the other juices, yet over-kill the tastes of the rest. However, that may be the reason some recipes use them to create the uniqueness of the drink.

The following are a few successful, nice tasting mocktails that I eventually proposed to the team members. The wierd name for each recipes is created from the nickname of my team members. And we had a User Acceptance Test (UAT) on Wednesday to select the best accepted mocktail to be made for the mocktail.

MCE Blue-Boo

MCE Yeah-Ric-Son

MCE Original

After the testing and fine-tuning of the recipes, the team concluded to ‘present’ MCE Yeah-Ric-Son during the portluck session. The original recipe for this drink was taken from one of the famous mocktail- Shirley’s Temple. However, the team members preferred a different fruit juice, compared to the original Orange juice and a bit of Grenadine juice. That fits well as the mocktail created by the ECM team.