ometimes you can't be perfect, surviving on your low-carb diet, staying late at the office every night. Rinse away that stiff fa?ade with a little classic - not just a standard sweet fix, but the pure taste of gin.

2 oz Bombay Sapphire Gin
1 lime
1 tsp. powdered sugar
2 dashes bitters
2 oz carbonated water

swizzle stick

In a 12 ounce Tom Collins glass, squeeze juice of lime. Add sugar and carbonated water and stir. Fill glass with shaved ice and stir thoroughly with swizzle stick. Add bitters and gin. Fill with carbonated water and serve with swizzle stick in glass, allowing individual to do final stirring. (Makes one 12 ounce serving.)