FRIDAY COCKTAIL - SLUSHY WATERMELON MOJITO!

Definitely making these on VACATION!  Sooo refreshing on a hot day with the melon and the clear fizz of the sparkling water.

Ingredients:

5 cups cubed seeded watermelon
1 cup sparkling water
3/4 cups white rum
1/4 cup chopped fresh mint
1 (6 oz) can frozen limeade (do not dilute)
mint sprigs
lime wedge

On a single layer freeze watermelon cubes for 2 hours or until frozen.  Combine all ingredients except garnishes in a blender.  Process until smooth and garnish. LOVE THIS!

WATERMELON!!!!
ENJOY!

FRIDAY COCKTAIL - STARS & STRIPES SIPPER!

Well, it will FINALLY be nice and warm here in the Midwest.  So we can talk about "refreshing" drinks, not warm-me-up drinks.  Here's a great one and easy to make for your Memorial Day BBQ!

2 oz dry rum
grapefruit juice
club soda
lime wedge for garnish
ice

Pour rum in a tall glass with ice.  Top with juice and soda and garnish with a lime.  How easy is that!!!

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!
ENJOY!

FRIDAY COCKTAIL - LIQUID MARIJUANA!

This Super Bowl finds the competition between the only two states who have legalized the recreational use of marijuana!  So if you would like to celebrate that Freedom - here ya go!

Ingredients:

1/2 oz Spiced Rum
1/2 oz Blue Curacao Liqueur
1/2 oz Coconut Rum
1/2 oz Melon Liqueur
splash of sweet and sour mix
pineapple juice

Combine first 5 ingredients in a shaker with ice.  Shake vigorously.  Strain into a martini glass and fill with pineapple juice.

GO PATRIOTS!
ENJOY!

FRIDAY COCKTAIL - POLAR VORTEX SLUSH!

Sorry this is a day late - long Friday for me.

As we all tried not to freeze to death in the midst of the Nationwide "Polar Vortex" this baby could have been the answer.  Tastes a bit tropical to fool you into a warm state.

Ingredients:

1 oz Dark Rum
1 oz Kahlua
1/2 cup light coconut milk (from a can)
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
handful of ice

Combine all the ingredients in a blender with ice and blend until ice is fully crushed.  Pour in your favorite glass or a thermos so your hands don't get cold.

STAY WARM MY FRIENDS!
ENJOY!

FRIDAY COCKTAIL - JFK'S FAVORITE CUBAN DAIQUIRI!

On this day of remembrance - here's the favorite of not only JFK but our man Hemingway as well!

Ingredients:

1-1/2 oz light rum
1 oz fresh lime juice
1 tsp simple syrup or superfine sugar
garnish with lime wedge

Mix all ingredients in a shaker with ice and strain into a martini glass.  Garnish with a lime wedge.

TOAST TO JFK!
ENJOY!

FRIDAY COCKTAIL - SPIKED CIDER!

 

 

This will be the SIGNATURE cocktail at our Thanksgiving Feast!!

Not a huge rum fan, but this is delicious!

Ingredients:

1/4 gallon Apple Cider
1/2 cup Dark Rum
1/2 cup Cinnamon Schnapps
1 granny smith apple, peeled, chucked and skewered
1/2 lemon, juiced

Mix cider, rum and schnapps in a large pitcher.  Coat the apple chucks with the lemon juice so they don't brown and skewer a few for each cocktail.  Pour the cider mixture in a glass with ice and garnish with apples.

HAPPY ALMOST THANKSGIVING!
ENJOY!

FRIDAY COCKTAIL - SUMMER RUM LEMON DROP SHOOTER!

 

Well I am late today with my Friday Cocktail - so Let's just get to IT!  This sounds awesome, but a few may go a long way.......TGIF!

In a shaker with ice add 1/2 ounce of Bacardi Limon Rum and shake until the shaker is cold.  Strain into a shot glass.  Garnish with a sugar coated lemon wedge.

Just a Fabulous Start to the SUMMER!

WELCOME!
ENJOY!

FRIDAY COCKTAIL - JUNE-GO CITRUS SPLASH!

Let's get into SUMMER now that the month of June is a day away!

This cocktail demands fresh squeezed orange juice.  If you don't want to spend the money on flavored rums, just use regular rum and buy a mango and can of chunk pineapple and blend some until very smooth.  Be careful tho - lots of rum and tastes so good!

Ingredients:

1 part mango rum
1 part pineapple rum
Splash of fresh squeezed orange juice
garnish with fruit slice

Add all ingredients into a shaker with ice.  Shake for 30 seconds and pour into a tall glass with ice.  Garnish with orange or pineapple slice.

WELCOME JUNE!
ENJOY!

FRIDAY COCKTAIL - THE BITCH!!!!

Well ..I am blogging this for a very special person - you know who you are!!!!

The bartender who invented this used to work in Cardiff in 1982 and was his secret recipe

1 part light rum
1 part dark rum
1 part vodka
3 parts orange juice
2 parts pineapple juice
1/2 part grenadine
1/2 part peach brandy
garnish with orange and pineapple wedges

In a shaker with ice mix all ingredients except the brandy.  Shake and pour into two hurricane glasses and float the peach brandy on top. Garnish with fruit wedges.

HAPPY BITCH-NESS!
ENJOY!

FRIDAY COCKTAIL - LOUISE'S FAVORITE RUM RUNNER!

For Louise this weekend!  Story goes that the Rum Runner was invented in the 1950's at the Holiday Isle Tiki Bar in Islamorada, FL..one of the Keys.  Seemed the bar had an excess of rum and needed a new fruity drink to entice guests to drink the rum.

 

 

Ingredients:

 

1 oz orange juice

1 oz pineapple juice

1 oz blackberry liqueur

1 oz banana liqueur

1 oz light rum

1 oz dark rum

dash of grenadine

ice

garnish 151 floater, pineapple and orange

 

Pour 2 cups of ice and all the ingredients in a blender.  Blend until smooth and pour in a hurricane glass.  Garnish with pineapple, umbrellas, oranges...or add a 151 floater on top!!!

 

LOVE YOU LOUISE TO THE MOON AND BACK!

ENJOY!



FRIDAY COCKTAIL - STRAWBERRY LEMONADE SMASH!

It goes without saying..the sweeter and riper the strawberries the better this adult slushie will taste!!!

Ingredients:

3 hulled cleaned strawberries
2 oz white rum
1 oz fresh lemon juice
1 oz simple syrup
Strawberry for garnish, straw

Muddle the 3 strawberries in the bottom of a cocktail shaker.  Add the rest of the ingredients.  Shake until the outside of the shaker is frosty about 30 seconds.  Fill a tall glass with crushed ice.  Strain the strawberry mixture into the glass.  Garnish with a strawberry and sip through a straw.


FEEL THE WARMTH ON YOUR FACE!
ENJOY!

FRIDAY COCKTAIL - SPRING SMOKY ROSE!

Welcome to SPRING!  Apples are not just for Autumn.  Grab yourself some Rome or Honeycrisps for this great cocktail.

Ingredients:
1-1/2 oz rum
3/4 oz lemon juice
1/2 oz agave nectar
1/2 oz apple cider
4-5 chunks and slice of apple
rosemary sprig

Muddle the apple chunks in a shaker.  Add rest of ingredients (except apple slice and rosemary) and shake.  Strain into a glass with ice.  Add slice of apples and rosemary sprig.

SPRING HAS SPRUNG!
ENJOY!

FRIDAY COCKTAIL - DRUNKEN ELF!

The dang elf was supposed to blog this yesterday but obviously drank too many of them and with a hang over is posting today...

Ingredients:

1 oz Bacardi Golden Rum
1 oz Pink Lemonade
Candy canes for crushing on the rim and one for garnish

Crush some candy canes and wet the rim of a tall glass.  Dip the glass in the crushed candy canes.  In a shaker with ice combine rum and lemonade....pour into the glass with ice.


MERRY CHRISTMAS!
ENJOY!

FRIDAY COCKTAIL - KIM'S WHITE SANGRIA!

I know we are approaching winter...but it is supposed to be 70 degrees here tomorrow and I am not willing to give in yet.  The colors of the trees and plants are AMAZING right now! This combines dry white wine and rum so it is on the dryer side ...but adds a punch of fruit ...perfect!

Ingredients:

1 bottle of dry white wine
1/2 cup Cointreau
1/2 cup light rum
6 oz can frozen lemonade
club soda
wedges of pineapple, apple, strawberry and/or orange slices

Combine the first 4 ingredients in a pitcher.  Pour into tall wine glasses with a litle ice and top with club soda when you are ready to serve.  Garnish with whatever fruit you like and looks good in your local market!

HANG ON AUTUMN!
ENJOY!

FRIDAY HALLOWEEN COCKTAIL - BLACK DEVIL MARTINI!

With Halloween just a few short weeks away...it is time to start planning your party libations!!!  To make the orange sugar, simply pour some pure cane sugar in a shallow bowl and add a small splash of orange juice.

Ingredients:
2 oz Dark Rum
1/2 oz Dry Vermouth
orange sugar
black olives for garnish

Wet the rim of a martini glass and then roll it in the orange sugar.  Mix the rum and vermouth in a shaker with ice.  Shake and pour into the martini glass.  Garnich with two black olives.

SCARY!
ENJOY!

FRIDAY COCKTAIL - TROPICAL STORM!!!

It is SUMMER people!!!!  The key to this cocktail is to use the freshest pineapple juice you can find.  If you have a juicer - perfect! The most amazing beach drink ever....but pace yourself..

this recipe serves 8

Ingredients:

2 cups fresh pineapple juice
2 cups fresh orange juice
1 cup white rum
3/4 cup high-proof dark rum
3 tbl Campari
orange wedges and maraschino cherries

Pour all ingredients in a pitcher, cover and refrigerate for 4-1/2 hours.  Divide among 8 ice filled hurricane glasses and garnish with orange wedges and maraschino cherries....umbrellas optional.



HAPPY BEACH DAYS!
ENJOY!

FRIDAY COCKTAIL - COLUMBUS COCKTAIL!

It's Columbus Day Weekend!!!!! Trees changing color, Fall crisp air...and just one more reason to celebrate being (at least partially) Italian. I could have posted some wild cocktail with Grappa and Sambuca...but that Grappa sure is an acquired (maybe) taste....so on the lighter side...and PS: I have these ingredients in my cabinet...YES!!!!

1-1/2 oz gold rum

3/4 oz apricot brandy

1 oz lime juice

lime wedge (optional garnish)

Pour all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice...shake and strain into a LARGE martini glass. Garnish with lime if you like..

HAPPY TO BE ITALIAN!

ENJOY!

FRIDAY COCKTAIL - THE HURRICANE!

The Hurricane became popular at Pat O'Brien's bar in 1940's New Orleans. According to legend it debuted at the 1939 World's Fair and the rest is history. O'Brien created the heavy "rummed" version to get rid of a large stock of rum his Southern distributors made him buy.

2 oz light rum
2 oz dark rum
2 oz passion fruit
1 oz orange juice
juice of half a lime

Mix all in a blender with ice and - of course - serve in a big Hurricane glass!

STAY SAFE EVERYONE!
ENJOY!

FRIDAY COCKTAIL - SNEAKY TEQUILA!

So refreshing on these dog days of summer...although today on the coast...GORGEOUS!!!! Be careful with this one...it "SNEAKS" up on you...!!!!

4 parts tequila
4 parts coconut rum
1 part peach schnapps
splash of pineapple juice
splash of cranberry juice
garnish with pineapple wedge

Combine all ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake and pour into an ice filled tall glass. Garnish with the pineapple wedge.

KEEP IT SUMMER FOREVER!
ENJOY!

FRIDAY COCKTAIL - 3 SHOT FRIDAY!

I have noticed a new trend in the bar scene lately..that in itself is scary...remember the peanut butter and jelly shot? Bartenders on their slow moments tend to look at "the inventory" and start mixing concoctions in shot glasses to try to come up with the flavors we all remember. So at one of our recent visits to a local joint...we got an Oatmeal Cookie shot, Green Tea shot and the best of all Key Lime Pie shot....here goes..pretty much the ingredients are equal amounts of each liquor unless listed, but adjust to your taste....

Oatmeal Cookie

1 oz Butter schnapps

1 oz Hot Dam cinnamon schnapps

1 oz Baileys

* tastes jut like an oatmeal cookie----seriously!

Green Tea

1 oz Jameson Whisky

hint of sour apple pucker

1 oz gingerale

* a little heavy but Rachel you would love this

Key Lime Pie

1 oz Midori

1 oz Vanilla Vodka

1 oz Malibu Rum

hint of Rose's lime juice

squirt of whipped cream (YES)

*My Favorite...tastes just like the pie...could drink a whole glass of this...maybe I did????

3 SHOT FRIDAY!
ENJOY!