FRIDAY COCKTAIL - FROZEN WATERMELON MARGARITAS!

For our dear dear friend Brian!  While it may seem odd to blog a cocktail today, Brian would hate that I did not.  He loved to follow my escapades and cocktails on Facebook.  You are already missed so very much!

Ingredients:

1-1/2 cups cubed watermelon, pureed
1 cup tequila
1/2 cup lime juice
1/2 cup orange liqueur
1-2 TBL confectioners sugar
1/2 tsp salt
3 cups ice
garnish, lime wedge and orange slice

Put all in a blender and pulse until it is a slush.  Garnish with a lime and orange wedge

LOVE YOU BRIAN!
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 - THE SWEATY HIPSTER!!

If this was Sam's blog, he would use the recipe for a Hipster cocktail from the Urban Dictionary.  "Take your favorite cocktail and microwave it for 30 seconds and drink it before it cools!"

I on the other hand prefer this recipe for The Sweaty Hipster:

Ingredients:

2 parts Tequila
1 part Orange Liqueur
1 part fresh lime juice
1 part Serrano/mint infused simple syrup*
Chile salt for rim
Serrano chile slices for garnish

For syrup:
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
2 Serrano chiles sliced
1/4 cup fresh mint torn
Bring all to a boil, stir until sugar is dissolved.  Let cool. Strain repeatedly until all chile and mint pieces are strained out.  Store in your frig.

Mix all liquid ingredients in a shaker with ice.  Use chile salt to rim a rocks glass.  Strain the shaker into the rocks glass with ice and garnish.

TO MY NEW HIP!
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 - MOTHER'S DAY BLUSHING LADY!

This martini is perfectly designed with fruity flavors and the sugar rimmed glass...yummy!  Careful not to drink too many or you will be blushing as "pink as the drink"!!!

1 oz PAMA Pomegranate Liqueur
2 oz vodka
1 oz pink grapefruit
lemon, grapefruit or lime wedge
sugar for rimming

Wet the rim of a martini glass and rim with sugar.  In a shaker with ice mix all ingredients and shake until the shaker is very cold.  Pour into martini glass and garnish.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!
ENJOY!