A BLUE EASTER MARTINI full of BUNNIES!

BLUE BUNNY HOP EASTER MARTINI

Because I found these fun little edible bunny candies & I had just an ounce or so of Hpnotiq!  Throw in some tropical elements and you've got a fun Easter cocktail!

RECIPE FOR THE BLUE BUNNY HOP MARTINI

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CITRUS, MINT, ORANGECELLO, LEMONCELLO = SPRING COCKTAIL!

Enjoy the Spring Weather

with this refreshing

CITRUS MINT MARTINI

What could be better than putting some Spring into your cocktail glass with some fresh mint and some great, homemade Orangecello and Lemoncello?

This was perfect for watching our beautiful sunsets on the deck here in Arizona and I'll bet you could find a great place to relax and enjoy a few of these and some nature busting out with Spring yourself.

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CITRUS MINT MARTINI

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PECAN RECIPES & COCKTAILS for PECAN DAY!

HAPPY NATIONAL PECAN DAY!

Go a little nuts with these yummy pecan candies, recipes & cocktails today!

All my

PECAN COCKTAIL RECIPES

And if that's not nuts enough for you.....
MY MOM'S BOURBON PECAN PRALINES!

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SPRING - The Harbinger of a Fresh & Healthy Cocktail Hour!

HAPPY SPRING 2013!

ENJOY A FEW OF MY

SPRING COCKTAILS

Spring 2013 has arrived and with it the bounty of Mother Nature brings some real happy to Happy Hour with seasonal fruits, herbs and vegetables.  It's a perfect time to emphasize the health and flavor benefits of bringing the garden into your cocktail glass with martini recipes muddled, mixed and made marvelous with fresh produce and a little imagination.  Spring is the time of renewal and rebirth and there's no reason that can't be applied to cocktail hour!

I have never been one to use bottled cocktail mixes.  Why would anyone choose artificial flavors and colors over the real thing?  Why pollute your martini or cocktail with chemicals when fresh ingredients are so much more flavorful and loaded with nutrients? Starting in early Spring, I hover over my little herb garden and haunt my local farmer's markets for seasonal goodies for creating new and interesting cocktails and liquor infusions. When I come home, the contents of my shopping bag will often become my martini of the day!

It takes only a few minutes to create a delicious and healthy cocktail from fresh ingredients, not that much longer than it takes to open up a bottled mix, and the results are well worth the effort.  The ritual of mixing up a cocktail is also a bit Zen, part of the complete Happy Hour experience of sipping and sharing with friends at the end of a stressful day.

Even edible flowers can be incorporated into cocktails with the use of floral essences, edible flower petals and edible flower syrups and vinegars!  Micro greens are another great way to bring Spring to your cocktail hour.  Think of your garden and farmer's market when you get out your cocktail shakers this year and get some spring in your sip.

There's a lot of Spring just waiting to jump into your cocktail shaker so be smart about what you bring into your body. If you are what you eat, then maybe you are what you drink as well.

À VOTRE SANTÉ  - To Your Health!

A Few Healthy Cocktail Tips:

• If you don't have a local farmer's market or have a difficult time finding good quality fresh ingredients where you live, frozen produce can be a good substitute, often holding as much or more nutritional value than "fresh" produce that has traveled for a week and sat in a grocery store!
• You can often substitute local honey or agave syrup for simple syrup, thus gaining nutrients from your sweetening ingredient.
• Reduce fruit juices into syrups for sweetening your cocktails not only is healthier, it adds more flavor.
• Replacing heavy creams and half & half with almond milk, soy milk and even non-flavored yogurts can up the health value of a cocktail.
• You can serve Mocktails, non-alcoholic cocktails for guests who don't imbibe

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The SAINT PATRICK'S DAY COCKTAIL - SHOT O' GOLD

 The St. Patrick's Day Cocktail

A Wee Dram & a Teensy Bit O' the Leprechaun Gold!

Get the recipe and complete instructions for this molecular cocktail:

SHOT O' GOLD

Sure, and you wouldn't begrudge me a wee bit o' Irish Whisky and Bailey's on St. Patty's Day, would ya now?

May ya be in heaven half an hour 'afore the divil knows yer dead!

Sláinte!

Updated March 2016

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PEARS HELENE COCKTAIL for National Pears Helene Day

Pears Hèléne, or Poires Belle Hèléne, is a classic pear and chocolate dessert created by the famous Chef Auguste Escoffier in 1864 and named in honor of the operetta La belle Hélène by Jacques Offenbach.  Basically it is a pear poached in simple syrup (sugar syrup) then served with a chocolate sauce and garnished with sugared violets and slivered almonds. Modern versions often add a scoop of ice cream.

Sadly, I had no sugared violet's on hand but I didn't miss them a bit.

THE
PEARS HÈLÉNE
MARTINI

INGREDIENTS

1-1/2 Oz. Pear Vodka
1-1/2 Oz. Pear Puree
1/2 Oz. Godiva Chocolate Liqueur
1/2 Oz. Heavy Cream
1 Pinch Sea Salt

Garnish
Chocolate Dipped Pear Slice dipped in Chopped Almonds

DIRECTIONS

Place the pear infused vodka, pear puree, Godiva Chocolate Liqueur, the heavy cream and the sea salt into a cocktail shaker with a cup of ice and shake until well chilled.  Strain into a chilled glass then garnish with the chocolate and almond dipped pear.

March 15th is National Pears Hélène Day.

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Updated 3-2021

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CHEESY DOODLE-TINI for National Cheez Doodle Day

OH, YES, I DID!

The CHEESY DOODLE-TINI

for National Cheez Doodle Day

 Yes, that is a Cheez Doodle Martini - or to be more accurate that is a Cheetos Martini because you can't get Cheez Doodles out here in the wild, wild West.

And quit laughing because it was really good!!! Ok, so I didn't blend up a bunch of cheezy doodles and pour booze on them, but I did crush them up and put them on a mayonnaise rim of a lovely bacon vodka and tomato water cocktail!!

What's Tomato Water?

It's the water inside a tomato and it's lighter and cleaner than tomato juice with all the same tomato flavor.  You simply suck it out of the tomatoes by cutting them up and squeezing the water out of them!  I cut mine up, did a very rough blend in my Bullet blender than poured that into a metal strainer and squished until I got the water out!

Then you're ready to rumble with bacon vodka and Cheetos/Cheez Doodles!

 The
CHEESY DOODLE-TINI

INGREDIENTS:
1 Oz. Homemade Bacon Vodka
2 Oz. Heirloom Tomato Water
1 Tsp. Worcestershire Sauce
Mediterranean Black Salt Flakes
Crushed Cheese Snacks & Mayonnaise Rim
Mini Heirloom Tomatoes

DIRECTIONS:
Dip your glass rim in some mayonnaise, then into the crushed doodles.
Chill the glass in the freezer while you make your cocktail.
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice then pour in the bacon vodka and the tomato water and shake until chilled.
Pour into your glass then garnish with the mini tomatoes, a few extra doodles sprinkle a few flakes of the black salt on the tomatoes and serve.

Ha! Bet you thought I wouldn't dare, didn't you??
What can I say? It was National Cheez Doodle Day, I had a bag of Cheetos!

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Updated 3-5-2025