Happy National Cupcake Lovers Day
For your Happy Hour pleasure here are my:
20140613
20140605
Orange Is The New Black Cocktail!
The Ladies of Litchfield are back one last time.
The final season of Orange Is The New Black is out on Netflix and I'm ready for my prison girls fix with a refreshing summer cocktail all decked out in prison orange and bad girl black.
The Orange Is The New Black
CANTALOUPE DAIQUIRI
INGREDIENTS
2-1/2 Oz. Light Rum
1-1/2 Oz. Fresh Lime Juice
1-1/2 Mint Simple Syrup
3 Oz. Pureed Cantaloupe
Black and Orange Sugars
Slice of Cantaloupe
DIRECTIONS
Rim your glass with some of the simple syrup then dip one side in the orange sugar and the other in the black sugar. Chill your glass in the freezer.
Rim your glass with some of the simple syrup then dip one side in the orange sugar and the other in the black sugar. Chill your glass in the freezer.
Add the rum, lime juice, mint simple syrup, and pureed cantaloupe to a cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake vigorously.
Pour into your rimmed and chilled glass then garnish with the cantaloupe slice.
Enjoy with these last episodes of Orange Is The New Black!
Updated 7-2019
PLEASE DRINK RESPONSIBLY
20140513
It's World Cocktail Day!
HAPPY WORLD COCKTAIL DAY!
That's an excuse for a cocktail if I ever heard one and I have 500+ cocktail recipes to choose from on The Martini Diva DATABASE.
I even have a World Martini Tour Selection of Cocktails in case you want to do a little virtual traveling to celebrate today at Happy Hour.
Enjoy World Cocktail Day!
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PLEASE DRINK RESPONSIBLY
20140508
Coconut Cream Pie Martini
I have this thing about coconut. I only like it in a few things; cocktails, toasted coconut cream pie, toasted coconut cake, my coconut ice cream and Pecos brittle. I only consume it as a cream, milk, toasted or fresh out of the nut. Do not leave that soggy, chewy bagged stuff anywhere near me and stop with that coconut water bilge.
This cocktail has one and two covered so color me a happy coconut camper.
The
COCONUT
CREAM PIE
MARTINI
MARTINI
INGREDIENTS
1 Oz. Coconut Rum
1/2 Oz. Vanilla Vodka
1 Oz. Cream of Coconut
2 Oz. Coconut Milk
Garnish: Crumbled Baked Pie Crust and Sugar Rim, Cocktail Cherry
DIRECTIONS
Combine the sugar and baked pie crust crumbles on a small plate. Dip your martini glass rim into some of the coconut cream then into the mixture. Chill your glass in the freezer.
Add the remaining ingredients to a cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake vigorously until chilled and blended.
Pour into the chilled cocktail glass, drop in a cocktail cherry and enjoy.
Voiceover Video with Ingredients and Directions:
National Coconut Cream Pie Day is May 8th.
20140418
EASTER COCKTAILS
Let the kids have the Easter Eggs,
you have the cocktails.
you have the cocktails.
EASTER
COCKTAILS
BLUE CHOCOLATE BUNNY MARTINI
BUNNY TRAP (CARROT) COCKTAIL
CARROT CAKE COCKTAIL
CARROT CAKE MARTINI
CARROT COLADA
CHOCOLATE EASTER CREAM EGG MARTINI
JELLY BEAN MARTINI
JELLY BEANIE MARTINI
AND, OF COURSE, WHAT ELSE IS PERFECT FOR EASTER?
BUNNY TRAP (CARROT) COCKTAIL
CARROT CAKE COCKTAIL
CARROT CAKE MARTINI
CARROT COLADA
CHOCOLATE EASTER CREAM EGG MARTINI
JELLY BEAN MARTINI
JELLY BEANIE MARTINI
AND, OF COURSE, WHAT ELSE IS PERFECT FOR EASTER?
Updated 4-2021
20140415
INCOME TAX COCKTAIL
The
INCOME TAX
COCKTAIL
To Ease The Pain
INGREDIENTS
1-1/2 Oz. Gin
3/4 Oz. Dry Vermouth
3/4 Oz. Sweet Vermouth
Juice of 1/4 Orange
2 Dashes Angostura Bitters
DIRECTIONS
DIRECTIONS
Shake with ice, strain into glass,
drink to sooth your empty wallet.
My condolences, I suffer with you all!
Updated 4-2019
20140413
MAD MEN COCKTAILS -Saying goodbye to Sterling Cooper & Company
"You don't know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it's good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it. We drink because it's what men do." - Roger Sterling
The era of the television show Mad Men was centered in the hey day of the three martini lunch and cocktail parties. Roughly spanning the time after World War II through the 60s, cocktails were a mainstay in America's business meetings and homes. Clients were plied with liquor, neighbors were made welcome with booze and conversations were well oiled with 80 proof refreshments.
Mad Men, which finished its final season in Spring 2015, was awash in alcohol from the beginning. Don and Roger and the whole Sterling Cooper Draper Bryce crew were the epitome of mid twentieth century ad men and women, talking shop and sipping from a high or lowball glass. Martinis, Old Fashioneds, Champagne, Bloodies, straight up, on the rocks and over the edge. Booze should have gotten a screen credit along with the whole cast because it played such an integral part in the show.
To celebrate the end of a supurb show and the hey day of that three martini lunch, here are some of my favorite versions of the classic cocktails of the Mad Men era:
A couple of others that deserve a mention here are the Tom Collins, a tall glass of collins mix and gin, the ubiquitous Screwdriver, a simple blend of orange juice and vodka and the ever elegant Champagne Cocktail, a simple glass of bubbly poured over an Angostura Bitters soaked sugar. cube.
We can't go without mentioning the hangover cocktail of Mad Men choice, the Bloody Mary, which takes a morning tomato juice and spruces it (& you) up with some vodka, Worchestershire sauce, Tabasco, seasonings and a stalk of celery.
I also have to mention another fifties favorite - because it was the first cocktail I ever heard of and was the drink of choice of my parents - the Seven and Seven, a mixture of Seagrams 7 Bourbon and 7-Up.
Roger Sterling: "They say once you start drinking alone, you're an alcoholic. I'm really trying to avoid that"
Don Draper: "So I guess I'm helping both of us"
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