TEQUILA TUESDAY MARTINI, A Tangerine Tequila Cocktail

  Making Tuesdays just a little better one shot of tequila at a time.   The TEQUILA TUESDAY MARTINI   INGREDIENTS 1-1/2 Oz Tequila 1 Oz Triple Sec 1 Oz Fresh Lime Juice 1 Oz Fresh Tangerine Juice 1/4 Oz Agave Syrup 1/4 Oz Grenadine   Garnish: Maraschino Cherry   Tools: Cocktail Shaker, Hawthorn Strainer   DIRECTIONS Chill your glass in the freezer. Fill cocktail Shaker with ice then add the tequila, Triple Sec, lime and tangerine juices and agave syrup, shake until chilled, strain into the glass. Gently pour the Grenadine down the side of the glass so it settles on the bottom Garnish and serve.   Purchase the Tequila Tuesday Martini Recipe Card Here    Oh, tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion & mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate ~ Tom Robbins    Happy Tequila Tuesday!
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DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON Cocktail, Hemingway's Champagne

Since it's National Absinthe Day a good cocktail to talk about would be what Ernest Hemingway himself called Hemingway's Champagne, otherwise known as Death In The Afternoon, named after Hemingway's book of the same name. It's a potent drink supposedly enjoyed by Hemingway after his stay on the Left Bank of Paris where he was introduced to Absinthe.
Hemingway later contributed the recipe to a 1935 celebrity cocktail book called So Red the Nose, or Breath in the Afternoon by Sterling North and Carl Kroch. In it Hemingway states the drink originated "by the author and three officers of the H.M.S. Danae after having spent seven hours overboard trying to get Capt. Bra Saunders’ fishing boat off a bank where she had gone with us in a N.W. gale." Or so the tale goes.
Since Hemingway was known to be very inventive when it came to cocktails, (he also has his own Daiquiri namesake) I'd take the whole story with a grain of salt. Created in the days when absinthe still possessed it's infamous Green Fairy punch, I think they all might have had three to five of the powerful drink before putting pen to paper.

Ernest Hemingway's

DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON Cocktail
INGREDIENTS 1 Jigger (Oz.) Absinthe 4 Oz. Champagne
Garnish: Lemon Twist
Glass: Champagne Flute
HEMINGWAY'S ORIGINAL INSTRUCTIONS "Pour one jigger absinthe into a Champagne glass. Add iced Champagne until it attains the proper opalescent milkiness. Drink three to five of these slowly."
I suggest just one.
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Updated 3-2022
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The CHICAGO COCKTAIL

The Chicago Cocktail is a drink mentioned in several cocktail books around the early 1900's. Obviously named after the city of Chicago, there's no evidence of its actual origin in any information I could find  but the 1931 Dining in Chicago guide by John Drury states it was being served at the American Bar in Nice and the Embassy Club in London.
My recipe is adapted from the 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book.

The CHICAGO COCKTAIL
INGREDIENTS 2 Oz. Brandy 1/4 Tsp. Cointreau Dash Angostura Bitters Champagne Float
Rim: Sugar
Garnish: Slice of Lemon
Tools: Mixing Glass, Barspoon, Hawthorn Strainer
Glass: Champagne Flute
DIRECTIONS Rim the glass with lemon, dip into the sugar then chill glass in the freezer. In a mixing glass stir the brandy, triple sec and bitters with ice until chilled, strain into the chilled glass, top off with a splash of Champagne then garnish with the lemon slice.
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A Clockwork Orange Bourbon Crusta Movie Cocktail

(Cocktails inspired by the movies, Oscar nominees and winners.)
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, 1972 Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee Nominated (1972) for: Best Picture, Best Director (Stanley Kubrik), Best Writing, Screenplay (Stanley Kubrik), and Best Film Editing (Bill Butler).
Just before the Oscars every year I try to come up with a new movie themed drink. I rarely relate them to the current Oscar contenders, preferring to stick with movie classics, mostly because the puns have better possibilities and I am a huge old movie cinemaphile.
This year my punny play is on the cult SciFi movie classic A Clockwork Orange. Despite most people thinking the story was written by Stanley Kubrik, the movie is based on the 1962 futuristic, morality novel by Anthony Burgess. Like the book, Kubrick's vision is a dark, disturbing story of aimless youth gone terribly wrong in a weary socialist state, but it is a cinematically beautiful one that I admire for the visuals while cringing at the violence. I have to be in just the right head space to watch this film but the title is just too good not to booze pun.
This cocktail movie pun is a loosely based adaptation of a Bourbon Crusta which is a bourbon version of a Brandy Crusta, a mid 1899's cocktail invented in New Orleans by a gentleman named Joseph Santini. The only relationship to the movie is the addition of the blood orange and the possibility of ending up talking like Alex if you have too many.
"Well, well, well! Well if it isn't fat stinking billy goat Billy Boy in poison! How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap stinking chip oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarble, ya eunuch jelly thou!" Alex DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange

The CLOCKWORK ORANGE CRUSTA
INGREDIENTS 2 Oz. Four Roses Bourbon 1 Tsp. Cointreau 1 Tsp. Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur 1 Tbsp. Fresh Blood Orange Juice 1 Tsp. Blood Orange Honey Creme Syrup* 1 Dash Orange Bitters  Ice Large Ice Cubes
Tools: Large Ice Cube Molds, Cocktail Shaker, Strainer
Glass: Old Fashioned
Garnish: Sugar Rim, Blood Orange Curl, Sugar Dipped Blood Orange Suprême (Segment)
DIRECTIONS * Prepare the Blood Orange Honey Creme Syrup by mixing 1 teaspoon of Honey Ridge Farms Blood Orange Honey Creme with 1 teaspoon of hot water. Pare the full peel off the blood orange, set aside then squeeze the juice from the fruit. Prep glass by moistening the rim with juice and dipping it in sugar. Add the large ice cubes to your glass, fit the peel around the inside of the glass, lifting it slightly outside the glass. Combine the ingredients in a shaker with ice, shake, strain into the ice filled glass, garnish and serve.
“The attempt to impose upon man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.” A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, (Part 1, Chapter 2)
  
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GIRL SCOUT COOKIE COCKTAILS

Since we are smack dab in the middle of Girl Scout Cookie Season, it's probably a good time to share some cocktails I have that are basically drinkable Girl Scout Cookies. If you think the cookie flavors are delicious, just wait until you add some booze.
On my honor, I think you'll enjoy these.
GIRL SCOUT COOKIE FLAVORED COCKTAILS

Yes, I do have a cocktail recipe that tastes like the newRASPBERRY RALLY.Shake up myRASPBERRY TRIFLE MARTINI

Like Thin Mints? This is the one TIPSY GIRL SCOUT MARTINI Or try my GRASSHOPPER

Here's your drinkable Samoa Cookie BOOZY SAMOA COCKTAIL SHAKE

Is your favorite the S'mores Inspired Cookie? Drink this S'MORES COCKTAIL

Love those peanut butter and chocolate Tagalongs? Try my PEANUT BUTTER CUP MARTINI

How about just the peanut butter Do-SiDos? Sip one of these PEANUT BUTTER COOKIE MARTINIS

Remember the Toffee-tastic™? Try this ENGLISH TOFFEE MARTINI

Prefer the Savannah Smiles or Lemonade? Pucker up for this LEMONADE MARTINI or shake up one of these LEMON DROP MARTINIS

Dig those Shortbread Trefoils? The SUGAR COOKIE MARTINI

Thankful for the Thanks-a-Lots? Mix up this HOT FUDGE MARTINI

Love the Caramel Chocolate Chip? Try my CHOCOLATE CARAMEL MARTINI
National Girl Scout Cookie Day is February 8th, Girl Scout Cookie Weekend is typically held the last weekend in February and National Girl Scout Day is March 12th, the day in 1912 when Juliette Gordon Low organized the first Girl Scout Troop meeting.
*DYK? The very first published recipe for S'mores (“some mores") appeared in a 1927 publication called "Tramping and Trailing with the Girl Scouts".

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MARDI GRAS - FAT TUESDAY COCKTAILS

Mardi Gras is coming and with it comes a carnival of great cocktails. Many famous cocktails have come out of The Big Easy including the Ramos Fizz, the Hurricane, the Sazerac, Arnaud’s Special, the Vieux Carré, the Brandy Crusta, the Absinthe Frappé and Café Brûlot, to mention just a few. Other cocktails with Jazz City associations, if not origins, are the French 75 (created at the New York Bar in Paris but you must have one at Arnaud’s French 75 Bar), Absinthe Suissesse (don't have breakfast at The Old Absinthe House without it) and Milk Punch (a brunch staple at Brennan's).

Each year I come up with a new cocktail inspired by Fat Tuesday, sometimes based on a classic New Orleans drink, sometimes inspired by famous NOLA dishes. It all depends on how Carnival inspires me each year. So, if you can't make it to Bourbon Street in person this year bring MARDI GRAS home with these jazzy adaptations.

MARDI GRAS

COCKTAILS

ABSINTHE MINDED LEPRECHAUN

BANANAS FOSTER COCKTAIL

CHERRY DIAMOND RAMOS FIZZ

CLOCKWORK ORANGE CRUSTA

GOLDEN RAMOS FIZZ

HURRICANE

HURRICANE MARTINI

KING CAKE FLIP

MARDI GRAS MARTINI

RAMOS GIN FIZZ

SAGZERAC (Sazerac Riff)

TERRI'S CHERRY 65 (French 75 Riff)

VIEUX CARRÉ

And always, "laissez les bons temps rouler"!

Updated 2-2019

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SAMOA COOKIE BOOZY SHAKE COCKTAIL

It's Girl Scout Cookie time and the whole country is eagerly awaiting their neighborhood Girl Scouts to be out and about selling those much loved boxes of cookie temptations. I confess to an addiction to the Samoa Cookie, that combination of caramel, chocolate and coconut is my downfall. I will buy - and bogart - several boxes whenever given the opportunity.

Sadly, I live out in the country and no bands of roving uniformed cookie dealers are roaming my hood looking to score a sale; about the only thing that roams out here are coyotes, javalina and the occasional mountain lion. If I want my Samoa Cookie fix, I have to get lucky and find an enterprising Girl Scout outside my local grocery store or feed my habit another way.
So far this year, no Girl Scouts or Samoa Cookies have crossed my path. Disappointed but not deterred, I have come up with an alternative way to get my Samoa high and it involves booze, chocolate ice cream and fake Samoas, aka Keebler's Coconut Dreams. On my honor, I will do my best to enjoy this boozy chocolate, coconut and caramel blizzard-y style shake. Take that you missing neighborhood Girl Scouts.

BOOZY SAMOA COCKTAIL SHAKE
INGREDIENTS 1-1/2 Oz Smirnoff Salted Caramel Vodka 1 Oz Malibu Coconut Rum 1 Oz Milk 2 Scoops Chocolate Ice Cream 1/4 C. Crushed Samoa Style Cookies
Garnish: Rim glass with caramel syrup then dip in MORE crushed Samoa style cookies. Top with whipped cream and add more crushed cookies on top. Yes, you can also drizzle on extra chocolate and caramel syrup!
Tools: Blender
Glass: Pint or Large Mug
DIRECTIONS Blend the ingredients until smooth and creamy, top with whipped cream, garnish, add straw and serve.
How's that for a Girl Scout Cookie hack?
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