Happy WORLD GIN DAY!

 

 Gin Cocktails

Gin & Tonic Recipes

Homemade Gin Recipe

World Gin Day is celebrated the 2nd Saturday in June.

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LONG ISLAND ICED TEA Cocktail Recipe

 June 10th is

NATIONAL ICED TEA DAY

and no one said you couldn't add a little spirit!

It's a perfect time of year for iced tea.  It's summer, it's hot and iced tea is refreshing on a sultry day.  You just want to sit out on the porch in a rocking chair with a tall glass while you contemplate the birds and the bees.

But maybe not this particular recipe for "iced tea".

It does taste like iced tea and therein lies the danger. It tastes like iced tea, it looks like iced tea, but you are swilling down a big honking glass of almost pure booze.

Very sneaky and very dangerous and a cocktail to be very cautious with, but as long as you stay safely on your porch just contemplating the birds and bees you might be safe.

LONG ISLAND

ICED TEA

INGREDIENTS

1/2 Oz. Gin

1/2 Oz. Light Rum

1/2 Oz. Vodka

1/2 Oz. Blanco Tequila

1/2 Oz. Triple Sec

1 Oz. FRESH Sour Mix

2 Oz. Cola

Garnish:

Lemon Wedge

DIRECTIONS

Add all ingredients to a highball glass filled with ice, stir, garnish and serve.

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Updated 6-2021

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HAPPY NATIONAL CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM DAY!

June 7th is

NATIONAL CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM DAY

Oh, come on, you can't just throw some chocolate ice cream into a cocktail shaker, add booze and call it a day! Uh uh, no way, nope.  Let's take National Chocolate Ice Cream Day up a notch and celebrate with my Chocolate Malt Martini!

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CHOCOLATE MALT MARTINI HERE

It's a good day when you get to celebrate chocolate and ice cream . . . and martinis!

 

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Happy NATIONAL GINGERBREAD DAY

June 5th is

NATIONAL GINGERBREAD DAY

I think it's a little odd that someone picked a day in June for National Gingerbread Day. Someone else, more seasonally minded, picked November 21st as Gingerbread Day. Gingerbread is something I associate with Christmas but, there you have it, National Gingerbread Day is commemorated on June 5th, while Gingerbread Day is celebrated in November.

Here's all my

GINGERBREAD COCKTAILS

AND A RECIPE FOR GINGERBREAD LIQUEUR

Serve up any of these drinks with my favorite cookie of all time - my Mom's Gingersnaps.

HAPPY NATIONAL GINGERBREAD DAY!

Updated 11-2017

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Watermelon Grape Martini

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WATERMELON GRAPE MARTINI
Recipe

For those long, hot summer days when your throat is dry and your mouth is parched, here's a refreshing watermelon cooler in a martini glass.  With a little bit of muddled grapes, basil and a little zest of lemon for some sweet tang.

A very enjoyable libation for the dog days of summer.

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It's National Macaroon Day - Have a Macaroon Martini!

Most of us are familiar with the shredded coconut macaroon but the very first macaroons were actually almond meringue cookies. (It's said these original macaroons were created in an Italian monastery and modeled after a monk's belly button.) The more familiar chewy coconut macaroon cookie is a recipe brought over by Jewish immigrants who adopted the cookie because it required no flour or leavening agents, this meant it could be enjoyed during Passover.  This is also most likely when coconut started being added, often completely substituting for the original ground almond versions.

In France "Les Macarons" are generally meringue type cookies and you will find them all over French bakeries (patisseries) in a sandwich form filled with chocolate ganache or jams and buttercreams.  This sandwich macaroon was invented by Pierre Desfontaines Laduree, Thanks to Laduree, today you can find these meringue macaroon sandwiches in a variety of flavors and beautiful colors in every corner of France.

Laduree's original "macaron" sandwiches were filled with chocolate ganache which is why I included the White Creme de Cacao in my Macaroon martini recipe. The word macaroon comes from the Italian word maccherone, a derivation of ammaccare, which means to crush or beat. The original recipes for macaroons used crushed almonds in the form of almond paste so the French called them macarons and that is why there is a little Amaretto in this recipe.

TheMACARONMARTINI 
INGREDIENTS1 Oz. Coconut Rum1/2 Oz. Amaretto1/2 Oz. White Crème de Cacao1 Oz. Unsweetened Coconut Cream*
Garnish:Coconut Rim, Macaron Cookie
DIRECTIONSShake ingredients with ice.Pour into your rimmed cocktail glass, garnish & serve.
*You can use coconut milk for a lighter version but I happen to prefer this creamier style cocktail. I save the rest of the can for a curry or coconut rice.
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National Macaroon Day is May 31st.
Updated 5-2021
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HAPPY MINT JULEP DAY! Celebrate May 30th with a Mint Julep Martini

A Classic Mint Julep is Bourbon, Fresh Mint, Water and a splash of Simple Syrup and it came out of the Southern United States as a kind of bourbon spritzer meant to ease the heat of those long, hot summers.  It is also the traditional cocktail of the Kentucky Derby where thousands of them are served up for the Run for the Roses.

I've done several adaptations of this classis Southern cooler and you can find all those drink recipes here:
MINT JULEP RECIPES 

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