Bloody Mary
I'm not fond of these, so don't make me one. This makes one drink for you.
- 1/2 fresh lime
- celery salt
- 1-1/2 oz vodka
- 6 oz tomato juice
- 1/2 tsp horseradish
- Tabasco and Worcestershire sauce to taste
- salt
- freshly ground pepper
- ice cubes
- lime wedges
- celery stick
Rub rim of glass with cut lime and dip in celery salt.
Vigorously combine vodka, tomato juice, horseradish, tabasco, worcestershire, salt and pepper.
Pour over ice in prepared glass.
Give lime wedge a squeeze over the glass and drop it in.
Stir and serve with a celery stalk.
Hibiscus Tipsy Lemonade
In a pitcher or punch bowl, stir:
- 1-1/2 cups gin or vodka
- 3 cups chilled hibiscus tea
- 1 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice (about 5 large lemons)
- 1 cup simple syrup
Before serving, add:
- 1 cup raspberries
- 1 cup blueberries
- 2 cups chilled sparkling water
Pour into glasses with ice and garnish with a rosemary sprig or nasturtium flower.
Fishbowl Drinks
I have never made one of these and have no idea if I'd like it, but I think the idea is fun. I don't think I'd make it when children are around.
Use fishbowl-shaped cocktail glasses.
- Swedish fish candy
- 1 oz vodka
- 1 oz blue curacao
- 1 oz peach schnapps
- 2 oz lime juice
- lemon-lime soda (Sprite)
Fill a fishbowl cocktail glass halfway with ice.
Place 4 Swedish fish inside. Top with more ice.
Add vodka, curacao, schnapps, lime juice.
Fill with soda.
Carefully place a paper straw in the glass so you don't disturb the fish.
Limeade with Gin
Makes about 8 cups of limeade
- 1-1/2 cups sugar
- 1/2 cup boiling water
- 1-1/2 cups fresh lime juice
- 5 cups cold water
- ice cubes
- Garnishes: lime slices, fresh mint springs
- Wash limes, cut in half and squeeze juice. Strain out any seeds.
- Stir together sugar and 1/2 cup boiling water until sugar dissolves.
- Stir in 1-1/2 cups lime juice and 5 cups cold water.
- Measure gin into a glass, add an ice cube, fill glass with limeade mixture.
- Add garnish if desired.
Sugar-Rimmed Spirits
- fresh orange juice or apple cider
- granulated sugar
- crushed ice
- bourbon, rye or vodka
In a shaker, shake alcohol and ice.
Dip rim of a glass in orange juice, then in sugar.
Pour in cold alcohol. Sip.
Pina Colada #1
Invented in Puerto Rico in the 1950's.
Use sweetened coconut cream (sold in tins) not coconut milk.
If you add too much coconut cream you can't taste the pineapple.
Add just a tiny bit of salt to bring out the flavours.
Crush the ice before blending (put cubes in a ziploc bag and pound with a mallet if your blender doesn't crush ice).
- 2 oz dark rum
- 5 oz pineapple juice
- 1 oz coconut cream
- 1 oz whipping cream (not whipped)
- 1/2 oz lime juice
- 1 cup crushed ice
- 1/8 tsp salt (or less)
Put crushed ice in a blender, then add rest of ingredients.
Blend on medium 60 seconds or until smooth.
Serve in a tulip glass with an orange wedge and a wedge of fresh pineapple or a cherry.
Pina Colada #2
Put 4 glasses in the freezer to frost 30 minutes before blending the drinks.
- 4 oz. (125 mL) light rum
- 3 oz (90 mL) cream of coconut
- 6 oz (175 mL) pineapple juice
- squirt of lemon or lime juice
- 8 ice cubes
- 4 maraschino cherries
- freshly grated nutmeg
In a blender, mix all ingredients except cherries and nutmeg.
Pour into 4 frosted glasses, top with a cherry and grate a little nutmeg on top of each.
Pineapple Daiquiri
- 1/4 cup canned pineapple chunks, drained
- 6 oz light rum, chilled
- 1/4 cup cold lime juice
- 1 tsp sugar
- 8 ice cubes
Blend all ingredients until smooth. Pour into chilled glasses.
