Cosmopolitan Cocktail

Cosmopolitan Cocktail

This is a cocktail made with either vodka, gin or light rum, approx.  4 oz. --

to which you add the following:

1 oz. Cointreau
Lime juice (freshly squeezed, if possible)
Dash of Cranberry Juice

Garnish as desired (thinly sliced lemon or lime)

A variation, if you are a fan of flavored vodka:
3 oz. orange-flavored vodka
1/2 oz. Cointreau
Dash of Cranberry Juice
Squeeze of Lime
Garnish with a lime peel

Cayman Mama

Cayman Mama

1 ½ oz. Tortuga Gold Rum

1 oz. Tortuga Coconut Rum

2 ½ oz. Orange Juice

2 ½ oz. Pineapple Juice

Splash of Tortuga Strawberry Syrup

Garnish with Cherry, Lime & Orange Slices.

Boston Ward 8

Boston Ward 8

To make 1 cocktail

1 ounce fresh lemon juice
3 ounces bourbon
½ ounce grenadine
3 to 4 ice cubes
1 slice orange
A dash of cold club soda

An 8-ounce wine glass, chilled

Combine the lemon juice, bourbon, grenadine and ice cubes in a mixing glass.  Place a shaker on top of the mixing glass and, grasping them firmly together, shake vigorously.  Remove the shaker, place a strainer on top of the mixing glass, and pour into the chilled glass.
Garnish with a slice of orange.   Rinse the shaker with the dash of club soda and pour into the glass.

Create an alternate using any whiskey flavor you favor.

Bloody Mary with Lovage

Bloody Mary with Lovage

Combine all, except lovage stalks:

1 quart tomato juice

1/2 cup lime juice

2 tablespoons prepared horseradish

1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce

1 tablespoon Tabasco sauce (or to taste)

1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

1 1/2 cups good-quality vodka or gin (we prefer Tanqueray, or, in England, Gordon's non-export)

Garnish:

6 10-inch lovage stalks, leaves cut off

Combine all ingredients except lovage in a pitcher and stir well. Pour over ice in 6 tall glasses and garnish with the lovage stalks, which should be used as straws.

Yield:  6 drinks.

Bloody Mary with Citrus

Bloody Mary with Citrus

1 1/2 oz  gin or vodka

3 oz tomato juice

1 dash lemon juice, freshly squeezed, or fresh frozen

1/2 tsp Worcestershire Sauce

2-3 drops Tabasco Sauce

1 wedge  lime for garnish
Mixing instructions:

Shake first five ingredients with ice; strain into an old-fashioned glass over ice cubes.
Add the wedge of lime and serve.

Yield:  One drink.

Great Tropical Depression 031510

Ingredients:

1 cup ice cubes
2 (1.5 fluid ounce) jiggers mango flavored vodka
1 1/2 fluid ounces orange juice
1 1/2 fluid ounces apple juice
1 1/2 fluid ounces pineapple juice

Preparation:

Fill a glass with ice cubes. Pour in vodka, then orange juice, apple juice and pineapple juice. Stir and serve.

Irish Coffee

1 large scoop vanilla ice cream
1 Tbs Scotch whisky
1/2 tsp extremely finely ground espresso coffee beans

Place the ice cream in a serving bowl, pour the Scotch whisky over it, and sprinkle with the coffee. Add a dash of nutmeg. Serves 1.

Mango Flavor Martini

X-rated Fusion liqueur & X-rated vodka
garnish of your choice (optional)

Mix 1 part X-Rated Vodka with 1 part X-Rated Fusion in a shaker with ice.

Pour into a martini glass and garnish with a lemon twist or whatever is fun and available!

Delicious - best martini and my friends absolutely love it. It's become my secret recipe at parties. It's not too sweet but you can taste the blood oranges and mango.

Vokda Martini

1/5 French Dry Vermouth
4/5 Vodka

Stir with ice, strain into cocktail glass. Add a twist of lemon, olive or pearl onion.

Apple Martini

2 oz. vodka
1 oz. apple schnapps or Calvados
1 Granny Smith apple, thinly sliced

Combine apple liqueur or Calvados with vodka in a cocktail shaker. Add crushed ice and shake well. Strain into a cold cocktail glass rimmed with sugar and lemon.

Garnish with an apple slice.