Memorial Day Cocktail

Recipe: Sparkling ICE

Ingredients:

1.5 ounces White Rum
1 oz. Blue Curacao
3 oz. Lemonade Sparkling Ice
Fresh berries for garnish
Ice

Instructions:

Combine all ingredients into a blender, and blend on high until mixture becomes slushy.  Pour into a chilled glass and garnish with fresh berries.

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Yellow Bird

Similar to a Screwdriver, the Yellow Bird replaces the vodka with two types of rum. To make things a bit more interesting, a touch of the anise and vanilla liqueur Galliano is used to add another layer of flavor.

Juice of half a lime
1 1/4 ounces orange juice
1 ounce light rum
1 ounce dark rum
1/4 ounce Galliano
Maraschino cherry for garnish.

Squeeze the lime into a cocktail shaker with ice.
Add all of the remaining ingredients. Shake well.
Strain into a Collins glass with crushed ice.
Garnish with the cherry.

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Blue Hawaiian

1 oz. Blue Curacao
1 oz. Light Rum
1 oz. Cream of Coconut
2 oz. Pineapple Juice
1 cherry
1 pineapple
1 cup of ice

Pour all the ingredients into a blender. Blend.  Pour into a highball glass. Add a cherry and pineapple to garnish.

Mad Men version.  Another version is shaken and not blended.

Should go into a Highball or Collins glass.
Drinks with a blue color look so appealing.

Cointreaupolitan Drink Recipe

 

The Cointreaupolitan drink recipe is made from Cointreau, Cranberry Juice and Lemon Juice.   (Similar to a Cosmopolitan minus vodka)


1 1/2 oz. Cointreau
1 oz. Cranberry Juice,
3/4 oz. Lemon Juice
Glass: Cocktail Glass

Instructions:
Shake the Cointreau, cranberry juice and lemon juice with ice in a cocktail shaker.
Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. 

http://www.spiritdrinks.com/cocktails/Cointreaupolitan.asp


Margarita

1 1/2 oz. Tequila
1 oz. Cointreau
1/2 oz. Fresh Lime Juice
Splash of Simple Syrup
Salt Rim

Tools:
Shaker
Citrus Squeezer
Salted rocks glass
Strainer


Combine all ingredients in an ice filled cocktail shaker. Shake until cold and strain into a chilled salt- rimmed glass.
Just right for Cinco de Mayo day. Enjoy!

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http://www.cookingchanneltv.com/recipes/margarita0.html

Tequila Sunrise

4 ounces Orange Juice
2 ounces Tequila
1/2 ounce Grenadine
Orange slice for garnish
Maraschino Cherry for garnish

Pour the tequila and orange juice into a highball glass with ice cubes.  Stir.
Slowly pour the grenadine around the inside of the edge of the glass, it will sink and slowly rise to mix with the other ingredients naturally. Garnish with the orange slice and cherry.

Ultimate Mint Julep

Celebrate the Kentucky Derby with a mint julep.

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2 cups sugar
2 cups water
16 oz. Kentucky Bourbon, 2 oz. per mint julep
Crushed ice
10 sprigs fresh mint

Combine water and sugar in a pot and bring to a boil to make a simple syrup.  Cool and place in a covered container with 2 sprigs of fresh mint and refrigerate overnight.

To make your mint julep, start by filling 8 mint julep glasses with crushed ice.  Add 1 tbsp. of the mint flavored simple syrup then 2 oz. Kentucky Bourbon.  Stir rapidly with a spoon to frost the outside of the glass.  Garnish with a sprig of fresh mint.  Makes 8.

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Mint Julep

There are many variations of this classic drink which is the traditional drink of the Kentucky Derby.

• Leaves from 4-5 mint sprigs
• 2 sugar cubes or 1/2 ounce simple syrup
• 2 1/2 ounces bourbon whiskey
• Mint sprig for garnish

Preparation:

1. Place the mint and simple syrup or sugar into a julep cup, collins glass, or double old-fashioned glass.
2. Muddle well to dissolve the sugar and to release the oil and aroma of the mint.
3. Add the bourbon.
4. Fill with crushed ice and stir well until the glass becomes frosty.
5. Garnish with the mint sprig.

Anyone who is into horse racing will be familiar with this one as it is the traditional drink of the Kentucky Derby during which some 80,000 juleps are served. Traditionally, Mint Juleps are served in silver or pewter cups and held by the handle or rim in order for the cup to obtain optimum frost, but they work just as well in any tall glass.

Beyond the bourbon, sugar, and mint, the only other requirement for this drink is crushed ice. Any other form of ice will not create the same effect, so take the time to create a nice mound of crushed ice before mixing this cocktail.

As an alternative to muddling the mint and sugar cube you can also infuse a sugar syrup with mint. With this much bourbon in a drink, slow sipping is the appropriate way to imbibe.

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