The Ronettes - Be My Baby

Mermaid Mules

Photo: Brad Holland

Ingredients:

6 oz. Vodka
3 oz. Blue Curacao
3 oz. Lime Juice
1 oz. (12 oz.) can of Ginger Beer
3 lime rounds, for garnish
Paper umbrellas for garnish, optional




Directions:

Divide vodka, blue curacao and lime juice between 3 glasses and stir to combine.
Fill glasses with ice and top off each drink with ginger beer.
Garnish with lime rounds and umbrella, if using.  3 servings.

What makes these cocktails blue?  It's Curacao, a blue liqueur made from citrus peels.
It's tangy flavor is the perfect compliment to your average Moscow Mule.

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Chris Montez - let's dance

                                                                   
                                                                      The Ramones cover

Slade cover

                                         

Aspen Crud

Ingredients:

5 scoops French Vanilla Ice Cream
3 oz. Bourbon

Instructions:

Combine ingredients in blender and blend together to create a boozy milkshake .

Courtesy of the J-Bar at Aspen, Colorado's Hotel Jerome

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Can't Find My Way Home

Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton

                                                                      

                                                                        Bonnie Raitt

                                                                                                                                               
                                                                       Alison Krauss

                                                                   

Scotch Cocktail

Courtesy of  Hello Fresh

Pomegranate Splash Scotch Cocktail

A refreshing Scotch cocktail for a sweltering Summer afternoon.  Be warned though, it goes down easy.

Makes 1 serving.
Prep time:  5 minutes





Ingredients:

3.5 oz. Lemon Juice
4 tsp. Simple Syrup
2 oz. Pomegranate Juice
1 oz. Scotch
Splash of Tonic Water

How to make it:

1. Add lemon juice, simple syrup, and pomegranate juice into a glass and stir.
2. Add scotch.  Pour into glasses over ice and top with tonic water.

Recipe and photo courtesy of Hello Fresh

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Lana Del Rey - Young and Beautiful

Thai Cucumber Collins

Photo: Caitlin Bensel

Ingredients:

4 fresh mint leaves
3 sugar cubes
2 1/4 inch cucumber slices
1 tsp. grated lemongrass
6 tbsp. fresh pressed cucumber juice
1/4 cup 2 oz. white rum
2 tbsp. fresh lime juice
6 tbsp. club soda
Cucumber slices and mint leaves for garnish




How to make it:
Muddle mint leaves, sugar cubes, cucumber slices and grated lemongrass in a cocktail shaker.
Add fresh pressed cucumber juice, white rum, and fresh lime juice. Swirl to combine. Add ice,
cover with lid, and shake vigorously until thoroughly chilled. Strain into an ice filled Colling glass.  Top with club soda.  Garnish with cucumber slices and mint leaves, if desired

Food Styling: Mary Claire Britton; Prop Styling: Mindi Shapiro Levine

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Summertime Blues

Eddie Cochran

Lots of covers of this.                                    
                                                                        Blue Cheer

Orange Sunset

Enjoy a beautiful sunset on the back deck with a refreshing fruit cocktail in a glass.  The Orange Sunset is a peach colored drink recipe made from Burnett's orange vodka, lemonade, orange juice and cranberry juice, and served over ice in a highball glass.

Ingredients:

2 oz. Orange Vodka (Burnett's)
2 oz. Lemonade
2 oz. Cranberry Juice
2 oz. Orange Juice
Orange peel for garnish



Directions:

Shake all ingredients with ice in a cocktail shaker.
Strain into a highball glass full of ice.
Garnish with an orange twist.

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TGIF

RIP Aretha Franklin

"Being a singer is a natural gift.  It means I'm using to the highest degree possible
the gift that God gave me to use.  I'm happy with that."
"I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music."
Aretha Franklin

"Hey nineteen
That's 'Retha Franklin
She don't remember the Queen of Soul
It's hard times befallen the Soul Survivors
She thinks I'm crazy
but I'm just growing old."
Hey Nineteen, Steeley Dan

Kiwifruit and Midori Slushy

Photo by gailanng

Ingredients:

4 Kiwi fruits peeled, chopped
1 cup orange juice
1 tablespoon caster sugar
1/3 cup vodka
1/2 cup Midori melon liqueur




Directions:

Put all of the above in blender.
Blend till smooth.
Add a few handfuls of crushed ice and blend till mixture is slushy.
Serves 4.

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Led Zeppelin - Dancing Days

Cover - Stone Temple Pilots

Suspicious Minds

Fine Young Cannibals

Waylon Jennings & Jessi Colter

Dwight Yoakam

No Doubt

Minty Lime Frozen Mojito

Photo: Jennifer Davick

These gorgeous lime mojitos call for Key-Lime flavored Rum, frozen limeade, and a sprinkling of fresh mint leaves.  (Makes 3 cups)
Recipe by Coastal Living

Ingredients:

1 ounce container of Frozen Limeade Concentrate
3/4 cup Key Lime flavored Rum (Or other flavored)
1/4 cup fresh mint leaves
Garnishes: fresh mint sprigs and lime slices



How to make it:

Combine limeade concentrate, rum and fresh mint leaves in a blender. Fill to the a 5-cup mark with cracked ice.  Blend until smooth.  Garnish with fresh mint sprigs and lime slices before serving, if desired.

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Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66 - Mas que nada

There's a cover by The Black Eyed Peas but I couldn't find a good video.

Honeyed Cherry Daiquiri

Photo credit: Tara Donne 

This tart and sweet cocktail goes down easy.
(1 serving)
Ingredients:

8 sweet cherries pitted
2 oz. light rum
3/4 oz. fresh lime juice
1 tbsp. honey
Dash of bitters
Slice of lime for garnish
1/4 oz. maraschino liqueur (optional)

Muddle cherries in the bottom of cocktail shaker until fruit is broken down and juices are released.
Add rum, lime juice, honey bitters and maraschino liqueur, if desired.  Fill with ice and shake until chilled, 20 to 30 seconds. Strain into a chilled stemmed glass. Garnish with lime slice.

Food Sylist: Cyd Rafts McDowell; Props Stylist: Mary Clayton Carl

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Heat Wave - Martha & the Vandellas

Cover by Linda Ronstadt- 

                                         

Heat Wave

Ingredients:

1 oz. Coconut Rum
1 oz. Peach Schnapps
Pineapple Juice
Splash of Grenadine
Garnish:  Cherry and Pineapple Slice

Instructions:

Pour the coconut rum and peach schnapps into a glass with ice.
Fill it with pineapple and add the splash of grenadine.


Comments:  Some Bartenders use Dark Rum instead of the Coconut Rum.

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Happy Friday!!