Sunday, November 29, 2020

Dee Dee Sharp - Mashed Potato Time

 


Gin and Tonic Supreme


Ingredients:

2 oz. Gin
Tonic Water
Slice of Lime for garnish

Directions:
Fill a highball glass with ice.
Add gin and fill with tonic water.
Garnish with a lime slice and serve.

completecocktails/GinandTonicSupreme

Thursday, November 26, 2020

Let's Turkey Trot - Little Eva

 Happy Thanksgiving!



Apple-Ginger (Non-alcoholic)

 

Ingredients:

  1. 1/4 cup Ginger Syrup, recipe below
    4 1/2 cups sparkling apple cider
    6 cinnamon sticks
    6 pieces crystallized ginger


Directions:

  1. Place 2 tablespoons ginger syrup in each of six glasses.
  2. Fill glasses with ice cubes, pour in cider, and stir to combine. Garnish with cinnamon sticks and fresh ginger, and serve.  Serves 6.
  1. Ginger Syrup

2 cups sugar
1 six-inch piece fresh ginger, finely diced

  1. Place sugar, ginger, and 2 cups water in a medium saucepan; bring to a boil.
  2. Reduce to a simmer, and cook about 1 hour, until ginger flavor is quite strong. Let cool; strain before using. Store in an airtight container, refrigerated, up to a week.

Makes 2 cups.

To make it spiked, simply stir in a shot of whiskey or Absolute's new Apple-Ginger Vodka.

popsugar/food/Nonalcoholic-Thanksgiving-Drink-Recipe

Cranberry Mimosas

Ingredients:

1 lime halved
2 tbsp. sugar
1 c. sweetened cranberry juice
1 bottle champagne
12 fresh cranberries
4 small sprigs of fresh rosemary

Directions:

Rime champagne flutes with lime and dip in sugar.
Pour 1/4 cup cranberry into glass and top with champagne.
Use a toothpick to poke a hole in cranberries.
Thread rosemary skewer through cranberries and garnish mimosas.




Saturday, November 21, 2020

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Op 8 No. 3 Autumn

 


Fall Punch

Ingredients:

1 2-oz. container Pear Nectar

2 c. Spiced Rum

1 c. Fresh Lemon Juice

1 tbsp. Bitters

2 12 oz. bottles Ginger Beer

Pears, very thinly sliced



Directions

In a pitcher, stir together pear nectar, spiced rum, lemon juice, and bitters.
Stir in ginger beer.
Line glasses with pear slices and fill with ice.
Pour pear punch over ice.

goodhousekeeping/party-ideas/fall-punch-recipe

Friday, November 20, 2020

Steve Miller Band 
Abracadabra




Cover:  Eagles of  Death Metal

Abacadabra+Death+Eagles+

Peachbreeze


Ingredients:

3 cl Vodka
3 cl Peach Schnapps
Grapefruit Juice
Cranberry Juice

Mixture:

Fill a Highball glass with ice.
Pour ingredients over the ice.
Serve.

drinksecrets.com/drinks/peachbreeze

TGIF!

Saturday, November 14, 2020

Bob Welch with Christine McVie
Sentimental Lady


Cover:

Medicine+Sentimental+Lady


Tootsy Pop


This sounds more like a good summer drink.

Ingredients:

4 cl Peach Schnapps
2 cl Midori Melon Liqueur
9 cl Orange Juice

Mixture:

First pour orange juice into the glass.
Then add the Peach Schnapps.  Finally pour Midori down the side of the glass, so it forms a layer of green at the bottom. Serve.

                                        

Friday, November 13, 2020

R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World


 

The Red Witch


Ingredients:

1 part UV Cherry Vodka

2 parts Champagne

Instructions:

Stir and serve in a champagne flute.

Garnish with a cherry.

drinkoftheweek/drink_recipes/the-red-witch

Happy Friday the 13th!

Saturday, November 7, 2020


Len Barry - 1-2-3

RIP: Len Barry


High Fashion


Ingredients:

2 oz. Plymouth Gin
1.25 oz. Elderflower Liqueur
1.25 Grapefruit Juice
2 dashes rhubarb bitters
Grapefruit peel (for garnish)

Instructions:

Build ingredients in a rocks glass over ice and stir together.

From Grain at Playa Provisions in Playa Del Rey, CA

townandcountrymag/leisure/drinks/fall-cocktails


COURTESY OF PLAYA PROVISIONS

Sunday, November 1, 2020

 Cowboy Junkies
Blue Moon Revisited (Song For Elvis)


Blue Moon - The Marcels

 


Blue Moon Martini


Ingredients:

3/4 oz. Blue Curacao
1 1/2 oz. Gin

Instructions:

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.
Garnish with a twist of lemon (or lime).
Best served in a cocktail glass.

haveacocktail/blue-moon-martini