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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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!!