Mango Martini

It is no secret I love Spring and Summer, the longer days, warmer weather, the smell of flowers and neighbors’ BBQ. Mango Martini is perfect way to start of the Spring.  

Recipe for 1 martini

• 50 grams/ 2-ounces Ruby Red Vodka
• 50 grams.2-ounce Mango Vodka
• 1/2 lemon, freshly squeezed
• 1 1/2 mangos muddle or puree
• splash fresh squeezed orange juice

Tools:

• Citrus press, jigger (from freezer)
• muddler or pestle
• Shaker
• shrap knife
• martini glasses, from freezer

Instructions:

• Fill a shaker with ice cubes
• Add the ruby red vodka to the cold shaker
• Add the mango vodka to the cold shaker
• Squeeze the lemon juice in cold shaker
• Add the muddle and strained mango
• Add a splash of orange juice
• Shake the drink for 2 1/12 minutes, pour into a cold martini glass
• Garnish with a slice of mango

 

JM

The Best Caipirinha Recipe - A taste of Brazil

The Caipirinha, designated the National Cocktail of Brazil, has simple ingredients: limes, Cachaca, superfine sugar and crushed ice.
Cachaca, also known as "aguardiente", is the most popular distilled spirit in Brazil, and most of the Cachaca on the market is produced there. Many people think of Cachaca as being similar to rum. Rum, however, is mostly produced using molasses where Cachaca is produced using straight cane juice.  
If you cannot find Cachaca or Aguardiente, you can try substituting rum but the the final product will not be the same. You can also substitute vodka.
Ingredients

• Cachaca
• Limes
• Superfine sugar
• Crushed ice
• A "lowball", "rocks" or "Old-Fashioned" glass
• A pestle (from a mortar and pestle -- or something similar) for the muddling

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1. Cut the ends off of the lime and discard.
2. Cut the lime in half lengthwise and cut out the white pith in the middle.
3. Cut the lime in half, and cut one half of the lime into four wedges and place in the glass. If your lime is small, you will need to add more lime to the glass.
4. Add one to three tablespoons of sugar. The amount of sugar depends on your personal taste as well as the size of the lime you are using.
5. Use the pestle to "muddle" the limes and sugar together. Basically, you want to crush the limes so that they mix in well with the sugar. Be careful not to break the skin of the lime. When you've gotten all of the juice out of the lime, you're done.
6. Pack crushed ice in the glass all the way to the top.
7. Add cachaca all the way to the top of the glass. (It's really only about 2 oz.)
8. Use a larger glass or bottom of a cocktail shaker and put it over the top of your drink. Pick up with two hands and shake very well for at least 15 seconds.
9. Garnish with a wedge or slice of lime.
10. Drink...and enjoy the best caipirinha!
    

MS

Sour Virgin Cocktail

Not everyone likes to have an alcoholic drink, so here is one drink that might catch your attention.
It's called 'Sour Virgin Cocktail'

Ingredients:

Sour cherry juice
Ice
Freshly squeezed tangerine or mandarin juice
Freshly squeezed pink grapefruit juice
Seasonal fruit (pomegranate, gooseberry, cherry or strawberry)

Instructions:

Step 1: Partially fill a sling glass with ice then add equal portions of juice: first sour cherry juice, then a freshly squeezed tangerine juice and then top with freshly squeezed pink grapefruit juice. Don’t stir and the colours will layer.
Step 2: Garnish the drink with seasonal fruit.

 

BL

 

Summer Soiree

As the weather heats up, many of us have one thing on our minds: parties! For the planners out there, this can be one of the easiest drinks to make. No matter what type of gathering you are hosting — an afternoon BBQ, a swanky cocktail hour, or an intimate dinner party.

Summer Soiree is the drink to have.

Here is the recipe to make it :)


Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz Zacapa 23 Rum
1/2 oz ginger liqueur
4 dashes orange bitters
2 oz orange-guava juice
Directions:
Combine Zacapa 23 Rum, ginger liqueur, orange bitters, and orange-guava juice into a cocktail shaker and fill with ice. Cover and shake until thoroughly chilled. Strain into a rocks glass.
Courtesy of Zacapa Rum.

 

SG

Long Island Ice Tea

What's more refreshing than a cold drink in the summer sun?

Long Island Iced Tea is one of the top selling drinks in the summer. The question often arises why it has the name that it does, and coca cola gets used instead of iced tea. Trust me, this question still remains and probably won't ever be answered. I can give you my thoughts on it though: iced tea is a more fruity drink and after all of the ingredients are added, adding iced tea to it would over power it and therefor they chose a more fizzy drink. After taking you guys through my thought process, here is the actual recipe:

1/2 oz of vodka
1/2 oz of gin
1/2 oz of tequila
1/2 oz of light rum
1/2 oz of triple sec
1 oz of lime juice or lemon juice
1 1/2 oz sweet and sour mix or lime cordial
1/2 oz of simple syrup or gomme syrup
splash of coca cola
lemon wedge garnish


ARE YOU READY TO TASTE THE FRUITY FRESHNESS?

 

 

 

JM

A Grown-up Limeade

Summer is just around the corner, I know for a fact that people will be doing bbq in the beautiful weather we will be getting.

Here is a few summer drinks recipe that might just catch your eye

A Grown-up Limeade

Ingredients:

  12 limes, 10 roughly chopped, 2 sliced

  200g caster sugar

  1l bottle soda water

  vodka or rum, optional

 

 

                                                           MS

Watermelon Long Island Iced tea

Here is how to make Watermelon Long Island Iced tea. Personally one of my favourite drinks to have when it's hot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSKPHwWygJo Watermelon Long Island Iced tea

BL