So I am getting ready to go through my first hurricane. To get into the spirit of things I decided to make a hurricane cocktail. This is a basic hurricane recipe, but made with grenadine instead of passion fruit juice. Delicious and the ingredients were easy to come by. A good thing when all of [...]
I love bourbon! It is one of my favorite liquors in the whole world. I am always messing around with it and I finally made a nice light and refreshing cocktail with it. I know there are others, but I wanted to create a cocktail for the summer. One that could handle the hot summer temperatures [...]
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The other day I was rummaging through my kitchen looking for a nice cocktail to make. I found some bourbon, apple juice and ginger ale. I don’t know about you but it sounded like a good time to me. I combined the ingredients and made a cocktail. It had a nice little zip from the [...]
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It is spring and I am stuck in a tropical drink grind. Every new cocktail that I think up is tropical in style. I guess I am hoping that one of these drinks takes me back to an island. Either way, today’s drink is awesome. It is heavy on pineapple and coconut like a pina [...]
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The other week I recreated the infamous honey baked ham. In doing this, I used pear nectar. The jar of pear nectar that I had was way too big, so I had a lot left over. I used the remaining nectar to make martinis. Yep, pear martinis. They were so good that you could barely taste [...]
Posted in Cocktails Tags: bartender tips, cocktail, Cocktails, Drinks, pear martini, Recipes 1 Comment »It has been super nice here in DC. This weekend is supposed to reach the 80′s. So I decided to make a nice refreshing cocktail. This week’s cocktail is the strawberry daiquiri. This is a quick and easy rum based drink, as long as you have a blender. No blender, then this might not be [...]
Posted in Cocktails Tags: cocktail, daiquiri, Drinks, easy, how to, recipe, rum, strawberry daiquiri 2 Comments »A couple of weeks ago I picked up an ice cream maker at the discount store. It was cheap, but it expanded my culinary reach by a lot. So I made this super simple lemon sorbet. After tasting it, I knew it would be the base of an amazing cocktail. So I had a few [...]
Posted in Cocktails, Dessert, Recipes, lemon Tags: bartending tips, cocktail, Drinks, lemon, lemon cocktails, lemon sorbet, Recipes, vodka 3 Comments »I want to let everyone know that I do read all of the emails that I get. There was a common theme in my emails this last month. Lets set this up. About a month ago I was extremely busy and didn’t have enough time to thoroughly read and review a cookbook. So I wrote [...]
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