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Red White & Blue Drinks are super festive for a Fourth of July BBQ and are easy to make for a crowd. Made with lemonade, limeade and vodka they will become a party favorite for all of your Patriotic Parties!
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It’s getting warmer and you need a drink fitting for summer BBQ season! This frozen rum drink is an Icy Rum Slush that you can make in the freezer overnight thats refreshing and thirst quenching!
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Looking for the perfect signature cocktail to serve for the holidays? The Hard Apple Bourbon Cocktail answers your call for the perfect drink. The hints of hard apple cider mixed with a smooth bourbon are a perfect cocktail to sip on before, during or after the holiday dinner.
This weeks search for Cocktails was inspired by wanting something special to have besides a really nice wine this Christmas Season. I’d seen so many different hard apple ciders on the market. But alone, they just don’t do it for me. I like the acidity and hints of apple aroma, but I just wanted something a little more than a plain hard apple cider. A perfect mix with it… comes the Hard Apple Bourbon Cocktail!
Bourbon is the hot thing among many creative mixologists at the moment. It can be an acquired taste, but this cocktail is the perfect transition to trying a new thing. It’s smooth and easy to drink. (In my cocktail I used Makers Mark Bourbon.)
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This Loaded Bloody Mary Cocktail is a full meal! Spicy Horseradish compliments the tangy tomato base and its topped with all the foods you want to eat when drinking a Bloody Mary: a burger, beef stick, bacon, olives, chunks of cheese and a Celery Stalk! Perfect for a brunch or watching a game!
In continuing with some of my takeaways from my trip to Minnesota I thought I’d talk about Bloody Mary’s today, specifically a Loaded Bloody Mary! I love this drink. It works for breakfast, brunch, football Saturday’s, on the golf course. Yes, pretty much anytime.
In Minnesota they do a Bloody Mary right. Instead of just a lonely piece of celery, they serve it with just about everything. A mini-cheeseburger, a beef stick, anything pickled (artichoke hearts, green beans) an onion ring, a whole pickle, olives, pepperoncini’s and of course in true MN fashion, any number of cheese cubes.
They don’t just put one thing in them, they put at least 5 in every drink. It’s fantastic, I always feel like I’m getting served an appetizer to go along with my Loaded Bloody Mary.
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This Sakitini – Sake Martini is a refreshing, thirst quenching cocktail that is great with any light dish you are serving or perfect alone after a long hot day in the sun!
This weeks Friday Cocktails selection is the Sakitini – Sake Martini. It’s a very refreshing cocktail that is a change up on my normal straight up gin martini.
A few years ago my husband and I were eating sushi at Kabuki, a restaurant here in California when he saw a note in their menu for a sake tasting. While I’m a certified sommelier, I had never really developed a taste for sake so I wasn’t excited about going. I’m so glad he talked me into it!
At the tasting they had a Master Sake Sommelier explaining about each individual Sake selection. They paired the selections with various menu options so you could see how versatile it is….
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A change up from the classic cocktail this Amped up Watermelon Margarita is bursting with the fruit flavor muddled with lots of lime juice but the first taste you get is the chili lime salt which gives the drink a nice kick! (non-alcoholic option too!)
This Amped up Watermelon Margarita completely surprised me. Im normally a purist and want the traditional margarita; on the rocks with regular salt. But sometimes inspiration comes from different places in your life.
I have a busy Instagram account and when I made the Purple Tears Cocktail one of the comments on the IG photo was that they loved the Tajin’s Chili Limon Salt rim, but they suggested I try it on a watermelon Margarita. Since I love love love salt on my watermelon (Ive been told it’s a midwest thing) I thought well why not give it a whirl! Wow, its a nice zesty burst that pairs perfectly with the sweet, fruity watermelon!…