You guys, I concocted this last night and it is DELISH. Yes, the ingredients are v. specific, but blood oranges have a short season (like, now-ish), so hopefully you can take advantage...

Blood Orange Martini
Makes 2

3 ounces citrus vodka (you can sub plain or orange, but citrus makes it!)
1 ounce orange liqueur such as Cointreau or Triple Sec
4 ounces ( Read more... )

Yes, that's right, I'm half drunk on Hurricanes right now. Here's the recipe I concocted because I'm missing some ingredients. They pretty much rock the damn house. Not unlike an actual hurricane. Puns!

F. U. Hurricane Sandy

2 ounces dark rum
2 ounces light rum
1 ounce grenadine
1/2 ounce simple syrup
juice of 1 lime
juice of 1/2 lemon
orange juice
orange ( Read more... )

Hot Chocolate
Serves 4

3 cups milk
1 cup heavy cream or half and half
2 tablespoons Dutch-processed cocoa powder
1 tablespoon sugar
Pinch salt
Pinch cayenne pepper (optional)
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions:
Bring the milk, cream, cocoa powder, sugar, salt, and cayenne to a boil over medium heat in a medium saucepan. ( Read more... )

Yikes! I haven't posted a recipe in like forever! So I'm sitting here enjoying a nice Cosmo, and thought I'd share my recipe, as it's a bit different from standard ones. Not remarkably so - I just use about twice the juice!

I'ma put the measurements in "parts." I usually measure out ouncces, but you can scale up or down if you like for more or less ( Read more... )

It's been so LOOOOONG since I posted a recipe, much less a cock tail! With summer coming, this one's a surefire hit! Don't drink more than two, like, srsly.

Lemonade for Grown-ups
OK, I have like thes 20-ounce collins glasses that are huge, so this is for one of those. You should mebbe adjust accordingly...

2 ounces lemon vodka
2 ounces simple syrup *
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Good in the summer time, given the fruit that's called for, but you can do this with mangoes and oranges in the winter too if you like.

White Wine Sangria

1 large, ripe peach or nectarine, chopped
12 sweet cherries, pitted and halved
6-8 strawberries, quartered
1/2 cup brandy
1/4 cup sugar
1 bottle light, dry white wine (sauvignon blanc or pinot grigio ( Read more... )

Hello, Collars!

This weekend, of course, has been the big White Collar Chicago Meet-up, and it has been as fun and rewarding and one of the best experiences of my life, and I want to do it again sometime. How's everyone for NEXT WEEK?!?

Anyhoodle, to fuel our efforts, we decided on Saturday night that some sangria would be a mighty lovely beverage to ( Read more... )

Hmmm...this is not nearly as nice as French kissing someone, so, you know, yeah.

The pineapple juice foams up as you shake this, leaving a nice bit of froth floating on top - a fun concoction!

French Kiss Martini

2 ounces vodka
1 ounce Chambord or Framboise (don't use the eau de vie, though - you want the color)
3 ounces pineapple juice

Place all ( Read more... )

I bought some swanky new martini glasses at a store called Platypus this weekend and just HAD to use them. Yesterday, I made pomegranate cosmos, but today I wanted to use up some fresh ginger and some apple cider, so I came up with the following.

Nameless Cocktail #1

3 parts brandy or cognac
1 part Cointreau
1/2 part lemon juice
grated fresh ginger
3 ( Read more... )

My take on someone else's take on a classic.

Fill a shaker with ice. Add:

2 ounces orange flavored vodka
1/2 ounce fresh squeezed lemon juice
1/2 ounce fresh squeezed lime juice
2 ounces fresh squeezed orange juice
1/2 ounce simple syrup

Shake, pour into a martini glass. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.