Peppery Bloody Mary
Prep: 10 min.
1 teaspoon chopped fresh basil
1 teaspoon chopped fresh cilantro
1 teaspoon chopped fresh chives
1 1/3 cups tomato juice
1/2 cup pepper vodka
6 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1 1/2 to 3 tsp. green hot sauce
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
Large pinch of celery salt
Pinch of sea salt
Freshly ground pepper to taste
Garnishes: pickled okra, lemon wedges
1. Combine first 3 ingredients in a cocktail shaker. Press leaves against bottom of cup using a muddler or wooden spoon to release flavors; stir in tomato juice and next 7 ingredients. Transfer half of mixture to a 2-cup glass measuring cup.
2. Place ice in cocktail shaker, filling halfway full. Cover with lid, and shake vigorously until thoroughly chilled. Strain into a glass over ice. Repeat procedure with remaining tomato mixture. Garnish, if desired.
Note: For testing purposes only, we used Absolut Peppar Vodka and Tabasco Green Pepper Sauce.
Kane's Bloody Mary: Substitute regular vodka for pepper vodka. Proceed with recipe as directed.
Game-Day Drinks: Peppery Bloody Mary
Game-Day Drinks: Tequila Mojitos
Tequila Mojitos
Prep: 10 min., Cook: 8 min., Stand: 2 hrs. The simple syrup needed for this beverage may be made up to 1 week ahead and stored in the refrigerator.
1 cup water
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup fresh mint sprigs
2 cups lemon-lime soft drink, chilled
1 cup fresh lime juice
1/2 cup tequila
Garnish: fresh mint sprigs, lime slices
1. Bring 1 cup water and sugar to a boil in a medium saucepan. Boil, stirring often, until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat; add mint sprigs, and let stand 2 hours or until mixture is completely cool.
2. Pour mixture through a wire-mesh strainer into a pitcher, discarding mint. Stir in lemon-lime soft drink, lime juice, and tequila. Serve over ice. Garnish, if desired.
Yield: Makes 5 cups
Game-Day Drinks: Beer 'Garitas
Beer 'Garitas
Prep: 5 min. For a bolder flavor, use a dark beer. Serve in 16-oz. mason jars for fun.
Yield
Makes 4 servings
Ingredients
1 cup frozen limeade concentrate, thawed
1 cup tequila
1/2 cup orange liqueur
Crushed ice
1/2 to 1 cup cold beer
Preparation
1. Stir together first 3 ingredients until well blended. Fill 4 medium glasses with crushed ice. Pour limeade mixture evenly into glasses. Add beer to taste.
Note: For testing purposes only, we used Minute Maid Frozen Concentrate for Limeade, José Cuervo Especial tequila, and Triple Sec for orange liqueur.
Game-Day Drinks: Bloody Marys
Bloody Marys
Serves: 10 drinks
Ingredients
1 (46-ounce) can vegetable juice (recommended: V8)
1 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 lemon, juiced
1 cup vodka
1 tablespoon celery seed
4 shakes hot sauce
Ice cubes
10 celery sticks, for garnish
Directions
Pour the juice into a large pitcher. Add the pepper, salt, Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice, vodka, celery seed, and hot sauce. Stir well. Pour into jars with lids for traveling. Serve over ice with celery sticks.
Frozen Raspberry Tart Margarita
Frozen Raspberry Tart Margarita
2-3-oz tequila (silver or gold)
1-1 1/2 oz orange liqueur or Triple sec
2-4 oz homemade sour mix (even parts of lemon, lime and orange juices and 5 tablespoons sugar)
Additional Ingredients
2 scoops raspberry sorbet
1 oz pineapple juice
Directions
Pour all ingredients into a blender filled with crushed ice.
Blend to desired smoothness.
Pour
Game-Day Drinks: Your Basic Margarita
Margarita
Ingredients
2-3 oz tequila (silver or gold)
1-1 1/2 oz orange liqueur or Triple sec
2-4 oz homemade sour mix (even parts of lemon, lime and orange juices and 5 tablespoons sugar)
(3 lime wedges)
Tip
To salt a glass -- Pour lime juice onto a plate and roll outside rim of the glass around the plate. Then sprinkle glass with salt or roll glass around another plate with salt.
Sangria Recipe
Sangria Recipe
Ingredients:
1 Bottle of red wine (Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Rioja, Zinfandel, Shiraz)
1 Lemon cut into wedges
1 Orange cut into wedges
1 Lime cut into wedges
2 Tbsp sugar
Splash of orange juice
2 Shots of gin
1 Cup of sliced strawberries or raspberries (may use thawed or frozen)
1 Small can of diced pineapples (with juice)
4 Cups ginger ale
Preparation:
Pour wine in the pitcher and squeeze the juice wedges from the lemon, orange and lime into the wine. Toss in the fruit wedges (leaving out seeds if possible) and pineapple then add sugar, orange juice and gin. Chill overnight. Add ginger ale, berries and ice just before serving. If you'd like to serve right away, use chilled red wine and serve over lots of ice. However, remember that the best Sangrias are chilled around 24 hours in the frig. - allowing the flavors
Drink Recipes: Margarita
Margarita
Source: Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville Restaurants
Crushed ice
3 wedges lime
2 ounces gold tequila (Cuervo 1800)
1/2 ounce tequila (Cuervo white)
1 1/4 ounces Rose's Lime Juice
1/2 ounce triple sec (Bols)
1 splash orange Cura?ao (Bols)
Put all ingredients except the 3 lime wedges into a shaker. Squeeze 2 of the lime wedges into the shaker. SHAKE WELL! Rim outside of glass only with lime. Salt only the outside of the glass. Add fresh crushed ice to glass. Strain mixture over ice. Squeeze remaining lime wedge in glass.
Jungle Juice
Drink Recipe: Jungle Juice
1 fifth gin
1 fifth dark rum
1 fifth vodka
2 large cans orange juice
2 large cans Hawaiian Punch
1 large can grapefruit juice
1 bag of Ice
Mix all ingredients into big fruit punch bowl and start passing around glasses so the party can get going.
Drink Recipes: Buttery Nipple
Buttery Nipple
3/4 oz Butterscotch Schnapps
1/4 oz Bailey's Irish Cream
Pour 3/4 oz. Butterscotch Schnapps into a shot glass. Top it off slowly with 1/4 oz. Irish Cream. It should look layered. Tastes best when the Irish Cream is cold.
Drink Recipes: White Russian
Cocktail Recipe: White Russian
1 1/2 oz Vodka
3/4 oz Kahlua
3/4 oz Light Cream or Milk
Mix the vodka and kahlua together then float the cream on top. Add ice if desired.
Hot Chocolate Recipe
Hot Chocolate
INGREDIENTS:
1 cup milk
1 cup half and half
8 tsp sugar
1 oz semisweet chocolate, chopped
1 oz unsweetened chocolate, chopped
1 tbs brown sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
PREPARATION:
Heat everything in a saucepan, except the vanilla, until chocolates melt and sugar dissolves. Pour half into a blender and mix until foamy. Return to the saucepan, and add vanilla. Stir briefly then serve.
Drink Recipes: Watermelon Margaritas
Watermelon Margaritas
2 tsp. sugar
2 fresh limes, cut in half
4 C seedless watermelon, cut in 2" chunks
2 T sugar
1/2 C tequila
1/4 C orange-flavored liqueur, such as Grand Marnier or Triple Sec
lime wedges, for garnish
watermelon balls, for garnish
Place 2 teaspoons sugar in a small dish. Rub rim of margarita glasses with 1 cut half of lime, and then roll glasses in sugar to coat. Place prepared glasses in the freezer until ready to serve drinks.
Combine juice of limes, watermelon, 2 tablespoons sugar, tequila and orange-flavored liqueur in a blender and process until smooth. Fill blender with ice cubes and process until mixture is a slush consistency. Fill prepared glasses with margaritas; garnish each glass with a lime wedge and watermalon balls on a skewer and serve immediately.
Drink Recipes: Make Your Own Wine Cooler
Wine Cooler
3 tablespoons superfine sugar
1 1/2 tablespoons cold water
1/4 cup orange juice
9 to 12 ice cubes
Chilled red or white wine
Lemon or orange slices
Put the sugar and water in a glass serving pitcher and stir until the sugar is dissolved. Add the orange juice and ice cubes and fill with any chilled red or white wine.
Garnish red wine cooler with a slice of lemon, and white wine cooler with a slice of orange.
Makes 4 servings.
Drink Recipes: Orange Vodka Slush
Orange Vodka Slush
1 (6-ounce) can frozen, undiluted orange juice concentrate, thawed
1 cup milk
3/4 cup vodka
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
8 to 10 ice cubes
Combine orange juice concentrate, milk, vodka and sugar in container of an electric blender. Add ice cubes and blend until mixture is smooth.
Makes about 5 cups.
Drink Recipes: Puerto Rican-Style Piña Colada
Puerto Rican-Style Piña Colada
1 can Coco Lopez (cream of coconut)
3 cups pineapple juice
1 cup Barcardi rum
1 cup ice
Fresh pineapple slices and maraschino cherries for garnish
Place the first four ingredients into a blender and blend until smooth.
Pour into glasses, decorate with the pineapple and cherries, if desired, and serve immediately.
Makes 2 to 3 servings.
Drink Recipes: Cafe Iguana Margaritas
Cafe Iguana Margaritas
Lime wedges
Coarse salt
3 1/2 cups Homemade Sweet-and-Sour Mix
1 cup gold tequila
1/2 cup Triple Sec
16 ice cubes
12 lime slices for garnish
Rub rims of 12 glasses with lime wedges. Dip rims in coarse salt.
Combine 1 3/4 cups sweet-and-sour mix, 1/2 cup tequila, 1/4 cup Triple Sec and 8 ice cubes in blender. Process until well blended.
Pour into 6 glasses. Repeat with remaining sweet-and-sour mix, tequila, Triple Sec and ice cubes. Pour into 6 glasses. Garnish each with lime slice.
Homemade Sweet and Sour Mix
3 cups water
3 cups granulated sugar
2 cups fresh lemon juice
2 cups fresh lime juice
Combine water and sugar in large saucepan. Stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Bring to boil. Cool syrup.
Mix syrup, lemon juice and lime juice in pitcher. Chill until cold. Store in refrigerator for up to 1 week.
Makes 8 cups.
Drink Recipes: Holiday Mimosa
Holiday Mimosa
Grand Marnier or other orange-flavored liqueur
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 bottle chilled Champagne
1 cup fresh orange juice
Pour a small amount of Grand Marnier in a small bowl.
Place the sugar in a saucer.
Dip the rims of Champagne glasses first in Grand Marnier, then in the sugar.
Fill each Champagne glass with three parts Champagne and 1 part orange juice.
Makes 6 servings.
Frozen Drink Recipes: Margarita
Frozen Drink Recipes: Margarita
Ingredients:
1 Splash Lime Juice
0.5 shot Triple Sec
1 shot Jose Cuervo Tequila
3 shots Sweet & Sour mix
Directions:
Take two-handful of ice and put in blender. Add ingredients, use Gold Tequila and the bright yellow sweet and sour, not that cloudy, orangish kind. Flash blend, just chop up the ice. It should be on the rocks. Pour into glasses whose rims have been put in lime, then salt. This recipe will make a couple of small drinks or one BIG one! ;)
Frozen Drink Recipes: Bahama Mama
Frozen Drink Recipes: Bahama Mama
Ingredients:
2 oz. Pineapple Juice
1 dashes Grenadine
2 oz. Dark Rum
1 dashes Amaretto
1 Maraschino Cherry
0.5 tsp. Sugar Syrup
Directions:
Mix everything in a blender except the cherry. Pour over crushed ice and toss in the cherry.
