Saturday, January 15, 2011

this is not a paloma


Inspired by the tequila and the color of a paloma
I decided to make a reddish pink tequila drink in a snifter.

A paloma is
1 dash of grenadine
1 ounce of fresh pressed grapefruit juice
1.3 ounces of gold tequila

and it is good.
shaken and strained into a martini glass with a lime wheel.

What did we make?
oh, well, we named it a Salty Ohpiuchus
A direct result of all of the hoopli A dooooo
about this new sign. It's been around forever and guess what,
it has nothing to do with your sign changing. Whatever you are- you still are :)
so yea. Let's drink this drink and talk about something else.

What do you need?

tequila, I used silver, luxardo maraschino liquer, pomegranate puree, fresh lime dash of bitters.
  • 1.5 ounces of tequila
  • a splash of marashino liquer (2 if you like what it does to your mouth)
  • 1 ounce of pomegranate puree.
  • .5 fresh lime juice
  • dash of bitters.

Shake and strain into a 1/2 salted snifter.

wow. this is really good. makes this astrology pandemonium less annoying.
xxoo




Sunday, January 9, 2011

lavender blue dilly dilly


lavenders green...when you are king dilly dilly, I shall be queen.

this is one of those songs that I learned from the disney channel as a childs and need to google it to see where the heckers it's from.

But, ahhh Lavender. Let's get to muddling you.

You may put lavender in anything. And I am by no means reinventing the wheel here. Herbs are meant to be played with & sniffed...think of them as ancient scratch & sniff stickers that you can eat.

or don't.

Places to stick lavender.

In your gin & tonic.

In your vodka tonic

In a martini with vodka, a lime, & nothing else but a shake in some ice....

in a vanilla vodka soda with a wedge of lemon

yay yay dreamy yay.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

pear & st germaine sparkler





  • pear puree (or make your own, directions below below below)
  • st germaine
  • prosecco or champagne



dabble a bit of pear puree on the bottom of a champagne glass
pour in a 1/4 ounce of st germaine or enough to fill a third of the glass
top off with the bottle of sparkling of your choice.

These are the kind of drinks that make me believe that one day when I'm a mother, mixing up some unfinished babyfood with some booze...may actually be a great idea.


Hey Lady! How do I make pear puree?
it's easy.
peel your pears and you may steam, boil or microwave (cringe!) them.
mush them up in a blender with some of the leftover water from any of these approaches and there you have your very own pear puree. add sugar, honey, ginger, lemon, agave, whatever it is you like the most.

But! If you read the previous post and are fancy- may I suggest poaching them peeled pears in some water and lemon juice for about 10 minutes. Bring to a boil and then let the pears simmer. throw in an orange rind if you are feeling like it. You may even experiment poaching with red wine, white wine...fun fun fun, fancy fun. make sure you save one of them pears to eat with some type of moldy cheese& nuts.....yum yum yum.

you fancy?



Hibiscus Grapefruit Martini

What you'll need:

  • Hibiscus flowers in syrup
  • grapefruit
  • simple syrup
  • lime or fresh lime juice


ohh lala! hibiscus is fancy. Grab yourself a jar of this and pick out a few flowers. They remind me of
those little finger puppets with the little hands from the 80's. But I digress. Grab some grapefruit and a little syrup from the jar. Muddle it up with a lime. or splash of lime juice. Add ice & pour in a shot or two of vodka.

This drink is too too too too too good (& fancy).