My best friend and I enjoy culinary adventures; included in that are DRINKS! We have done pub crawls, wine tastings and brewery tours. And, on GIRLS WEEKENDS we often play bartender for each other. We’d like to share a few recipes and concoctions that have caught our eye!
French 75
1 Lemon
1.5 oz Gin
3/4 oz Lemon Juice
1/2 oz Simple Syrup
2 oz Sparkling Wine
1 cup Ice Cubes
Combine gin, lemon juice, simple syrup and ice in a cocktail shaker. Shake mixture vigorously. Strain into a chilled champagne flute and top with the sparkling wine. Garnish with a twisted lemon peel if you are feeling fancy!
Paloma
Kosher salt
1 Grapefruit Wedge
¼ cup Grapefruit Juice
1 tbsp Lime Juice
1 tsp Sugar
¼ cup Tequila
¼ cup Club Soda
Rub the of rim of a glass with grapefruit wedge; dip the rim in the salt. Combine grapefruit juice, lime juice, and sugar in glass; stir until sugar is dissolved. Stir in tequila. Add ice and top off with club soda. Use grapefruit wedge for garnish.
Pimm’s Spritz
50 ml Pimm’s No. 1
75 ml Lemonade
25 ml Sparkling Wine
Sliced Cucumbers
Mint Sprig
Ice Cubes
Fill glass with ice and add Pimm’s and lemonade; stir. Top with sparkling wine and garnish with cucumbers and mint.
Bronx Cheer (re-imagined)
2 oz Apricot Brandy
Canada Dry Cranberry Ginger Ale*
Frozen or Fresh Cranberries*
Fill a collins glass with ice, add the brandy and ginger ale. Stir and garnish with frozen or fresh cranberries.
*Normally this recipe uses raspberry soda and fresh raspberries as garnish!
Grey Goose Mule
2 oz Grey Goose Vodka
4 oz Ginger Beer
2 Lime Wedges
Put one lime wedge at the bottom of a collins glass; fill with ice. Add vodka and top with ginger beer. Garnish with the second lime wedge.
Cheers!