Martini of the Week: Agave Negro

With the holiday coming up it's perfect to make a sweet and summery drink to prepare for a party.

Ingredients


2 blackberries, plus 1 blackberry and 1 lime wheel skewered on a pick
1 cup ice
1 1/2 ounces reposado tequila
3/4 ounce fresh lime juice
3/4 ounce Simple Syrup
1/2 ounce Chambord
1 ounce chilled club soda

In a cocktail shaker, muddle the 2 blackberries. Add the ice, tequila, lime juice, Simple Syrup and Chambord. Shake well and pour into a rocks glass. Stir in the club soda and garnish with the skewered blackberry and lime wheel.

Cocktail of the Week- Saketini

What better food to eat in the summer than some delicious sushi, and what better cocktail to have than Saketini! It is pretty easy to make and is light and summery, the perfect combo for a nice sushi lunch.

Ingredients:

25ml (or approx 3/4 oz) Sake 25ml (or approx 3/4 oz) Vodka 7.5ml (or approx 1/4 oz) Gin 1 slice cucumber ice

Directions:

Into a mixing glass filled with ice, pour the Sake, Vodka and Gin. Stir vigorously to ensure the contents are well mixed. Pour and strain into a frosted martini glass. To finish, arrange the cucumber onto the rim of the glass

Enjoy!

Moms Love Chocolate Cocktails

You are only a few simple ingredients away from having great chocolate cocktails at your fingertips! Try these yummy chocolate drinks on a relaxing afternoon or with a few girlfriends!

Chocolate Biscuit

1 ½ shots Cognac
1 ½ shots dark crème de cacao
1 ½ shots kahlua

Shake all of the ingredients together with ice and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a dusting of chocolate powder.

Banana Split Martini

1 oz vodka
½ oz crème de bananas
½ oz crème de cacao

banana chunks

Place all of the ingredients, along with ice, into a cocktail shaker and shake. Strain into a cocktail glass and top with a banana on the side of the glass to serve.

Choco-Coconutini 

1 shot vodka
1 shot Malibu
1 shot dark crème de cacao

Place all of the ingredients together with ice into a cocktail shaker and shake. To serve strain the cocktail in to a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a sprinkling of chocolate powder.

For the expecting moms!

Coco Martini
2 ounces of melted chocolate (or chocolate sauce

)
1-1/2 ounces non-alcoholic champagne or sparkling apple juice
1 ounce 'Half-and-Half' cream

Cocktail of the week- Sparkling Orange Cocktail

A little vodka and homemade syrupy goodness makes for an awesomely yummy cocktail! This recipe is enough to serve 8 girlfriends!

Ingredients:

• 2  seedless oranges, (for syrup)
• 1 cup(s) sugar
• 2/3 cup(s) freshly squeezed orange juice
• 1/2 cup(s) vodka
• 1  orange, (for cocktail)
• 1 bottle(s) chilled Champagne or sparkling wine

Directions

1. To make syrup: With a sharp knife, thinly slice oranges. Place in a medium nonreactive saucepan and toss with sugar. Let stand for 15 minutes.
2. Add orange juice and vodka to saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat. Cover and cook for 5 minutes. Uncover and cook until liquid is syrupy and orange slices are translucent, about 20 minutes.
3. Strain syrup through a fine sieve into a bowl, pressing on solids to extract as much liquid as possible. Discard solids. Cover and refrigerate until chilled.
4. To make cocktails: With a vegetable peeler, remove 8 long strips of zest from the orange. Twist each strip and place in a champagne glass. Add 1 tablespoon bitter-orange syrup to each glass. Top with Champagne and stir gently. Serve immediately.

Enjoy!

Cocktail of the week- Basil Watermelon Cooler

Basil Watermelon Cooler
INGREDIENTS
2 parts GREY GOOSE® Vodka
3 large basil leaves, plus more for garnish
1 slice peeled ginger – 1/4” x 2” slice
1 - 2” chunk of watermelon
1/2 part simple syrup
1/2 part fresh lime juice
ginger ale
watermelon wedge and basil leaves for garnish
I
INSTRUCTIONS
In a cocktail shaker muddle 3 basil leaves with ginger slice, 1 watermelon chunk
and simple syrup. Add ice, GREY GOOSE® Vodka and lime juice. Shake well and
strain into a rocks glass filled with ice. Top with ginger ale. Garnish with remaining
watermelon chunk and basil leaves.

Cocktail of the Week- Spring Fever

Here is the alcoholic and non-alcoholic version of the cocktail Spring Fever!

Spring Fever- Non Alcoholic

 Ingredients

• 3/4 oz lemon juice
• 3/4 oz mango syrup
• 1 1/2 oz apple juice
• 2 oz blood orange juice 

Instructions

1. Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice.
2. Shake well.

Spring Fever- Alcohol
Ingredients

• 2 parts vodka
• 1 part TLM  Simple Syrup*
• ¾ part fresh orange juice
• ¾ part pineapple juice
• 1 edible flower garnish

Instructions

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.  Garnish.
*TLM Green Tea Simple Syrup: Brew four ounces of green tea and pour into a saucepan.  Add eight ounces of white granulated sugar.  Heat and stir constantly, until boiling.  Reduce heat, set aside and refrigerate.
Think of the Spring Fever Cocktail as Spring in a glass.

Cheers!

Cocktail for the expecting mom- the Mamarita

Pregnant city moms don't have to be outcast from the cool cocktails! Here is a fun and healthy cocktail for the soon to be Mom in the City gal!

Mamarita- from the book Pregatinis

Ingredients
1 ounce agave nectar
1/2 ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 ounce orange juice
3 ounces organic limeaid
1 lime wheel
rimming salt

Directions
Rim a margarita glass and set aside. Stir agave nectar and lemon juice in the bottom of a mixing glass until nectar dissolves. Add orange juice, limeaid, and ice, then shake vigorously. Strain into the margarita glass, and serve with a lime wheel on the rim.

Enjoy!!

White Rose Martini

1/ 2 cup water
4 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
3 1/ 2 cup vodka
1/ 2 teaspoon rose water
2 tablespoons sugar
24 edible rose petals
Ice cubes

· Combine water and sugar in a small saucepan and bring it to a boil. Then simmer and keep stirring till the sugar dissolves.
· Cool a bit and then add vodka, lime juice and rose water while stirring the mixture.
· Take a cocktail shaker and will it with ice cubes and add one-fourth of the martini mixture and shake a bit.
· Now, strain the shaken martini in two glasses and garnish with rose petals and serve chilled.

Watermelon Martini

Yippee spring's here! Leaves are growing, flowers are blooming and watermelon is almost in season! Here is a recipe to satisfy your watermelon cravings!

 Ingredients:

1/4 seedless watermelon
1 tray ice
1/2 cup vodka

Directions:

•  Mix together and blend.

 

Can't get much easier than that right?! Enjoy! 

Cocktail of the week - April Shower!

April showers bring May flowers. Even though this April Shower cocktail will not make your gardens grow, it will get you thinking about spring. Yellow chartreuse adds a nice color and fresh herbal flavor that mixes well with the orange juice and brandy. 

 

Ingredients:

• 1 oz brandy
• 1/4 oz yellow Chartreuse
• 1 oz orange juice

Directions:

1. Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice.
2. Shake well.
3. Strain into a chilled glass. 

 Top off with a slice of lime if you like! 

A Very Sexy Martini Recipe!

What's better than a new martini recipe than one that is Very Sexy! Here is how you can create this super yummy martini recipe and share it with your momfriends!

• 1 1/2 oz Malibu Rum
• 1/2 oz Chambord
• 1 oz Pineapple Juice
• Place all in a shaker & shake vigorously for 15-20 seconds.
• Strain into frozen martini glass. Garnish with raspberry & blackberry skewer.

 Enjoy!

Silver Martini

 

Here is a great combination of juice and vodka to make a tasty drink!

1 teaspoon sugar
1-ounce vodka
1-ounce silver rum
1/2-ounce pineapple juice
1/2-ounce white grape juice
1/2-ounce pink lemonade 

Place sugar in a small saucer.Dip the rim of the Martini glass in water and press rim into the sugar to coat.Mix all ingredients, except caviar or salmon egg roe, in a shaker.The original recipe also includes 1/2 teaspoon caviar or salmon egg roe but that's up to you! You would put the caviar on the bottom of the glass and pour the drink over the caviar.If anyone tries this do let me know how it tastes!

Basil Martini Recipe! Yum!

 

Yea, spring is on the way!! Time to start preparing those sweet and light cocktails to toast to warmth. Here is a simple recipe that uses one of my favorite cooking ingredients- basil!

Here are the ingredients and instructions:

• 2oz gin
• 1oz lemon juice
• 3/4 oz simple syrup
• 3-4 fresh basil leaves

Throw all into a cocktail shaker with a few ice cubes or crushed ice if you're posh. Shake for all your worth and pour into glass.

Enjoy!

Can't get any girlier than a Pink Martini!!!

 

How yummy! A cocktail that just by appearance says "I've been made for a girl!" Here's how you make it...

• 2 oz of p.i.n.k. vodka,
• 1 scoop vanilla ice cream,
• 1 oz strawberry liqueur,
• large dollop of fresh whip cream
• 1 plump blueberry.

Combine, p.i. n.k., strawberry liqueur and ice cream in a blender with one scoop of crushed iced and blend until creamy. Top with whipped cream and a blueberry on top.

Falling Leaves Cinnamon Martini

Here are the instructions on how to make!

4 ounces premium vodka
1 ounce Grand Marnier
2 ounces Goldshlager, refrigerated
2 cinnamon sticks
Ice

Combine the vodka and Grand Marnier in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake vigorously until ice cold. Strain into martini glasses and then add Goldshlager (we don't want to leave the gold in the cocktail shaker with the ice so we add it to the martinis after they are strained).

Garnish with cinnamon sticks. Serves two.