ED NOTE:
I'd like to wish my good friend Gwenda a happy 29th
birthday on May 2.
Also, if
in the L.A. area, be sure to check out Gwenda's comedy
act. Check her out on Facebook.
Hello
Metro Readers. Everyone has been asking me what I wanted for my
birthday, so came up with this short list.. brakes, tires, vehicle
registration fees, car insurance, micro derm abrasion, permanent
hair removal, lipo suction.
Have
a great Spring, and enjoy these libations.
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DRINKS
WITH A TOUCH OF ALCOHOL
May Peach Cocktail
1 oz banana liqueur
2 oz peach schnapps
2 tbsp apple juice pineapple juice 7-Up® soda
Mix together in a hurricane glass.
Spring Breeze
1 oz gin
1/2 oz Green Chartreuse®
1 tbsp lemon juice
Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, and serve.
Spring Time Solute
2 oz gin
1/4 oz apricot brandy
2 oz orange juice
1 tsp clove syrup
Shake and strain into a cocktail glass or a martini glass.
Spring Breeze
1 1/2 oz apricot brandy
1 oz gin
1/4 oz lemon juice.
1/4 oz orange juice
Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Ultimate Cinco de Mayo Margarita
2 oz 1800® Select Silver - 100 Proof Tequila
1 oz Grand Marnier® orange liqueur
1 oz fresh lime juice ice
garnish with lime wedge and salt on on the rim
Shake over ice or blend.
Spring
Julep Surprise
3 oz bourbon whiskey
1 oz Fruit infused simple syrup
3 Infused cantaloupe melons
2 Infused raspberries
2 Infused lemons
1 dash Rose water
5 mint leaves
Take a half of a cantaloupe, and cut off rind and cut into slivers, and along with 20
raspberries and 1 lemon cut into crescents, put into fast-pour container. Fill container with vodka, cover and leave in refrigerator for
2 days. After, pour out vodka into 2nd container and fill with equal part simple syrup: This is the infused simple syrup. Then, add Infused Simple Syrup in mixing glass with mint leaves. Press leaves so bruise but not mash. Into this glass fill with ice, add bourbon and stir. In your Collins Glass, fill with crushed ice and fruit and strain contents of mixing glass over the crushed ice and fruit. If you have carefully put in the fruit, this drink will need no additional garnish, but a sprig of mint would not be unheard of.
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NON-ALCOHOLIC
Spring Fever
3/4 oz lemon juice
3/4 oz mango syrup
1 1/2 oz pineapple juice
2 oz blood orange juice
Shake well over ice cubes in a shaker, and strain into a Collins glass half-filled with crushed ice.
Orange Breeze
2 cups lemon juice
6 cups orange juice
1 liter 7up or Sprite
Mix in large bowl, add ice and strain in a large cocktail glass and serve.
May Blossom Fizz
2 oz Swedish punch
1 tsp grenadine syrup
juice of 1/2 lemons
carbonated water
Shake ingredients (except carbonated water) with ice and strain into a highball glass over
2 ice cubes. Fill with carbonated water, stir, and serve.
Serve in a tall glass.
