DP's favorite cocktails

[KarlMarx]

I thought that, since we're swapping recipes, perhaps it would be nice to swap cocktails recipes too...

I'll start.. my favorite cocktail is a Martini made with Gin, not Vodka

1. Place ice cubes in your cocktail shaker

2. Place some extra dry vermouth in the shaker, just enough to coat the ice cubes, shake, then pour out the excess (some people, like Winston Churchill, skipped the vermouth part altogether)

3. Add about 3 oz of gin. The better the quality of gin, the better the martini (Tanguery for instance... Winston Churchill preferred Boodles Gin)

4. Shake the contents and strain out the ice cubes into a martini glass

5. Add a few green olives on a toothpick for a flourish.

P.S. James Bond's martini does not contain vermouth, here's the recipe (from Casino Royale)

3 oz gin
1 oz vodka
1/2 oz Lillet® Blanc wine



Pour the gin, vodka and Lillet blanc into a cocktail shaker half-filled with cracked ice. Shake well, and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a twist of lemon, and serve.

[Shadow]

Colorado Bulldog


1 cup crushed ice
1 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger vodka
1 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger coffee flavored liqueur
1 (12 fluid ounce) can or bottle cola-flavored carbonated beverage
1 fluid ounce light cream

1. Fill a tall 16 ounce glass 1/3 full of crushed ice. Pour in the vodka and coffee liqueur. Fill to within 1 inch of the rim with cola. Fill to within 1/2 inch with light cream. Stir to blend.

[Kathianne]

We are finally experiencing some cooler weather. It's in the high 60's and when I finish writing my current article, I'm going to add some Bailey's to my coffee. Kahlua is also good, but I don't have any!

[Shadow]

Boozy Strawberry-Orange Milk Shakes




Directions

1. In a blender, puree 1 pint vanilla ice cream, 1½ cups strawberries, ¼ cup milk, and ¼ cup Cointreau (orange liqueur) until smooth.
2. Divide among 4 glasses.

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[Shadow]

Blueberry-Gin Sundaes



Directions

1. In a small saucepan, combine 1 cup blueberries and 1⁄3 cup gin. Simmer, stirring frequently, until the berries burst and the mixture begins to thicken, 5 to 8 minutes; let cool.
2. Divide 1 pint vanilla ice cream among bowls and top with the blueberry sauce.

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[DragonStryk72]

Rum & Dr. Pepper

1. Sample the Rum (I use Captain Morgan's, personally.)
2. drop in ice (I only use a bit, but hey)
3. Sample Rum
4. Add Dr. Pepper
5. one final sampling of the run, and
6. add rum.

[Jess]

A poker buddy of my brother's came up with the "Dirty Water". It's very good. After several of those, Jess is a very happy girl.

I'll have to get the specifics but it is a mixture of water, cranberry juice and UV blue vodka. There's enough water in it that you don't have a hangover the next morning - which is nice.


DO be aware though, that they go down really smooth and easy ... then you have to stand up.

[Shadow]

Here are several recipes for Thanksgiving coctails...a couple of them sound really good. Enjoy.

10 Awesome Thanksgiving Cocktails



Thanksgiving Cocktail

• 1/2 oz lemon juice
• 1 oz apricot brandy
• 1 oz dry vermouth
• 1 oz gin

Shake all the ingredients with ice. Strain into an old fashioned glass. Add ice.


Gingersnap

• 3 oz vodka
• 1/2 oz ginger wine
• Club soda

Combine vodka and ginger wine with several ice cubes in a double old-fashioned glass. Fill with soda and stir gently.



Apple Cider Sparkle

• 6 cups apple cider
• 2 cups cranberry/raspberry cocktail (orange juice, orange-mango or your favorite juice blend)
• 1 bottle (750 mL) champagne (or sparkling wine)
• 1/2 cup lemon juice

In punch bowl, large pitcher, or even several pitchers, combine apple cider, orange juice, and lemon juice. Just before your guests arrive, slowly add champagne or sparkling wine. Serve immediately or keep chilled with large ice blocks. Makes about about 15 servings of 6 ounces each.
For a non-alcoholic punch, use chilled sparkling grape juice in place of the wine or champagne.


Several more at link

http://www.thatsthespirit.com/en/ent..._cocktails.asp

[SassyLady]

My new favorite:

Funkey Monkey:

1/2 oz. Coconut Rum
1/2 oz. Banana Liqueur
1/2 oz. Baileys Irish cream

I serve in large martini type glass that is chilled and I swirl chocolate syrup across the glass before adding ingredients.

[Shadow]

Pumpkin Smoothie


Ingredients:

• 1 cup of canned pumpkin
• 1 cup fresh cut apricot or frozen.
• 1 tbs sugar
• 1 cup 2% milk
• 1 pinch of cinnamon
• 1 pinch of nutmeg
• 1 cup of ice

Blend until creamy. Depending on your sweet tooth you may wish to add another tablespoon of sugar.




Thanksgiving Smoothie

Ingredients:


1 can (16 oz.) cranberry sauce

1 bag (16 oz) frozen unsweetened peach slices, partially thawed

1 container (6 oz) vanilla yogurt

3/4 cup orange juice

1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon


Add everything in blender and blend until smooth. Depending on how sweet your peaches are and how tart the cranberry sauce (and of course depending on your personal taste) you may want to add a little sugar or sweetener to your smoothie.

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[Jess]

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[Kathianne]

One of my guests was talking about this drink:

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The Snow-Bumble Tini

Joel Martin, Los Molcajetes , Fort Worth, Texas

Make this cocktail and watch your guests look as excited as a child opening up gifts on Christmas Day, Martin says. The name comes from a holiday movie classic, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Recipe:
1 oz Absolut Vanilla
½ oz of Jameson Irish Whiskey
½ oz of Rumplemintz
½ oz of Kahlua French Vanilla
½ oz of Butterscotch
1 oz Half & Half Cream
½ teaspoon of Sugar

Garnish with whipped topping, ground cinnamon & cinnamon stick. Be sure to place the garnish of whipped topping into the glass first. Then, after the ingredients are shaken, pour into the martini glass around the whipped topping so it floats to the top.

[Shadow]

Spiced pear martini

Ingredients

• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup water
• 1 medium cinnamon stick, broken in half
• 1 750-ml bottle Remy V
• 5 tablespoons fresh Meyer lemon juice (from 2 lemons)
• 3 tablespoons pear nectar
• Freshly-grated nutmeg, for serving

Preparation

In a small saucepan, warm the sugar, water and cinnamon stick pieces over low heat until the sugar dissolves and a syrup forms, about 2 minutes. Remove from the heat and cool the mixture completely; discard the cinnamon. In a large pitcher, combine the cooled cinnamon syrup with the Remy V, lemon juice and pear nectar. Cover the pitcher with plastic wrap and refrigerate until cold, about 3 hours.



Add 12 ice cubes to the drink and stir briskly with a wooden spoon (this will melt some of the ice into the drink). Dividing evenly, pour the cocktail through a fine-mesh strainer into 12 chilled Martini glasses. Dust each drink with a pinch of freshly-grated nutmeg and serve.

[Shadow]

Eggnog Smoothie


Ingredients

• 1 quart eggnog
• 1 (5.1 ounce) package instant vanilla pudding mix
• 1 (12 ounce) container frozen whipped topping
• 1/2 cup rum, or amount desired

Directions

1. Pour the eggnog into a mixing bowl. Whisk in the pudding mix, whipped topping, and rum until evenly blended. Cover and refrigerate until well chilled, or about 2 hours. Serve cold.

[Shadow]

Gingerbread House

Ingredients

• 3 Ounce dark chocolate
• 2 Cup milk (whole milk is important here, the spice of the ginger needs the extra texture provided by the extra fat in the milk)
• 2.5 Tablespoon sugar
• 1 Teaspoon crystallized ginger
• 1 Ounce canton ginger liqueur
• 1 Ounce snap ginger snap liqueur

Preparation

Step 1

Chop the chocolate and ginger finely and warm along with the sugar and milk in a saucepan, stirring constantly until combined.
Step 2

Turn the heat to low and add the liqueurs and stir again until fully combined.
Step 3

Strain in a fine mesh sieve and pour into mugsAnd don't forget the marshmallows.


Article and other recipes at link

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2011/...hot-chocolate/