Christmas Drinks Pt II

Chocolate Peppermint Cookie

3/4 oz. Blanco Tequila
1    oz. Peppermint Schnapps
3/4 oz. chocolate Liqueur
1.5 oz. Cream

Rim martini glass with chocolate syrup and crushed candy canes. Shake ingredients in a shaker with ice and strain into martini glass.


Snickerdoodle

1    oz Resposado Tequila
3/4 oz Irish Cream
1/2 oz Butterscotch Schnapps
3/4 oz Cream
Splash of Cinnamon Schnapps
for garnish cinnamon stick

Combine all ingredients in a shaker and shake with ice. Strain into martini glass and garnish with a cinnamon stick.

Christmas Recipes Pt I

Glogg (Mulled wine Scandinavian style) 

• 1 bottle of red wine
• 0.5 Liter inexpensive brandy or vodka
• 10 cardamom pods
• 1 cinnamon stick (broken down)
• 1/2 orange peel (dried or fresh)
• 1/2 lbs sugar (regular or lumps)
• Optional additions: 5 cloves, 1/2 cup raisins, 1/2 cup almonds, 5 dried figs

Preparation:

 

Heat the wine and brandy spices, fruit, and nuts in a pot (and any optional additions you might like.)  
Be careful not to boil the mixture; just let it simmer for about 45 minutes.
 
Then, strain through a cloth to remove all additions.
 
Serve your Glogg hot over lumped sugar (or with regular granulated sugar).
 
Optional: You can also serve the Glogg with raisons or almonds. If you'd like the drink to be stronger, use more brandy.

Rum Eggnog:

4 cups milk
5 whole cloves
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
12 egg yolks
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 1/2 cups light rum
4 cups light cream
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Directions
1.Combine milk, cloves, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, and cinnamon in a saucepan, and heat over lowest setting for 5 minutes. Slowly bring milk mixture to a boil.
2.In a large bowl, combine egg yolks and sugar. Whisk together until fluffy. Whisk hot milk mixture slowly into the eggs. Pour mixture into saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly for 3 minutes, or until thick. Do not allow mixture to boil. Strain to remove cloves, and let cool for about an hour.
3.Stir in rum, cream, 2 teaspoon vanilla, and nutmeg. Refrigerate overnight before serving.
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This Glogg recipe makes approx 1.5 Liter (close to 1/2 gallon).

Thanksgiving Drinks

Bourbon Cooler

6 ounces each bourbon
fresh orange juice
5 to 6 tablespoons pure maple syrup
dry sparkling white wine

Combine bourbon and orange juice in shaker, fill with ice, add maple syrup.  Cover and shake vigorously for one minute.  Top with dry sparkling white wine, garnish with twist of orange peel./

Cider and Rum Punch

8 cups apple cider
1 apple, thinly sliced crosswise
1 orange, thinly sliced crosswise
2 cinnamon sticks
1-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and thinly sliced
2 cups dark rum
In a large pot, combine apple cider, apple slices, orange slices, cinnamon sticks, and ginger. Bring to a boil over high; reduce to a simmer and cook 5 minutes. (Keep warm over low, up to 2 hours.) Remove from heat and stir in rum. Transfer to a punch bowl; serve warm.

Mulled Wine Pt I

Gluhwein (Mulled Wine)
1 c. sugar
3 c. water
Peel of 1 orange, cut in strips
1 cinnamon stick, broken in pieces
1/2 c. tripe sec
1/2 gal. Burgundy
12 whole cloves
Peel of 1 lemon, cut in strips

Boil sugar, water, peels and spices for 10 minutes. Strain out peels and cinnamon stick. Add triple sec and wine. Heat without boiling. Serve hot in punch cups or mugs. 20 servings.




French Rustic Style Mulled Wine

1 bottle red wine
2 ounces  brown sugar
1 teaspoon  cloves
1 teaspoon  ground nutmeg
1 cinnamon stick (if you don't have a stick, use 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon)
1 bay leaf
Half an orange

Pour the wine into a medium-sized pot.  Squeeze the half orange to get the juice and add it to the wine. Cut the remaining orange peel into slices and add it to the wine. Add the remaining ingredients to the wine. Heat the wine until it is warm / hot (depending on preference). However, on no account should it boil. Stir occasionally.

Once warm/hot, serve immediately.

For a rustic drink, leave the lemon peel and other ingredients in. If your guests prefer a less rustic drink, the
mulled wine can be strained to remove the bits (cloves, orange peel, etc.) before serving.

Vodka Drinks Pt. 1

This is called a Beer Buster:

1 1/2 oz. Vodka
12 oz. Beer
2 dashes Tabasco

Stir Vodka and Tobasco together in a chilled beer mug or pint glass. Pour in Beer.






And this is called a Mind Eraser.
Mind Eraser

1 oz. Vodka
1 oz. Coffee Liqueur
Club Soda or Sparkling Water

Pour coffee liqueur and vodka into a chilled old fashioned glass, fill with club soda or sparkling water and stir. Drink quickly thrpugh a straw.

More Beer Cocktails Pt. III!

This is called an "Under the Boardwalk".  The recipe calls for rice ale, but you could probably use any very light beer or ale--Sierra Nevada would work, for instance, as would Natty Ice or Keystone Light.

Under the Boardwalk

rice ale or other light ale
vodka
iced tea for sweetness,
dash of sea salt
dash of raw sugar

Pour rice or other light ale in tall glass with ice.  Add splash of vodka and enough iced tea to flavor.  Add a dash of sea salt and a dash of raw sugar.  Serve cold.




This next is similar to a Rusty Nail--it's part bourbon and part ale.  It's called a Beggar's Banquet.

Beggar's Banquet

bourbon whiskey
maple syrup
lemon juice
bitters
ale

Mix whiskey with maple syrup to sweeten. Mix with lemon juice to add tartness and add a dash of bitters.  Top off with ale.

Beer Cocktails Pt 2

This one is called a Port Stout.  It's a good dessert cocktail.

Port Stout

2 ounces Black Port
6 ounces Imperial Stout

Mix together in a Brandy snifter











Also try this one:

Cerveza Cabeza

Salt for garnish
8 ounces Negro Modelo
4 ounces sparkling limeade

(sparkling limeade you can get at pretty much any grocery store.  Also like a Whole Foods or a Trader Joe's will invariably have it.  In a pinch you could use sparkling lemonade.)

Two Great Dark Beer Cocktails to Celebrate the Dark Time of Year!

Sunlight is waning, and snow will be here soon.  Halloween is past.  We are coming into the dark time of year, when the world gets colder and the nights seem long, long, long.

Here are a couple of cocktails made with dark beer--you could use a stout such as Guiness or a dark ale or something similar.  Check 'em out!

This first one is called a Black Adder.

 

 

Black Adder

cider on bottom
stout on top

The second is called a Broadway, also called a Diesel.  It's very popular in  Japan.

Equal parts:

Lager
Cola

'Til next time, SEE YA!