Bloody Mary
From Ina Garten
3 large stalks celery from the heart, including leaves, plus extra for serving
36 ounces tomato juice (recommended: Sacramento)
2 teaspoons prepared horseradish
1 teaspoon grated yellow onion
1 lemon, juiced
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon celery salt
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
12 dashes hot sauce (recommended: Tabasco), or to taste
1 1/2 cups vodka
- Cut the celery in large dice, including the leaves, and puree in the bowl of a food processor fitted with the steel blade. Process until finely minced.
- In a large pitcher, combine the rest of the ingredients except the vodka.
- With the food processor running, pour 1/4 of the tomato juice mixture into the food processor through the feed tube.
- Then pour the contents of the food processor into the pitcher with the remaining tomato juice mixture.
- Add the vodka and chill.
- Serve in tall glasses over ice with a stick of celery.
Serves 6
Cosmo-Not Martini
From Martini Art
6 ounces of freshly squeezed and very cold orange juice.
2 ounces of freshly squeezed and very cold tangerine juice.
2 orange rind twists.
2 very, very thin orange slices.
1 lime cut in half.
3 ounces of cranberry juice.
1 ounce of pomegranate juice.
4 drops of vanilla extract.
1 ounce of seltzer water.
- Add all of your juices and vanilla extract to a shaker 1/2 full with cracked ice.
- Shake for a full minute.
- Squeeze in the juice of your lime and swirl the shaker ten times.
- Strain into 2 large, frozed martini glasses.
- Top each glass with an orange slice and one orange twist.
- Slowly pour one tablespoon of seltzer into each glass (over the orange).
Sunshine in Malibu
From Malibu Rum - inspired by Little Miss Sunshine
1 part Mango Rum
1 part Pineapple Rum
orange juice
Pour the rums into a highball glass over ice.
Fill with orange juice.
Enjoy!
The Devil PEARS Prada
From the folks at Absolut
4 oz Absolut Pears*
1/2 oz Apple Juice
1 oz White Grape Juice
1 1/2 oz Peach Puree
1 oz Lime Juice
Shake all ingredients and strain into two martini glasses.
Garnish with a pear slice.
* If you try a different pear flavored vodka, let me know! I'd really be interested to hear how it turns out!
** I forgot to bring the lime juice to the office. Without it, the drink was severely lacking acidity, so we substituted with the juice of some oranges we had in the office.
Pomegranate Mojito
From Extra Tasty
1.5 parts Light rum
1 part Lime juice
1 part Soda water
1 part Pomegranate Juice
A splash of Simple syrup
4 mint leaves, plus more for garnish
- In the bottom of a double old-fashioned glass bruise the 4 mint leaves with the fresh lime juice and simple syrup.
- Add crushed ice then the pomegranate juice and rum.
- Top with a splash of soda and stir. Garnish with the mint sprig.
Sicilian Splash
From Flora's Drink Hideout
4 cups ice
3/8 cup white grape juice
1/4 cup orange soda
Sparkling water, as needed
1 lemon slice, for garnish
Blend in order given. Serve in a tall fluted glass, with lemon slice and straw.
My variation would be to omit the ice, mix grape and orange juice together, top off with sparkling water. Serve on the rocks.
Key Lime Pie Martini
From W Hotel
2 oz Vanilla Vodka
1/2 oz Cointreau
splash Frangelico
2 1/2 oz Pineapple juice
juice of one lime, plus two slices for garnish
crushed graham crackers, garnish
- Wipe one of the lime slices around the rim of a martini glass. Dip the wet rim in the graham cracker crumbs.
- In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, combine the vodka, Cointreau, Frangelico, pineapple and lime juices.
- Shake hard and well to form ice crystals.
- Strain into prepared martini glass. Garnish with unused slice of lime. Enjoy!
Makes 1 martini.
Café Netherland
From Morgan Jump
1/2 oz Kahlúa
1/2 oz Frangelico
1/2 oz Baileys Irish Cream
1/2 oz coffee
Serve in a glass mug and top with whipped cream.
If you don't have Frangelico, use hazelnut syrup instead.
Creator Morgan Jump says: "This is one of our most popular signature drinks and is great when it's cold outside. You got to have the whipped cream. Throw in a cherry for the holidays."
Washhouse
From Neyah White at Nopa
4 to 5 fresh basil leaves
1/2 oz fresh lime juice
1/2 oz simple syrup
1 1/2 oz. Square One organic vodka
1 sprig fresh thyme, as garnish
- Place the basil, lime juice and the simple syrup into an empty mixing glass, and muddle with a wooden muddler.
- Add ice and the vodka, and shake for approximately 15 seconds.
- Strain through a fine strainer into a chilled cocktail glass, and add the garnish.
Makes 1 cocktail.
Ginger and Tonic Mocktail
From Jennifer Rubell
- 2 tbsp finely minced crystallized ginger
- 1/2 cup of pineapple juice
- tonic water
Mix ginger and pineapple juice well and let sit for two minutes. Divide drink among four highball glasses, ensuring that ginger pieces make it into each one. Add ice and fill with tonic. Stir well, garnish with crystallized ginger.
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