TMNT Leonardo

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Leonardo

It's Day 3 of my Ninja Turtles cocktails!  

The kids are back in school today after the nice long holiday weekend, which means it's time to clean up all of the stuff that I can't clean while they're here.  

Actually 3 of the kids are back in school because........our oldest.......is out of school and officially a senior!  What?  Who said that?  

I stood next to him in the bathroom mirror today......yea I'm short.  

The weather has been nice for the past few days here, which I love.  I am SO ready to wear shorts, tank tops and flip flops every day for a while now.  

Today I move onto Leonardo as my turtle of the day.  

Leonardo is strong, fearless and a great leader.  Thinking of those traits I thought my go to ingredient for this cocktail should be tequila.  At least for me when I drink tequila I think I'm strong, fearless and a great leader!

Don't forget to check out my other turtle cocktails: TMNT Raphael, TMNT Michelangelo, TMNT Donatello as well as my Ninja Turtle cocktail and Hockey Stick.

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is my recipe for TMNT Leonardo:

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TMNT Leonardo

by May-31-2016

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 ounces silver tequila
• 1 ounce blueberry liqueur
• 3/4 ounce cointreau
• 1/2 ounce blue curacao
• 1/4 ounce lime juice
• 1/4 ounce simple syrup
• fine sugar

Instructions

Rim a cocktail glass with fine sugar and fill half way with ice.In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients above. Shake and strain into the glass.

Here's to another day of turtles!  Have I covered your favorite turtle yet?

Cheers!

The Cocktail Lady

Pineapple Orange Margarita

Pineapple Orange Margarita

The other day I created a Peach Habanero Margarita which got me to thinking.....what other flavors of margaritas can I make that I have never heard of or tried before?  

You have your Classic Margarita and the most common flavored margaritas you'll find at restaurants like, strawberry, raspberry, mango and sometimes peach.  

I have done a good handful of margaritas, some I have created on my own and some I have found.....but I want to create more so I chose to enhance the orange flavor that is "sometimes" already in margaritas and mix it up with pineapple juice (I love cocktails that have pineapple juice in them).

This margarita is not spicy like the peach habanero margarita is recently made, it's actually quite the opposite.  This margarita is cool and refreshing.  It's a lighter tasting margarita which is actually quite nice. 

With National Margarita day on the 22nd, I'd love to ask you all if you have a delicious margarita recipe for me to try that I have not tried before.  

Email me at cocktailady@gmail.com or you can contact me via the contact form on the left side of my blog.  I'd love to hear from you..........even if it's just to say Hi!

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is my recipe for a Pineapple Orange Margarita:

• 1 1/2 ounces silver tequila
• 2 1/2 ounces pineapple juice
• 1 ounce orange juice
• 1/2 ounce cointreau
• 1/2 ounce lime juice

In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients above.  Shake and strain into a margarita glass that is half filled with ice.

Here's to coming up on completing 4 years of my cocktail blog!  I started this journey on February 16, 2012, my how time has flown!  I hope you are all enjoying this journey as much as I am!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

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Peach Habanero Margarita

Peach Habanero Margarita

Happy Monday everyone!  

What better way to face another week than with a spicy margarita?  

Back when I created my Cran Chili Margarita I had told you about the time I had a Habanero Martini and that I could only really take a sip or two before I had to pass it over to my husband.  

Once I had tried that martini I knew that I could never ever try another cocktail with a habanero pepper in it again.......too hot for me.  

Fast forward to today.  

I was at the grocery store and thought, "You know, I bet they used way more habanero peppers then I would have used in that cocktail".  

I then pushed my cart over to the produce section and decided that I would try my hand at a cocktail with a habanero pepper and make it with less then I thought they had made it with.

I present to you the Peach Habanero Margarita.  

I think the amount of habanero pepper I used was perfect......for me, others may like more then I used.  

When you take a sip of this margarita, you can definitely taste the peach flavor, much more then you could in my Peach Margarita I made a couple years ago.  

After you get swept away with the peach flavor and decide, "Huh, I can't even taste the habanero", BAM!! there it is!  

It's a sneaky little pepper, but it does add a nice kick to the margarita.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is my recipe for a Peach Habanero Margarita:

• 3 ounces peach nectar
• 1 1/2 ounces silver tequila
• 2 slices (width-wise, so they make rings) habanero pepper
• 1/2 ounce cointreau
• 1/4 ounce lime juice

In a shaker, add ice, tequila and slices of habanero pepper.  Shake well to release the pepper flavoring into the tequila.  Add the rest of the items and shake well again.  Fill a margarita glass half way with ice and strain the cocktail into the glass.

Here's to trying something that once scared you!  

Cheers!

The Cocktail Lady

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SIA Scotch Whisky Review and Recipe

SIA Scotch Whisky Review and Recipe

I was contacted by Carin, the owner and founder of SIA Scotch Whisky.  She has created a whisky that she is very excited about and wanted to share it with me.  I was sent the sample of SIA Scotch Whisky you see in the photo above to try and create a new fun cocktail with.  

I was sent a free product to review in exchange for my honest opinion.  All views in this post are mine and I was not compensated for them in any way.  

Carin is a female entrepreneur who is based in San Franciso. 

I thought that was pretty cool given the fact that we live not too far from there ourselves.  

I'm impressed that she took her love of Scotch and decided to do something with it, bravo to you Carin!

SIA Scotch Whisky is a nice smooth blend.  

My mission was to mix it up with a few ingredients that would compliment some of the flavors that are found inside the Scotch Whisky.  

Mission Accomplished!!  

This whisky combined perfectly with the ingredients I chose, and I have to say I really like this cocktail.  

I am not much of a Scotch Whisky drinker, but I could definitely see myself ordering this cocktail at one of the many bars, or restaurants SIA is served at.  

I am impressed with what Carin has accomplished as well as her whisky.  

If you have any Scotch Whisky drinkers in the family, or even friends that enjoy it, I would recommend that you give SIA a try.  I think you just might like it!

Here is a link to the full list of the bars and restaurants, as well as stores that carry SIA Scotch Whisky.  Visit their webiste here to find out more!

Here is my recipe for a Whisky Sour Surprise:

• 1 ounce SIA Scotch Whisky
• 1 ounce lemon juice
• 1 ounce amaretto
• 1/2 ounce cointreau
• 1/4 ounce Elderflower Liqueur

In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients above.  Shake and strain into a sugar rimmed short cocktail glass.

Thank You Carin for the sample of your delicious SIA Scotch Whisky!  I wish you all the best!!

The Cocktail Lady

Apple Cider Margarita

Happy Friday everyone!  

We've made it, another week in the books.  

This week in our home our oldest completed his last day of his Freshmen year of High School.  We officially have a Sophomore!  

WAIT...........what??  

I just can't believe how quickly these past 15 1/2 years have gone by. 

Also on Saturday our second oldest tests for his brown belt in Tae Kwon Do!  We're all super excited about that!  

He also only has 2 more weeks of school left until he becomes a 5th grader....breathe.

My girls love drinking apple cider.  

We always have an open container in the fridge so I thought, why not use it in a cocktail?  

My husband and I have had margaritas on the brain lately, so I decided to try creating an apple cider flavored margarita.

I learned that with this cocktail I had to add more apple cider then I initially thought because the flavor of it just doesn't come out as well as I had thought.  

As a last minute idea, I threw some cinnamon into the mixture, which greatly improved it.  

This margarita is good.  

Not my favorite flavored margarita, but still good.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is my recipe for an Apple Cider Margarita:

• 1 ounce tequila
• 1/2 ounce cointreau
• 1/2 ounce orange juice
• 3 1/2 ounces apple cider
• 1 pinch of ground cinnamon

On a separate plate put equal amounts of super fine sugar and ground cinnamon.  Mix it up well and rim your cocktail glass with the mixture.

In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients above.  Shake and dump everything into your rimmed cocktail glass.

Here is to a fun filled weekend!  I hope you all enjoy it!

Cheers!

The Cocktail Lady

Cupid's Day Off

Cupid's Day Off

Happy Happy Friday!  Another week done and now it is time to enjoy the weekend.  


It has been a crazy, stressful, successful week......why you ask?.......because we did a 3-Day Potty Training Bootcamp this week, which was SUPER successful and I HIGHLY recommend it if your child is ready.  


Your child must be ready.........trust me, with our second child I pushed and pushed the potty training thing with him.  

He wasn't ready.  

I was and he wasn't.  

That was a VERY stressful experience and I vowed to just wait until they are ready and when they are it happens and it happens pretty quickly.  


Here is a link to the 3-Day Potty Training Bootcamp if anyone is interested.

Onto what you are actually here for, cocktails!  


Today I created a delicious cocktail for Valentine's Day.  


All of these ingredients work wonderfully together and create one of those cocktails that could be dangerous......yup, totally dangerous.  

I have a feeling I will be making these in the very near future....like later on today perhaps?  (P.S. I rate this cocktail 5 shots out of 5.....for some reason my rating system is not working)

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is my recipe for a Cupid's Day Off:

• 1 1/2 ounces whipped vodka
• 1/2 ounce Cointreau
• 2 ounces cranberry cocktail juice
• 1/2 ounce lime juice

In a shaker, ad ice and all of the ingredients above.  Shake and strain into a martini glass, sit back and enjoy this one....not too fast....or fast, just make sure you have extra ingredients so that you can make another one too.

Here is to a VERY successful week and a weekend to celebrate it!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Creme Brulee Martini

It's here, it's here!  

Our 4 of 4 is officially three years old today!  

Happy Birthday sweet baby girl.  

Oh this girl has been looking forward to her birthday for a while now.  She is very excited.  

We are having a small family dinner to celebrate this weekend, which I have been instructed that I need to cook the pizzas and not order them, grandma must get her a cake and I MUST buy balloons.  

OK little one, if that's all you want, you got it!

Even though I wasn't crazy about yesterday's cocktail, Golden Cadillac, I still wanted to try that Creme Brulee Martini.  

Bad decision.  

Grrrrr.  

I really don't like it when I try two bad cocktails in a row!  

The Frangelico was a bit too much.  Now the recipe called for an ounce of Frangelico, so I decided to use a little less to try to take some of its flavor away.  

Didn't matter, it still tasted like too much was in there.  

I also don't think that the Cointreau added anything good to this cocktail either.  

Oh well, good news is that I will be celebrating my little one's birthday tonight and that will make it all better.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is my modified version of Creme Brulee Martini:

• 1 1/2 ounces vanilla vodka
• 3/4 ounce hazelnut liqueur
• 1/2 ounce cointreau
• 1 ounce half and half

In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients above.  Shake and strain into a cocktail glass.

Happy Happy Birthday to my little girl.  Our lives are complete with you in them.  Mama loves you!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

White Lady

White Lady

5 shots out of 5

Mother's Day is right around the corner.  Can you believe it?  

I can't.  

I guess all of those adults were right when I was a kid, the years DO go faster and faster when you get older.  

Tonight is our annual Mother/Son baseball game at our second oldest son's school.  

We are both very excited to be participating in it again.  Since he is in 3rd grade this year, we will only have 2 more years to participate until he goes to middle school.  

I'll be sad when we can't do it anymore.

I gave today's cocktail 5 shots out of 5.  

YES, you saw that correct!  

I did give a gin cocktail 5 shots out of 5......have you gotten back off of the floor yet?  

I found the recipe for the White Lady here.  This is a simple cocktail to make and it only has three ingredients.  

I can taste each of the three ingredients and boy are the proportions correct and good!  

Just for kicks I checked to see what cocktail I made for last years Mother/Son baseball game, it was a Malibu Sunrise which was delicious.  

On Mother's Day itself I made a Mother Goose which was green and good!

I wish all of your Mother's out there a very Happy Mother's Day!

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for a White Lady:

• 1 1/2 ounces gin
• 3/4 ounce cointraeu
• 3/4 ounce lemon juice

In a cocktail shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients above.  Shake and strain into a martini glass and enjoy!

Here's to all you mom's out there, enjoy your Sunday!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Cupid's Cup

Day 365

Cupid's Cup

3.5 shots out of 5

Happy Valentine's Day to all of my wonderful readers!!  


I do love that you all come to my blog to see what I have been drinking each and every night!  


Tonight marks a regular year of a cocktail every night, but wait......remember I said that I started this blog last year which in fact was a Leap Year?  


That's right, one more night after tonight and then my year long challenge will be complete.

I gave tonight's cocktail 3.5 shots out of 5.  


I found this recipe on facebook today.  Hpnotiq had posted it and I thought I'd give their Harmonie another try.  


This cocktail is OK.  If you don't know, I don't like Hpnotiq Harmonie as much as I like the regular Hpnotiq (the blue one).  


Actually I really like the regular one.......a lot.  


The Harmonie......not so much.  Anyways, this cocktail is OK, I wouldn't order it at a bar and I wouldn't have more then one of them at home.  At least it's a pretty color.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for a Cupid's Cup:

• 2 oz Hpnotiq Harmonie
• 1 oz vodka
• 1/2 oz Cointreau
• 1/2 oz lime juice

In a shaker filled with ice, add all of the ingredients above.  Shake and strain your cocktail into a martini glass.

Happy Valentine's Day to you all.  I really do appreciate you all coming to my blog and reading my daily cocktails.  Here's to you!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady