Agent Orange

Day 85

Agent Orange

4 shots out of 5

Happy #NationalSuperHeroDay!!

Yes that's right!  Today April 28th is National Super Hero Day.  Knowing that I knew I needed to introduce you (again) to Agent Orange!

I'll let you two get acquainted!

I'm going to go ahead and admit it right now.  


I'm partial to screwdrivers.....I am.  


It was (if I remember correctly) my first cocktail that I had, liked and continued having for the next couple years.  Now that I'm thinking about how long ago it was......it's making me realize how many years have passed since I've been in high school......onto tonight's cocktail!!

I gave tonight's cocktail 4 shots out of 5.  


I truly do enjoy screwdrivers.  


This cocktail, the Agent Orange, adds a little bit more to that flavor.  I think I just might start having either a screwdriver or an Agent Orange every now and again.  


It's actually bringing back some good, fun memories and I'm enjoying them as much as I'm enjoying sipping my cocktail.  If you like screwdrivers, give Agent Orange a try.  


The Grand Marnier adds a little something to the cocktail, but definitely does not take anything away from it.  If some of your favorite memories don't revolve around screwdrivers, you may not enjoy it as much as I am right now, haha.  Hopefully you will enjoy it some though.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Author: The Cocktail Ladyprint recipe

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INGREDIENTS:

• 2 ounces vodka
• 3/4 ounce Grand Marnier
• 4 1/2 ounces orange juice

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. In a tall glass, fill 3/4 with ice and add vodka, Grand Marnier and orange juice (add more vodka if you like it to taste a bit more vodkaey).
2. Stir up your cocktail real well, sit back and enjoy!

Created using The Recipes Generator

Here's to a blast from the past with a twist!  Hope you all find or remember about that cocktail that resembles good times for you.

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Fall Orchard Punch

I was sent a couple bottles of Angry Orchard to try in exchange for my open and honest opinion.  I was not paid for my opinions.

There it is!  

I said it.  

The BEST Fall Punch EVER!!  

I was sent a couple bottles of Angry Orchard Crisp Apple and Cinnful Apple along with a few recipes.  

I have already made the Hot & Angry and last weekend I made Fall Orchard Punch.  OH MY GOODNESS, this is a perfect punch for Thanksgiving.....or a Fall/Autumn party.....or whenever really.

There are two parts to creating this punch.  

The first part is to make the Cranberry Syrup.  

I made it a day ahead so that I knew it would be ready in time.  (Wait, I didn't tell you that my youngest turned 6 and we had her family party on Saturday.  

I decided to make this punch and to see how everyone liked it.)  

First you pour cranberry juice into a pot.

Next you add sugar to the pot and cook on low until the sugar is completely dissolved.

Let it sit and cool completely.  I then transferred it to a tupperware and stuck it in the fridge over night.

When you are ready to make this punch, it literally only takes a few minutes and is really really easy to make.  

I whipped it together in a punch bowl and put a few Ice Balls inside to keep it cool.  We poured it into short glasses over ice because it tasted even better the colder it was.

This punch was such a hit, I'm making it again this weekend for the holiday!  Which reminds me that when I went to the store today......that I forgot to get more of the short plastic glasses for the punch........dang it!

Here is the recipe for Fall Orchard Punch:

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Fall Orchard Punch

November-23-2016

Ingredients

• 4 bottles Angry Orchard Crisp Apple Cider
• 8 ounces white rum
• 1 1/2 ounces Grand Marnier
• 3 ounces lemon juice
• 6 ounces cranberry syrup**
• 3 ounces raspberry puree

Instructions

In a punch bowl add all of the ingredients above except for the Angry Orchard Crisp Apple. Stir everything in the bowl together. Top off with the Angry Orchard Crisp Apple.

**To make the cranberry syrup:
- 2 cups cranberry juice
- 1 cup granulated sugar

In a pot, pour in the cranberry juice and sugar. Heat on low until the sugar is all dissolved. Set aside and let it completely cool. Once cooled, pour in a tupperware and stick it in the fridge to chill overnight.

Once our first batch ran out we had no more of the Angry Orchard Crisp Apple.  Luckily a friend had brought the green Angry Orchard cider so we made the second batch with that.  Although it's totally doable, the Crisp one was better because it wasn't as sweet at the green one.

Here are the ingredients:

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!  This year my parents Anniversary lands on Thanksgiving, so we have 2 reasons to celebrate!

Cheers!

The Cocktail Lady

I was sent these bottles of Angry Orchard free of charge.  I was not paid in any way for this post.  All opinions are my own and always will be.

Passion Cocktail

Passion Cocktail

Did you watch the NFC game last night?  


Oh, so many different things I could go on and on about.....but I won't.  I'll spare you.  All I can say is, Good Season Niners!  There is always next year.

Last night we celebrated our oldests son's 15th birthday.  We had a family celebration and what a good time we all had.  

We are so very lucky that our families get along and not only that, they really enjoy spending time together.  It makes every family gathering even better.  

Our third oldest's birthday is coming up, which means she is turning 5......which means (gasp) I will have three children in school come August!  


WOW, where does the time go?  


This year we will be having a Disney's Frozen birthday party.  I am thinking of getting these wall decals to stick up on the walls.  

I did that with princess ones probably 2 years ago, and LOVED how they came right off the walls when the party was over.  We were able to stick them all back up on the walls in the girls room after the party and they're still there today.  

Love Them!!

With Valentine's Day around the corner, I have set off on a search for Valentine cocktails.  

I pinned last years cocktails here on my Pinterest board and plan to add more upcoming cocktails I make for this year.

Today's cocktail is called Passion Cocktail.  


I found a recipe online and tweeked it a little bit to ensure that I would like it better.  


First and foremost, I taste the tequila.  


If you enjoy tequila cocktails, you will definitely enjoy this one.  

I am not a huge fan of the taste of tequila, but I will admit that the taste of it in this cocktail isn't half bad.  It doesn't make me cringe at all, but it lets me know it's there.  I think this cocktail is pretty good.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is my recipe for a Passion Cocktail:

• 1 ounce silver tequila
• 1 1/2 ounces cranberry cocktail juice
• 1/2 ounce lime juice
• 1 ounce Grand Marnier

In a shaker, add ice, tequila, cranberry cocktail juice and lime juice.  Shake and strain into a martini glass.  Top off with the Grand Marnier and enjoy!

Here's to my first Valentine cocktail of the season!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Beautiful

Day 344

Beautiful

4 shots out of 5

The weekend is coming, I can smell it.........unless that is tonight's cocktail I smell......oh wait, yea it is.  It's a strong smelling cocktail I must say.  


I am looking forward to this weekend though.  On Saturday my grandma turns 97 years old, I can only hope to be half as sharp as she is when I'm 97.  I'm thoroughly looking forward to celebrating her.

I gave tonight's cocktail 4 shots out of 5.  


A friend of mine, Samantha, asked me if I've done a Beautiful cocktail yet.  


I hadn't, and as she was telling me that it is one of her favorites, I wrote it on my list.  Thank You Samantha for tonight's cocktail.  


I must say, cognac is totally my husbands drink and not mine.  


He can sit there and sip it like you are supposed to......me, not so much.  My problem is that I don't "sip" cocktails......never have and it takes all that I am to concentrate enough to remember to simply "sip" them.   


I made tonight's cocktail and took a smaller then usual sip, but waaay bigger then I should have sip.  


My husband watched me, laughed and then explained the art of sipping cognac.  


Man did that BURN my throat.  


Once I had it explained to me that you simply put a "drop", yes a single drop of this cocktail on your tongue and let it sit there until the alcohol vapors and disappears, I realized my initial mistake.  


Basically you don't really even need to swallow anything, just let the alcohol disappear and as my husband explained (with the science behind it), you get drunker that way!!  Another reason why I love this man!

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for a Beautiful:

• 1 oz cognac
• 1 oz Grand Marnier

First take your snifter and run hot water in it and let it sit for a few seconds so that you glass gets warm.  Next pour in your cognac and Grand Marnier.  Do not stir it.  Simply (as I stated above) drink this cocktail drop by drop.......literally, trust me it will save your throat!

Thank You again Samantha for this very nice cocktail.  I am enjoying it a LOT more then I thought I would!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Orange & Black Attack

Day 249

Orange & Black Attack

3.5 shots out of 5

My SF Giants are on in 7 minutes.  

It's Game 6 and I can't stand how excited I am to watch the game.  

I decided to make and dedicate tonight's cocktail to them.  

I have total faith in my Giants and am looking forward to sitting in front of the TV with beer in hand and cheering them on.

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

This is a self invented cocktail with the (almost) black and orange colors to represent my Giants!  

I was really trying to make it look as black and orange as I could and since I still can't find that darn black vodka, I decided to use Kahlua which is the next closest color I had.  

The Grand Marnier is the most orange liqueur I have as well.  

Surprisingly this shooter isn't too bad.  

You get the bite from the cognac in the Grand Marnier, followed by the orange flavoring in it.  

Then when you think you've tasted it all, the coffee flavoring from the Kahula kicks in for a nice after taste.  

All in all, not a bad shooter!

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is my recipe for an Orange & Black Attack:

• 1/2 oz Kahlua
• 1/2 oz Grand Marnier

In a shot glass pour in your Kahlua.  Next layer the Grand Marnier on top of the Kahlua by slowly pouring it on the back of a spoon above the Kahlua to make a nice layer.

Here is to my SF Giants!  I love you guys and what you do for all of us fans......torture and all!!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

B52

Day 175

B52

3 shots out of 5

Happy Wednesday!  We're half way through another week!!  

I'm super excited about this because we have a fun weekend ahead!  

Time for a shooter!  I have to tell you that the song "Roam" is totally running through my head right now.  

Thank you B52's.

I gave tonight's cocktail 3 shots out of 5.  

I did do a little cringe after this one.  

I got an immediate taste of the orange flavor from the Grand Marnier, then the creaminess of the Baileys came through followed by the taste of Kahlua.  

I got the tastes in order of the layers....layers.....did you see my layers???  

Am I getting good or WHAT!!  I'm very proud of my layers......can you tell?  

This shooter was pretty good when all was said and done.  

The initial cringing I wasn't a big fan of, but the taste in my mouth now, I am.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for a B52 shooter:

• 1/2 oz Kahlua
• 1/2 oz Baileys
• 1/2 oz Grand Marnier

In a shot glass pour in your Kahlua.  Next, on the back of a bar spoon that is slanted towards the inside (end of spoon literally touching the inside of the glass) of the glass slowly pour your Baileys.  Using the same process as the Baileys, slowly pour your Grand Marnier.

Here's to my newly found awesome layering skills!!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

French Margarita

Day 107

French Margarita

3.5 shots out of 5

Happy Friday everyone!!  It's been "yet another" looong week!  

One more week of school and then the boys will be home with me and the girls for the summer.  

This school year has gone by quite quickly, I must say.

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

I was more impressed with the photo on Pinterest then I was with the cocktail itself.  

I got this recipe from a pin that led me to The Cooking Channel TV site.  

The ingredients sounded like a good twist to the common Margarita, and they are for the most part.  

I must say.......there's a lot of tequila in this margarita.  

I'm assuming that the Chambord in this cocktail makes it "French" just like in my French Martini.  

I think if I was to make this cocktail again, I would just put in 1 shot of tequila, and add the Chambord to the shaker with the rest of the ingredients.

Here is a photo of "my" end result ("my" meaning I stirred it all together):

Here is a photo of the Cooking Channels end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for a French Margarita:

• 2 shots of tequila (yikes!)
• 1 shot Grand Marnier
• 1/2 shot lime juice
• 1/2 shot orange juice
• 1/2 shot sweet & sour mix
• 1 shot Chambord

In a shaker, add ice and all ingredients except for the Chambord.  Shake it up good and strain it into a margarita glass filled with crushed ice.  Add your Chambord.

Here's to a margarita with a twist.  Email me if you have any unique margarita recipes for me to try.

Cheers!

The Cocktail Lady

Purple Nurple

Day 105

Purple Nurple

3 shots out of 5

OK, first thing's first.  This cocktail is NOT purple.  

A dark blue color......yes......but purple....no.  

Oh well, I suppose life must go on.  

Hope you are all enjoying the last couple days of May.  

Not quite sure where January-May went.....perhaps these nightly cocktails have something to do with that?

I gave tonight's cocktail 3 shots out of 5.  

Not a bad cocktail.  

I think I taste the orange liqueur and/or blue curacao the most in this cocktail, but that's ok.  

I was really hoping for a purple color (hence the name), but I know it's hard to make.  

The pink color in cranberry juice can never compare to the blue curacao, it's just too thick and the cranberry juice is too thin to be able to make a good purple color.  

Oh well.  I think this cocktail would be a good idea for a wedding shower or baby shower where that true blue color is one of the theme colors.  

You could have them already made and sitting on a table for the guests to enjoy.  

You could also add a little bit of champagne to it to give it that bubbly look.

Here is the photo of the end result:

Here is the photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for a Purple Nurple:

• 1 shot coconut rum
• 1 shot orange liqueur
• 1/2 shot blue curacao
• 2 shots cranberry juice

In a shaker add ice, rum, orange liqueur, blue curacao and cranberry juice.  Shake it up real good and strain it into your cocktail glass.

Here's to at least the word purple being in the name of this cocktail!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady