Paloma

 

This is THE cocktail that you will want to drink

THIS Cinco De Mayo!!

Happy Cinco De Mayo!!

What better way to celebrate such a wonderful day than with an ice cold Paloma!

Until a few months ago I had never heard of a Paloma.

<Gasp, I know>

But I hadn't!

I was asked to create a Paloma recipe for the magazine I write for, so I googled it and started creating a recipe to my likings.

Um......DELICIOUS!

This is my husband and mines new favorite cocktail!  When we're up at the lake house we seem to drink it ALL the time!

Speaking of the lake.....where we are in California we need rain to fill up our lakes.  

Like REALLY BAD!

We drive by another lake on our way up to our lake house and there are now islands and land where there used to be a LOT of feet of water.  

It's so sad.  This summer will not be a bit boating summer for sure unless we get A TON of rain.

Which I don't see happening.  Which is a bummer.  So extra pool time is how we will be spending our summer time up at the lake this year.  Fingers crossed that this winter brings all of the rain that we need!

OK, back to the cocktail!

In celebration of Cinco De Mayo, I decided to share my recipe with you all so that you too can enjoy the deliciousness that is, The Paloma!

This is such a simple cocktail to make.  First add your tequila.

Next add the grapefruit juice.

Add in the lime juice (I used frozen lime juice made from a neighbors lime tree, yum).

Onto the simple syrup.

And finally the grapefruit soda.

Give it a good stir to mix everything together well and enjoy!

Onto the recipe!!

Yield: 1

Paloma

This delicious cocktail is so satisfying as it mixes tequila with the refreshing taste of grapefruit juice and other ingredients to bring you a cocktail that you'll definitely want seconds of.

Ingredients

• 2 ounces clear tequila
• 2 ounces grapefruit juice
• 1 ounce grapefruit soda
• 1/2 ounce lime juice
• 1/2 ounce simple syrup

Instructions

1. Fill a cocktail glass with ice.

1. Pour in all of the ingredients above.

1. Stir cocktail well to mix all ingredients.

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There you have it.  The Paloma.  I hope you enjoy this cocktail as much as my husband and I do!

Happy Cinco De Mayo!!

Sour Grapefruit Margarita

Sour Grapefruit Margarita

Tomorrow being National Margarita Day gives us all a great excuse (like we need one) to try a new kind of margarita!  

I wanted to post this yesterday, but unfortunately the stomach bug that our youngest got, passed to her sister and then to me had me out of commission for the past few days.  

I am happy to say that I do feel like I am alive again and ready for a margarita!

A couple years ago for National Margarita Day two of our very good friends came over with their margarita machine and we started trying a couple different flavored margaritas.  One thing led to another......we had a few margaritas.......and other cocktails that I can't remember right now and decided that the BEST thing in the world to do was to create a rap song for our friends upcoming birthday.........accompanied with a music video.  

Oh yea, I said it........a music video.  

It ended up being a pretty good idea, b/c they ended up coming back over the next weekend and my husband recorded the song and he mashed it all together with background music (I don't have technical terms, b/c that's totally his thing) and beats and POOF, we had a soundtrack.

Anyways........onto today's cocktail.  

I wanted to create a margarita with Elderflower liqueur and grapefruit juice.  

I found a couple recipes online, combined them with one of mine and added more stuff to it.  

End result......sour.  

Not as sour as my first attempt (before I started adding stuff to it), but still kind of sour.  It's not bad, I'm totally drinking this margarita as I type, just sour.

What will you be drinking on National Margarita Day?  Any favorite flavors?  Prefer the classic margarita?  I'd love to hear from you!

Tomorrow being the BIG DAY, I present you with 18 different margarita's to choose from!

 1.   Classic Margarita

 2.   Grapefruit Margarita

 3.   Mango Margarita

 4.   Pink Cotton Rita

 5.   Kinky Margarita

 6.   Cranberry Margarita

 7.   Peach Margarita

 8.   Desert Margarita

 9.   Moon-a-rita

10.  Pomegranate Margarita

11.  Pucker Melon Rita

12.  French Margarita

13.  Mango Pomarita
14.  Easter Margarita
15.  Cran Chili Margarita
16.  Peach Habanero Margarita
17.  Pineapple Orange Margarita

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is my recipe for a Sour Grapefruit Margarita:

• 2 ounces silver tequila
• 1 1/2 ounces elderflower liqueur
• 3 ounces grapefruit juice
• 1/2 ounce lime juice
• 1/2 ounce simple syrup
• 1/2 ounce triple sec
• 1/2 cup ice

In a blender, add all of the ingredients above.  Blend until your ice is completely gone.  Pour into a salted or non-salted glass.

I hope you all have a fantastic holiday (yes it's totally a holiday)!  With all of these choices, I know I will!!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Salty Dog

Day 256

Salty Dog

4 shots out of 5

Game 4 is tonight.  

If we win it we sweep the Tigers and I win my bet with my cousins!  

It's funny because the whole post season has been a battle of the family.  

My grandma is one of 9, so the whole family is spread out over the US.  

Some of our family teams are the Giants, A's, Cardinals and Tigers.  

All of them are post season teams and one by one they've all been eliminated except for the final two which are the Giants and Tigers.  

If my Giants win, I have one if not two cousin who will be wearing Giants hats at our next family reunion!  

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

Did you fall on the floor?  Are you OK?  

Yes, you read this right, I did give a cocktail that has gin in it a 4 shot rating.......not only that, gin is one of two ingredients in this one!  

I have to tell you that I am NOT a fan of salted rimmed cocktail glasses. My margaritas are (I think the only ones) ordered with out salt every time I order them.  

In the spirit of this cocktail (having "Salty" in the name and all) I did salt the rim and DID take a couple sips (on the one section that had the littlest amount of salt) of it with the salt as well.  

The whole sipping part is not too bad......it's just that piece of salt that gets left behind in your mouth that you continuously keep licking trying to get rid of it.  

I will be wiping the salt off the rim now to finish my cocktail.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for a Salty Dog:

• 1 oz gin
• 2 oz grapefruit juice
• lime wedge
• cocktail salt

Rim a tall cocktail glass with your cocktail salt and fill it up with ice.  Pour in your gin and grapefruit juce and stir it up well.

Here's to an exciting Game 4!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Absolut SF Foghorn

Day 201

Absolut SF Foghorn

4 shots out of 5

It's the end of our holiday weekend.  

The boys go back to school tomorrow and our oldest daughter starts Tiny Tots tomorrow!!  

The excitement in this house.......I could cut with a butter knife.  

Exciting times are ahead!

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

My brother gave me this bottle of Absolut SF a while ago (apparently they only made a certain number of bottles, so yeay for him for getting us one!).  

Absolute SF is a blend of grape, dragon fruit and papaya flavors which is an amazing blend (plus the bottle looks cool).  

I must say these flavors go pretty well together.  

I can taste the blend in the alcohol as well as the taste of the grapefruit juice, every ones a winner in this cocktail!  

If you are one of the lucky few to have purchased, or received.......and actually still have, a bottle of Absolut SF you may want to give tonight's cocktail a try!  

Thank you barnonedrinks for tonight's cocktail recipe.

(You only have until Friday at 10:00 pm PST to enter to win my Simply Gluten Free giveaway!)

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here's a photo of just the bottle........just thought it looked cool!

Here is the recipe for an Absolut SF Foghorn:

• 1 1/2 oz Absolut SF Vodka
• 3 oz grapefruit juice

In a cocktail glass filled with ice, combine the two ingredients above and stir them up well.

Here's to my SF Giants hat!  Giants are 5 games up in the NL West after todays win and we're hoping the Dodgers loose tonight (3-2 Bot 8th, Padres are in the lead).

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Bohemian

Day 198

Bohemian

4 shots out of 5

We made it!!  It's officially Friday at 5:00.  

The weekend.....holiday weekend that is......is here!  

Time for some pizza, beer and of course cocktails.  

We've got a long, action packed weekend planned so this cocktail is absolutely what I need to get the weekend started off right.

I gave tonight's cocktail 4 shots out 5.  

I found this cocktail recipe on the St. Germain website.  

They have quite a few recipes on there.......I may have to break down and buy an actual real life sized bottle of this stuff to try some more of them out.  

I honestly can't tell you which ingredient I can taste more of in this cocktail.  

The three main ingredients in this cocktail are mixed together so well that they all just kind of blend together in a chilled scrumptiousness.  

Guess I'll have to keep sipping and sipping and sipping to figure it out............then make another?  

Wait do I have enough St. Germains.........yikes, I don't.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for a Bohemian:

• 1 oz gin
• 1 oz St. Germains Elderflower
• 3/4 oz grapefruit juice
• 1 dash of Peychaud's Bitters

In a shaker add ice and all of the ingredients above.  Strain your mixture into a martini glass and enjoy!

Here's to the weekend!  Hope you all enjoy your holiday weekend......or non-holiday weekend if you don't live in the U.S.A.

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Greyhound

Day 158

Greyhound

5 shots out of 5

First off I would like to wish a very Happy Birthday to our good friend Adam!  

Adam's favorite cocktail is a Greyhound, so I promised him that I would make one on his birthday, so tonight's cocktail is for you Adam!!

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

I have never had a greyhound before, but now that I do really enjoy grapefruit juice in my cocktails, I have been dying to try this one for a few months now........just needed to wait until tonight to make it.  

I found many variations for vodka to grapefruit juice online, so I basically went with somewhere in the middle.  

This is a very refreshing cocktail and one that is super easy to make.  

I know I will be enjoying many more of theses in my future!  

Thank You Adam for letting me make this cocktail on your special day!

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for a Greyhound:

• 1 shot vodka
• 3 shots grapefruit juice

In a short glass, add ice, and all ingredients above.  Stir it up well and enjoy!!

Here's to your birthday Adam!  See you soon!!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Grapefruit Margarita

Day 153

Grapefruit Margarita

3.5 shots out of 5

Unfortunately I just had a picture of Pee Wee Herman in his gray suit and red bow tie doing the "Tequila!" dance flash through my head.......eeekkk!!  

Those high heeled white shoes, getting lower and lower as the song is coming to an end.  

OK, flashback over.....onto tonight's cocktail!

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

This is not my favorite margarita, but it is definitely better then a regular one in my book.  

I was really hoping to fall in love with this cocktail and to REALLY enjoy the grapefruit flavor.  

I found quite a few recipes for tonight's cocktail online, they all varied a bit, most had lime, one had no lime and instead it had you add simple syrup.  

I made one with anejo ( Tequila or Rum aged between one and seven years, often stored in oak barrels giving the Tequila or Rum a golden color; aged; usually in reference to cheese or liquor ) tequila and lime juice and simply syrup......didn't work too well.  

The anejo tequila's oakier flavor didn't work well with the grapefruit juice.  

I started over and used silver tequila and made the recipe I had found without the lime juice.......almost good, so I added a little lime juice and it made it a lot better.  

I can definitely taste the tequila in this one, so next time I would probably use 1 1/2 oz of it and I think I may just like it a bit better that way.  

Maybe that way I will be able to taste a bit more of the grapefruit juice as well.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is my recipe for a Grapefruit Margarita:

• 2 oz tequila
• 1 oz triple sec
• 1/2 oz lime juice
• 3 oz grapefruit juice

In a shaker add ice and all ingredients above.  Shake up your ingredients well and strain them into a margarita glass filled 1/2 way with ice.

Here's to Pee Wee Herman and his "Tequila!" dance!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Twisted Pink

Day 149

Twisted Pink

4 shots out of 5

You can't celebrate National Pink Day without a coconut rum and juice mixed Twisted Pink cocktail!  This fruity cocktail is perfect for today!

I FINALLY found grapefruit juice at the grocery store!!  

The store I used to get it at has closed due to remodeling, so I now go to a different store which has NOT had it every time I go.  

Last night was a breakthrough!  My new store now has it and I couldn't be happier!!  

I just hope they will still have it when this one is gone.

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

It took me a few sips to get "re-acquainted" with the taste of grapefruit juice, but once I did.......game on!  

I am truly enjoying this cocktail and kinda wish I had made a bigger one.  

I like the fact that each ingredient is equal in quantity to the others.  I can taste all three ingredients in here and they compliment each other nicely.  

This would be a good mellow tasting cocktail to have when I'm not feeling the fruitier, sweeter cocktails.  

Tonight I am using one of my new cocktail glasses that I had purchased recently at our local BevMo...........in case you were wondering!

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for a Twisted Pink:

• 1 oz coconut rum
• 1 oz cranberry juice
• 1 oz grapefruit juice

In a cocktail glass add crushed ice and all ingredients above.  Stir well and enjoy!

Welcome back grapefruit juice, you were truly missed!!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady