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!!

Hot & Angry

Rumor has it...it's the 10th of November.  

What??  

Onto fall cocktails (which I think are fun!).  

I was sent a couple bottles of Angry Orchard Crisp Apple and Angry Orchard Cinnful Apple.  
I have never tried the Cinnful Apple before and was pleasantly surprised!  Along with my samples were a few cocktail recipes which I am excited about, especially this one because it has Cholula Hot Sauce in it!  

Yes you heard me right.......Cholula Hot Sauce!!  

Between the Cinnamon flavor in the Angry Orchard and the hot sauce, this should be a spicy cocktail.

You know what else is a staple in this house in the fall (besides delicious cocktails), people getting sick.  

4 of 4 was the first, me the second and now 2 of 4 and 3 of 4 have tag teamed and are both sick.  

Poor things!  

I'm happy tomorrow is a holiday so that they can get even more rest.

Let me tell you a little bit about this cocktail:

At first sip it's cool and refreshing, which was sort of surprising to me as all I could think about was the cinnamon and hot sauce flavors.  

After a minute the cinnamon flavor kicked it which was nice and after another minute or so came the hot sauce flavor and heat.  

How fun to get all of that in each sip of this cocktail.  You can even see the hot sauce floating around in there.

All in all I really enjoyed making and drinking this cocktail!  

I look forward to making another recipe that I was given as well!

I want to wish all of the Veterans out there a very Happy Veterans Day tomorrow!  

Make sure you get all of your FREE stuff you deserve!  Here is a link to Military.com's enormous list of things that Veterans (and at Starbucks Veterans and their spouses get a FREE tall coffee!) get for FREE tomorrow!  

Take advantage of it Veteran's you all deserve it!!!!

Here is the recipe for a Hot & Angry:

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Hot & Angry

November-10-2016

Ingredients

• 4 ounces Angry Orchard Cinnful Apple
• 1 ounce silver tequila
• 1/2 ounce lime juice
• 1/2 ounce pineapple juice
• 3/4 ounce simple syrup
• 1/2 teaspoon Cholula Hot Sauce

Instructions

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

Here's to spicing up a cocktail with hot sauce!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

National Tequila Day

National Tequila Day

Tequila and I used to be friends.....good friends at that!  

We loved having shots together with friends.  Multiple shots.  Sometimes straight up by themselves.  

Sometimes with the lime wedge and the salt on my palm.  One night........all that changed.

One night many many years ago I had more then my fair share of tequila.  

I had too much.  

That night Jose Cuervo and I broke up.  

Friends no more.  I couldn't look his way, I couldn't stand his scent.......IT WAS OVER.

Years later, I was introduced to Señor Patron.  

He brought back some bad memories......it took a while......but then I tried him.  

He didn't smell like Jose, which was nice because he didn't send me running away with my hand over my mouth.  We had a short romance, but I had to call it quits and let my friends take over and continue on with him.

Now a days I can drink silver tequila in mixed drinks, ONLY.  

There will never be another tequila shot in my future......never.  

I am fine with that.  

We had our years, we had a lot of good times, but that is my past and it will stay there.

Over the years, I have heard a LOT of tequila stories.  

Most of them ended badly.  

It seems that tequila is involved with most peoples "Worst Night Ever" drinking stories.  I sure know he's guilty in at least one of mine.  

Do you have a "Worst Night Ever" drinking story?  I'd love to hear it!

Given that #NationalTequilaDay is right around the corner (July 24th to be exact), I wanted to give you all 21 of my favorite tequila cocktails!  

They are all mixed with other ingredients so that no one will have to taste the flavor of it alone.  Here they all are with links for easy access!

          

 These 4 are the Apple Cider Margarita, Chavela, Classic Margarita, and the Cranberry Margarita 

         

These 4 are the Desert Margarita, Easter Margarita, French Margarita and the Kinky Margarita

         

These 4 are the Long Island Iced Tea, Mango Margarita, Mango Pomarita and the Moon-A-Rita

         

These 4 the Passion Cocktail, Peach Habanero Margarita, Peach Margarita and the Pineapple Orange Margarita

      

These 3 are Pomegranate Margarita, Pucker Melon Rita and the Sour Grapefruit Margarita

   

These 2 are the Tequila Sunrise and the TMNT Leonardo

There you have it!  21 cocktails to help you celebrate #NationalTequilaDay no matter where you are!  

If you still have a good relationship with tequila, go ahead and have yourself a straight shot to two.....just don't ask me to join you!

Cheers!

The Cocktail Lady

TMNT Leonardo

TMNT

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

Pucker Melon Rita

Pucker Melon Rita

4 shots out of 5

What better way to celebrate 
National Watermelon Day then with a 
Pucker Melon Rita??

It's spring break here for the kids.  

We started off well and now everyone is starting to annoy everyone else.  

We do have our good moments though!  Yesterday I took the kids out to Target to get them out of the house and then we went to Arby's for lunch, mmmmm.  

Today we had lunch at Red Robin and thankfully the weather has been pretty nice....minus yesterdays rain.

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


I had just tried my hand at a watermelon margarita with fresh watermelon.....unfortunately my watermelon tasted like rine and.......well......I dumped the attempt.  

I unfortunately do not have any watermelon puree so I grabbed my bottle of watermelon pucker, read the recipe on the back and added to it.  

I must say that I am very VERY happy with the results!  

The initial recipe from the pucker bottle was.....a bit puckerey and sour and absolutely needed my amendment.  

I hope to try a watermelon margarita with watermelon puree one day, but for now I will be absolutely happy drinking this one.   

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is my recipe for a Pucker Melon Rita:

• 2 oz watermelon pucker
• 2 oz sweet & sour mix
• 1 oz silver tequila 
• 1/2 oz triple sec
• 3/4 oz simple syrup

Rim your margarita glass with fine sugar.  In a cocktail shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients above.  Shake and strain your cocktail into your sugar rimmed glass and enjoy!

Here's to being pleasantly surprised!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

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