Valentine Cocktails...

Here are a few cocktails to enjoy with your sweetheart.....

What to do with leftover cranberries and cranberry sauce......

Do you like Cranberries?  Here are a few recipes that you might enjoy.....

Cranberry Vodka

Cranberry Vodka is perfect for Cosmos, martinis, or mixed with soda, lemon-lime or tonic water.  It takes only a few minutes to make and a week in storage for full flavor.

Here's a quick way to make an 8 oz bottle for the holidays:

Mini Creamsicle Cocktails

A creamsicle cocktail is a sweet, creamy, and nostalgic drink that combines the flavors of orange and vanilla in an adult beverage. The core ingredients are typically vodka (often vanilla or whipped cream flavored), orange juice (or orange soda), and whipped cream (or half-and-half, ice cream, or orange sherbet). 

Mini Cosmopolitans

The Cosmopolitan, a classic and vibrant pink cocktail, is made with citrus vodka, orange liqueur (Cointreau or triple sec), cranberry juice, and fresh lime juice. It gained significant popularity in the 1990s, partly due to its frequent appearance on the TV show Sex and the City.

Apple Cider Mimosas...

This is an easy way to make a mimosa, and it can sit for a few minutes while you prepare breakfast!

Flavor Seed - Blueberry Sugar

Flavor Seed generously sent me some of their fine products to try and review and I am sharing some of the seasonings I have used so far.

These seasonings are USDA Certified Organic, Certified Kosher, Gluten Free, Filler Free, Preservative Free and contain NO ingredients known to be allergenic.

For 15% off your first order use this link:   https://www.flavorseed.com/PANDORA. 

Strawberry Sugar...

I love Strawberries....

...especially in the morning!!!

Valentine Cocktails

Here are a few Valentine Cocktails to share with your loved one!

1. Strawberry Daquiri

2. Lovebug Cocktail

3. Valentine Madras

4. Cranberry-Elderberry Mimosa

5. Dixie Punch

6. Tequila Sunrise

Saturday Football....

It's Football Season!

Here's an easy snack for the guys to enjoy while watching football:

Minty Lemonade

Bourbon Arnold Palmer

Do you like to drink Arnold Palmers?  

Named after the American golfer, it is simply 1/2 lemonade and 1/2 ice tea over ice.

Pineapple Surprise Cocktail

Do you like pineapples?

If you are not much of a drinker, you might like this refreshing, light cocktail:

Blue Moon Cocktail

Are you looking for a refreshing summer cocktail?

The Tipsy Texan

Tipsy Texan

This is a perfect summer afternoon cocktail!

I saw this recipe at Kitchen Fun with My Three Sons and had to try it!

The Kentucky Derby and Mint Juleps....

• The Kentucky Derby is a horse race held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, almost always on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The competition is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of one and a quarter miles at Churchill Downs.  This year it will be held on May 1st.  
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• What do you need to celebrate? 
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• BOURBON!  
• Maker's Mark is a really good bourbon, and Jim Bean is probably one of the least expensive: 
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• MINT.  
• Mine has survived all winter indoors!



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• SILVER JULEP CUPS: 





• AND A FASCINATOR, of course!

Mint Juleps were always a part of racing culture, not just the Derby and they became the Kentucky Derby’s official drink in 1939.

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• How do you make a Mint Julep?



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• • Mint Julep 

  • 8 mint leaves
  • 2 oz Bourbon
  • 1/4 ounce simple syrup 
  • Garnish: mint sprig
  • Garnish: Angostura bitters (optional)

  1. In a silver Mint Julep cup , lightly muddle the mint leaves in the simple syrup. Add the bourbon then pack the glass tightly with crushed ice.  Stir until the cup is frosted on the outside.  Top with more crushed ice to form an ice dome, and garnish with a mint sprig and a few drops of bitters (optional).

  2. MINT SPRIG GARNISH

     Firmly slap the mint sprig on the back of your hand before garnishing; this releases the oils to make the mint more aromatic.

     
     

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• Meriwether Lewis Clark Jr. (1846–1899), who founded Churchill Downs in 1875, supposedly grew mint behind the club.



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• Place your bets!



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• Race Post Time is 6:57!
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