Cocktails

Pomegranate Mojito Martini

Boil and Simmer; Combine:
2 cups sugar
1 cup water
40 leaves of fresh mint
Boil sugar, water and mint leaves over medium-high heat until sugar dissolves, stir often.  Reduce heat to medium and simmer for 2 minutes.  Strain syrup, discarding solids and cool to room temperature.

Combine cooled syrup (created above) with the following into a large pitcher or punch bowl.  Add ice.
1 liter club soda
4 cups white rum
2 cups fresh lime juice
2 cups pomegranate juice

Makes 13 cups. Total time:  20 Minutes

July Cocktail of the Month

COLORADO BULLDOG
2 ounces vodka
1 ounce Kahlua
1/2 cup milk
ice
Coke

Put everything into glass except Coke..stir and then add a splash of Coke. So good!

August Cocktail of the Month

50-50 Bar
Can of Sunkist Orange Soda + a shot of Stoli Vanilla Vodka over crushed ice (More or less of either depending on your mood)  YUM

If you are watching your calories...Diet Orange Soda is just as good. 

A Drink, A Book and Holiday Cheer Entries

Castle Rock Hot Buttered Rum by Robin Kaye
Ingredients:
1-pint vanilla bean ice cream—get the really good stuff.
¾-cup brown sugar
1/2-cup butter
¼-teaspoon lemon peel
1-teaspoon cinnamon
½-teaspoon allspice

light or dark rum

Directions:
Mixture:
Let the butter and ice cream soften slightly. With a mixer, beat butter, brown sugar, lemon peel, and spices together. Slowly add ice cream by the spoonful until well blended and smooth.
Note: I always at least double the recipe and store it in freezer containers. It will keep in the freezer for about as long as ice cream will, though in our house, it has a way of disappearing quickly.

To mix a drink:
Place 2 heaping tablespoons of the ice cream mixture in a mug, add 3 Tablespoons rum, and then add about ½ cup boiling water, stir until melted.

***Depending upon the size of the mug, you might want to double this. Needless to say, we use big mugs at my house, so I always double it. This is also great if you add the mixture to plain coffee—with or without rum.

COSMOS FOR A CROWD!!! by Kieran Kramer

4 parts vodka
2 parts triple sec
2 parts cranberry juice
1 part fresh lime juice

Combine with cracked ice in a cocktail shaker or large pitcher. Shake well (or stir if in pitcher) Pour into chilled martini glasses.

The way this recipe goes, you can adjust for however many people you have. It's basically saying: however much vodka you use, then you'll add HALF that amount of triple sec and cranberry juice. And then ONE-FOURTH that amount of lime juice.

For example, let's say I have 6 cups of vodka...then I'd add 3 cups triple sec and 3 cups cranberry juice, and 1 1/2 cups fresh lime juice.

Tropical Champagne Cocktail by Sabrina Jeffries

1 oz. Mango rum
1 oz. Rose's Pomegranate Twister
2 oz. champagne
Garnish with mango slice on a stick

Sneaky Petes by Larissa Ione
Ingredients:

750 ml 100 proof vodka
16 oz pomegranate or cranberry juice
12 oz frozen orange juice concentrate
12 oz frozen lemonade
750 ml Fresca
1 cup powdered sugar (optional)

Mix all ingredients in a large container with a lid. Freeze for two days. Will be slushy. Scoop into glasses and serve.

 A Flannel Nightie by Tiffany A Snow
1.5 oz good quality brandy
2 oz Godiva White Chocolate Liqueur
½ oz Frangelico
1 t Goldschlager (optional)
2 oz half n half

Crushed gingersnaps for garnish

Rim a chilled martini glass in crushed gingersnaps.  Combine ingredients over ice and shake.  Strain into martini glass.  Sprinkle with crushed gingersnaps.

The Godiva gives it sweetness, the Goldschlager and gingersnaps give it spice, a little nuttiness is provided by the Frangelico, and underneath it all is a rich depth of flavor from the brandy.

Cocktail Society Book Club 

Georgia Peach for Georgia On My Mind by Marie Force

Ingredients:
- Vodka
- 1 oz Peach Schnapps
- 4 oz Lemonade
- 1/2 oz Grenadine
Garnish: Peach slice (optional)

Mix all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into a martini glass. Garnish with peach slice.

White Russian for Bond With Me by Anne Marsh

The White Russian is a drink everyone should know. It's a simple, creamy vodka mixed drink with a nice coffee flavor that makes a great after dinner sipper. If you skip the cream you'll have a Black Russian, give the White Russian a shake at the end and you have a Dirty Bird, add amaretto and you have a Roasted Toasted Almond. The related drink list to the White Russian is almost endless.

Prep Time: 2 minutes
Total Time: 2 minutes
Yield: 1

Drink Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz vodka
3/4 oz Kahlua
3/4 oz cream

Preparation: Pour the vodka and Kahlua into an old-fashioned glass filled with ice. Stir. Gently top with the cream.