My Recipe Book | Lifestyle
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2023
With celebration season (Christmas to New Year) in full flow, it's about time I introduce you to our staple cocktails.

First of all - Merry Christmas and Happy and New Year! I hope you have a lovely holiday season, and spend time doing all the things you enjoy!
And second - let's get straight into my Top-Pick cocktails:
Cocktails
Espresso Martini
37.5ml vanilla vodka
12.5ml Tia Maria
60ml fresh espresso
10ml sugar syrup
Shake vigorously with ice.
Strain into glass and top with three coffee beans.
Love Potion
40ml lemon-flavoured vodka
20 ml Chambord
25ml (or more to taste) cranberry juice
Shake vigorously with ice and pour to serve.
Adorn with cranberries or dried fruit slices.
Classiqué Daiquiri
70ml light rum
40ml fresh lime juice
20ml simple syrup
Rub glass rim with lime wedge and dip in fine sugar.
Shake liquid vigorously with ice, and strain into prepared glass.
Garnish with a lime slice.
Cosmopolitan
60ml citron vodka
25ml Cointreau
50ml cranberry juice
50ml lime juice
Shake liquid vigorously with ice and strain into a chilled glass.
Garnish with a lemon twist.
Citrus Aphrodisiac
1 lime, quartered
1 tablespoon honey
40ml Damiana liqueur
50ml Rhum Barbancourt
90ml fresh tangerine juice
Squeeze lime wedges over a chilled old-fashioned, short, glass, and then drop them in.
Add the honey and Damiana, and muddle with the limes.
Fill the glass with ice, and pour in the rum and tangerine juice.
Stir briefly.
(Vodka) Martini
60ml vodka
15ml dry vermouth
Green cocktail olive
Stir the liquid ingredients in a mixing glass with ice.
Strain over a chilled cocktail glass.
Run lemon peel around glass rim, twist it over the drink, and drop it on with an olive for garnish (or just skewer the olive and set in the glass).
EXTRA: for a Dirty Vodka Martini, add a dash of juice from the olive jar.
Passionfruit Martini
37.5ml vanilla vodka
12.5ml Chambord
50ml passionfruit juice
10ml lime
Whole passionfruit
Mix liquid ingredients and the pulp of half a passionfruit in a cocktail shaker and shake vigorously.
Strain into a chilled glass and top with the other half of the passionfruit.
Lemon Drop
40ml lemon-flavoured vodka
30ml Cointreau
50ml fresh lemon juice
25ml fresh orange juice
Rub the glass rim with a lemon wedge and dip in fine sugar.
Shake cocktail vigorously with ice and strain into glass.
Garnish with lemon spiral.
Mocktails
Apricot Mocktini
60ml apricot nectar
25ml fresh lemon juice
25ml fresh orange juice
Shake vigorously with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
Twist lemon peel over the drink and drop it in to garnish.
Beach Breeze
120ml pineapple juice
60ml fresh lime juice
60ml cranberry juice
Pour the ingredients into an ice filled highball glass, and stir.
Squeeze a lime wedge over the drink and drop it in to garnish.
Ginger-Citrus Buzz
40ml fresh lemon juice
40ml fresh lime juice
60ml fresh orange juice
3 slices of fresh ginger
Shake liquid ingredients and fresh ginger vigorously with ice.
Strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with candied ginger.
Hangover Cures (sort of)
Whilst I tend to stick to a few cocktails and then head onto soft drinks, for those who like to indulge a bit more, I have a few (hopefully helpful) hangover-remedies, to at least take the edge off.
Green Tea and Ginger
Boiling water
1 or 2 green tea bags
3 thin slices of fresh ginger
OPTIONAL: 70ml orange juice
Chilled club soda is desired (fizz can be beneficial)
In a small saucepan, bring the water to a slow boil and add the tea bags.
When you remove from the heat, add the ginger.
Cover the pan and steep for five mins.
Drink as it is, or refrigerate until the liquid is cool.
If cooling, strain the tea into a glass with ice, and add orange juice and soda (if desired).
Peppermint tea (to help the digestive system and ease headaches and nausea)
boiling water and fresh peppermint leaves
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