Something for the Weekend – 18/04/10

Good morning everyone,

Well, it was a great sunny weekend, maybe that was due to there being no planes in the sky! Anyway, I hope you all had a fantastic weekend and made the most of the sun.  Down to this weekends cocktails from Something for the Weekend…  Again they were made by Wayne Collins and here they are:

Bloody Nora

Ingredients

- 2 tsp lemon juice
- 50ml/2fl oz gin
- 100ml/4fl oz vegetable juice
- 2 dashes Tabasco sauce
- 4 dashes Worcestershire sauce
- pinch celery salt
- pinch freshly ground black pepper
- splash ruby port
- 1 asparagus spear, cooked, to garnish

Method

Place all of the cocktail ingredients, except the asparagus, into a cocktail shaker, add a handful of ice, and shake well. To serve, strain the cocktail into a large wine glass and garnish with the asparagus spear.

St. Georges Fizz

Ingredients

- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 25ml/1fl oz sloe gin
- 25ml/1fl oz sour green apple liqueur
- pear cider, to top up
- apple slice, blackberry and fresh mint sprig, to garnish

Method

Add some ice to a sling glass (or other tall glass).  Add the lemon juice, sloe gin and apple liqueur and top up with the pear cider.   To serve, garnish with the apple slice, blackberry and mint sprig.

That’s all for this weekends cocktails.  I will be back later on in the weekend with some more tasty recipes!

Until next time, thanks for reading,

Andy

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Lemon Curd & Cocktails… Yum Yum

Good afternoon,

Well, I was on my lunch break and I spotted some lemon curd tarts that I haven’t had for ages (probably since my school days!), so it got me thinking, how do I make lemon curd and what cocktails would they go in, so I had a search through a few recipe books and found out how to make lemon curd.  Here it is…

Lemon Curd (makes about 4-6 jam jars)

Lemon Curd Cocktails

- 4 lemons, rind and juice
- 4 eggs
- 110g butter
- 450g sugar

Method

Grate rind of lemons and squeeze out juice. Put sugar, rind and juice, butter and beaten eggs into a large basin on top of a pan of simmering water. Stir with a wooden spoon until thick and curd coats the back of the spoon. Pour into warm sterile jars, cover, seal and label. Refrigerate.

As simple as that…

Now for a tasty cocktail…

Curds & Wa-Hey!

- 2oz Citrus Vodka
- 1 Bar Spoon Vanilla Sugar
- 1oz fresh lemon juice
- 1oz fresh lime juice
- 3 Bar spoons of Lemon Curd
- Digestive biscuit (garnish)

Method

Firstly, rim the cocktail glass with lemon juice, then finely crumble the digestive biscuit and roll the digestive crumbs around the rim of the glass.  Add all ingredients with ice into a cocktail shaker.  Give it a good old shake and double strain into the chilled martini/cocktail glass.

Now if that doesn’t enlighten your taste buds, I’m not sure what will!

Thanks for reading,

Andy


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Something for the Weekend – 11/04/10

Good morning,

Well the cocktails returned this weekend after Something for the Weekend skipped a weekend and they were made by cocktail maestro, Wayne Collins.  Spring has been in the air recently and because of that, these cocktails were themed around Spring.  I hope you enjoy them!

Cabernet Caipirihna

Ingredients

- ½ lime, quartered
- 4 fresh blackberries
- 2 tsp vanilla syrup
- 2 tsp blackberry liqueur
- 25ml/1fl oz caçhaca (sagatiba)
- 50ml/2fl oz cabernet cauvignon
- lime slice, to garnish
- blackberry, to garnish

Method

Place the lime, blackberries, vanilla syrup, blackberry liqueur and caçhaca into a cocktail shaker, with a handful of ice, and shake well.   Strain the cocktail into a tumbler filled with crushed ice and top up with the cabernet cauvignon. Garnish with a slice of lime and a blackberry.

Spring Spritzer

Ingredients

- 25ml/1fl oz orange flavoured vodka
- 25ml/1fl oz freshly squeezed blood orange juice
- 2 tsp grenadine syrup
- 75ml/3fl oz viognier wine
- sparkling apple juice, to top up
- apple slice and blood orange slice, to garnish

Method

Add a handful of ice to a large wine glass, then add the vodka, orange juice, grenadine syrup and viognier.  Fill up the glass with sparkling apple juice and garnish with a slice of apple and blood orange.

Thats it for this weeks Something for the Weekends cocktails.

Thanks for reading,

Andy

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Something for the Weekend – 28/03/10

Good afternoon,

Yesterdays Something for the Weekend cocktail recipes were based around Easter.  This week, there was no Wayne Collins and so Salvatore Calabrese stepped up to make these great recipes.  Look out for the second recipe being served in chilled egg shell cases (they looked delicious).  Here they are.

Chocolate Mint Martini

Ingredients

- 4 fresh mint leaves
- 50ml/2fl oz vodka
- 1 tbsp crème de cacao
- 25ml/1fl oz sweet vermouth
- twist orange peel, to garnish

Method

Place the mint leaves into a mixing glass and muddle together (lightly crush). Add the vodka, crème de cacao and vermouth, with a handful of ice, and stir well.   Strain the cocktail into a martini glass and garnish with a twist of orange peel.

Easter Flip

- 1 free-range egg
- 25ml/1fl oz golden rum
- 1 tbsp vanilla syrup
- 25ml/1fl oz white chocolate liqueur
- 50ml/2fl oz white port
- pinch freshly grated nutmeg, to garnish

Method

Mix the egg, rum, syrup, chocolate liqueur and white port, with a handful of ice, in a Boston glass.  Strain the cocktail into a small wine glass and garnish with freshly grated nutmeg.  Serve this cocktail in an empty egg shell for the full effect!

That’s this weekends cocktails, be sure to check out some further posts this week!

Thanks for reading,

Andy

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Something for the Weekend – 21/03/10

Good morning,

Apologies for being a little late on posting last weekends recipes up.  I will make this a short but sweet post, here are the recipes (mixed by Wayne Collins of course).

Summer Sangaree

Ingredients

- 1 wedge fresh peach
- 1 wedge fresh apple
- 4 seedless grapes
- 1 lime, juice only
- 25ml/1fl oz pressed apple juice
- 25ml/1fl oz cognac
- 25ml/1fl oz crème de pêche
- 25ml/1fl oz white wine, preferably sauvignon blanc
- ginger ale, to top up
- fresh mint, to garnish

Method

Place the fruit into a large wine glass. Pour over the lime juice, apple juice, cognac, crème de pêche and white wine. Add a handful of ice and stir well.  Top up with ginger ale and garnish with fresh mint.

Watermelon Smash

Ingredients

- 1 small slice watermelon, skin and seeds removed, cut into cubes
- 1 tbsp watermelon liqueur
- 2 tsp fresh lime
- 35ml/1 fl oz silver tequila
- 6 fresh mint leaves
- mint sprig, to garnish

Method

Place the watermelon, watermelon liqueur, fresh lime, tequila and mint leaves into a cocktail shaker and muddle (lightly crush).  Add a handful of ice and shake well. Strain the cocktail into a tumbler filled with crushed ice. Garnish with the mint sprig.

That’s last weekends recipes from Something for the Weekend so be sure to check back later on in the week for more tasty recipes.

Thanks for reading,

Andy

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