Okay everyone, I mentioned this on Tammy Radio today–I am preparing a “Holiday Drinks” netcast for the TAMs and am calling for recipe submissions. While I have a few favorites of my own, please submit your recipe here for possible inclusion in the netcast. So have at it, and remember peeps, I think I have about 28 listeners now and there’s about 57 or 58 readers of the blog, so every single one of you counts. Please do not drink and drive, but you can drink read, or drink and listen to Tammy Radio 😉
Here’s one of the drinks you’ll see me mix up on the netcast–my recipe for the Green Apple Vanilla Martini:
2 oz of any vanilla vodka (vanilla being the secret ingredient)
1 oz of green apple schnapps
Shake with lots of ice in a martini shaker
After shaking, add a little lemon-line soda pop. You can also add apple puree if you like.
Sugar around the glass rim for more sweetness.
If you have a variation of this, feel free to post. 🙂
I’m an advocate of the White Russian, which at its core mixes ethanol and coffee. It alters your state as an adult beverage should while keeping you on your toes. If mixed with quality ingredients, it’s not a big inducer of hangovers, at least not in my experience.
I also make an effort to buy American when I can. No need to go abroad for vodka. These days I favor Tito’s out of Texas, which is mellow and palatable, and can be had for an affordable price at Trader Joe’s and elsewhere. For the coffee liquor, there’s nothing wrong with the standard Kahlua (if I’m buying an import, I’d rather buy from our neighbor Mexico or Canada than Asia or Europe); however lately I’ve instead bought a Starbucks coffee liquor which I’m liking…seems to be a tad less sweet than Kahlua. I just noticed that Trader Vic’s offers a Kona coffee liquor; maybe that’s worth a try. Kona is the only coffee grown in America, since Hawaii is the only place in America suitable for coffee farms.
My favorite is the black russian. I make mine with equal measures of Kahlua and vodka. I’ll be on the lookout for a good domestic vodka as you mentioned…up to now I’ve been using decent vodka such as Smirnoff, but nothing really exotic.
My Favorite Christmas Beverage – I made you RECIPE Video ~ WOOF!
Ru, you do a heck of a Tammy impression. I was relieved not to hear what I half-expected: That there’s nothing quite as refreshing as a long, cool drink from the tall oasis when some careless biped leaves the seat up. (Sorry, my cat made me say that.)
Meow Maynard – WOOF!
Like Tammy and Maynard, I’m a coffee junkie. So try this one for Kwanzaaramadanahanamas:
SEAL OF APPROVAL HOLIDAY EGGNOG
6 eggs, separated
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup sugar
1 pint heavy cream
1 pint milk
6 oz. whiskey
4 oz. Gosling’s Black Seal Rum
2 oz. Amaretto
Ground nutmeg
Beat the yolks with 1/2 cup sugar until thickened. Beat the whites with 1/4 cup sugar until standing in soft peaks. Beat the cream until thickened, but not whipped hard. Fold together the yolks and the whites, and then fold in the cream. Add the whiskey, rum, and amaretto, and add add lots of nutmeg. Chill thoroughly. Stir once before serving with more nutmeg on top.
(Yes, I know it’s easier to just buy eggnog and add the booze.)
And may I say MERRY CHRISTMAS! to Tammy, Maynard, Pat S, and all my fellow TAMS . . .
When I’m in the mood for something “holiday-like” (meaning something less meaty than the standard ‘dirty’ gin martini), I like to go with the fuzzy navel…equal amounts of rum, peach schnapps and orange juice. I like to add a little extree kick to mine by adding a splash of peach-plavored vodka. One of those and you’ll feel all warm and happy. The caroles will come free and easy.
The Cortez, or Conquistador Campfire:
One part mezcal. Any will do.
One part muscadine wine. Very sweet usually, so adjust to suit.
Two parts coffee. Three if you’re starting at dawn. Don’t ask.
Make available for individual application, to taste:
cinnamon stick, or ground spice form… Just a pinch for most.
Curry powder…. Whatever. It’s for the headstrong brave, who will pay no heed anyway.
Leon
step #1 get mug with water
step #2 put hot chocolate powder in mug
step#3 mix with spoon
I accidentaly pushed return when I was putting in my recipe and left out step #4 put in microwave.
When I lived in Garden Grove CA I was introduced to a drink called “Cocoa Samoa” I don’t know how they make it but it has chunks of cocoa beans in it. It was actually very good. Samoans really know a lot about cooking and eating.
Key Lime Martini (recipe given to me by Marlee) YUMMY!
2 oz. Vanilla Vodka
1/2 oz. Key Lime Juice
2 tbsp. Coco Lopez (cream of coconut)
2 oz. Pineapple Juice
Shake with lots of ice and strain into Martini Glass
(tip: mix Vanilla vodka and Coco Lopez before adding other ingredients and ice)
on the Apple Martini – you can get special sugar for coating the rim for Apple martini’s – very tasty and add thin slice of granny smith apple for garnish
Right out of the Trader Vic’s website: http://www.tradervics.com/recipes-3.html
~Hot Buttered Rum~
1 heaping tsp. Trader Vic’s Hot Buttered Rum Batter (also tasty w/o the booze!)
1 1/2 ozs. light Puerto Rican rum (U.S. Territory!)
boiling water and cinnamon stick
Preheat mug with boiling water. Put batter into the mug and add rum. Fill mug with hot water. Stir well. Decorate with cinnamon stick. Also very tasty with brandy or bourbon.
every celebration at my house we try to have a good champagne like:
veuve clicquot
or moët et chandon white label
with a splash of chambord in each glass.
very simple yet seems so elegant and special.
My holidays are usually snow covered, thus I prefer warm beverages. Here is my favorite spiced rum drink:
Boil 3 cups water, then turn off heat
ADD
1 Large ice tea bag
3 bags decaf orange spice tea (I don’t need a lot of caffeine)
one cinnamon stick
a slice of apple (optional)
let steep for 5 minutes
pull out tea bags
leave cinn. stick in (and apple slice)
add 1 C. apple juice (I love juicy juice)
add 1/2 C. cranberry juice
warm on med heat till almost boiling
ladle into mug leaving enough room for Captain Morgan’s spice rum
I garnish w/ a slice of orange
I sip on this all day while cooking my holidy dinner, I’m definately cranked at dinner time.
Merry Christmas.
Homemade eggnog. This is my mother’s recipe. Don’t know where it came from. Some may not like it. Very fattening. I’m a non drinker, so add booze if you wish. This will make 2 quarts.
2 cups orange juice
2 cups heavy cream
4 cups whole milk
1 to 1 1/4 cups sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 raw egg yolk
Whip up egg whites and put on top of drink with a sprinkle of nutmeg.
Cheers!
This is Killer. Three of these and you can’t feel your teeth!
SNOWBALL EXPRESS
Makes (12) 5-1/2 oz. servings
1 750ml bottle of silver rum (can use gin or vodka)
3 Cups cold whole milk or half &half
1 Cup (80z.) Cointreau
1 Cup (8oz.) White cre’me de cacao
1 Tablespoon of pure vanilla extract (clear vanilla extract makes it brighter) Get it where Wilton cake decorating supplies are sold.
Nutmeg (garnish)
Powdered sugar (fancy serving effect)
Combine in a 80 oz. pitcher, and stir. Cover and refridgerate in the coldest part of the fridge for 4-5 hours. Chill the glasses too, if you have room.
Put powdered sugar in a shallow bowl. Wipe the rim of the glasses with a bit of O.J. or water and dunk the rim of the glass in the powdered sugar to frost the rims.
Serve NEAT. Add a sprinkle of nutmeg to garnish.
A Peppermint Twist
combine equal parts:
Peppermint Schnapps
Kahlua
brown Creme de Cacao
add ice for a minty holiday treat.
This is a red and green Shot….for a Merry Christmas to all the TAMs!
HELLRAISER
Use a fancy shot glass and layer over a spoon- in order:
1/3 oz. Rubis Strawberry Liqueur
1/3 oz.Midoir Melon Liqueur
1/3 oz. Opal Nera (black sambuca)
Shoot this one down-it’s a hell of a drink!
Well, HELL- The green goes in first, then the red, then the black…
Cranberry juice
Seltzer (alternatively, quinine water or ginger ale)
Gin
A simple drink, sweet and palette cleansing. Be reluctant to add much gin as this drink does not stay in your glass long.
I don’t have any drink recipes to call my own, but I wanted to try to contribute. Thumbed through my short stack of cookbooks. This one seems simple, but requires preparation the day before planned consumption.
Christmas Sparkle
Ingredients:
3 cans (6 ounces each) frozen lemonade concentrate
2 ¼ cups cranberry juice cocktail
18 ounces rum
7-Up (optional)
Steps:
1. Mix first three ingredients.
2. Freeze for 24 hours.
3. Serve by spooning into glasses.
4. Pour 7-Up over mixture.
The Junior League of Owensboro, Kentucky
Carol. Sniffing a kind human here. WOOF!
Stormy Night Martini – Makes a purple color drink
a jig of vodka,
a jig of DeKuyper of watermelon
a jig of DeKuyper Island Punch Pucker
sugar rim glass
Shake together and this drink will relax you during the stressful Holiday Season.
Hey you non-TAM’s….Join this weekend to see the net cast of the holiday drink mixology! Well worth the price for admission, PLUS you get all of the other benefits!