Recipes for Real Life
Hands-on Time: 5 minutes Total Time: 5 minutes Serves 1 Fill a mixing glass with: ice 3½ oz Gin or Vodka ½ oz Olive Juice ½ oz Dry Vermouth (optional) Stir. Strain into chilled glass or pour contents (with ice) into short glass. Garnish with olives. Note: DRY usually means Less Vermouth than usual. EXTRA DRY …
Hands-on Time: 5 minutes Total Time: 5 minutes Serves 1 Fill a mixing glass with: ice 3½ oz vodka or citrus vodka dash of triple sec dash of lime juice dash of cranberry juice Shake. Strain into chilled glass. Garnish with lime. Mmm, another of my go-to happy hour drinks. From The Bartender’s Black Book, …
Hands-on Time: 5 minutes Total Time: 5 minutes Serves 1 Fill a mixing glass with: ice 4 oz Apple Vodka Dash Dry Vermouth or Apple Liqueur (optional) Stir. Strain into chilled glass or pour contents (with ice) into short glass. Garnish with apple slices. Well, I going for an Appletini as that’s one of my …
Hands-on Time: 5 minutes Total Time: 5 minutes Serves 1 Fill a mixing glass with: ice 3½ oz Vanilla Vodka Dash Irish Cream, optional Dash of Cream, optional 1 tsp sugar 1 oz lime juice Shake. Strain into chilled glass. From The Bartender’s Black Book, this Key Lime Pie Martini was a little underwhelming. I was …
Hands-on Time: 5 minutes Total Time: 5 minutes Fill a mixing glass with: ice 1 oz Amaretto 1 oz Southern Comfort Dash of orange juice Dash of pineapple juice Dash of Grenadine Shake. Strain into chilled glass. When you’re already having a luau, come across a drink called the Hawaiian 2 in The Bartender’s Black Book, have all of …