Popular Before Dinner Cocktails
Gin & It:Ingredients: 3/4 oz sweet vermouth, 1 1/2 oz gin, maraschino cherry for garnish. Preparation: Pour the vermouth directly into a cocktail glass without ice.Add the gin. Garnish with the cherry.
Sour Apple Martini:Ingredients:2 Part(s) Sour Apple Pucker, 2 Part(s) Ketel One Vodka, 1 Part(s) Cointreau Orange Liqueur, 1 Lemon Twist, or Cherry. Instructions: Stir gently. Strain into martini glass. Garnish with Lemon Twist, or Cherry.
Mint-Infused Sake Martini:Ingredients: 8 ounces of high quality cold Sake, 2 sprigs of mint, 1 sweet plum.The mix. Add the Sake to a martini shaker 1/2 full of ice and let stand for a minute, Rub the mint sprigs around the bowl of two rinsed martini glasses and place them in your freezer to chill, Shake you Sake for a full minute and let stand another minute, Strain the Sake into your glasses, Top each with a thin slice of plum.
Americano: This one got its name in the early 1900s when the Italians who invented it noticed that it was hugely popular with visiting Americans. Originally, it was called a Milano-Torino for the homes of its main ingredients. Invented by Gaspare Campari, maker of the vermouth, it was first served at his bar.1 part Campari, 1 part Sweet Red Vermouth. Mix the ingredients in an old fashioned glass filled with ice cubes and add a splash of club soda. Garnish with an orange slice.
Classic Dry Martini:Ingredients: Ice cubes, 8 ounces gin or vodka (1 cup), 1 ounce dry vermouth (2 tablespoons), Pimiento-stuffed olives or lemon peel twists (optional).Directions: Place ice cubes in a martini shaker. Add vodka and vermouth; shake. Strain into four chilled martini glasses. If desired, skewer olives or lemon twists on cocktail picks and place in drinks.
Vodka Martini Recipe:Ingredients: 6 parts Vodka, 2 parts Dry vermouth, Olive. Mixing Instructions: Combine liquid ingredients in a cocktail shaker with cracked ice and shake well. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with olives.
Irish Cactus:Bring a taste from south of the border into your St. Patrick’s Day celebrations with this tequila and Irish cream cocktail served on the rocks. Ingredients:2 oz Irish cream liqueur, 1 oz tequila. Preparation: Pour the ingredients into an old-fashioned glass with ice. Stir.
Blue Hawaii:Ingredients: 1 ounce Blue Curacao liqueur, 1 ounce Vodka, 1 ounce Sweet and Sour mix, 2 ounce Pineapple Juice Preparation: Pour all ingredients into a shaker and shake thoroughly. Pour over crushed ice in a highball glass, and serve.
Martini Recipes:Enter the Exciting World of the Martini…
Synonymous with sophistication, allure, and delicious decadence, the martini holds a hallowed place in social history - it is the “KING OF COCKTAILS.” Like the stiletto heel, it never goes out of style. Entire bar menus are devoted to its variants and a hip, retro cultural movement has adopted the martini as its cornerstone for stylish fun.The martini remains on the cutting edge of liquid fashion, constantly reinventing itself. There is no other world-traveler like the martini. Never watered down, the martini stands strong and silent in every language with no translation needed.
