More than just Irish Coffee
Did you know that grapefruit juice is not just for breakfast? Try this delicious, warming, Grapefruit Paloma and you’ll be looking for grapefruit juice at all times of the day! The Paloma is normally a tequila-based cocktail. This drink is most commonly prepared by mixing tequila, lime juice, and a grapefruit-flavoured soda such as Fresca, […]
This Tuscan Pear Cocktail takes me back to when we were travelling through that part of Italy, remembering the beautiful scenery whilst sitting here in front of a roaring fire watching the snow falling outside. Youtube has some great videos showing you how to make fantastic versions of limoncello although even to buy, it is
Imagine you are in a Bond movie while you sip your delicious warm Peartini, hot frothed, not stirred! The earliest form of the “shaken, not stirred” motif appears in the first Bond novel, Casino Royale (1953). After meeting his CIA contact Felix Leiter for the first time, Bond orders a drink from a barman while at the casino. ‘A dry martini,’
This recipe for Praline Soother is the only recipe we can find in the Hotel Chocolat magazine that fits in with the Hot Cocktails theme. When I say recipe, I mean it just says Vodka, chocolate, hazelnuts and cream so I have had to spend many hours testing and checking different variations on the theme
Sex on the beach is a classic cocktail and on a hot sunny day is a fantastic cooling drink so we’ve bought it up to date and given it our little hot tweak. According to the International Bartenders Association, the official recipe contains vodka, peach schnapps, orange and cranberry juice however you can also find
I remember Gypsy Tart being my hands-down favourite dessert on the school dinner menu and it was never on often enough. Now you can have the comforting taste of it at any time you like with just the press of a button. If you’re really feeling nostalgic try this recipe from the BBC Good Food
We’ve all enjoyed a Bloody Mary but this Carrot Cake gives a nice fruity twist to the vegetable-based cocktail and might even help you see in the dark, will it? The idea that it might is due to a myth begun by the Air Ministry in World War II. To prevent the Germans from finding
The Moscow Mule is a very well known and popular cocktail (in the cocktail world). There are only three ingredients, vodka, lime juice and ginger beer. Whilst travelling in Europe we found it very difficult to find ginger beer even though ginger was readily available. Please note that ginger ale is not a good substitute
Sometimes I feel like an author with “Writers Block” when trying to find inspiration for a new Hot Cocktail recipe but this idea for a Hot Bloody Mary just jumped out at me in the middle of the supermarket. Had to rush home to make it. And then I made another! I borrowed the Bloody
If you love mint chocolate, then this Drunk Grasshopper is just the cocktail you have been looking for! This cocktail got its name because of the rich green colour (due to the creme de menthe), and it is sweet, rich, and perfectly minty. It was invented over 100 years ago in New Orleans in Tujague’s Restaurant,