FRIDAY COCKTAIL - PATRIOTS ABSOLUT PEAR-fect SEASON!

FOOTBALL IS ON!!!! This cocktail complete with New England blueberries is for all the New England Patriot fans!!! Can't wait for the season to begin!

Ingredients:

2 parts Absolut Pear Vodka

1/4 part lemon juice

10 blueberries

1/2 tbl simple syrup

lemon lime soda

garnish with blueberries, raspberries and a mint sprig

Muddle the blueberries and simple syrup in a glass. Add the vodka and lemon juice. Shake and strain into a tall glass with ice. Top with lemon lime soda and garnish with blueberries, raspberries and mint.

GO PATS!

ENJOY!

FRIDAY COCKTAIL - 46 WHISKY SMASH

Simply put - for the whisky lover in all of us! There are a few variations...but I like the one with the splash of champagne on top..of course.

Looking forward to a great week with family and friends!!!

2 oz Makers Mark

4 mint leaves

one lemon wedge

one lime wedge

splash of Pomegranate liqueur

splash of simple syrup

splash of champagne

In a glass muddle all ingredients except the champagne. Strain into a glass with ice and top with champagne. Garnish with a lemon wedge.

Happy Summer!

ENJOY!

FRIDAY COCKTAIL - 4TH OF JULY PATRIOT!

Gotta love this holiday for all it's Patriotic meaning....but also as it inaugurates us into SUMMER!!!! This is a super refreshing cocktail and so fun if you can get the layering down. You can make big batches of the red ingredients and the blue ingredients and just put them together as you serve.

Red Ingredients:
1 oz watermelon schnapps
splash of cranberry juice


Blue Ingredients:
1 jalapeno thinly sliced
1 lemon thinly sliced
1 lime thinly sliced
1-1/2 oz tequila
1/4 oz blue curacao
1/2 oz simple syrup (equal parts sugar and water - heated until sugar dissolves)

Mix watermelon schnapps and cranberry juice in a shaker and pour over ice. In another shaker muddle (crush) the jalapeno, lemon and lime with the tequila, curacao and simple syrup. Slowly strain the blue ingredients into the glass over red ingredients with ice.

Garnish with a watermelon slice.

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY TO ALL!
ENJOY!

FRIDAY COCKTAIL - WIMBLEDON'S PIMMS NO. 1!

The Kentucky Derby has the Mint Julep, the Preakness has the Black Eyed Susan....and Wimbledon has the Pimm's No. 1 Cocktail. It's origins date back to 1832 when London oyster bar owner James Pimm started offering a gin-based beverage with quinine and secret spices dubbed a digestive aid, served in small tankards known as "No. 1 Cups".

It instantly became popular all over the UK and the first Pimm bar opened at Wimbledon in 1971. Today over 80,000 pints of Pimm's No. 1 Cocktails are sold at Wimbledon every year.

2 oz Pimm's No. 1 gin

4 oz English lemonade or lemon lime soda

Garnish: mint sprig, cucumber slice, strawberry and apple slice

LOVE 15, 30 40, DEUCE!

ENJOY!

NEW EASY HONEY GLAZED SALMON

So yesterday I found this beautiful piece of Sockeye Salmon and got home and decided I wanted to prepare it differently than I had before. I went to probably 25 websites looking for a glaze for it. I wrote down 19 ingredients from all the recipes and then decided on a method and only 7 ingredients and I had them all in the pantry or refrigerator and you should too!!!

Ingredients:

olive oil for sauteing
2 tbl unsalted butter, melted
3 tsp salt (preferably sea salt but regular is fine)
3/4 tsp ground pepper
1/2 tsp dry mustard

1/2 cup honey
1/4 cup balsamic vinegar

Preheat oven to 400 degrees

Melt the butter and spread it on top of the fish (not on the skin side). Combine salt, pepper and mustard and sprinkle on top of the butter. Warm the honey in the microwave and stir in the balsamic vinegar. Carefully spread a layer of that on top of the spices. Reserve some marinade for basting and to add on top of the fish when you serve.

In a oven proof saute pan, add a little olive oil to cover the bottom and place the fish skin side down in the pan. Cover it and cook on medium-high for about 10 minutes. Take the lid off and baste the fish with more of the honey-vinegar mixture. Place the pan in the oven and cook until your desired doneness (for me about 10 minutes longer - medium rare).

Pour a small amount of the marinade on top of the fish and serve. We also added some of the marinade to our asparagus-tomato dish. So easy and absolutely fabulous!

MORE SALMON!
ENJOY!

FRIDAY COCKTAIL - THE SUNBATHER

This delicious delight is also called Key West Lemonade, made famous at Sloppy Joe's in Key West.....been there...have the T-shirt! Considered one of the sexiest beach cocktails!!!!

2 oz sour mix

2 oz cranberry juice

1-1/2 oz (or more in my book) Absolut Citron Vodka

splash of 7Up

Lemon slice and cheery

In a cocktail shaker with ice, combine sour mix, cranberry juice and vodka. Shake and pour into glass filled with ice. Splash with 7 up and garnish with a lemon slice and cherry.

GET SEXY!

ENJOY!

FRIDAY COCKTAIL - PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY SHOTS!

YES, they really really do taste like your childhood delight. You get the peanut butter taste from the hazelnut flavor in Frangelico and the jelly taste for the raspberry flavor of the Chambord. For all my FB friends who find themselves in York Beach...Inn on the Blues makes FABULOUS ONES!!!.

3/4 oz Frangelico liqueur

3/4 oz Chambord liqueur

splash of cranberry juice

Pour all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice and strain into a shot glass. YUMMMYYYY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANNIE!

ENJOY!