Here are my favorite “Swanky Cocktails” posts, most courtesy from TheBar.com…
Hot New Miami Drink – Yellow Tomato Martini
Michael, Mojitos and The Rumba
Thirsty Thursdays – Royal Stretch
Sexy Chocolatini Recipes
Swanky Cocktails: Caipirissima
Weekend Song and Drink (Dancing Optional)
Pool Party Elegance 4th of July
New Year’s Eve Swank Drink Ideas
First, Happy Independence Day to all my fellow Americans!
Before I get on with the Weekend Song and Drink post, I want to direct you all to a post I wrote on Memorial Day weekend, about a great artist, Poto Leifi and his project “Freedom’s On Me”, who is using retro-style artwork to pay tribute to fallen US soldiers. Simply awesome stuff, and we need to remember that it’s these soldiers who keep us independent and free.
Now, on to the celebration!
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It’s definitely summertime here in the northeast. FINALLY!
Lots of rain the past couple weeks, but when we get a nice, hot day, what’s better to guzzle down than some lemonade?
For this weekend’s song and drink, I’ve selected something different and cool.
Something languid and sexy, that kind of makes you just want to be on a porch swing, leaning back with a leg up, hanging the glass by it’s rim from your fingertips and listening to something slow and piano-laden on the stereo…
I’m shooting for another regular series here at Crooner Culture, the “Weekend Song and Drink”, where I’ll highlight a tasty beverage (usually alcoholic, but often can be made without) and a song that would just go along well while drinking it.
You know how drinking that first sip of hot coffee in the morning gives you a “feeling”?
And you know how that really great song you hear does that same thing?
I’m gonna match them up for you.
So this weekend’s song and drink is… *drumroll*
I don’t know about you, but with the weather getting nicer, sometimes I long for a classy drink just to sit outside and sip on with friends. Be it on a Sunday afternoon, or even during the week for a dinner party, there’s something about light, citrusy cocktails that I love to have new recipes for!
Caipirissima (Brazil)
Ingredients:
1.5 oz Oronoco rum
5 wedges lime
1 tbsp sugar
3 oz fresh squeezed lime juice (not pre-sweetened, like Rose’s)
crushed ice
Preparation:
- In shaker, muddle 4 lime wedges and sugar
- Add Oronoco, lime juice, and ice
- Strain into martini glass and garnish with remaining lime wedge
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Ingredients
1 oz. Crown Royal Special Reserve
.25 oz. Triple Sec
2 oz. Sweet and Sour mix
1 lime wedge
Preparation
Add Crown Royal, Triple Sec, and Sweet and Sour mix into shaker.
Shake and strain into chilled, sugar-rimmed rocks glass.
Garnish with lime wedge.
(Recipe and photo from thebar.com – Used with permission.)
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