Sunday, December 31, 2006

Sweet Punch

Ingredients

1 oz. pineapple juice,
1 oz. orange juice,
1 oz. cranberry juice,
1 oz. strawberry daiquiri mix,
1 oz. pina colada mix,
Dash of Grenadine,
Dash of Rose's Lime juice,
1/2 cup ice

Method

Blend all the ingredients with ice, and pour into a Daiquiri Glass.
Garnish with whipped cream, 2 cherries and a little grenadine.

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Orangeade

Ingredients

Equal parts of Orange juice & Soda,
Splash of simple syrup

Method

Pour all of them one after another forming layer.
Serve over ice and garnish with an orange slice

Sunday, December 24, 2006

Miami Vice

Ingredients
2 oz. each of; 1/2 & 1/2, Root Beer,
Splash of Chocolate syrup & Coke

Method

Shake all but Coke with ice.
Top with Coke in a tall glass.

Friday, December 22, 2006

Strawberry Colada

Ingredients Quantity

Strawberries 50 gms.
Pineapple juice 150 ml.
Cream of coconut 45 ml.

Method

Wash, pat dry and cut strawberries and blend in a mixer.
Add pineapple juice, ice cubes, coconut cream and blend till smooth.
Take a stemmed glass and put one strawberry on the rim of the glass.
Pour the chilled drink into a glass and serve

Monday, December 18, 2006

Pussy Foot

Ingredients

150 ml fresh orange juice
150 ml fresh grapefruit juice
A dash of pomegranate juice
2 dashes of fresh lemon juice

Method

Shake the ingredients well over ice and strain into a highball glass filled with ice.

Friday, December 15, 2006

Cordial Highball

Ingredients

25 ml cordial (of your choice) or juice
Soda water or mineral water

Method

Pour the cordial into a highball filled with ice and top with either soda or mineral water.
Garnish with whatever best suits the flavour of the cordial.

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Liver Recovery

Ingredients

6 fresh strawberries
2 green apples
1 banana

Method

Peel, core top and tail the assembled fruits, as necessary.
Put each of them through a juicer, collecting the resulting juice.
Add the juices to a blender filled with one scoop of crushed ice.
Blend and pour into a small highball glass.

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Shirley Temple

Ingredients

25 ml grenadine or rose syrup
Ginger ale or lemonade

Method
Pour the grenadine into a glass filled with ice and top with either ginger ale or lemonade.
Garnish with a slice of lemon and serve with a straw.

Shirley Temple

Ingredients

25 ml grenadine or rose syrup
Ginger ale or lemonade

Method
Pour the grenadine into a glass filled with ice and top with either ginger ale or lemonade.
Garnish with a slice of lemon and serve with a straw.

Saturday, December 02, 2006

alcohol free cocktails-mocktails

Alcohol-free cocktails! There are plenty of reasons for drinking an alcohol-free drink, even if your friends are happily indulging in the real thing. Driving home is obviously the most valid one: pregnancy is a good one; and being under age is a legitimate reason. Until recently though, little or no attention had been paid to this new development of the cocktail world. In India, women especially, like to enjoy the thrill of something exotic without the taboo of alcohol.
Mocktails can be sweet, sour, laden with exotic fruit or simple cordials. You can spike them with herbs and spices and serve them in fancy glasses. All the fun without the hangover!
A perfect start to the day is the Virgin Mary (Or Bloody Shame, as bartenders call it), a meal and a drink all in one. Or, if it's a thirst quencher you're after, try a Virgin Mojito (fresh mint, lime juice, sugar syrup and soda without the golden rum).
In fact, most Collinses, Coolers and Breezes can be converted into creditable non-alcoholic beverages. It's worth experimenting on your own because it's very difficult to go far too wrong.
The secret of making a really good non-alcoholic drink is to find a good balance between sweetness and acidity.
The three non-alcoholic cocktails each serving a different purpose are:
The Virgin Mary is for those who feel a little worse for wear and can't face either food or alcohol. It's the perfect solution: a meal in a glass.
The Shirley Temple is a thirst quencher for the very sweet - toothed and most appropriately named after the famous Hollywood child actress.
The Liver Recovery is, as the name suggests, a drink that contains all the necessary goodness to restore an ailing liver without having to resort to milk thistle pills. Between them, strawberries, bananas and apples contain more nutrients and healing properties than I could fit on this page, and even better, the drink tastes great!

watch for part 2. mocktail recipes
contributed by chef gaurav