Hi Everyone! Colette here!
Today I'm bringing you our very first recipe post and our very first link-up!
One of our hopes for this blog is not only that we will have the chance to share our love of food with you, but that you in return will share the love back with us! That's how we came up with the theme for our link up:
This week we're "toasting" the beginning of our new blog with
Lauren and I agree that one of the best parts of summer cooking is all of the amazing fresh produce available. We decided that some of that fresh produce belonged in a cocktail glass as well. So, we concocted this to share with you all:
No, that is not a margarita you see in the picture! It is a lemon lime martini. Here's how to make your own:
Lemon Lime Martini
Recipe makes one large or two medium cocktails. Directions are for one large. Ingredients
2 Fresh Lemons
2 Fresh Limes
4 Tsp. Sugar
3 Shots (1.5 oz each) of Vodka
Flavored Sparkling Water/Club Soda (we chose lemon)
Ice
Tools
Cocktail shaker
Hand-held juicer (like this one!)
Shot glass
Garnishes
A tray of sugar to dip the rim
An extra slice of lemon or lime to garnish
Directions
(1) Slice the lemons and limes in half. Rub the edge of one around the rim of the glass (it's okay if a bit of citrus juice drips into the glass itself). Turn the glass upside down on the tray of sugar and coat the rim. Set the glass aside.
(2) Add ice to the cocktail shaker. Over the ice, use the hand-held juicer to extract all the juice from both lemons and both limes. Add the vodka and three of the teaspoons of sugar. Shake well.
(3) Pour the mix in the shaker into your sugar-rimmed cocktail glass. Top the drink with a floater of club soda or flavored sparkling water (fill the rest of the glass). Sprinkle in the remaining teaspoon of sugar. Garnish with a lime slice and head out to your patio to enjoy!
Note: We love super tart cocktails, which is why we chose to use a lemon-flavored sparkling water for our float. If you'd like to mellow the citrus flavor, choose a plain club soda. If you want to amp up the lemon even more, replace the vodka with citron vodka, or add a shot of triple sec.
Cin Cin!
And now, it's your turn...
What's your favorite cocktail to enjoy in the summer? Leave us a comment or link-up your blog below! And be sure to join us for our next Taste & Tattle Tuesday, where the theme will be Fourth of July Party Treats!
The Lemon Lime Martini sounds -- and looks -- delicious! I will have to try! I love a good homemade sangria, or for a quick and easy cocktail, mixing Simply Lemonade with Three Olive Cherry Vodka over ice. Tastes like a cherry limeade, and very refreshing in the summer!
ReplyDeletei'm partial to a classic moscow mule: lime, vodka, and ginger beer. but it has to be ginger *beer*, not ginger ale.
ReplyDeletemy second is a white wine sangria (apples, orange, pineapple, cinnamon...)
Mai Tai
ReplyDeletePineapple wedge, cherry and mint sprig, for garnish
1 dash Pernod
1 cup cracked ice
1 1/2 ounces dark rum, such as Meyer's Plantation
1/2 ounce orange curaçao
Ice cubes
3/4 ounce fresh lime juice
1 ounce white rum
2 dashes Angostura bitters
Pineapple wedge, cherry and mint sprig, for garnish
1 dash Pernod
1 cup cracked ice
1 1/2 ounces dark rum, such as Meyer's Plantation
1/2 ounce orange curaçao
Ice cubes
3/4 ounce fresh lime juice
1 ounce white rum
2 dashes Angostura bitters
Fill a shaker with ice cubes. Add 1 ounce of the dark rum and the white rum, lime juice, curaçao, bitters and Pernod; shake well. Strain into a rocks glass filled with cracked ice. Float the remaining dark rum on top. Garnish with the pineapple, cherry and mint sprig.