Happy Holiday Party Season folks! What highfalutin cocktails are you serving yourself during your Zoom Holiday Party?
I’ve got two on my list:
The Fireside Cocktail –
- 4 oz Grey Goose vodka
- 1 oz organic syrup
- 1 sprig rosemary
- 5 oz pink grapefruit juice
- 1 pinch of salt
In the bottom of a rocks glass briefly crush the rosemary leaves into the maple syrup and salt. Fill glass with ice and add the vodka. Top with fresh pink grapefruit juice and salt and stir well. Garnish with an extra sprig of rosemary.
And…
White Christmas Cocktail –
- 1/2 oz or shot of creme de menthe
- 1 oz or shot of vanilla vodka
- 1.5 oz or shot of Kahlua
- 2 oz or shots of Half and Half
- 1 maraschino cherry for garnish
Fill drink shaker with ice. Pour ingredients in and shake several times to mix. Pour into glass with ice. Garnish with maraschino cherry.
And now, from The Drifters…
What holiday cheer will you be drinking, dear Deadsplinterites? Santa’s elves really want to know.
Getting extra crazy and adding powdered lemon to my water. WOOOHOOO!
I don’t drink. And have to avoid pretty much anything other than water due to food allergies.
You all have fun for me.
welp…i got a bottle of this stuff in my goodie bag from work
advocaat….it appears to be basically…an alcoholic almost liquid omelette
fuck knows what im sposed to use it for…but i have it…so ill figure something out
Wait, are you telling us that is liquid eggs with booze? WTF would you use that for?
eggs sugar and brandy…and thick enough youre sposed to eat it with a little spoon not drink it…lol
So like essence of egg nog, with the hard work done for you. Put a little of this in a small glass and add some cream. Sprinkle on a little cinnamon or nutmeg. That’s how I’d get rid of it but it would still be awfully rich (and I’m an American, but I think egg nog is originally British.)
OK that makes more sense.
hmmm..it might be originally british
but i never had it there
so im guessing all the brits that made eggnog fucked off to america :p
tbh… im thinking i might be able to use it on top of vanilla ice cream…maybe with a little chocolate leaf stuck in for fancy
or i could just tell my daughter to stick in a bowl with whipped cream on top coz its super yum and see what happens……for science
I might think egg nog is British because when I was growing up we read a different Dickens novel every year for five years straight. It’s funny to me in retrospect because Dickens was a pop writer in his time, he got paid by the word, his chapters were released serially in popular, not highbrow, print media. Still, he was a great writer and there were many themes for “young scholars” to explore. These books often had explanatory notes to bring a young 20th-century American up to speed on terminology and one of them might have been a Victorian English term for egg nog.
Of course, I could be hallucinating all this.
welp…i cant tell if you read dickens or are halucinating…coz i never read dickens……i think
*googles*
holy shit…i really havent…
tho i know a good few of them by name
kinda wild-ass speculation on my part, but maybe to get drunk?
I bought some Lapsang souchong (smoked tea) after reading about cocktails made with it somewhere on the interwebs, so I’ve been experimenting with that. Earlier this week I create a Campfire Toddy- smoked tea, Suntory Toki whiskey, honey, fresh ginger, & lemon. It was pretty nice. ☕️
That Campfire Toddy sounds yummy.
I Googled it and I’m still not sure what it is. A sort of egg nog?
I still have 3/4 of a bottle of Disaronno someone gifted me when I moved into my apartment 4 yrs ago. That’s how much I drink. But I did buy a half sized bottle of vodka a couple months ago that I’ve been splashing into pineapple juice when I feel like getting cRaZy.
I would absolutely drink that White Christmas drink tho. Yum.
I like sparkling drinks, like vodka, Pom Wonderful, lime juice and Prosecco. I’m so basic * sigh*
@Hannibal
Before I stopped drinking, I was fond of the occasional vodka seltzer. We found the Fugu brand ones were not bad and very clean for me. Spicy water, a bit of either lime or grapefruit juice, and 5% vodka. That’s it. No sugars for me to worry about.
I bought some of the Fugu Elderflower canned vodka seltzers during the summer. They were pretty good, very refreshing.
I’ve got a bottle of vodka in the freezer because I’m not much for hard liqour, but vodka mixes with anything. If there is something else I like to drink, I can add vodka to it to help get me drunk… Tomato/vegetable juice, pineapple juice, hot chocolate, soda, eggnog, Tang…
I think there is a bad chemistry joke in there about my tastes being basic, but my moods being sour/bitter…
…never been much of a one for cocktails to be honest…generally it’s whisky but sometimes I add the e & venture into bourbon territory so an old fashioned maybe?
…we do have a sort of a tradition in the family when not comes to christmas day, though…somewhere between breakfast & lunch we have champagne cocktails
…put a couple of drops of angostura bitters on a sugar cube in the bottom of a champagne glass & cover it with cognac…leave it until the sugar pretty much all dissolves then open the champagne & top off the glasses
…apparently so long as you top them off before you get to the bottom of the glass the brandy kind of sticks to the glass so it keeps tasting like the cocktail for longer than you’d think before you wind up just drinking champagne but I’ve never really put that to the test for more than one top-up so I can’t entirely vouch for that part…can however vouch for them being pretty good…& fairly lethal?
I used your recipe for New Years Eve, and they were tasty and strong.
That sounds amazing! Maybe I can impress the champagne loving sibling with this.
I don’t drink, but if I did, I would.
I was on a gin kick, but I am now pretty much drinking bourbon. Not often in any case. I have a well stocked liquor cabinet, with some fun things like a spiced pear liqueur and various cognacs and champagne, etc. When my son and his family come over (rarely, we do not mess with the safety bubble) I will mix something based on whatever mood strikes me. They tend to prefer vodka, but I am expanding their palates. And really, champagne is an excellent mixer for clear libations. Bubbles!
Spiced pear liqueur would be great with champagne! Is there a brand I should look for? You’re expanding my palate too. 😊
I know, that sounds pretty tasty.
I’m a social drinker. Very social.
Today is Founders “highly acclaimed” KBS. A maple Mackinac fudge imperial stout. 11%. A coworker reccommended it, and it is deelish. Although, it did come with a hefty pricetag. $24 (!) for a 4 pack of 12 oz bottles.
Happy Friday!
I’m not a cocktail person but I have a lot of booze and seeing as I decorated for Christmas for the first time in my adulthood I figured I’d look up some vegan festive cocktails. Tonight I made what I think might be a Moscow Mule?
I also have everything I need to make a fruity rose sangria. I’m confused as to what to use other than the dry rose because my Spanish friends say to use Cognac which is French and my French friends say to use Rum which is what the Spanish use? If anyone with actual knowledge sees this comment and has any recommendations, I’d appreciate it. I have vsop, vs, xo and also have blanc and noir rhum (Cousin Matthew seems to like dark rum, I think it tastes like a punch in the face but I have a whole bottle from making that halloween cocktail).
I also intend to make a maple whiskey sour soon. With bourbon, freshly squeezed lemon juice, and maple syrup with a pinch of cinnamon and a cinnamon stick to stir.
That maple whiskey sour sounds excellent.