LWC - New Year Champagne Cocktails

Lisa's Weekly Coffee: New Year Champagne Cocktails

Happy New Year and Happy New Style Champagne to all!! Instead of the classic glass of champagne why not cheer on the New Year by adding a twist by trying a Champagne Cocktail. I've chosen three of my favorite cocktail recipes to share with my readers, not only are they perfect for New Years they easily compliment any celebration year round!

Happy New Year!
Lisa






Campari Champagne


1 - 1 1/4 oz Campari® bitters
4 oz Champagne
1 twist lemon peel

Pour campari into a champagne flute, and fill with champagne. Twist the lemon peel over the drink, and serve.










Blue Champagne

1 oz vodka
1/4 oz lemon juice
2 - 3 dashes triple sec
2 - 3 dashes Blue Curacao liqueur
Champagne



Pour all ingredients (except champagne) over ice cubes in a shaker. Strain into a champagne flute, fill with champagne, and serve







Champagne Passion

1 1/2 oz passion-fruit puree
simple syrup
Champagne
1/2 oz Alize® liqueur



Pour passion fruit puree into a champagne saucer and stir in the simple syrup (to taste). Slowly add the champagne whilst stirring gently. Float the alize on top, and serve.





Disclosure: the above publication is for entertainment purposes only. The above recipes have been adapted by drinkmixer.com. Images have been adapted by google and may or may not reflect the actual recipe.

Mix It Up with Votre Vu Earth Day Drink

From The Editor's Desk: Celebrating Earth Day






Mix It Up with Votre Vu's Earth Day Drink



This Earth Day, celebrate the best that Mother Nature has to offer with this
refreshing drink made with Votre Vu SnapDragon Beauty Beverage, a blend of
antioxidant-rich fruit juices, teas, and good-for-you ingredients like aloe
and drinkable collagen. Read on for the recipe:
A Beautiful V-You!
Vu's Earth Day Blend
Blend equal parts chilled SnapDragon with ginger ale.
Drop in some frozen raspberries in lieu of ice cubes. Serve to all ages!

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LWC - Blue Cheese Appetizers and Blue Cocktails

Lisa's Weekly Coffee: Thinking Blue









When thinking blue for recipes immediately blue cheese comes to my mind.


I love blue cheese and I find it to be an interesting and delighftul cheese for appetizers. I came across several recipes but I've only decided to feature three of my favorite ones: the red onion and blue cheese flat bread, the walnut, arugula and gorgonzola crostini ( my absolute favorite) and finally the asparagus appetizer.





When it comes to thinking blue for drinks and cocktails, I couldn't resist not sharing the Blue Tini, The Blue Bikini and The Blue Lagoon.


When I think of any blue cocktail I think of a very pleasing drink, simply because it looks cool and refreshing. I must add that all the credit, for blue cocktails and drinks, goes to the Blue Curacao liqueur which not only adds the color but also that orange sweetness of all curacaos





Blue Cheese Appetizer Recipes






You will love the Red Onion and Blue Cheese Flat bread source: myrecipes.com

Walnut, Arugula & Gorgonzola Crostini source: whatscookingamerica.net

Butter, room temperature
18 (1/4-inch thick) slices diagonal baguette bread slices
6 tablespoons toasted and chopped walnuts
3 ounces Gorgonzola cheese, crumbled*
3 tablespoons finely-chopped arugula leaves
Freshly ground black pepper
Arugula leaves

* Blue Cheese may be substituted.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

Spread butter over one side of each baguette slice. Arrange baguette slices on baking sheet, butter side up. Bake until golden, approximately 10 minutes. Remove from oven and cool. NOTE: These can be made ahead of time and stored in an airtight container. Be sure to let cool completely before storing.

Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F.

In a medium bowl, mix walnuts, Gorgonzola cheese, and arugula leaves. (At this point, mixture may be refrigerated until ready to use.)

When ready to serve, spread walnut-cheese mixture evenly on top of each baguette slice, pressing in to adhere. Season with pepper. Bake just until cheese melt, approximately 6 minutes. Remove from oven and cool slightly. Arrange crostini on serving platter and garnish with arugula leaves.

Makes 6 servings.

Asparagus Appetizers source cooks.com

1 can asparagus spears
1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese
1 egg
1 (3 oz.) pkg. Blue cheese
20 slices white bread, trimmed and rolled

Mix egg and cheeses. Spread about 1 tablespoon on a slice of the bread. Roll 1 spear up in bread. Insert 3 toothpicks in each slice, then cut in thirds. Brown lightly in butter. Keep warm in oven until served or they freeze well.

Blue Cocktails



Bikini Martini source; in-the-spirit.co.uk


1.5 Measures Hendricks Gin
1 Teaspoon Peach Schnapps
1.5 Measures De Kuyper Blue Curaçao

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into glass





Blu-Tini source; bluecocktails.blogspot.com


1 part blueberry-flavored vodka (recommended: Stoli Blue)
1 part vanilla-flavored vodka (recommended: Stoli Vanilla)
Splash sweet blue liqueur (recommended: Blue Curacao)
Fresh or frozen blueberries, for garnishFill cocktail shaker with ice cubes. Add all ingredients except berries and shake well. Pour into martini glass and garnish with blueberries


Check out this video from Barschool.com and learn how to make The Blue Lagoon Cocktail

Lisa
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Disclosure: the above publication is for entertainment purposes. The above recipes are based on Lisa's own personal online research and credit has been given to the source of the above recipes. Images are source of google and may or may not reflect the actual recipe.

Holiday Cocktails and Drinks

The Holiday's are here! why not spice up your festivity with special Holiday Cocktails and Drinks. Bring cheers to your family and friends by creating unique and creative drinks that are sure to become, year after year one of your favorite Holiday traditions.

Based on our virtual search ShesDaily.com has come down to create it's very own Favorite Holiday Drink Guide which includes cocktails like: White Christmas Dream, The Grinch, CandyCane Martini, Crantini and Angel's Wing. We've also included The Holiday Christmas Punch and The Christmas Cheer Egg Nog and finally for a hot drink we love The Hot Mint Chocolate.
Our favorite of all Drinks, which we believe is the absolute perfect way to cheer in the the New Year with style is The Holiday Bellini.

A little history on cocktails:

Cocktails were first introduced in the 1920's by American bartenders. They became famous during the 20's because they were prohibited, at first alcohol was of low quality therefore bartenders started mixing the spirits with various flavorings to hide the poor taste of liquor. As years had gone by it put an end to it's prohibition and at the same time cocktails had lost it's fame and popularity. Luckily in the recent years cocktails seem to have risen to it's peek of fame and today there are thousands of cocktails available for every occasion.

The recipes below are courtesy of thatsthespirit.com

White Christmas Dream

•1 oz. amaretto
•1 oz. heavy cream
•1 oz. vodka
Mixing instructions:

Mix all ingredients with ice in a shaker . Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Option: Garnish with nutmeg







The Grinch


Ingredients:

•2 oz. Midori
•1/2 oz. lemon juice
(fresh)
•1 tsp. sugar syrup
Mixing instructions:

Mix all ingredients with ice in a shaker. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Option: Garnish this green drink with a red cherry.







Candy Cane Martini


Ingredients:

•1 1/2 oz. vodka
•1 tsp. peppermint schnapps
Mixing instructions:

Mix all ingredients with ice in a shaker. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Option: Garnish with a small candy cane or create a candy cane "rimmer" with crushed candy canes.







Crantini

Ingredients:

•2 oz. cranberry juice
•1 1/2 oz. vodka
or gin
•Rose's lime juice
Mixing instructions:

Mix vodka, cranberry juice and a splash of Rose's lime juice cordial over ice. Strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish with a lime wedge.


Angel's Wing


Ingredients:

•1/2 oz. brandy
•1/2 oz. crème de cacao
•1 tbsp. cream
Mixing instructions:

Pour ingredients carefully in this order: 1)Creme de cacao 2) Brandy 3) 1 tbsp. cream. Ideally served in a Pousse Cafe glass or specialty glass.






English Christmas Punch


Ingredients:

•3 cups strong tea
•2 bottles (750-ml each) dry red wine
•1 bottle (750-ml) dark rum
•1 lb superfine sugar
•Juice of 1 large orange
•Juice of 1 large lemon


Mixing instructions:
Heat wine, tea and fruit juices in a chafing dish or saucepan, but do not boil. This punch may be served from the chafing dish or transferred to a heatproof punch bowl.

Put sugar into a large ladle and saturate with rum. If ladle is not large enough for all the sugar, put remainder in punch bowl. Ignite rum in ladle and pour blazing into punch. Stir well, extinguish flames, and then pour remainder of rum into punch. Stir again and serve.

Makes about 27 servings.








Christmas Cheer Egg Nog


Ingredients:

•1 oz. eggnog
•1 oz. peppermint schnapps
Mixing instructions:

You can either layer, eggnog first, or stir the ingredients before drinking. Merry Christmas


Hot Mint Chocolate


Ingredients:

•5 to 6 oz. hot chocolate
•1 oz. peppermint schnapps
Mixing instructions:

Pour peppermint schnapps into a heatproof mug or glass. Fill with hot chocolate and stir. Option: Garnish with a candy cane or "rim" the mug or glass with crushed candy cane.

The Holiday Bellini

Ingredients:

•4 oz. champagne
(chilled)
•1 oz. apricot nectar
or liqueur
Mixing instructions:

Pour apricot nectar or liqueur into a champagne flute. Fill to the top with cold champagne and stir gently. The apricot color makes this version of the Bellini (usually peach nectar) more festive and offers a nice version of this classic drink.

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Spring Fever Cocktail - Blueberry Smash

With spring just around the corner and delicious fresh fruit even more available it's time to create unique a simply divine spring cocktails. Today on ShesDaily.com we are talking about: The Blueberry Smash

10 blueberries
1 1/2 ounces (3 tablespoons) guava juice
1 1/2 ounces (3 tablespoons) lime juice
1 ounce (2 tablespoons) simple syrup
1 slice of star fruit, for garnish

This is nonalcoholic which contains blueberries and guava and lime juices.
Blend blueberries then place them in a cocktail shaker. Mix in guava juice, lime juice and simple syrup. Shake with ice. Pour into a wine glass. Garnish the glass with a slice of star fruit.

Cheers!!!



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