Heady Mixes- Easy to fix Cocktails
This blog is dedicated to the glorious couple who address each other as ‘Guddaa”, fondly. This is something different that they coin with this phrase often when either of them wants their point of view should prevail upon other. For example, “Khana garam kar lo, I am on net, Guddaaa!” Or “Aye Guddaa, Main hoon na, sham ka khana pack kara lana!” But all said and done they both come up with the best of bar-be-cues parties on their terrace at Pune overlooking Sahyadari Range. Supposedly so, I am yet to sample.
Irish Cream
Traditional- 50 ml of Baileys Irish Cream poured over three cubes of ice. Never add crushed ice as it will dilute the flavor.
Chocolatini- Drop several ice cubes into a shaker. Pour 50 ml of Irish Cream, 10 ml of Vodka and 15 ml of chocolate liqueur/ Cocoa and shake together and strain into a chilled Martini glass. Garnish with chocolate shavings.
Kahlua
Traditional- 60 ml over crushed ice.
Black Russian- 30 ml of Kahlua, 30 ml of Vodka and pour over crushed ice.
White Russian- Same as Black plus add one cup of milk and 1 and half tablespoon of Milkmaid or Vanilla/ chocolate/coffee ice cream.
Cointreau
Traditional- 60 ml over crushed ice.
Cosmopolitan- 45 ml Vodka, 50 ml Cointreau, juice of one lemon wedge, 100 ml cranberry juice and shake it all with ice. Strain into chilled Martini glass.
Midnight Hot
45 ml dark rum, 15 ml Cointreau, 60 ml orange juice and cola to top up in any tall glass. Garnish with orange slice.
Diaquery
Gin - 45ml
Cointreau - 15ml
Fresh Lime juice - 15ml
Shake the ingredients in cocktail shaker with ice cube.
Make salted rim on champagne glass.
Pour the ingredients in the glass strained.
Pina Colada
White Rum - 60ml
Coconut Cream - 30ml
Pineapple juice - 180ml
Shake well all the ingredients with ice cubes.
Strain & serve chilled.
Screw Driver
Vodka - 60ml
Orange juice - to top
Pour orange juice in the tall glass.
Pour Vodka on top.
Stir the mixture.
Tequila Sunrise
Tequila/ vodka - 60ml
Orange juice - as required
Grenadine syrup/ruhafza -15ml
Pour ruhafza in the tall glass.
Pour orange juice on top.
Pour liquor at the end.
Stir it lightly.
Frozen Diaquery
Gin - 60ml
Lime cordial - 15ml
Lime juice - 10ml
Fill the glass with crushed ice.
Pour the ingredients.
Serve with ice in whisky glass & salted rim.
Tips
As all good hosts do – taste before serving.
Irish Cream if opened should be consumed early implying within a week or so. It tends to get bad quickly. In fact once a sealed bottle opened by me turned out to have turned sour. But no denying the fact that Irish Cream reigns supreme as far as taste is concerned.
Enjoy!
This blog is dedicated to the glorious couple who address each other as ‘Guddaa”, fondly. This is something different that they coin with this phrase often when either of them wants their point of view should prevail upon other. For example, “Khana garam kar lo, I am on net, Guddaaa!” Or “Aye Guddaa, Main hoon na, sham ka khana pack kara lana!” But all said and done they both come up with the best of bar-be-cues parties on their terrace at Pune overlooking Sahyadari Range. Supposedly so, I am yet to sample.
Irish Cream
Traditional- 50 ml of Baileys Irish Cream poured over three cubes of ice. Never add crushed ice as it will dilute the flavor.
Chocolatini- Drop several ice cubes into a shaker. Pour 50 ml of Irish Cream, 10 ml of Vodka and 15 ml of chocolate liqueur/ Cocoa and shake together and strain into a chilled Martini glass. Garnish with chocolate shavings.
Kahlua
Traditional- 60 ml over crushed ice.
Black Russian- 30 ml of Kahlua, 30 ml of Vodka and pour over crushed ice.
White Russian- Same as Black plus add one cup of milk and 1 and half tablespoon of Milkmaid or Vanilla/ chocolate/coffee ice cream.
Cointreau
Traditional- 60 ml over crushed ice.
Cosmopolitan- 45 ml Vodka, 50 ml Cointreau, juice of one lemon wedge, 100 ml cranberry juice and shake it all with ice. Strain into chilled Martini glass.
Midnight Hot
45 ml dark rum, 15 ml Cointreau, 60 ml orange juice and cola to top up in any tall glass. Garnish with orange slice.
Diaquery
Gin - 45ml
Cointreau - 15ml
Fresh Lime juice - 15ml
Shake the ingredients in cocktail shaker with ice cube.
Make salted rim on champagne glass.
Pour the ingredients in the glass strained.
Pina Colada
White Rum - 60ml
Coconut Cream - 30ml
Pineapple juice - 180ml
Shake well all the ingredients with ice cubes.
Strain & serve chilled.
Screw Driver
Vodka - 60ml
Orange juice - to top
Pour orange juice in the tall glass.
Pour Vodka on top.
Stir the mixture.
Tequila Sunrise
Tequila/ vodka - 60ml
Orange juice - as required
Grenadine syrup/ruhafza -15ml
Pour ruhafza in the tall glass.
Pour orange juice on top.
Pour liquor at the end.
Stir it lightly.
Frozen Diaquery
Gin - 60ml
Lime cordial - 15ml
Lime juice - 10ml
Fill the glass with crushed ice.
Pour the ingredients.
Serve with ice in whisky glass & salted rim.
Tips
As all good hosts do – taste before serving.
Irish Cream if opened should be consumed early implying within a week or so. It tends to get bad quickly. In fact once a sealed bottle opened by me turned out to have turned sour. But no denying the fact that Irish Cream reigns supreme as far as taste is concerned.
Enjoy!
