Celebration Drinks to Happy Holidays

While we all know that champagne toasts to New Year's Day is a common party tradition, many holidays don't get the celebration they need. Some holidays, nobody even knows of. This post came from an idea in a book I own by Robyn Feller, called The Complete Bartender.

Seasons and holidays alike both deserve a special treat. While most of our posts on Drinks of the Week, and our Drink of the Month, cover some of these treats, here are some holidays that might not have crossed your mind. These recipes can be looked up on any search engine.

Leap Year --- February 29th --- This day only comes once every four years, so make this day a good one by celebrating with a Leap Year Special (found at Super Cocktails Dot Com).

Mardi Gras (of course, how could you forget!). Try drinking a New Orleans, or a Hurricane (a toast to those lost in Hurricane Katrina).

Ground Hog Day -- Help that ground hog find his shadow, by drinking a delicious Mudslide.

Memorial Day (coming soon at the end of May). Celebrate with a Big Blue Sky.

Midsummer's Eve: May Blossom Fizz, Midnight Sun, Strawberry Shortcake (yummm).

Canada Day: Canadian Cocktail (this recipe was already posted by Katy at our own Wazzupolitan, check again at Wazzupolitan Canadian Cocktail).

Independence Day. Let's all celebrate fireworks with a Rainbow Sherbert Punch (made with red, white, and blue sherbert). This is a perfect drink to sit on the porch and watch some fireworks while sipping on some punch.

Halloween. This is such a spooky night, why not celebrate with a sip of Zombie (made in a punch bowl to celebrate with friends). This recipe can be found at I Drink Dot Com.

Thanksgiving -- Add a Turkey Shooter to your plate of Turkey. Or maybe some Cranberry Vodka Punch.

Christmas (Best day of the year!). Number one greatest drink for the holiday... Eggnog, no explanation needed.

New Year's Eve: Champagne Maraschino Punch, Champagne Cocktail... Bring in the Champagne, and bring in the New Year!

Numerous Holidays happen every month. Check the calendar for future holidays to plan a toast to the big day. Any day can be a holiday!

Drink of the Week: Strawberry Margarita

While my previous post mentioned having a perfect exotic cocktail party, one might want to add a Strawberry Margarita to join the party. Summer is just around the corner, so start your summer off right with an amazing Strawberry Margarita. This may be a no-brainer for some, and maybe the easiest recipe for others, but for those readers who don't know how to make one, Wazzupolitan will explain how to make an amazing and fresh Strawberry Margarita. Yummm!

Wazzupolitan greatly appreciates allrecipes.com for providing this recipe, as well as thousands of other recipes.

Ingredients:

• 6 fluid ounces tequila
• 2 fluid ounces triple sec
• 8 ounces frozen strawberries
• 4 fluid ounces frozen limeade concentrate
• 6 cups ice

Simple directions:

First blend the ice by crushing in blender adequately. This should take less than 30 seconds. Next add the strawberries and blend with the ice until smooth. Add tequilla, triple sec and limeade. Blend well, pour into margarita glass and drink up!

This is usually easier to make by buying pre-made margarita mix. With this, all you add is the ice and alcohol and blend together. This mixture is usally slightly sweet, or sour, so adding a few teaspoons of sugar will make the perfect Strawberry Margarita.

Also, for those wanting a virgin margarita, it is easy to do with a mixture. Just add the mixture and ice and blend well. For a virgin, you may also want to add some limeade to make it not so sweet. Test it out and decide what is the best for your taste buds!

These mixtures can be found at most grocery stores. In the Pullman area, try Dissmores, Safeway, or Winco in Moscow, Idaho. Many other stores also carry this mixture so check around.

With that, I will leave you with your amazing and delicious Strawberry Margarita. Enjoy your week, and enjoy the change of spring into summer.

Drink of the Week: A Fresh Taste of Spring

What more to represent spring than Strawberry Lemonade?

For those looking for a fresh non-alcoholic drink, fill your fridge with the taste of happiness and fresh Strawberry Lemonade.

Things you will need:

• 10oz package of frozen strawberries (thawed makes them easier to blend)
• Can of pink lemonade concentrate
• 1 cup of water
• 16oz of ginger ale
• Fresh lemons
• Blender

How to:

1. First-- Put your thawed strawberries into the blender along with pink lemonade concentrate, ginger ale, and water. If the strawberries are not thawed, they will not blend well.
2. Second-- Blend until everything is well mixed. If the liquid is not thin, blend with added water until thin.
3. Last-- Pour over ice, and drink up! Add fresh lemons to make it even more fresh.
4. If it is too sour, sugar may be added to dull the taste, but use a small amount. Sugar goes a long way.

Enjoy the sweet taste of spring!

Drink of the Week: Washington Apple

Today, March 20th 2010, marks the first day of spring! So to top of the season, let's all enjoy a Washington Apple. This is almost like Washington State University's signature drink. Perfect for the bars (they all know how to make it, I have checked) and it can be either made as a classy cocktail or simple shot. You take the pick!

This week, instead of giving you the directions and expecting you to find out how to do it on your own, I will post a video of a goofy guy that explains in great detail how it is done. So enjoy the movie and enjoy your Washington Apple.

P.S. This is a great drink to enjoy before the Apple Cup against the Huskies at the end of the year. Be advised-- the guy in this video is kind of nerdy =] Don't let his looks ruin a great drink! Plus, he talks alot about nothing. Entertain yourself, and your taste buds with this great drink!

Washington Apple Cocktail Recipe

St. Patty's Day Drinks of the Week

You can't get pinched if your drink is green!

For this St. Patrick's Day, try celebrating with a green cocktail. Even those who aren’t Irish can feel Irish for a day!

First and foremost: Green Beer. Not hard to make at all, and still the same great taste… Only if you are a beer fan, of course.

Ingredients:

• Beer! Duh!
• And green food coloring.

Most beers work the same, however the lighter beers show the green better.

Now put the food coloring into a clear beer glass (a few drops is all it takes), and pour in the beer! What a wonderful St. Patty’s Day delight!

However, if beer doesn’t suit your fancy, try an apple cocktail…

Green Dublin Apple Cocktail

Ingredients:

• 2 oz Michael Collins Irish whiskey
• 1 oz sour apple schnapps
• 2 oz white cranberry juice

How to:
Add all three ingredients in a cocktail shaker. Add ice, shake for about 30 seconds. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a fresh apple slice.

This drink was found at http://cocktails.about.com/.


And most importantly, an Appletini.

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 oz Smirnoff® Green Apple Twist vodka
• 1 oz DeKuyper® Sour Apple Pucker schnapps (or Rose's Cocktail Infusions-Green Apple, if you don't want it too strong)

How to:
Stir ingredients together with crushed ice in a martini glass, and serve

Enjoy the Irish day, and enjoy the green in your spirit!

More drinks can be found at http://www.drinksmixer.com/.

Drink of the Week: Chocolate Cake Shooter

As the clock strikes midnight tonight, I will be 21. So to top off the night, at my first night at the bars, I will celebrate with Wazzupolitan's drink of the week: Chocolate Cake.

As I turn 21, I hope you all celebrate by also having a shot of Chocolate Cake.

To celebrate, you will need:
* 1/2 shot vodka
* 1/2 shot Frangelico hazelnut liqueur
Slice and have ready:
* One slice of lemon per shot
Place on a small plate:
* Two tablespoons of sugar per shot

Directions:
Take one slice of lemon, dip the entire thing in the sugar. Now lick the sugar off the lemon, and without swallowing the sugar, drink the shot, and quickly bite the lemon slice.
 
This celebration drink was provided by grouprecipes.com.
 
It tastes exactly like a piece of chocolate cake, or so I've heard, hints the name. Thanks for helping me celebrate my night!

Drink of the Week: Frostbite

Well Pullman, your winter is bipolar. It is sunny one day, then freezing the next. So since the cold is still chilling the city, I think we should face it with Wazzupolitan's drink of the week-- Frostbite. This thick, blue drink will stand up to Pullman's snowflakes.

Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz tequila
1/2 oz white crème de cacao
1/2 oz blue curaçao
1/2 oz cream
maraschino cherry for garnish

Directions:
Pour ice and all the ingredients into a shaker. Shake for about 30 seconds. Pour into a glass. Add a maraschino cherry.

Take that cold weather! Wazzupolitan is not afraid of Frostbite!

Photo and drink recipe courtesy of cocktails.about.com

Drink of the Week: The Kiss

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, so when you head out on your romantic day with your sweetheart, be sure to order Wazzupolitan's drink of the Week: The Kiss.

If you are not going out for the night, stay home with your boo and make your own. But don't forget the kiss! ;-)

Ingredients:

<3   1 1/2 oz. vodka 

<3   1/2 oz. chocolate liqueur
<3   1/4 oz. cherry liqueur
<3   3/4 oz. heavy cream

Fill mixing glass with ice. Add vodka, chocolate liqueur, cherry liqueur and cream. Shake for about 30 seconds. Strain into a cocktail glass.

Don't forget to add the Hershey's kiss on top. Have a romantic Valentine's Day! <3

Courtesy of a book I own called The Complete Bartender.

Drink of the Week: Touchdown Punch

The Super Bowl is the most consumed day outside of Thanksgiving. So let's add some beverages to all that food.

It would be very common for the drink of the week to be beer. But since beer is so simple and easy to buy, with no instructions necessary, Wazzupolitan's drink of the week instead is Touchdown Punch.

This drink is perfect for any sports game, but most importantly for football games. And with the Super Bowl TOMORROW, this punch is perfect for the big game. Best thing is--If you run out, you can quickly make more so you don't miss much of the game! Courtesy of Alcohol Punch.

First for the ingredients:

• 3 cups of orange juice
• 1 1/3 cup Tequila
• 1 cup lemon juice
• ½ cup sugar
• Ice

Next for the simple directions:

Dissolve the sugar in a large punch bowl by mixing in the orange juice and stirring. Then add in the Tequila and lemon juice while continuing to stir until it is all completely mixed. Add the ice and a ladle for guests to consume.

It is almost like a large mixture of Tequila Sunrise, for everyone to enjoy!

Who's going to win: Saints or Colts? Enjoy the game, and enjoy your Touchdown Punch!

Drink of the Week: Try a Chocolatini!

MmmMmm...Who doesn't love Chocolate?
How about making a delicious Chocolatini to fulfill your chocolate craving...



Drink Recipe Ingredients to make 1 serving:
• 2 oz. Baileys Original Irish Cream (25 oz. per bottle)
• 0.3 oz. vodka
• 0.3 oz. chocolate liqueur

How to Prepare:
• Add Baileys Original Irish Cream, vodka and chocolate liqueur.
• Shake with ice and strain into martini glass.
• Garnish with raspberries (or whatever pleases your taste buds).

Tip: Candy garnishes add a great look and taste to your Chocolatini. I recommend a peppermint Candy Cane. Enjoy!

Courtesy of thebar.com

Drink of the Week: Hot Buttered Rum

As the winter lingers on, your toes turn to ice, and your body starts to ache, you start to wonder. What can you possibly do to warm your senses? I know! Sip on a Hot Buttered Rum!

Ingredients

8 oz. apple cider

6 whole cloves

1 cinnamon stick

1/2 oz. lemon juice

2 oz. dark rum

1 tsp. butter

Usually you can find a buttered rum mix at grocery stores. Currently in Pullman, I saw some at Dissmores in the wine isle near the daiquiri mixtures. Most common grocery stores should have the mixture, but if not, these directions show how to make it yourself.

Directions

• Pour apple cider, cloves, cinnamon stick and lemon juice into a small saucepan.
• Bring to a boil
• Pour into a mug
• Add rum
• Top with butter
• Enjoy!

The mixture you get at stores is a thicker, creamier version of this Hot Buttered Rum, but both will warm you up in the cold winter chill. Pair it with sitting by the fire and a romantic movie, and your winter couldn't be better!

Courtesy of a book I own called The Complete Bartender.