It’s 5 O’clock Somewhere

 

Girls’ Night In
-3 oz. Sutter Home Moscato
-1 oz. Vanilla vodka
-1 oz. Strawberry soda
-Garnish with a strawberry
Shake Moscato & vanilla vodka with ice. Pour into your favorite cocktail glass & top with strawberry soda. Garnish with a strawberry and raise a glass to your girls!

Low-Country Lemonade – A True Tiffany Colored Cocktail

Its a Low-country Lemonade adding a drop of blue curacao to the peach Schnapps and lemonade and lining the rims with sugar. Instead of adding a flower to each, tie a tiny piece of Tiffany blue ribbon to a clear plastic swizzle stick and place it into each glass.

Low-Country Lemonade

(revised for this recipe) Serves 4–6 people

Ingredients
3/4 cup sugar
5 lemons
2 oz peach schnapps for every 6 oz of lemonade
for this recipe: add drops of blue curacao to desired color

Preparation
To make a pitcher to share with friends, you should first make the simple syrup – heat 3/4 cup sugar with 1 cup water in a small saucepan until sugar is completely dissolved.

Add the juice of five lemons and add both to a pitcher.

Add 3 to 4 cups (to taste) of cold water

The original blue lagoon drink recipe is said to have been invented at Harry’s New York Bar, and that too by his son. This popular bar drink has been around for years with many bars coming up their own variations. During summer holidays or after a long, hard day at work, a cold drink can be really soothing and a beer just won’t be enough. Why not try making the drink with the help of these following recipes. As these recipes have minor changes (that you can spot), the idea is to alter the taste, making it less or more bitter, depending on how would prefer it. Try making them all and see which recipe suits you best.

Blue Lagoon Cocktail Recipes

Following are couple of versions of the always-favorite blue lagoon beverage. Enjoy the beverage over the ice or in a frozen margarita style. The quantities for the ingredients mentioned are for one drink. If you’re preparing the drink for more than 1 person, just increase the quantity according to the number of people.

Original Blue Lagoon
Ingredients

• 2 oz Vodka
• 1 oz Blue Curacao
• Lemonade
• Ice
• Cherry, for garnish

Procedure
In a highball glass, add ice in the bottom (quantity depends on you). Pour in the vodka and Blue Curacao over the ice. Now fill the glass with lemonade and mix all the ingredients properly. Put a cherry on top for garnish and serve chilled.

Blue Lagoon Margarita
Ingredients

• 1 ¼ oz José Cuervo
• ¾ oz Blue Curacao liqueur
• 1 splash 7-Up soda
• 1 splash lime juice
• Pineapple juice
• Ice cubes

Procedure
Take a cocktail shaker and pour the Blue Curacao, José Cuervo, 7-Up, and lime juice in it. Fill the shaker with ice cubes and the pineapple juice now. Close the cocktail shaker and mix vigorously. Strain the beverage into a margarita glass with ¼ of it filled with ice cubes. Serve immediately.

Blue Lagoon Frozen Margarita
Ingredients

• 3 oz of Tequila (your choice of brand)
• 1 oz Blue Curacao (your choice of brand)
• 2 oz lime juice or lemonade
• 1 cup ice cubes

Procedure
In a blender, pour the tequila, Blue Curacao, and lime juice over the cup of ice. Turn the blender to high speed and blend the ingredients for few seconds till the ice turns into a thick slurpee. In a margarita glass, run a wedge of lime around the edges of the glass. Pour some table salt in a small plate and dip the glass in it. Pour the drink into the margarita glass and enjoy the frozen margarita.

Serving Tips

• Instead of serving the drinks in a highball glass, serve in unusually shaped drinking glasses. Place the drinks on colorful coasters.
• Give the glasses a frosted edge as you dip the rim in lemon juice and then in refined sugar.
• You can also add some colorful decorations to finish the overall look for the drink, such as drink umbrellas, paper flowers, sparklers, and colored swizzle sticks.
• Instead of putting big chunks of ice cubes, substitute crushed ice. The appearance of the drink from outside the glass will be fantastic.
• To finish the garnished look, add cocktail sticks to twist or skewer fruits so that it stays on the rim of the glass.

You can definitely increase or decrease the quantity of alcohol for the drink. Enjoying this drink to the fullest means making it one of your own and adding your own unique twist to it. Have fun!

Here’s a few of Shape’s best low calorie cocktails for the summer. Go to SHAPE to find more.

Rocket’s Red Glare (95 calories)

This fun drink is made with KU Soju, a distilled Korean liquor. it’s smoother and lighter than Vodka, it’s all-natural and doesn’t contain any added sugars or sweeteners, making it the perfect mixer for a delicious low-cal summer cocktail.

Ingredients: 1 oz. TY KU Soju 1 oz. TY KU Liqueur Splash of Sugar-Free Cranberry Juice

Method: Mix all ingredients in a rocks glass.

Stars and Stripes (140 Calories)

Another low calorie cocktail made with KU Soju, the Stars and Stripes is the perfect patriotic thirst-quencher, especially if you like a little fizz. Best of all, it has only 140 calories, making it a guilt-free summer cocktail.

Ingredients: 2 oz. TY KU Soju 1 oz. Blue Curacao Ginger Ale

Sake Sunrise (120 Calories)

Made from only four all-natural ingredients (water, rice, yeast, and koji), sake is one of the purest beverages on the planet. The orange juice adds sweetness while keeping the calorie count down.

Ingredients: 2 oz. TY KU Sake, 1 oz. Orange Juice, splash of Champagne

Directions: Combine sake with orange juice, add a splash of champagne, and garnish with an orange peel.

"Faux"jito

You can prepare this low-cal cocktail in 2 minutes, says Emilie Yount, editor of Recipe4Living.com. For one serving, you’ll need: three or four mint leaves, a lime wedge, 1 oz. white rum, diet lemon-lime soda (such as Sprite Zero, Diet Sierra Mist, or Diet 7-Up), ice, and sugar (just for the rim of the glass!).

To prepare: Muddle mint leaves with white rum and the juice from lime wedge (1/8 of the lime). Muddling is done by lightly crushing the mint (just until the leaves bruise) using a mortar and pestle or whatever you have on hand. Just don’t shred the mint!

Run the squeezed lime wedge around the rim of the glass, and then dip the top of the glass in a shallow plate of granulated sugar to coat the rim. Pour the muddled mixture into your glass, fill with crushed ice, and top off with the diet soda.

SHAPE also has a few healthy cocktail recipes. Here’s one that I think looks delicious.

Vitality Vodka Lemonade

Using a juicer, blend one cucumber, two celery stalks, one head of romaine lettuce, one lemon, one small piece of fresh ginger, and two green apples. Then, add vodka to taste.

"It’s unbelievably tasty and refreshing," says Sergio Rojas, a certified nutritionist and owner of redefined Fitness & Physical Therapy in Chicago, Ill.

You’ve got to see The Cocktail Lady’s blog to get a new cocktail recipe for every day of the year. Here’s the one posted for July 4th.

Red, White & Hpnotiq Blue Martini

• 2 oz Hpnotiq
• 1 oz citrus vodka
• 1/2 oz sprite (or any lemon/lime soda)
• 1/4 oz grenadine

In a shaker add ice, Hpnotic, citrus vodka and sprite.  Shake it up well and strain it into a martini glass.  Pour your grenadine down the middle of your glass and enjoy!

If you’re like me and never heard of Hpnotic, this photo from her blog may help.

Here’s another one from The Cocktail Lady that I had to post; the name really had me curious.

Liquid Marijuana

• 1/2 shot Malibu Rum
• 1/2 light rum
• 1/2 shot blue curaçao (this time it makes the cocktail good, haha)
• 1/2 shot apple pucker
• 2 1/2 shots sweet & sour mix
• 2 1/2 shots pineapple juice

In a tall glass fill it up 3/4 to the top with ice.  Pour in your Malibu Rum, light rum, blue curaçao, apple pucker, sweet & sour mix and pineapple juice.  Stir it up really good and enjoy!

Just looking at the ingredients makes me feel kinda stoned. LOL  – I’m going to have to try this one.

The last but not least, Here’s one of my favorite cocktails that I pinned on PINTEREST – check out my board: It’s 5 o’clock Somewhere

Pretty in PINK…and I do LOVE Pink!!!