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Valentine Day Cocktails
Topic Started: Feb 14 2012, 03:20 PM (1,900 Views)
Mobson
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Happy Valentine's Day! This is what Rum's fav mixologists, Difford's say as preamble to their Valentine Day offering....
"A day for hearts, flowers, under-ripe strawberries, cheap chocolates, vile cards and nauseating soft toys, and merry bloody hell in restaurants, as couples who stay home the rest of the year decide to make this their one big night out and demonstrate their social savvy by bitching at their waitstaff...As anyone who has ever worked in the service industry on his saint's day can well understand, the original Saint Valentine was a martyr who underwent hideous tortures, and had nothing to do with love, or large padded cards, in the slightest.

Spare a thought in particular for Malaysian Muslims today. Last February 14th saw the religious police rounding up unmarried couples who had dared to share a hotel room. We are having a quiet night tonight, and enjoying a remarkably adult strawberry cocktail, the Bourbon Blush."

"BOURBON BLUSH" :wub:

Glass:Martini
Garnish:Strawberry on rim

Method:MUDDLE strawberries in base of shaker. Add other ingredients, SHAKE with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

3 fresh Strawberries (hulled)
2 shots Maker's Mark bourbon
¾ shot Crème de framboise liqueur
¼shot Maple syrup

Comment: Strawberry and maple syrup combine brilliantly with bourbon in this drink.

or there is this ....

LOVE DART <comet>

Ingredients
10ml/½fl oz fresh lemon juice
25ml/1fl oz pomegranate juice
35ml/1¼fl oz chilled chocolate raspberry vodka
pink champagne
rose water, to spray the champagne glass
chocolate hearts, to serve

Preparation method
Place the lemon juice, pomegranate juice and vodka into a mixing glass. Add a handful of ice and stir until well combined.
Strain into a champagne glass that has been sprayed with rose water, top with pink champagne and serve with chocolate hearts.

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Edited by Mobson, Feb 14 2012, 03:23 PM.
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rumbaba
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Simon Difford is having a laugh with 'Love Dart', I think. That may be too much, even for your cocktail cabinet, Mobs <laugh>

I don't have strawberries or maple syrup. However, I see the #9 edition of the very classy, hardcover Difford Guide is in the shops now: the Escalator is still there and is still twinklestar twinklestar twinklestar twinklestar twinklestar So it could be an Escalator Martini to start tonight :)
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No apple juice, so I am going for an 'Oh Gosh!'

Oh Gosh!

1 measure white rum (I use Bacardi)
1 measure Cointreau (fire up the Cointreau!)
1/2 measure freshly squeezed lime juice
1/4 measure sugar syrup
1/2 measure chilled water

Shake and strain into chilled martini glasses. Simple but lovely :)
Edited by rumbaba, Feb 15 2012, 04:22 PM.
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Mobson
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Love Blush - the second cocktail was the choice of the cocktail man on SFTW!

Stoli make the chocolate raspberry flavoured vodka - it's a new product and my friend at Gerry's in Soho has it on order - it was supposed to arrive yesterday in time for VD but it didn't make it!

They did have the raspberry vodka so I made this for desert!

http://www.drinksmixer.com/drink2855.html

also made this from a selection of Raspberry Vodka recipes @ Drinksmixer....

From Russia With Love

1 1/2 oz Stoli® Razberi vodka
fill with 7-Up® soda
1 splash cranberry juice

Pour over ice.
Serve in: Collins Glass

or a different combination....

Razberi Kicker

1 1/2 oz Stoli® Razberi vodka
3 oz cranberry juice
1 splash Sprite® soda

Add stolichnaya razberi vodka, cranberry juice and sprite to an ice-filled highball glass.
Garnish with a lime wedge, and serve.

http://www.drinksmixer.com/cat/2172/
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Edited by Mobson, Feb 15 2012, 11:50 AM.
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rumbaba
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Saffink for the weekend, innit? Wiv 'arry's daughter in law (the lovely Louise from Eternal)

Actually, I think Louise left SFTW <erm>
Edited by rumbaba, Feb 15 2012, 04:19 PM.
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We had some Chapel Down English fizz from Tenterden http://www.englishwinesgroup.com/ Local for me and very good. Better than a lot of the 'authentic' Champagnes being knocked out cheap by supermarkets. <bubbly>
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Nah! Louise is clinging on in there till the end - which the production company that makes the programme for the Beeb has confirmed will be in March....

Yeah we talked about English fizz way back on Hyper's board - I've visited Chapel Down and remember that their wines tasted pretty dam good..... <ok>
Edited by Mobson, Feb 15 2012, 06:16 PM.
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