Mixed Drink: Ginger Lemon Summer Day:

A long time ago, my mom bought Lemoncello thinking it would be a nice drink, but when she got it, it was like drinking lemon pledge.   I’ve looked all over the internet trying to find a simple recipe that used it, and I just wasn’t really feeling the recipes.  So, I took it into my own hands to create my very own.  I didn’t really know what to call it, so I pulled from every which way.  Ginger, from the ginger ale, Lemon from the lemoncello, and summer day from the day I decided to make it. 

Ingredients:

1 oz Vodka 

2 oz Lemoncello

10 oz Ginger Ale 

1 tbsp Confectioner Sugar 

A splash of Grenadine.

Directions:

Add the vodka, lemoncello, and confectioner sugar to a glass full of ice.  Stir together until the sugar is dissolved.   (You can use a shaker if you please.)  Then top it off with the ginger ale.  Add a splash of grenadine and there you have it, Ginger Lemon Summer Day.  

Without Grenadine

With Grenadine

The grenadine is optional, but I feel it adds a sweeter push, and I didn’t use a full table spoon of confectioner sugar. 

Also, lemoncello is very,VERY, lemony.  I have also made this drink with just one oz of lemoncello, and it’s still delicious. 

Enjoy! 

If you make this tell me!  I’d like to know if it’s not just me who likes it. 

xx

Drink Recipe: Starbucks Caramel Frappuccino Dupe:

Every weekend after I do all of my errands I treat myself to a little Starbucks.  Most of the time I’ll get their Caramel Frappuccino, but I’ve recently been loving their passion tea.   So really it’s a 50/50 that I either choose a Frappuccino or tea.   But while looking for new recipes to try, I stumbled upon this one, and I just had to make it, and let me tell you, it was PERFECT!  Tastes just like the one from Starbucks, so now when I have a little craving, instead of paying five or six dollars, I can just make it at home. 

Ingredients:

2 cups of Ice 

1 cup of strong coffee, cooled 

1 cup of low fat milk 

1/3 cup of caramel sauce 

3 Tbsp white sugar

Directions:

Blend all of the ingredients together and pour into a glass.

Optional: Top with whipped cream and drizzle some more caramel sauce over top. 

Enjoy!

xx 

Happy Easter!

Yesterday was Easter, usually I post holiday posts on the holiday, but I was with my family and I didn’t get the chance.  

We always have dinner together.  This year we had ham and lamb for the meat course with a bunch of other side dishes including potatoes and green beans.  Then later on we had dessert.  My aunt this year made little lamb cakes, they were so cute, as you can see and they were so yummy. I forgot what kind of cake the body was, but the icing was buttercream, which in my mind is the best kind.  

We also had drinks that included Mudslides (Baileys Irish Cream, Vodka, Kahlua) and Black Russians. (Kahlua and vodka), they were so good!  

When I was younger I would dye eggs with my family and then go to bed ready to wake up in the morning to them being hidden by the Easter bunny.  The reason why it’s a bunny is because rabbits have always been associated with spring, and it’s believed that the goddess of spring, Eostre, companion was a hare.  The Easter bunny also brought gifts that included candy and toys.  Even at 21 years old my mom buys me and my sister a chocolate Easter bunny. 

Such great memories. 

I hope that your Easter was fun and I hope you got some sort of candy or whatnot. 

xx

Mixed Drink: True Blood

This week I'm taking a break from my usual food recipe and I'm going back to a drink recipe.  I have many drink recipes, I just don't always have the ingredients that are needed.

That being said: 

Ingredients: 

1 part Crown Royal Whisky 

1 part Peach Schnapps 

1 part Cranberry juice (I only had cran-pom)

This drink tastes just like Peach candy.  It's very smooth and very sweet.  I 10/10 recommend it.  I wasn't 100% sure if I would like it or not because it does have whisky in it but you can't taste it whatsoever.  (If you worried about that.) 

Obviously, the measurement are completely up to you, it's just better to keep everything equal.  

If you do decided to make this gem, tell me about it! 

xx

Other Drinks: 

Rum Chata 

Pineapple Upside Down Cake Shot 

Buttery Nipple Shot

Southern White Rose 

Mixed Drink:Southern White Rose

In this post here I talked about all of the things that you can mix with Rum Chata.  Recently I  found a new recipe that included the liqueur, and I just had to make a post about it.  The drink is called a Southern White Rose, and it’s AMAZING.
 The drink itself, is a creamy mix of strawberry from the Tequila Rose, spicy from the Rum Chata, and a small kick from the Southern Comfort.  All three of these drinks I enjoy by themselves, but mixed together it's like it takes the best parts of each drink and puts emphasis on them.

Looks like I can't spell Tequila. Oops.

To make this drink, just add equal parts of all three ingredients to a shaker, pour into a shot glass, (or if you want a bigger glass), and enjoy. 

xx 

Other Recipes:

Pineapple Upside Down Cake Shot

Pumpkin Brownies

Early Halloween Party!

Over the weekend my sister had her birthday party, which I talked about in a previous post.   It's a dress up kind of thing, and I went as Ursula and she went as Bobby from Supernatural.  I had a hard time keeping my purple make-up on, but other than that I had a pretty fun time.  Now,  I didn't get that many pictures, and the ones  I did get are not the best ever, but things worked out fine. 

 

The first picture was before everything really started, then second is peanut m&m's and then the third is my choice of drink that night.  

(I really need to start taking more pictures, but it's a little odd to me still.)