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The Cocktail Hour: Cerise Solo Cup

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Finally...a potable for the residual of us. Watch the Video! In award of Toby Keith together with his song, here's a concoction guaranteed to impress, slow together with inexpensive to make...the Red Solo Cup!  Here's the recipe, don't larn overboard on high character ingredients...the supermarket generic materials volition do: INGREDIENTS 3 oz. white rum 1 oz. amaretto 3-4 oz. cranberry cocktail Juice of i lime splash of grenadine Take rum, amaretto, lime juice, together with cranberry cocktail together with set inwards a shaker one-half amount of ice. Shake well, pour into 2 cherry solo cups...not blue, non yellow...filled alongside ice. Float the grenadine on top. Cheers! Darryl

The Cocktail Sixty Minutes - Amarita

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This is a drinkable of my ain invention.  Sometimes, I merely similar to play unopen to amongst what's inwards past times bar too run across what comes out.  Sort of similar a physician Frankenstein of alcohol.  Here's 1 that came out good.  The others?  Just don't await inwards the dungeon. Watch the Video! Amarita Recipe (two drinks) 3 oz - tequila 2 oz - amaretto 1/2 oz - triple sec 1/2 oz - lime juice Before mixing, seat ii cocktail (martini) spectacles inwards the freezer.  Put all ingredients into a cocktail shaker one-half amount of H2O ice too shake.  Remove the spectacles from the freezer, they should frost upward immediately.  Strain into the glasses. Beware...this is a potent drink! Darryl

The Cocktail Hour: Margarita Lite

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I know we've done a margarita recipe earlier but this is special.   We wanted to adopt a healthier lifestyle, lose a piffling weight, as well as larn into ameliorate shape.  So far, it's been working.  The bad role is that cocktails are commonly total of empty calories.  Hey, nosotros similar to potable likewise but nosotros withdraw to retool. Watch the Video! So, we've cutting agency dorsum on the heavy drinks, switched to vino for the most part, as well as experimented amongst making a lighter cocktail.  Here is the showtime upshot of that retooling. (Note:  In the video, I miscalculated a tell it's nearly 125 calories...it's genuinely nearly 150, run across below) Our novel margarita lite recipe is but every bit proficient every bit our master margarita recipe but amongst nearly fourscore less calories.  The alcohol is the same, three parts tequila, 2 parts triple sec, as well as 1 role brandy.  The divergence is th...

Road Nutrient - Scottsdale

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I but constitute out that 1 of my favorite Scottsdale restaurants, The Coyote Grill, is no more.  For you lot snowbirds or anyone else who finds themselves inwards Scottsdale, hither are some of our remaining favorite dining options: Scottsdale, Phoenix's tonier adjacent door neighbor, continues to endure a big depict for us. It's a wonderful, accessible metropolis amongst some genuinely world-class hotels. In the off flavor (the hot summertime), those hotels tin can endure had for a song. It's likewise a identify where dozens of outstanding restaurants telephone yell upward home. Here are some favorites we've constitute along the way... THE GOOD EGG is a local chain of java shops. Although opened upward all day, the specialty hither is breakfast. We've had some delicious omelettes along amongst to a greater extent than traditional fare such equally pancakes as well as bacon & eggs. All were really delicious as well as the service was top notch amongst...

The Cocktail Hr - Hurricane

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Below is the video for the Hurricane merely read the recipe at the bottom for an extra component that made it much better. The Hurricane is the classic New Orleans drink.  Sold inwards take-out windows as well as hence yous tin drinkable piece perusing the French Quarter, it's a real tasty thirst quencher.  It's besides quite potent.  Many of the recipes I constitute called for upwards to half dozen dissimilar spirits (yikes!), as well as hence I experimented a lilliputian earlier coming upwards amongst this lighter version...that is if yous tin nevertheless telephone vociferation upwards something amongst 2 shots of rum inwards each drinkable light. In the video above, I used a dissimilar grenadine than I commonly do.  It was weak as well as wouldn't gibe its coloring cloth as well as hence the drinks came out orange.  In the recipe below, I added cranberry cocktail.  It non solely gave the drinkable its usual ruddy coloring cloth merely besides ...

Route 66 - Southern California Roadhouses

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There are bully landmark restaurants along this stretch of highway that runs from San Bernardino County into Los Angeles.  Here are some of our favorites, going from East to West... Photo courtesy of the Sycamore Inn The Sycamore Inn , Rancho Cucamonga - Delicious in addition to expensive steaks served inwards the classic style.  This identify has been hither since 1848.  I honey the location, on a few wooded acres inwards the middle of suburban sprawl.  An cheap ($10-$15) card is served on the veranda in addition to inwards the bar if y'all don't desire to become amongst the expensive, fancy dining room. Photo courtesy of Flickr Chuck "Cavman" Coker nether CC BY-ND 3.0 license The Magic Lamp , Rancho Cucamonga - Across the street, this rambling in addition to quirky tile roofed edifice is stuck inwards the 70s...in a expert way.  The sign is a kitsch classic amongst the Aladdin light belching flames into the nighttime s...