Category: Weekly Whet (Page 12 of 16)

Your usual “Weekly Whet” author has hit the road to California for the weekend. While she’s gone (miss you, Emily!), we’re taking a trip east with the Whet—to New Orleans! While you’re busy making Chef Michael’s Vegetarian Creole Gumbo (see the Soup of the Week), get in the spirit with one of New Orleans’ most famous drinks. Hurricanes are the drink of choice during Mardi Gras, but we think any day can be a Hurricane day!

New Orleans Style Hurricane

Ingredients:

• 1 oz white rum
• 1 oz Jamaican dark rum
• 1 oz Bacardi® 151 rum
• 3 oz orange juice
• 3 oz unsweetened pineapple juice
• 1/2 oz grenadine syrup
• Crushed ice

Combine all ingredients, mix well (shake or stir). Pour over crushed ice in hurricane glass. Best enjoyed through a small straw. Garnish with fruit wedge if desired.

I’ve never known a dude who wasn’t down for a Jager Bomb. Bring a round of these babies back to the table, and he might just take a break from checking out the girl leaning over the pool table with her thong hanging out…for as long as it takes to throw back the shot anyway.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 can Red Bull Energy Drink
• 1 shot Jagermeister

1.) Pour the Red Bull into a pint glass.

2.) Drop the entire shot glass of Jagermeister into the pint glass with the Red Bull, pound your chest, and howl.

3.) Drink up!

We’re broadcasting live from Local Breeze talking about Brunch with Smunch (professional Saturday brunchers). We’ll be talking about the fine art of brunching, and the best places in the valley to go for this breakfast/lunch mash-up. We just think it’s an exceptional excuse to kick-off day drinking, and we’ll probably be sipping on these. “Grand” idea? We think so!

Ingredients

Serves 8…or 4 if you want to get your buzz on

• 1 cup orange juice
• 1 (750ml) bottle Prosecco
• 1/2 cup Grand Marnier

1.) Fill 8 champagne flutes 1/4 full with orange juice.

2.) Top with champagne to fill glass 3/4’s-way full.

3.) Top each drink with 1 tablespoon of Grand Marnier

Here’s another warm-weather winner from Joshua James, bar manager of The Parlor Pizzeria. Mix one up to enjoy next to the pool, or stop into the Parlor to enjoy one on the lovely, outdoor patio. Just remember that the dresscode is more rigid at The Parlor than by your pool, unless of course, your last name is ‘McConaughey’ or ‘Beckham’.

Summer Pimms

A twist on a British classic summer drink

• 1.5 OZ Pimms Gin Liqour
• 1/4 of a strawberry
• 1/4 of a peach
• 1/4 of a green apple
• 2 lime wedges
• 3 OZ Ginger Beer (Cock and Bull if possible) or Ginger ale

1.) In a tall cylinder glass, muddle the strawberry, peach, green apple and
     lime together.
2.) Fill glass with ice.
3.) Add 1.5 OZ Pimms Liqour
4.) Shake and strain or leave the muddled fruit and top with Ginger beer.

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This week we are broadcasting the radio program live from the Scottsdale Culinary Festival. Chef Steven Stromberg of Sapporo will be joining us to talk about the sensational Pan-Asian cuisine and delicious drinks that the Scottsdale restaurant turns out on a daily basis. In the meantime, mix up one of these and, uh, pretend you’re hanging out with us.

Ingredients

• 2 oz. Hendricks Gin
• 1/2 oz. Simple syrup (sugar water)
• 2 sage leaves
• 7- 1/2 inch diced cucumbers (peeled)
• 1/4 oz. Lemon juice 

1.) Muddle cucumbers, sage leaves in simple syrup solution.  
2.) Add Hendricks Gin and lemon juice with ice and shake 15 times.  
3.) Strain into chilled martini glass.  Garnish with a cucumber spear. 

Get this and many more fresh, inspired cocktails at Sapporo, Scottsdale:

www.sapporoscottsdale.com

Still have some of that Bailey’s left from St. Patty’s Day? Well here’s a delicious use for it that will surely put a smile on your face. Better yet, be generous, and make a round for your friends.

Ingredients:

• 1 shot Bailey’s Irish Creme
• 1 shot fresh Lime Juice

1.) Take (or instruct your friends to take) the shot of Bailey’s and hold it in your (their) mouth(es).

2.) Add the shot of lime juice to that mouthful of Bailey’s

3.) Enjoy the creamy, sweet, and tangy flavor of the mixture. Just like key lime pie, right?

…Then click here you fool!