Sorry, it was a tea with Thai food night.
3 parts vodka
2 parts Chambord
1 part Raspberry Pucker
Garnish with a lime
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Fizz-Tini martini
This non-alcoholic martini looks very cool and is fit the bill for any sober, social drinker. There is a bit of advanced preperation, but as a well prepared host, you should keep a bit of this on hand.
Ingredients
* 1/2 cup of peeled, fresh ginger.
* 2 cups of water.
* 1/4 cup of cane sugar.
* 2 tablespoons of freshly squeezed lemon juice.
* 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract.
* 4 ounces of seltzer water.
* 2 thin lemon slices.
The mix
* Bring your water to a boil and add the ginger.
* Slowly stir in the sugar and vanilla, and reduce the heat to a simmer for fifteen minutes.
* Strain and cool the liquid in the refrigerator.
* Pour three ounces of your ginger water and your seltzer into a shaker 3/4 full with cracked ice.
* Stir the mixture for two full minutes.
* Strain the elixir into two frozen martini glasses.
* Add one tablespoon of lemon juice to each glass.
* Each glass gets a lemon slice on the rim.
A Mickey Finn (or simply Mickey) is a slang term for a drug-laced drink given to someone without their knowledge in order to incapacitate them. Serving someone a Mickey Finn is most commonly referred to as "slipping a mickey."
The Mickey Finn is reputedly named for the owner and bartender of a Chicago establishment, the Lone Star Saloon and Palm Garden Restaurant, which operated from 1896 to 1903 in the city's South Loop neighborhood on the west side of South State Street north of Harrison Street. This part of State Street was then known as "Whiskey Row". Before his days as a saloon proprietor, Mickey Finn was known as a pickpocket and thief who often preyed on drunken bar patrons.
The act of serving a Mickey Finn Special was a coordinated robbery orchestrated by Finn. First, Finn or one of his employees, which included "house girls", would slip a drug (Chloral Hydrate) in the unsuspecting patron's drink. The incapacitated patron would be escorted or carried into a back room by one of Finn's associates who would then rob the victim and dump him in an alley. Upon awaking the next morning in a nearby alley, the victim would remember nothing. Finn's saloon was ordered closed on December 16, 1903. This account of the origins of the "Mickey Finn" was first given by Herbert Asbury in his 1940 book Gem of the Prairie: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld. His cited source is the 1903 testimony of Lone Star prostitute "Gold Tooth" Mary Thornton.
This origin has been disputed, however, with some sources reporting that the original Mickey Finn was the horse laxative Glauber's Salt or some other unpleasant substance used in a drink to get rid of a drunkard, not knock him out. By the time the term entered popular usage, Mickey Finn had become something of a generic Irish-sounding name, making any specific meaning difficult to pin down.
Berry Me Deeply martini
This very suave and fun martini is very non-alcoholic. I suppose that the fruit could potentially ferment if you made the drink and let it sit for a few months, but who the heck would do that?
Ingredients
* 2 ounces of blueberry juice.
* 1 ounce of pomegranate juice.
* 6 frozen blueberries.
* 2 ounces of fresh raspberries.
* 2 tablespoons of freshly squeezed lemon juice.
The mix
* Pour your blueberry and pomegranate juice into a shaker 1/2 full with cracked ice.
* Shake for a full minute, and then let your shaker stand for another minute.
* Rub two raspberries (smashing them) around the bowls of two frozen martini glasses.
* Pour one tablespoon into each glass, swirl and pour out.
* Strain your juices into each glass.
* Smoooooooth.
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