Celebrate the Long Weekend with a Pineapple Vodka!!!!

Ingredients:

1.5 oz Van Gogh Pineapple Vodka
1 oz Van Gogh Coconut Vodka
2 oz Pineapple Juice
Splash of Grenadine
Garnish: Pineapple wedge

PREPARATION

Add the Van Gogh Coconut Vodka, Van Gogh Pineapple Vodka and pineapple juice to a cocktail shaker and fill with ice. Shake and pour into a glass. Add splash of grenadine and garnish with a pineapple wedge.

” a drink in the hand is worth two feet in the sand”

Cheers,
Pete and Pando

Summertime is the perfect time for garden parties, barbecues, pool parties and game nights and just hanging out with friends. With parties and party food comes the desire for creative and refreshing, yet easy, drinks

Watermelon Margaritas

Ingredients
4 cups (1-inch chunks) seedless watermelon
3/4 cup tequila
1/2 cup triple sec
1/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup fresh lime juice
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
2 cups ice

Directions:Freeze watermelon until firm. Combine the frozen watermelon with the tequila, triple sec, sugar, lime juice and lemon juice in a blender; process until smooth. Add the ice in batches, processing to the desired consistency. Pour into glasses and serve.

” a drink in the hand is worth tow feet in the sand”

Cheers,
Pete and Pando

This refreshing Cuban cocktail relies on a balance of mint, lime, rum, sugar, and club soda.

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons (1 ounce) fresh lime juice
2 heaping teaspoons superfine sugar
1 cup crushed ice
12 fresh mint leaves, plus 5 small sprigs for garnish
1/4 cup (2 ounces) white rum
2 tablespoons (1 ounce) club soda
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PreparationIn 10-ounce glass (such as Collins or highball), stir together lime juice and sugar until sugar dissolves. Add 1/4 cup crushed ice. Rub mint leaves over rim of glass, then tear leaves in half and add to glass. Gently stir for 15 seconds, then add rum, remaining crushed ice, and club soda. Gently stir for 5 seconds, then tuck mint sprigs into top of glass and insert tall straw.

Preparation

In 10-ounce glass (such as Collins or highball), stir together lime juice and sugar until sugar dissolves. Add 1/4 cup crushed ice. Rub mint leaves over rim of glass, then tear leaves in half and add to glass. Gently stir for 15 seconds, then add rum, remaining crushed ice, and club soda. Gently stir for 5 seconds, then tuck mint sprigs into top of glass and insert tall straw.

” a drink in the hand is worth two feet in the sand”

Cheers,
Pete and Pando

Although the first day of summer isn’t technically until June 20 this year, Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer for many people, myself included. It’s the first, warm long weekend of the season and has many people digging out their grills, lawn furniture and bathing suits. To kick off the season and get your Memorial Day barbecue movin’, whip up these deliciously cool and refreshing cocktails.

Ingredients: •3 ounces pomegranate-infused tequila
•1 cup orange juice
•Ice cubes
•Maraschino cherry for garnish

Directions:

1.In a large glass, pour orange juice over ice. Slowly add in the pomegranate tequila and lightly mix. The red will stay mostly on the top but will trickle down to the bottom like a lava lamp!
2.Garnish with a cherry or chunk of pineapple and enjoy!

” a drink in the hand is worth two feet in the sand”

Cheers,
Pete and Pando

The shandy is a great summertime drink. It’s refreshing and couldn’t be easier to make. Whether you make your own lemonade or make it from a mix this is a tasty drink.

By now, we’re all familiar with the cocktail culture craze. Mixology is everywhere – from the fanciest restaurants charging $15 a drink to chain restaurants trying to get in on the action of gussying up their adult beverages. It’s trendy food lingo that’s worn out its welcome only slightly less than “farm to table”. Lost in all the hullabaloo of burnt orange peels, homemade fizz and eggy foams is a category of cocktails much neglected – the beer cocktail. Well known examples are few and far between – the Shandy, anyone? – but the one most folks might have heard of is the Michelada.

The folksy cousin of the Bloody Mary, the Michelada originates from Mexico. A cooling mix of fresh squeezed lime juice, savory seasoning and cold beer is all poured over ice – salt rim is optional and a lime wedge constitutes garnish. Since I consider myself a Bloody Mary connoisseur/addict, branching off to try Micheladas was an inevitability. They’re far more drinkable and refreshing than the standard brunch cocktail and some still swear by it as a “hair of the dog” elixir. Less boozy, just as flavorful and certainly appropriate later in the day – the Michelada is a drink recipe you should know.

Ingredients:

•Beer – Wheat beer and light lagers are best
•Cold Lemonade
Preparation:
Fill a standard pint glass half-way with beer. Fill it the rest of the way with lemonade. Serve.

” a drink in the hand is worth two feet in the sand”

Enjoy,
Pete and Pando

Mother’s Day is all about the women in our lives that we cherish. So what better way to celebrate your mom than to make her a delicious cocktail that will have her feeling refreshed

Luscious Lime Slush28 Servings
Prep: 20 min. + freezing

Courtesy of Taste of Home Magazine

Ingredients9 cups water
4 individual green tea bags
2 cans (12 ounces each) frozen limeade concentrate, thawed
2 cups sugar
2 cups lemon rum or rum
7 cups lemon-lime soda, chilled

Directions
In a Dutch oven, bring water to a boil. Remove from the heat; add tea bags. Cover and steep for 3-5 minutes. Discard tea bags. Stir in the limeade concentrate, sugar and rum.
Transfer to a 4-qt. freezer container; cool. Cover and freeze for 6 hours or overnight.
To use frozen limeade mixture: Combine the limeade mixture and soda in a 4-qt. pitcher. Or for one serving, combine 1/2 cup limeade mixture and 1/4 cup soda in a glass. Serve immediately. Yield: 28 servings (3/4 cup each).

Mom’s Red StilletoCreated by Patricia Richards, Property Mixologist, Wynn & Encore Las Vegas

2 1/4 oz. SKYY Infusions Dragon Fruit
1 oz. Fresh Lemon Juice
1 1/4 oz. Simple Syrup*
1 1/2 oz. Diced Long
English Cucumber
1 Large, Ripe, Strawberry (washed & hulled)

Directions:
Muddle cucumber and strawberry in cocktail shaker until the strawberry is pulverized. Add remaining ingredients and shake vigorously with ice. Strain over fresh ice into an old fashionedglass.
Garnish with strawberry and cucumber.*Combine equal parts water and sugar over medium heat and stir until sugar is completely dissolved. As an alternative, add 1 1/4 oz. water with 1 teaspoon sugar directly to cocktail and stir well.

” a drink in the hand is worth two feet in the sand”

Happy Mother’s Day,
Pete and Pando

Celebrating Cinco de Mayo and looking for a unique cocktail? Try a Mexi-tini. It’s a simple, flavored Martini made of Van Gogh Oranje Vodka, tequila and orange juice. The Mexi-tini is the perfect spring citrus cocktail for any occasion that brings a little sunshine to the day.

Ingredients:•1 oz Van Gogh Oranje Vodka
•1 oz tequila
•1/2 oz orange juice
•orange slice for garnish

Preparation:1.Pour ingredients into cocktail shaker, and add crushed ice.
2.Let stand for five seconds.
3.Shake vigorously for five seconds.
4.Strain into a martini glass, and garnish with an orange slice.

” a drink in the hand is worth two feet in the sand”

Cheers,
Pete and Pando

Sparkly and sweet, this cocktail is guaranteed to make any day a “berry peachy” one! Absolut® Apeach Vodka is blended with strawberries and lemon-lime soda.

INGREDIENTS:

2 parts Absolut® Apeach Vodka
½ part simple syrup
½ part sour mix
3 strawberries
1 part lemon-lime soda

Muddle sliced strawberries. Add vodka, simple syrup and sour mix. Mix and serve with ice, top with lemon-lime soda.

” A DRINK IN THE HAND IS WORTH TWO FEET IN THE SAND”

Enjoy,
Pete and Pando

Serves 6

2 1/2 small ripe mangoes, peeled and cubed (about 2 cups), plus 1/2 mango cut into slices with skin, for garnish
4 ounces best-quality golden rum
4 cups fresh pineapple juice (from a 4 1/2-pound pineapple)
Fresh tropical fruit, such as dragon fruit and
star fruit, for garnish

Directions

1.Puree mangoes, rum, and 1/2 cup water in a blender.
Pour 2 ounces puree into each of six 12-ounce glasses.
Fill glasses with ice, and top off with pineapple juice. Garnish with tropical fruit.
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” a drink in the hand is worth two feet in the sand”

Cheers,
Pete and Pando

April’s Cascade is perfect for this time of year (no matter what the weather’s doing) and the flavor combo of fresh lime and peach juice is perfect! What more could you ask for?

Cascade
1 ½ oz Chivas Regal 12 yo

¾ oz. Monin Mandarin Syrup

¾ oz. Fresh Lime Juice

Dash Peach Juice

Tonic water.

Shake all ingredients (except tonic) together in a Boston shaker. Pour over ice and top with tonic water. Garnish with sliced apple.” a drink in the hand is worth two feet in the sand”
Cheers!
Pete and Pando