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Grandma-tini "Shaken, not Stirred." Recipe

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Green Apple Martini
Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 1/2 ounce Smirnoff Green Apple Vodka
1/2 ounce sour mix
1 ounce apple juice
apple slice for garnish
Directions:
Directions:
Add Smirnoff Green Apple Vodka, sour mix and apple juice to a shaker filled with ice. Shake well and strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with an apple slice.

Alternative:
Sour Apple Martini Mix and your favorite Vodka.
 

Kuhlua Martini
Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
3 ounces of your favorite vodka
1 ounce Kahlua
Directions:
Directions:
SHAKEN:
Chill Martini Glass
Add ice, vodka and Kahlua to shaker and shake.
Strain into Martini glass.

STIRRED:
Served on the rocks in an Old-Fashioned Glass
Fill glass with ice, add Kahlua followed by vodka and stir gently.

Sometimes called a Dark Russian
 

Barbara's 1890 Cocktail
Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1/4 Fresh Cream
1/4 Creme de Cacao
1/2 Vodka

Found in a Vintage Book on Mixing Drinks
"Here's How" - 1941"
Sold the book at auction, it had a wooden carved cover (when I looked up the value of this book it was valued at $450 on eBay), I can't remember what it sold for at auction.
Directions:
Directions:
Stir well with ice and strain into chilled Martini glass.
 

Cranberry Martini
Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 ounces vodka
1 ounce Triple Sec
3 ounces cranberry juice
2 ounces orange juice
1/2 ounce lemon juice
ice for shaking.
Note: I use the low-calorie cranberry juice
Directions:
Directions:
Measure ingredients into a cocktail shaker, add a handful of ice, then shake. Pour into serving glass. Drop a few cranberries in the bottom of the glass.
SERVES: 2
 

Homemade Cranberry Vodka
Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 (12 oz) bags of fresh cranberries
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 teas vanilla extract
2 oranges, peels cut into 2-inch strips
5 1/4 cups vodka
Directions:
Directions:
Place cranberries, sugar, and vanilla in a medium saucepan. Place pan over medium heat and stir. Simmer cranberry mixture until the berries burst, about 5-6 minutes. Place orange peels in a large glass container with an airtight lid, or large mason jars with lids. Pour vodka over the orange peels. Allow cranberry mixture to cool. Pour the cooled mixture into the glass container(s). Cover tightly and set aside for 1-week. After 1-week, strain out the cranberries and orange peels, and pour mixture into a clean bottle, using a funnel. Place cranberries in a separate 16-ounce, wide-mouth mason jar. Store in the refrigerator.

SERVE: Fill preferred glass with ice, 1-teas vodka cranberries and top with Cranberry Vodka, OR chill a martini glass, put ice in a cocktail shaker, add Cranberry Vodka, shake, strain and pour into martini glass and then add a spoon of vodka cranberries. Can be garnished with curled lemon peel.
 

Cosmopolitan
Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
3 ounces Vodka
11/2 ounces Triple Sec
3 ounces Cranberry juice
1/2 ounce Lime juice
twist of orange rind
Directions:
Directions:
Chill glass. Add ice into Cocktail Shaker, and then add all ingredients, except orange rind, and shake well.
Pour into chilled glass, garnish with orange rind.
 

Salty Dog Punch
Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
6 cups grapefruit juice
1 1/2 cups vodka
4 cups lemon lime soda or a combination of lemon lime & club soda
Lemon slices for garnish
salt to rim the glasses
Directions:
Directions:
Mix juice, vodka, and soda in a pitcher. Add lime slices for garnish, serve over ice.
Yields: 12 servings

SERVED at grandson Max's 2024 graduation from Pacific Grove Highschool, California.
 

Salty Dog Cocktail
Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
3 ounces grapefruit juice
1 ounce vodka
Lime slices for garnish
Salt for the rim of the glass
1/2 ounce lemon lime soda or simple syrup
Directions:
Directions:
To make cocktail: rub a slice of lime around the rim of your glass. Dip glass upside down on a plate of salt to salt the rim. Add ice to the glass, then add juice and vodka. Add a splash of soda to taste and slice of lime for garnish.
 

Cocojito
Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
4 cups ice cubes
1 cup (from a 15-oz can) cream of coconut
1/2 cup fresh mint leaves, plus 4 sprigs for garnish
1/3 cup white rum
1/4 cup fresh lime juice
4 lime slices
Directions:
Directions:
Put ice cubes, cream of coconut, 1/2 cup mint leaves, the rum, and the lime juice in a blender, blend until smooth, about 30-seconds. Divide among four 8-ounze glasses. Garnish each with a mint sprig and a lime slice.
SERVES: 4

Great for hot summer days, this frosty sipper marries the creamy coconut sweetness of a colada with the fresh lime and mint of a mojito. It's the perfect combination of rum and yum.

Not drinking alcohol? Hold the rum and enjoy this as a tasty coconut smoothie instead.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
When I met my father-in-law, Dr. John Gindhart, his drink of choice was a Martini, one day I offered to refill his martini, but I didn't know what was actually in a Martini, so I asked. He told me to make a Martini, put ice in a glass, fill it with vodka, and wave the Vermouth bottle over it, being careful not to spill any Vermouth into the glass, and then stir gently. WOW, how could anybody drink a Martini???

Now, 60+ years later my drink of choice is a Vodka Martini, but I like my Martini shaken, not stirred. However, unlike my father-in-law, I also enjoy flavored Martini's. Actually, I haven't found a Martini that I don't like, I guess my new nickname is "Grandma-tini", a Grandma who drinks Martini's.

The popularity of the martini rose thanks to James Bond, British Secret Service agent 007, who ordered his martini's to be "Shaken, Not Stirred". Shaken martinis tend to be lighter and more flavorful while stirred ones will be stronger with a simpler flavor profile, but it's a personal preference. Even the way it's mixed – shaken or stirred – is up to the individual. "The dilution and temperature should remain the same either way. What changes is the mouth feel. Do you want icy shards and tiny air bubbles in your cocktail, if so, Shaken is your style. Want a silky, smooth mouth feel, then I would recommend trying yours stirred." I prefer SHAKEN!

 

 

 

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