Jack Fruit Frozen Daiquiri

Today I made a Jack Fruit Frozen Daiquiri. First obtain the fruit. Unopened it looks like this.

Opened it looks like this.

Once the fruits are removed and placed in a bowl the cocktail can begin. Note the seeds, brownish grey, are in the bowl on the right. I don’t use those. Until properly cooked they are poisonous. The fruit, yellow or golden, is in the bowl on the left is good and is eaten raw. The fruit is the only part that goes into my drink

Add 2.5 oz rum ( dark or light doesn’t matter ), 1 oz lime juice, 1 oz simple syrup and 1 cup of jackfruit to the blender. Puree until smooth. If you don’t puree separately the daiquiri is high pulp. Add 2 cups of ice and blend as you would for any other frozen daiquiri.

Pour into a hurricane glass. Garnish and serve.

French 75

Named after a WWI French artillery piece, the French 75

• 2 oz gin
• 1 oz lemon juice
• 1 tsp simple syrup
• Chilled champagne

Shake in iced shaker all but champagne. Strain into a collins or flute glass. Top off with champagne. Garnish with lemon peel and a cocktail cherry.

Essentially it’s a Tom Collins with champagne instead of soda water and a wee bit more gin. Not as sweet but very good.

Whiskey Smash

A summer back porch cocktail, the whiskey smash.

• 2 oz
• whiskey, I used a decent rye but bourbon works also
• .75 oz simple syrup
• 4-5 muddled mint leaves
• 3 muddled lemon wedges

In a collins glass muddle mint with simple syrup, then muddle lemon, add crushed ice, rye, stir and top off ice, garnish with mint, serve with a straw.

The Wrong Side

Cranberry Mimosa

A light, simple and fun holiday cocktail is the cranberry mimosa.

In a flute or collins glass

• 1/3 of glass with chilled cranberry juice
• 2/3 of glass with chilled dry champagne

Garnish with a rosemary spear through a couple cranberries.

Its good.

Irish Coffee

A good start to a hurricane prep day. No where to go today, only a few gas stations have fuel.

• 2 oz Irish whiskey
• 1.5 tsp brown sugar
• Hot fresh coffee
• A couple shakes of cinnamon into coffee
• Stir
• Top with whipped cream dusted with cinnamon

All I can say is Yum!!!

Oyster End Mai Tai

Here is a variation on the original Mai Tai. I love the flavor and appearance.

1 oz white rum

1 oz aged rum

1 oz orange curacao

3/4 oz orgeat syrup

1/2 oz lime juice

1/2 oz orange juice

1/2 oz pineapple juice

Splash of grenadine

Splash of black rum

Shake all except the grenadine and black rum in an iced shaker. Strain into a hurricane glass filled with crushed ice. Add a splash of grenadine which will stratify at the bottom. Float the black rum on the top. Add a straw, garnish, serve.

Ballet Russe

This is a keeper. Blackcurrant liqueur balanced by lime.

• 2 oz vodka
• 3/4 oz lime juice
• 3/4 oz creme de cassis
• 1/4 oz simple syrup

Shake in iced shaker. Serve in chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with lime wedge.

To Cocktails

Having lost 39 lbs, but still short of my goal of sixty, I decided to relax a bit.

My annual bonus is here and to celebrate I took part and created a home cocktail bar. Shelf really.

I’m going cheap on this to start. Not looking for top shelf. Heck I’ll be happy with what’s in the well to start.

My goal is to maintain at 180 lbs. I’ll focus on non sweet cocktails but will cheat as I can without gaining.

I’m still going to be excluding grains and such from the diet.

Cheers.

Malaria Prevention

Gin and Tonic. Quinine for the skeeters. Lime wedge since I was out of lemon.

• 1.5 oz gin
• Ice
• Q Tonic water
• Garnish with lemon