Cocktail: Priscillas Bittersweet Chocolate Martini

1 shot vanilla vodka
1 show coffee liquer
1 shot chocolate syrup
1 shot Bailey's Irish Cream
1 shot heavy cream

Add vodka, coffee liquer and chocolate syrup into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake and strain carefully into a martini glass. Clean the shaker (or use another one) and mix cream & Baileys thoroughly. Pour over back of spoon to top, chocolate mixture. Drizzle with additional syrup.

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Cocktail: Tainted Creampuff

I just simply love that one of our cute Canadian listeners Adam sent in this delicious vanilla-explosive cocktail recipie. It's really great, and seems very fitting with the recent news that Neil Patrick Harris (well known for playing Doogie Howser on TV) came out over the weekend.

Ingredients:
1 ounce of crème de cacao
1 ounce of vanilla vodka
2-3 ounces of vanilla soy milk (Vitasoy recommended)
½ an ounce of Bailey’s
splash of vanilla extract

Shake vigourously in a martini shaker so it’s nice and frothy.
Garnish with cocoa powder and a maraschino cherry (to pop).

Fun suggestion: Add a white chocolate truffle (Lindor works well).

[Thanks to Adam from Canada for the recipie]

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Cocktail: Caramel Apple Martini

We loved the nut covered caramel apples that our friend Jeff brought over the the other day so much. The only problem was that we so so thirsty after eating them.

We decided to stick with the theme and make these delicious Caramel Apple Martinis. Some people are a bit surprised by the addition of Pineapple juice. The Pineapple juice adds another layer of apple taste and gives a wonderfully frothy head to the drink.

Ingredients:
4 ounces Vodka
2 ounces Apple Schnapps
2 ounces Butterscotch Schnapps
Splash of Pineapple juice or Sours Mix

Into a martini shaker add Ice and Vodka, Apple Schnapps, Butterscotch Schnapps
and splash of Pineapple juice our Sours Mix. Shake until well chilled. Pour into a chilled martini glass decorated with caramel swirls. Click on the extended entry for the caramel sauce recipie.

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Cocktail: Patricia

This was made in honor of my mom whose house we're staying at this week. The "Patricia" is much like a Margarita but is made with white grape juice, whose subtle but delicious grape flavor comes through with the help of some lime.

2 oz. vodka
1/2 oz brandy
1 cup of white grape juice
1/4 cup of fresh squeezed lime juice (juice of one lime)

Shake until the shaker goes cloudy, serve into tall glasses mixed with soda water and lots of crushed ice.

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Cocktail: Agua Fresca

During the summer, all over Mexico people beat the heat by throwing fresh fruit into a blender and mixing it with tons of water, a little bit of sugar and a pinch of salt as a low-sugar alternative to soda.

Agua Fresca literally means "Fresh Water" because its water laced with a strong flavor of whatever fresh fruit is handy.

You can make this at home and pretend you're the boss of a small rustic villa subjugating your sexy Mexican workers to carry out your every command, no matter how sexy it may be.

In this recipe we're using limes, but it works well also with cantaloupe, fresh strawberries, watermelon, cucumbers or even honeydew and basil!

Gently mix in a blender
• one ripe lime
• a teaspoon of raw unwashed sugar
• a pinch of kosher salt

Strain mixture and throw into a pitcher filled with ice and garnish with slices of lime. If you want to booze this one up, we recommend using a clear flavorless spirit like vodka or something with a little more bold character like tequila.

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Cocktail: La Ginger Osaka

La Ginger Osaka certainly will improve Sino-Russian relations with its French flair. This drink is a lovely combination of Japanese ginger and Russian Vodka topped of with Champagne.

Ingredients:
3 ounces Vodka
Thin shavinings of ginger
Top off with Champagne

Into a martini shaker shave off pieces of ginger. Add Ice and Vodka. Shake until well chilled. Pour into a chilled martini glass until its two-thirds full. Top off with chilled Champagne. Garnish with fresh fruit like mango or a melonball.

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Cocktail: The Chicago Razor

Our Mexi-licious correspondent César Torres brought us this tasty, health-friendly recipe during Gay Games week when he competed with his triathlon team the Chicago Razors. The Razors' official cocktail is also a good alternative to pies. Seriously. If it's good enough for Chicago's premier gay triathletes, it's good enough for you.

This cocktail keeps you away from simple sugars, which are detrimental to the waistline. It does, however, give you a boost from the caffeine and also gives you the vitamin C and health benefits of cranberry juice without the ever deadly high fructose corn syrup. You can feel yourself getting fit as you drink it.

4 oz. Sugar-free energy drink
4 oz. No-sugar-added cranberry juice
4 oz. Premium vodka

Add ingredients into a mixer with ice, shake and strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with fresh berries or an orange rind.

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Cocktail: Blu Cho

This drink I concoted to celebrate our 300th episode with comedian Margaret Cho. I was so excited to find this Blueberry infused vodka, I just couldn't wait to make a drink out of it! Fausto says it smells a bit like berry bubble gum, I think it smells like Blueberry pie.

The plum wine adds another fruity layer of flavor to the drink and cuts the harshness of the vodka. We like to add a bit of lemon-lime soda to give the drink a bit of fizz. The couple of drops of Blue Curaçao casts a light blue hue to the drink. Because, you know, we all love blue drinks at the Feast of Fools.

4 oz Blueberry flavored vodka
2 oz Plum wine
A dash of Blue Curaçao
A splash of lemon-lime soda

Add ingredients into a mixer with ice, shake and strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with fresh blueberries.

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Cocktail: Black Orchard

Berrilicious and dark as a winter's night, this cocktail is best served cold and icy. You'll want to use as many different unsweetened fruit juice syrups as you can to make this delicious cocktail.

4 oz black cherry flavored vodka
2 oz Organic concord grape juice concentrate
1 oz organice cranberry juice concentrate

1 cup of frozen mixed berries, thawed and crushed

Add ingredients into a mixer with ice, shake and strain.

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Cocktail: The Porn Star

The Porn Star is sweet and sour and fulll of protein. It is best when shaken to full throttle. The egg white adds body and froth to the drink. In Spanish we call it "espuma" or "spumante" in Italian. In English its called "head." It just explodes with pleasure. Fresh egg whites are bit risky due to salmonella, but there are great alternatives to using fresh egg whites such as powdered egg whites and pastuerized egg whites from a carton.
In a shaker filled with ice add:
2 ounces of vodka
1 ounce of Chambord or raspberry liquor
2 ounces fresh lime juice
2 ounces fresh lemon juice
Egg white from one fresh organic egg or alternative

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Cocktail: Silver Beaver

Respect and honor the mature woman that lives inside you and outside of you.

2 oz. silver tequila
1 oz coffee liquor
1 oz of amaretto
3 oz of organic milk (happy cows make happy milk)

This drink will allow you to sing like the legendary Uppity Blues Woman Gaye Abegdalola, or at least think you can. We're not making any promises here. Just describing what can happen when the spirit moves you.

Gaye says she likes to have a drink when she's writing music to get in touch with something deeper. That's why they call them spirits. Anyone who's had the pleasure to see Gaye play in person knows its wonderfully transcendental and moving.

Another version of the drink it to skip the coffee liquor, the amaretto, the milk and just go straight for the silver tequila on the rocks!

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Cocktail: Mexican Chocolate Martini

Chocolate Martini #1
Hijole! This Michoacan Martini is one spicy treat to heat up Valentine's Day. If you don't get some from making one of these you must be dead.

The Mexican Chocolate martini is a spin on the popular Chocolate Martini, but has red-pepper flavored vodka as it's base. Our cocktail draws it's roots from the ancient Aztec drink "chocolatl" which was a coffee-like beverage made out of ground chile peppers and cocoa beans.

Later on the Europeans introduced sugar, cinnamon and milk into the chocolate beverage, which Mexicans enjoy today as a spicy delicious drink. Our version is ice cold and truer to the ancient drink. Ah progress.

2 oz Pepper Vodka
2 oz Dark Chocolate Liquor (Godiva Dark Chocolate is recommended)

Pour ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake vigorously then strain into a sugar-cayenne rimmed cocktail glass. When drinking this cocktail, imagine you're a brave and noble Aztec warrior sacrificing his heart for his god/goddess.

Spicy Sugar Mix:

1/4 cup of sugar
1 teaspoon ground red cayenne pepper

Mix the sugar and ground red pepper and place in a saucer. Wet a paper towel and place onto another saucer. Use the paper towel saucer to wet the edge of your cocktail glass, then gently press the upside down glass onto the sugar-pepper mixture.

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Cocktail: Valencia

Chocolate Martini #2
Us latinos are very passionate people. Why our language itself Spanish is a romantic language. Romantic languages are languages who have Latin as a root (Spanish, French, Italian, Portugeuse). And the people who speak those languages tend to be hot under the collar. It's just one of those stereotypes that have a golden nugget of truth.

This orange flavored cocktail takes you to the mother country (no not Africa) but Spain, where all sorts of delicious oranges are grown. ¡Que viva España!

1 oz vodka
1 oz vanilla flavored vodka
1 oz chocolate liquor
1/2 oz of Cointreau (top quality orange liquor)

Rim your glass in a mixture of:
Sugar
Organic organge zest

Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice, shake and strain into a orange sugared cocktail glass.

Garnish with a candied orange peel.

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Cocktail: Mochatini

Chocolate Martini #3
On this cocktail we suggest a brand name liquor, the Starbucks Coffee Liquor. It's really good.

2 oz Starbucks Coffee Liquor
2 oz Chocolate Liquor
2 oz vodka

Throw ingredients with ice into cocktail glass, shake, strain into sugared coffee cocktail glass.

Rim your glass with
Sugar
and Instant Espresso Powder (found in grourmet food stores)

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Cocktail: The Rosie

Like a dozen long stemmed roses, this Valentine's day cocktail will certainly put your honey in the mood. When making this cocktail, keep in mind that a little rose water goes a long way. The beautiful garnet color, the orange liquor and the sweet smell of rose in this drink will make your sweetheart forget all about the last minute crappy gift you got him or her. A little white teddy bear clutching a heart with the words "I Love You" is so wrong, it won't even get Brad Pitt laid! Make your sweetheart this cocktail and the odds are in your favor.

In a cocktail shaker filled with ice add:
4 oz. Vodka
1/2 oz. Pomegranate or Cranberry juice (just enough to give it a blush)
A splash (1 teaspoon) of Orange Liquor
A single drop of Rose water (or crush an organic rose into the shaker)

Put ingredients into cocktail shaker, shake vigorously and strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a rose petal floating on top.

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Cocktail: Dancing Queen

Our intern Ryan says he and his pals thought this one up late at night. It's suprisingly delicious and tastes nothing like you would think it would.

2 parts Moonstone Asian Pear Saké (or any pear flavored Saké)
1 part Energy Drink (Gay Fuel, Rockstar, Red Bull)

Throw ingredients into cocktail shaker with ice, wrap shaker with towel (carbonation may cause shaker top to pop off), shake then strain into cocktail glasses. Serve to your favorite sexy Asian man.

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Cocktail: Big Bird

Big, yellow, and looney, this is the drink that we made to match Dick O'Day's crazy yellow suit. It's based on a tropical drink called the yellowbird. A couple of these will make you sing like a canary!

In a tall glass add ice. Add the following.
2 parts Vodka
2 parts Rum
2 parts Orange Juice
2 parts Pineapple Juice
2 parts Red Bull (optional)
Top it off with a dash of Coffee Liquer.
Garnish with a piece of banana and and orange or pineapple slice or all three.

Drink while listening to latin-exotica music (Esquivel, Perez Prado, etc...) and feel the heat of the latin beat!

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Cocktail: Aqua Velva

It looks like Aqua Velva and is just as strong! Its minty fresh and definitely NOT a morning beverage. This cocktail is best served on the rocks.

Be sure when making an infusion with any liquor that you try to find the freshest, pesticide-free ingredients to ensure a delicious flavor in your beverage.

You'll need:
A spring of fresh organic mint
2 cups high quality vodka
1/4 oz of Blue Curacao

Place enough mint in the bottom of a mortar and pestle and grind with a tablespoon of vodka until it's a green pulp. Put the mint paste into a mason jar with vodka and refrigerate overnight, or over several days until the vodka is a greenish color. The longer yoou keep the mint in, the stronger the mint flavor will be. Filter out the leaves with a cheesecloth or tea strainer and keep the vodka refrigerated.

Serve several ounces of the green vodka with a splash of Blue Curacao over ice. Add soda water if desired. garnish with a nice sprig of fersh mint or an orange slice to compliment to Blue Curacao.

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Cocktail: Organic Cosmopolitan

The Cosmopolitan traces its roots firmly in the mid 90's in the peak of Madonna's career where she was spotted drinking one at Dale DeGroff's Rainbow Room club in New York City. It's now considered by many to be the second most recognized cocktail in the world, right after the Martini.

One of my favorite "twists" to put into a drink is to make it with the freshest, high-quality ingredients possible, one of them being organic unsweetened cranberry juice concentrate. You can find unsweetened cranberry juice syrup in most health food stores (for the life of me, I don't know why Whole Food's doesn't carry it.) Or you can buy it online here.

The tart unsweetened cranberry juice goes wonderfully with fresh-squeezed organic limes and Cointreau (a popular orange flavor liquor). Use the cleanest tasting vodka you can to allow these simple and delicious ingredients to shine through.

4 ounces of high quality Vodka
1 ounce of Cointreau
1/2 to 1 ounce of Organic Unsweetened Cranberry Juice Syrup
use more if you want a bolder ruby red color
1/2 ounce of fresh squeezed organic lime juice

Shake the ingredients longer than usual with ice, then strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
Do not garnish this drink, let the bold color of the cranberry juice shine through.

I was drinking Cosmopolitans from the very beginning in 1995 at a friends memorial, a gorgeous young man by the name of Bill Gaudiani who was a personal trainer, model and graphic design student. He died from a fatal car accident on Christmas day, and every time I drink one of these I think of him. Cheers Bill.

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Cocktail: Lesbian Folk Musician

Lesbian Folk Musician

For one reason or another, most of our lesbian friends just LOVE Chai tea. Is it the indian spices, the rich milky drink or the fact it comes from the exotic east that appeals to lesbians so much? Here is a drink recipie we concoted that transforms your everyday chai latte into a delicious cocktail we call the Lesbian Folk musician, in honor of our good friend Andy Moore.

2 cups water
8 cardamom pods
3 cloves
1 stick of cinnamon, broken up
2 bags of black tea (Irish Breakfast is good)

Add a cup of this mixture into a shaker with ice:
1/8 cup of half & half
1 oz. Baileys
1 1/2 - 2 oz. dark rum (Bacardi Anjeo is good)
1 oz. vodka (optional)

If you want to get your favorite lesbian folk singer nice and roasted, make sure to add lots of rum or supplement the drink with vodka. Marc considers supplementing drinks with vodka a "poor man's rohypnol" which means that you don't taste the vodka, but it gets you loose as a lesbian goose.

Shake, shake, shake- then serve in old fashioned glasses to reduce spillage. Dust a little cinnamon powder on top for garnish. Drink and enjoy!

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