Recipie: Pollo Al Carbón

I can't live without my "Pollo Al Carbón," which means charcoal-grilled chicken. This is good stuff, people. Here's my personal favorite way to cook fresh organic chicken:

1 whole chicken, cut into quarters
1 teaspoon of sea salt (to taste)
1 teaspoon of fresh ground black pepper
1 teaspoon of garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon of ground annatto seed
1/4 teaspoon of tumeric
1 teaspoon of ground oregano
2 tablespoons of nutritional yeast
2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
the juice of 1 whole bitter orange (an unripened orange) or a tangerine
1 whole lime, juiced

Mix ingredients, let chicken marinate as you warm up the grill.
Grill one side at a time, making sure to not move it around as you cook it. Squeeze more orange juice on your chicken just before you serve it.

Serve to your favorite person under the age of 21. Eat and enjoy!

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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: 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: 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: 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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