Cocktail Friday double (with completely unrelated accompanying photo)...

Hi friends!  Sorry for the unannounced absence.  I used up all my internet quota for the month and was cut off for a while.  Anyway, we're back in business and there's lots to catch up on.  I can't believe we missed out sharing last week's cocktail Friday!  To make up for it, we'll have twice as much fun with two cocktail recipes this week (both from my trusty cocktail companion)…

HULA HOOP

60ml gin

30ml orange juice

15ml pineapple juice

cherry to garnish

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a cherry.

CHI-CHI

45ml vodka

120ml pineapple juice

30ml coconut cream

slice of pineapple and cherry to garnish

Mix vodka, pineapple juice and coconut cream with a cup of ice in an electric blender on high.  Pour into a wine glass and garnish with a pineapple slice and cherry.

Cocktail Friday...

Happy Cocktail Friday Everyone!  Tonight we are drinking a Tom Collins.

60ml gin

45ml lemon juice

10ml sugar syrup

splash of soda water

Combine gin, juice and sugar syrup in a highball glass.  Stir, add ice and fill with soda water.

Hope you all have a fantastic weekend…

In which there are chocolate martinis and the dinner conversation degenerates...

The Mr. is working late tonight and I'm flying solo.  I made a rando lentil dish and a silverbeet gratin.  You know when everyone is really enjoying their meal and a contented hush falls over the room because everyone is too busy chewing to talk?  Well tonight the kids spent the entire meal giggling hysterically and poking each other with their forks while calling each other 'penis'.  Oh well more gratin for me.

Thank god it's cocktail Friday.  Tonight's cocktail is a chocolate martini (from my trusty cocktail bible)

3 chocolate drops

cocoa to garnish

30ml vodka

30ml white creme de cacoa

Place chocolate drops in the bottom of a martini glass and dust the tim with cocoa.  Shake vodka and creme de cacoa with ice, and strain into a martini glass.  

Happy Friday Everyone!!

And for those who have been asking for a house update, here is a little sneak peek.  This is what the laundry currently looks like.  I promise I'll do a proper house update next week.

Oh and if anyone is interested I blogged a kale pizza recipe over at food fanatics earlier this week.

Conversations with Minty on cocktail Friday...

Minty [whining]: muuum!

Me [exasperated]: I heard you the first 30 times

Minty: no that was 7 times

 

Minty [showing me the lego aeroplane she had built]: mum this aeroplane has exempting hair

Me: exempting hair?

Minty: yeah, so it's soooo powerful!

For those of you playing along with cocktail Friday tonight's cocktail is a screwdriver...

SCREWDRIVER

45ml vodka

60ml orange juice

slice of orange to garnish

Pour vodka and orange juice over ice in a highball glass.  Cut orange slice in half and sit both pieces on the rim of the glass.

Happy cocktail Friday everyone!