I don’t know from alcohol, so I’m just gonna trust you on that one, love.

-Lion

hellboundwitch:

Summer Solstice Cordial

2 tablespoons dried organic elderflower

2 tablespoons dried organic rose buds

2 tablespoons chopped dried peaches

1 tablespoon fresh or dried organic lemon peel

1 teaspoon organic fennel seed

2 cups port wine

(rest of the instructions here)

gastrogirl:

love potion valentine’s day cocktail.

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Recipe

• 2 Parts Peach Schnapps (Any brand will do, so long as it isn’t the super cheap two dollar kind.  McGinnis is pretty smooth I find)
• 1 Part Vodka (Try staying away from Red Tassel, it’s a really…harsh vodka that can burn if you aren’t a normal vodka drinker, look for triple distilled)
• 2-3 parts Redbull (I used this to give it a citrus punch and lighten up the cranberry mixer.  Adjust it to your own taste, or mix in another fruit juice if you prefer)
• Top with Cranberry mixer (or another mixer if you prefer.  I tried Strawberry Daquiri mix, but it was WAY too sweet, almost like a syrup when we finished.)
• Some glowsticks ( I wanted to get the little mouth ones or earring ones and freeze them into ice cubes but couldn’t find any, so instead I bought the bracelet ones to stuff in the bottom of the glass)

Now, before you mix this into your glass, it’s nice to have a pre-frosted glass.  So I ran mine under the tap with cool water then shoved them in the freezer for two hours.  They came out looking like this:



Now, mix your drink in the glasses, than stick them back into the freezer for a bit (this all depends on if you don’t have crushed ice on hand, like I did not.  I shoved them into the freezer to chill the drinks down and slushify them a bit.  It works much quicker if you have a blender to crush up some ice.  If you do, mix some ice into that and stir in the energon mix.

Now, after you’ve let it sit in the freezer for an appropriate period of time (Or taken the easy way out and dumped in some shaved ice, you can add the glow sticks.  I recommend adding them at the last possible time, as they CAN lose their glowyness strength with the cool liquid.  I just realized this and I’m looking into glowing ice cubes, as a friend told me they are out there.)

They don’t look great in the light, and snapping their picture in the dark with my camera was hard, which is bad since they look so freaking bad ass in the dark.

      

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allfoodlove:

Tis the season for holiday parties and potlucks and this makes an amazing addition to the menu: Red Wine Glazed Pear and Vanilla Cake

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