My fellow blogger has challenged me....

Thank you Kristine for a fabulous idea for a fun Friday Blog:

Favorite Martinis

I make good Martinis but I do have to give props to a company who makes fantastic mixers called Stirrings. They carry these mixers at most local liquor stores in my area and I have to confess, my famous blueberry martini is part Stirrings mix. They have come out with some holiday mixes this year including, Egg Nog Martini, Chocolate Peppermintini and Sugar Plum Martini. You know there used to be a time where I would anxiously await the coming of a new Yankee candle each holiday season....sadly I now wait for the new Martini mixers....

But if you want to go from scratch, here are a couple of my favorites:

White Cosmopolitan

Ingredients:
1 cup white-cranberry juice 4 ounces vodka 2 ounces Cointreau
Instructions:
1 cup white-cranberry juice 4 ounces vodka 2 ounces Cointreau 1. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add cranberry juice, vodka, and Cointreau. Shake to combine well. Strain into two large martini glasses. Serve immediately.

Fudge Swirl Martini

1 Part Chocolate Vodka 1 Part White Chocolate Liqueur 1 Part Vanilla Vodka

Mix ingredients in a shaker with ice, shake and pour into a chilled martini glass rimmed with cocoa powder.

My personal favorite

Dirty Martini

6 parts gin 2 parts dry vermouth 1 part olive brine Cocktail olives
Combine liquid ingredients in a cocktail shaker with cracked ice and shake well. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with one or two olives

COCKTAILS ANYONE?

I think Martinis have become the modern day "shots" that I used to drink in the bars when I had big hair and listened to Bel Biv Devoe.

Give us some of your favorites....I get my best cocktail recipes from friends

~T