[Hendog]

I do like my drink now and again. I’m not all too sophisticated in my selection of drinks. I have my same old drinks that I enjoy: Good large commercial beer with some micro brewery now and again. Wine: some “U Brew” stuff along with a small cache of Okanagan wines in my cellar. I also enjoy a good smoky peaty single malt scotch. And then I will make myself a cocktail when the time is right!

We’ve covered beers and scotches in other threads, but have we covered cocktails? I raise this one now only because I’ve just made myself a classic gin Martini. And I’ll share how I made my Martini to get this thread going just so I might get some other ideas as to what else I could make! I could, and have, Googled any kind of cocktail but that does not personalize it.

So this thread is about cocktail drinks YOU have made and enjoy. Please share your cocktail drink recipe. I will start with two of them:

Classic Gin Martini with Grand Marnier wash: Everything must be COLD! The Martini glass comes out of the freezer; the Gin (Bombay in this case) is either from the fridge or freezer. Vermouth, olives, Grand Marnier all from the fridge. No ice.

Pour a small amount of Grand Marnier into your frosty Gin glass, just enough to roll it along the inside lower half of the glass to “wash” it. Pour in (I free hand it) your 2-3 oz of Gin. Add Vermouth (5-10 drops). Add 2 or 3 olives (I use decorated stainless steel olive skewers). 3 small pimento-stuffed olives. Enjoy!
One of these just before a Rib Steak dinner and all is good!

Campari. Another cocktail which is refreshing on a hot summer day: Fill a tall glass with ice. Pour in a couple ozs of Campari. Squeeze ¼ orange into the glass and discard. Squeeze another ¼ orange into the glass and drop that into the drink. Fill with Tonic water. Stir and enjoy!