Spices4Sunsets

Frozen Strawberry Margarita

Makes 2

Tequila    2 oz or 2 shots of your preferred strength

Lemon lime mix     ¼ cup

Sugar syrup     ½ cup

Strawberries  ½ cup

Ice     1 ½ cup

Salt  for rim of glass  

Put all the Ingredients’ into the blender and blend put some sugar syrup round the rim of the glass and then dip the rim in some salt.

Pour the strawberry margarita into the glass.

Give to a friendly monkey!!!

This monkey was spotted at the lake in Grenada.

 

Mango Daiquiri

 

Frozen Mango daiquiri

Yeah yeah, its half finished in the picture, but it was so good and only half way through did I realise I should put this one in.

Dark  rum    1 oz or more or less

Sugar syrup    half a cup

Fresh  mango blended    1 (or a tin if you can’t find fresh, it will still be good)

Combine all ingredients in blender with 1 cup of crushed ice and blend until smooth. Poor into Champagne flute, Martini glass or any glass you can find, Top with anything you like, enjoy!!

 

Lime daiquiri

 

Frozen Lime daiquiri

If you wanted a Mojito but they say that they’ve got no lime order one of these instead, it’s nearly as good and very refreshing.

Light rum     1 oz

Sugar syrup    1 tsp

Fresh limes juiced 2

Combine all ingredients in blender with 1 cup of crushed ice and blend until smooth. Poor into Champagne flute, Martini glass or any glass you can find, Top with a wedge of lime, enjoy!!

 

 

Cocktail le Pirate

Pirate cocktail

It was very nice for a sun downer actually, and for any one that doesn’t understand French, it’s Malibu, passion fruit and lime.

 

Pina Colada

Piña Colada

White rum, normally a shot, 25 cl but it really varies from bar to bar

Coconut milk, 100ml

Half a pineapple, chopped up

Sugar Syrup 50 ml

Combine all ingredients with 2 cups of crushed ice in blender on high speed. Pour into glass and serve with a straw. Add any garnish you like, but do not do what they do in the Caribbean which is sprinkle cinnamon over it, I understand why they do it as the above picture shows they have a good supply here but it ruins it and it’s been driving me nuts as pina colada is one of my favourite drinks. So if you’re ordering a pina colada in the Caribbean be sure to ask for no cinnamon.

 

Mojito

Mojito    

I think this Cuban drink must fast be becoming the most popular drink in the world, everywhere I go it’s on special somewhere, I never really ordered one as I always thought the minty bit seemed a bit weird and I’m not that keen on rum but then I had to start making them, so obviously I had to try what I was making and I was more than pleasantly surprised.

The lime masks the rum flavour and the minty bit is pleasantly refreshing, having said that I should have know it would be great considering it’s so popular. (Go Cuba with your cigars and Drinks, and funky old cars)

So anyway my version is a little different than an original but I think I’ve mastered it, for my tastes at least; and my friends say they love them too.

You will need a blender for my version.

Sugar syrup 200ml

Freshly squeezed lime juice, 4 limes (no cheats there really is no substitute for  real lime juice and this way at least you get some vitamin C as well)

Mint leaves 10

Bacardi Rum, I could give an amount but everyone knows their own limits best so add however much you can handle.

Ice; fill the blender up to about the 500ml mark.

Blend all the ingredients in short sharp spurts so that you don’t make it a completely frozen drink, just a crushed ice drink.

Taste before you serve, you may want more sugar syrup or lime or mint it really depends on your tastes but this is how I like it.

 

Long Island Iced tea

 

We be drinkin’ the Long Island Iced Tea

¾ oz Vodka

¾ oz Tequila

¾ oz Gin

¾ oz White rum

¾ oz Triple sec

½ oz super fine sugar or sugar syrup

½ oz lemon juice

A dash of Coca cola

Combine all the ingredients accept the Coke shake it up add to an ice filled glass, or plastic cup if on the beach, add a dash of Coke for colour and flavour.

Ok so it’s not typically Caribbean but it was the choice of drink for that day and probably many others as this is a favourite of mine and many other people.

Mulled wine sorbet

 

Mulled wine sorbet

Well it’s Christmas but I’m in the Caribbean and its smokin’ hot everyday so nobody wants to drink a hot drink so this is a great option, it would also be a really good thing to do if you were doing a posh sit down meal around Christmas time, in-between the starter and the main course.

1 orange,

1 lemon

250ml 1 cup of red wine

3 cloves

1 tsp cinema

250ml 1 cup sugar syrup

1 egg white

Too make the sugar syrup

250ml water to 250g of sugar

or

2 ½ cups of water to 2 cups of sugar

Just melt the sugar in the water in a pan over a medium heat, as soon as it has dissolved it is ready. This will make more than you need for this particular recipe, but you can save the rest in the fridge for next time you make a sorbet or for Cocktails.

Grate the rind of the lemon and orange and squeeze them with a juicer. Put all the ingredients in a pan except the sugar syrup and the egg white, simmer for a minute so that all the flavours fuse together, then leave to cool with the sugar syrup in the fridge for a few hours.

When it is cool pour into your ice cream making machine and leave running for about an hour, when it is nearly frozen add the egg white. Leave for a further half hour.

When it starts to look like a sorbet put in a plastic container in the freezer. Ideally you need to leave it there for 24 hours to freeze deeply.

Bahama Mama Cocktail

 

Bahama Mama 

Dark Rum  x 1shot

Malibu x ½ shot

Coffee liqueur x ¼ shot

Lemon Juice a wedge squeezed

Pineapple juice, top up with

Combine all the alcoholic Ingredients in a cocktail mixer and shake, pour over the ice then top with pineapple juice and a squeeze of lemon. Or if you like you could blend all the ingredients up with ice for a frozen cocktail, or, like the picture float the coffee liquor on the top.

Cocktails

 

It’s not an all American drink, but you can happily find it in nearly any bar on the coast of south Florida and it’s an excellent drink to cool you down when basking on a hot humid beach. Don’t forget however that it’s got alcohol in it and fall asleep on your lounger, as you may wake up the same colour as your drink

Frozen strawberry daiquiri

Light rum     1 oz

Strawberry Schnapps    ½ oz

Lime juice    1 oz

Fine sugar    1 tsp

Fresh or frozen strawberries 1 oz

 

Combine all ingredients in blender with 1 cup of crushed ice and blend until smooth. Poor into Champagne flute, Martini glass or any glass you can find, Top with a fresh ripe strawberry and enjoy.

Recipe, Cocktail

Caipirinha

Cachaça rum     2 oz

Sugar   1 tsp

Lime    2 whole

Wash the lime and cut into quarters. Muddle sugar and lime in a cocktail shaker. Add Cachaça, Fill with crushed ice put lid on and shake. Pour into glass and serve with a straw.

Or Caiproska with vodka instep of rum, this is my choice as I’m not to keen on Rum