This months LUPEC was hosted by Bastille Bomb Thurs. Dec. 20th where the cocktails and the 6 members present were in holiday spirit.

MISTLETOE MARTINI OVERALL RATING...3*

4 parts vodka
1/2 oz. melon liquor such as Midori
splash of grenadine

Mix the vodka and melon liqueur in a martini shaker. Strain into a martini glass. Add grenadine. The grenadine will sink to the bottom of the glass making the drink red and green.

Comments:
Candy Cane-4*- BEAUTIFUL! sweet -n- strong
Naughty & Nice-4*- a sipper.
Bastille Bomb-3*- nice color-bit too strong.



AVOCADO DAIQUIRI-OVERALL RATING...2.75*

1/4 medium avocado
3/4 oz fresh lime juice
1 cup crushed ice
1 1/2 oz light rum
1 lime wedge

Crush ice in blender. Add rum, lime juice, and 1/4 medium avocado in blender. Blend until thoroughly mixed and smooth. Pour into glass and garnish with lime wedge.

Comments:
Red Bubbles-2*- Strong & Chewy!
Tropical Itch-3*- STRONG!
Naughty & Nice-3*- good w/ brunch


MULLED WINE-OVERALL RATING...5*

8 whole cloves
4 whole black peppercorns
4 (3 by 1/2 inch) strips fresh lemon zest
4 ( 3 by 1/2 inch) strips orange zest (I read this wrong and used lime zest last night)
4 cups dry red wine (I used Merlot)
1/2 cup kirsch or other cherry-flavored brandy
1 1/2 cups water
3/4 cup sugar
1 cinnamon stick
1 vanilla bean, in half

Preparation:
Put cloves, peppercorns and zest on cheesecloth, then tie closed to form a bag.
Combine wine, kirsch, water, sugar, cinnamon stick, vanilla bean and cheesecloth in a 4-quart saucepan and bring to a boil, stirring.
Simmer 10 minutes, serve warm.

I let mine steep for an hour before starting to boil and I forgot the vanilla bean.

comments:
Don't have the comments,they were left behind, but I assure you guys that it was the shit!

The November meeting was hosted by the Pink Squirrel. In attendance: Pink Squirrel, Italian Stinger, Candy Cane, Bastille Bomb, Red Bubbles and Tropical Itch.

We had a Thanksgiving themed party to celebrate everything we are thankful for. We had some tasty turkey legs, stuffing, mashed potatoes, pumpkin and apple pies.


Nantucket Red:
Champagne
Orange Juice
Lime Garnish
Served on the Rocks
Overall: 4 Stars
Tropical Itch: **** Light and refreshing
Italian Stinger: **** Tastes like deliciousness
Pink Squirrel" **** Reminds me of summer
Bastille Bomb: **** Very nice. Refreshing and bubbly
Candy Cane: **** Refreshing , clean, easy to drink
Red Bubbles: **** Light and sparkly!


Thanksgiving:
Gin
Dry Vermouth
Apricot Brandy
Lemon Juice
Served up
Overall: 3.5 Stars
Tropical Itch: **** Oh snap!
Pink Squirrel: **** Best Gin Drink. Ever.
Italian Stinger: *** Surprisingly drinkable..very yummy.
Candy Cane: ***. Very warming-tastier than expected.
Red Bubbles: *** Three of these and holiday stress disappears.
Bastille Bomb: **** Drinkable and strong. Holiday fun!

Amaretto Cranberry Kiss:
Amaretto
Vodka
Cranberry Juice
Splash of Orange Juice
Overall: 4 Stars
Bastille Bomb: **** Wonderful! Lovely to drink
Candy Cane: *** Fun drink-nice end to the night
Italian Stinger: **** Oh my! Could drink a dozen of these!
Pink Squirrel: **** Dessert drink extraordinare!
Red Bubbles: **** Lovely and amaretto-ey!
Tropical Itch: ***** Yummy! Love it!

So it has been a while..but we are still here....

September's LUPEC meeting was hosted by Dark and Stormy where 6 members were present. The theme for September was the "Roaring 20's!" 
 
 
MINT JULEP-OVERALL RATING...4*

4 fresh mint sprigs 
2 1/2 oz bourbon whiskey 
1 tsp powdered sugar 
2 tsp water 

Muddle mint leaves, powdered sugar, and water in a collins glass. Fill the glass with shaved or crushed ice and add bourbon. Top with more ice and garnish with a mint sprig. Serve with a straw. 
 
Comments:(not everyone had this drink) 
Tropical Itch -4*- sweet and minty and damn strong! 
Red Bubbles -4*- it's tasty, but don't smell it! 
Italian Stinger -4*- I'm so ready for the Derby!Yum! 
Bastille Bomb -4*- Strong! But good for after work. 
 
 
SOUTH SIDE- OVERALL RATING...2.5* 
 
1 1/3 cups fresh lemon juice 
2/3 cup Simple Syrup 
1/4 cup packed fresh mint leaves 
6 ounces Gin 
seltzer water 
 
Muddle mint, lemon juice and symple syrup until mint flavor has been released. Divide ice and gin evenly between each glass, add lemon mint mix and top off with seltzer water. Garnish with a lemon twist, if desired. 
 
Comments: 
Dame Melba -1*- sorry not a gin fan 
El Diablo -4- Frightingly good! Don't usually like gin. 
Italian Stinger -1- Like lemony mouthwash...gross! 
 
 
RUM COBBLER W/RUM- OVERALL RATING...4.25* 
 
2 oz dark rum 
3 oz club soda 
1 tsp sugar

Dissolve the sugar in club soda in an old-fashioned glass. Fill almost completely with crushed ice, and add the rum. Stir well. Garnish with a maraschino cherry, an orange and a lemon slice. Serve.

Comments: 
Red Bubbles -5*- Yum! Rum! 
Dame Melba -5*- sugar+vanilla=yum! 
Italian Stinger -4*- Yay Rum! 

 

 

Hello gals! So this months meeting was full of cherry goodness and was held at Dame Melba's on June 17th and was hosted by Dame Melba and Ruby in the Rough. 11 members were present.The following were served:


Tainted Cherries:
overall rating 2.5* out of 5

    -1 part (25ml) vodka
    -1 part (25ml) Cherry Brandy
    -3 parts (75ml) Orange Juice

Shake with ice and strain to a chilled cocktail glass garnish with a cherry.

comments:
Naughty + Nice-2*-so, so very orange, good for brunch
Red Bubbles-2*-tastes like a strong screw driver
Ruby in the Rough-3*-smooth and delicious
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Cherry Rum
overall rating 2.27* out of 5

Meeting 4 aka The Haitian Hoe Down was held on Sunday 4/22 and hosted by Rabbit's Revenge at Naughty but Nice's home- due to an unfortunate flooding incident. 3 Voodou inspired cocktails were served along with plantains, patties and two types of rice and peas.

In attendance were Italian Stinger, Rabbit's Revenge, Naughty but Nice, Red Bubbles, El Diablo, Dirty Girl Scout, Dark and Stormy, Pink Squirrel, Tropical Itch and her mom Bermudiana Rose.

Jamaican Zombie
 
1 oz (fresh) Lime Juice 
1 oz Apricot Brandy 
1 oz Dark Rum 
2 oz Light Rum 
2 oz Orange Juice 
1 oz Pineapple Juice 
1 oz Passion-fruit Juice 
2 tsp Powdered Sugar 
 

Directions: Mix all ingredients in a shaker filled with ice. Strain into a frosted zombie glass filled with fresh ice. Garnish with an orange slice and cherry.

comments:
Dark & Stormy- 5*- YUM RUM!
Bermudiana Rose(Tropical Itch's mom)- 4*- Very refreshing summer drink!!
Italian Stinger- 4*-  So yummy! Wish I could have two!

Overall Rating: 4.5 Stars
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Hex Breaker

2.0 scoops Lemon Ice Cream
1.0 oz Lemon juice
6.0 oz Orange juice
0.5 oz Peach Schnapps
2.0 oz Vodka

Directions: Start with Vodka. Add lemon ice cream, preferably Haagen Dazs. Add fruit juices (preferably some sort of fruit smoothie base). Top it all off with peach schnapps- blend. Enjoy!

comments:
Rabbits Revenge-5*- Sweet & Lovely!
Red Bubbles-5*- Light and peachy-summer yum!
Naughty & Nice-4*- Peachy!

Overall Rating 4.71 Stars
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Haitian Cooler

1 lemon wedge
2 lime wedges
2 tangerine (or orange) wedges
1 Tbsp. sugar
2 oz. Rhum Barbancourt
3 to 4 oz. of chilled ginger beer (or ale)

Muddle all of the citrus wedges with the sugar in the bottom of the old fashioned glass (or whatever you have on hand!). Fill the glass with ice, pour in the rum, and top with the ginger beer.

comments:
Italian Stinger-1*- Tastes like burning!
Tropical Itch-3*- Just a hair too spicy!
Pink Squirrel-2*- agreed too spicy...ewww!

Overall Rating 2.0 Starts

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"I'm troubled, I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish."
-Marianne Moore

The 3rd LUPEC meeting was hosted by Dirty Girl Scout and was held March 18, 2007 at 2pm. Fittingly, we toasted the women of the Emerald Isle! Three Irish themed cocktails were served as well as some delicious irish food, such as Beer and Cheese Bread, Cock of the North (oh my!) and salad with salmon, capers and homemade dressing! 10 members were present.

IRISH EYES

1 oz Kilbeggan Irish whiskey
1/4 oz green creme de menthe
2 oz heavy cream

Shake with ice, strain and serve in a rocks glass. Garnish with maraschino cherry.

comments:(rating1* to 5*)

Red Bubbles-3*- I don't like whisky, but I like this (drawing of a face w/ two x's for eyes)

Tropical itch-3*- OOH girl, it's like a super hardcore milk shake!

Bastille Bomb-2*- Cream is too heavy needs more mint.

overall rating- 2.3 *

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Bushmills O'Thentic Irish Kiss

1 1/2 oz Bushmills Irish Whiskey
1 oz peach schnapps
2 oz orange juice
5 oz ginger ale

Build in rocks glass with ice and garnish with a wedge of lime.

comments:(rating1* to 5*)

Italian Stinger-5*-So yummy! Just my sort of bubbly deliciousness!

Pink Squirrel-4*- Super Delicious!

Bastille Bomb-1*- Not a fan of the peach flavor.

overall rating-4.5*

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Irish Coffee

In a warm Irish Coffee glass: sugar to taste
2oz of Irish Whiskey.

Fill nearly to the brim of glass with strong black coffee, dilute sugar, then float fresh cream up to the brim, with the help of the back of your bar spoon.

comments:(rating1* to 5*)

Tropical Itch-4*- coffee + booze= terrific!

Rabbits Revenge-3*- Lovely!

Red Bubbles-2*- I like coffee, but not whisky

overall rating- not all members drank this cocktail to get an accurate rating

 

 

 

Astrud Gilberto is the vocalist known for recording the Grammy awarding winning bossa nova hit "The Girl From Ipanema."

The lady:

The Girl From Ipanema Cocktail:

Recipe:

THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA Drink Recipe

1 part Honey Flavored Vodka
1 part Brandy, Pear Flavored Liqueur
1 part Strawberry Liqueur
1 part Lychee Juice
1 part White Peach Puree
Pineapple Leaf
Lychee
Edible Flower

Shake with ice and strain to a rocks glass filled with crushed ice.

Fun Facts from wikipedia:

Astrud Gilberto was born Astrud Weinert the daughter of a Brazilian mother and a German father in the state of Bahia, and grew up in Rio de Janeiro. Astrud married João Gilberto in 1959, and they emigrated to the United States in 1963, when she performed on the influential Getz/Gilberto album with João Gilberto, Stan Getz and Antonio Carlos Jobim. Astrud had never performed professionally before, and joined the recordings by insistence of João Gilberto. In the mid-1960s the couple divorced.

The success of Gilberto's vocal work on the song "The Girl from Ipanema" quickly established her as a jazz star. In 1964, Gilberto appeared in the motion pictures Get Yourself a College Girl and The Hanged Man. Her first solo album was The Astrud Gilberto Album (1964), which became a chart album and was nominated in the category "album of the year" for a NARAS Grammy award[citation needed]. Gilberto began as an interpreter of Brazilian bossa nova and American jazz standards, but started recording her own compositions in the 1970s. Her repertoire included "The Shadow of your Smile", "It might as Well be Spring", "Love Story", "Fly me to the Moon", "Day by Day", "Here's that Rainy Day" and "Look to the Rainbow". She has recorded in her native Portuguese, as well as in English, Spanish, Italian, French, German and Japanese.

In the late sixties and early seventies, Gilberto recorded a series of TV commercials titled "Number One to the Sun" for Eastern Airlines, and became the voice of the airline for several years.[citation needed]

Due to excessive stage fright, Gilberto did not perform at night-clubs for many years, claiming that she felt intimidated by the closeness of the audience in clubs; for that reason, she would only perform at larger venues, such as theatres. Having taken acting classes at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting to help her overcome her difficulties with stage fright, in 1982 she resumed performing at clubs again. Subsequently, paradoxically, Gilberto has broken the attendance record of several club venues, such as for example, "Fat Tuesdays" (in NYC), SOB's (in NYC), and "The Jazz Café" (in London).[citation needed] In 1992, Gilberto was the first jazz artist to perform at the "House of Blues" (Chicago).[citation needed]

In 1982 Astrud Gilberto's son Marcelo Gilberto joined her group, and for more than a decade did extensive worldwide touring with her, as her bassist. In addition to his work as musician, Marcelo also collaborated with his mother as co-producer of the albums Live in New York (1996) and Temperance (1997). Son Gregory Lasorsa (also a musician) participated in the album Temperance, playing the guitar on the track of one of Astrud Gilberto's compositions, titled "Beautiful You" (which also featured vocals by Michael Franks).

 

 

Thank you for being a friend.

No. Really.

We'd like to think that today's cocktail was inspired by that quartet of feisty seniors, known as the Golden Girls.

Blanche, Rose, Dorothy and Sophia-we salute you!

The Cocktail:

Recipe for the Golden Girl:

2 parts Plymouth Gin
1 part Sherry
2 dashes Orange Bitters
1 dash Bitters

Shake with ice and strain to a chilled cocktail glass.

"And if you threw a party, and invited everyone you knew. You would see the biggest gift would be from me...."

"The Golden Girls was quite risqué for its time, as its main characters were four single older women who lived together, but were still up-to-date with pop culture and sexually active. Mild profanity and strong sexual innuendo were common on the program. The effects of Sophia's stroke, which according to Dorothy, "rendered her totally annoying," enabled the character to get away with much more than the other women. The show was extremely controversial for often tackling topics that, at the time of airing, were taboo for TV and often simply not addressed in society. These included the coming out of Blanche's brother, menopause, gun control, impotence, safe sex, domestic violence, suicide, cross-dressing, lesbianism, euthanasia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, artificial insemination and senility. Perhaps the most controversial episode involved Rose getting tested for HIV years after receiving an untested blood transfusion and having to wait 72 hours for the results."