Stay at Home Cocktails

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Stay at Home cocktails while sheltered at home for COVID-19.

Trust and hope that everyone out there is practicing  safety guidelines as issued by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Since COVID-19 has us Stay at Home a lot of us are missing our favorite cocktails.

Don’t know how many of you miss your bartenders but feel free to give them a shout out in the comments section. They deserve it!

But life goes on and we still need our favorite cocktails.

The big question is how to make your favorite cocktail with minimal complexity and time?

Buying the right cocktail mixes and liqueurs and additionally measuring and blending the ingredients can be challenging.

Here are a few easy-to-make cocktails with basic ingredients and effort.

Guidelines to Stay at Home  cocktails.

The key here is to keep it simple and never use more than  3/4 ingredients excluding ice.

From the feedback received many people want  to make Bloody Marys, Brandi Manhattans, and Margaritas at home.

Bloody Mary is easy but the other two can get a little tricky.

Also including a fun Rum and Gin based cocktail.

 

Starting with Bloody Mary

 

Bloody Mary is the easiest to make, mix your favorite vodka with a bloody mary mix of your choice.

Pour 1.50 oz of vodka into a tall glass filled with ice, and top with bloody mary mix.

Garnish can be celery, carrot, pickle, olives, bacon, or anything you choose.

If you’ve had enough of the Bloody Mary and are craving a change, simply switch to a Screwdriver.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vodka and orange juice.

Fill a glass with ice and pour 1.50 oz of Vodka and top with orange juice

Garnish with orange slice, maraschino cheery, or a sprig of rosemary for flavor (completely optional)

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Next up Margaritas

Margaritas are not necessarily difficult to make if you have a cocktail shaker at home.

Shake all ingredients over ice and empty it into a margarita glass.

If you don’t have a shaker at home, you could use a blender.

Instead of a margarita on rocks, you can simply enjoy a frozen margarita.

 

To simplify the process, use any brand of tequila, orange liqueur, and sweet & sour.

You can make sweet and sour at home by mixing lemon juice, lime juice, water, and simple syrup.

Or buy a bottle of sweet & sour  from the stores.

Fill a margarita glass with ice and add

1.50 oz of tequila

.75 oz orange liqueur (Triple Sec, Cointreau or any brand is fine)

1.50 oz of fruit mix

.75 oz of sweet & sour

Shake all ingredients in a cocktail shaker and empty it into a margarita glass with a salt rim. (optional)

The same ingredients can be blended for a frozen margarita.

Building the drink in the Margarita glass helps give the right consistency to the drink.

Not too thick or runny and perfect for the straw.

Additionally, the orange liqueur is used to make Sangrias.

Use 4 oz of red or white wine, 2 oz of fruit mix of your choice, .50 oz orange liqueur, and shake over ice.

Empty into glass and enjoy, no need to strain.

Berry mix goes well with red wine and light fruit mixes like strawberry, grapes, and peaches go well with white wine.

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Whisky Manhattan

 

 

 

2 oz whisky

1 dash of bitters

.50  oz sweet vermouth (Any Brand)

Shake all ingredients over ice and strain into a glass

Top with a splash of soda (optional)

Or just build a Manhattan over ice

Fill a whisky glass with ice add above ingredients and stir

Garnish with cherries and a slice of orange

No shake No Strain just enjoy!

Brandy can be substituted for whisky

Sweet Vermouth blends well with any spirit, gin, bourbon and even tequila.

Lime garnish goes well with all these drinks.

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Negroni for Gin Lovers

 

1 oz of Gin

1 oz of sweet vermouth

1 oz Campari

Fill an old fashioned glass with ice, pour all ingredients and stir with spoon.

Do not shake

Garnish with orange peel

Campari-Orange is a popular Italian aperitivo and enjoyed before a meal as an appetite stimulant.

The recipe calls for equal parts of Campari and orange juice, but since Campari is naturally bitter more orange juice would make it sweeter.

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Mojito Rum based Cuban Cocktail

Mojito is really a cool drink and one of the best ways to enjoy Rum in a cocktail

2.oz White Rum

1 dash Simple Syrup

4 mint leaves

3 fresh cut lime wedges

Blue berries (optional)

Club/Plain Soda

Gently crush 4 mint leaves in the palm of your hand and drop into a tall  glass

Squeeze & drop three lime wedges  into the glass

Add a few blue berries

Fill the Glass with ice

Add Rum, simple syrup and top with soda

Garnish with lime

Enjoy

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Cointreau, Sweet Vermouth, and Campari are good buys and are commonly used in many cocktails.

Fresh fruits like strawberries, blueberries, mangoes, peaches, and melons are great choices for your fruit mix.

 

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Lastly, while we are hunkered down at home, eating healthy food is important.

We often tend to eat more while we drink, which is not healthy.

No doubt eating food while drinking slows the rate of alcohol absorption, but can also add a few pounds.

Here is an alternative, a protein bar, that can help reduce alcohol absorption with fewer calories.

How does this work?

Click on the link below to read more or visit Sobar Protein Bar

Alcohol Absorbing Protein Bars

 

 

Always Drink Responsibly

Be Safe and Stay Healthy

Good Times!

~Amy