Birthday drink
Another weekend, another party to bartend at! 
This time around I had some fruit to work with – raspberries and blueberries. I didn’t touch the blueberries, but after a shaky start I’ve got the rough workings of a very tasty raspberry and orange drink:
- 80-90 ml. vodka
- 60 ml. Cointreau
- 2 handfuls fresh raspberries
- 1 cup ice
- Orange juice
- Lemonade
Blend the vodka, Cointreau, raspberries and ice until smooth. Half fill a tulip glass, then top with orange juice and a little lemonade and garnish with a twist of orange rind.
It’s not a complete drink yet – my measurements were rough and the flavour is missing some of the tartness I was aiming for. Maybe needs some lemon juice? A project for another weekend! 
- zac.
Take the boy out of hospitality but can’t take hospitality out of the boy. Something we are truly grateful for.
I have an idea to perfect this most delicious-sounding drink: skip the orange juice and lemonade. Instead, use the juice from a yet-to-be-determined number of freshly squeezed tangelos and lemons. Maybe a 4 to 1 ratio. And sugar the rim of the glass.
Now I want a cocktail, damn it!
That sounds interesting – though I’m worried that with that much lemon juice, the tartness of the lemon will wipe out the raspberry/Cointreau flavour mix.
Hmmmm….