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Brandy & Absinthe Cocktail

Last night as a pre valentines date night (no kids) I made my hubby this new delicious cocktail and it did not disappoint! It is fresh and so smooth. I was inspired by a fellow bloggers instagram post and recipe here for her Villadry cocktail. I changed a few things and made it my own what a great drink idea!

Enjoy

xxx Malika

Cocktail Recipe:

  • 2 oz St Remy Signature
  • 1 oz pear simple syrup (*instructions below)
  • 1/2 lime
  • pink of salt
  • 1 oz liquid egg whites
  • 1 splash of absinthe
  • thyme for garnish

In a martini shaker over ice mix all ingredients (except absinthe) and shake for 1 min. Rinse glass with absinthe and leave remainder in glass. Pour into cocktail glass and throw sprig of thyme on top. Enjoy!

* To make pear simple syrup heat 1 cup of water with 1/2 cup of white sugar over medium heat with a sliced pear and a sprinkle of cinnamon. Reduce to simmer after sugar is dissolved for 15 min and then strain and cool liquid.

By | Feb 14th, 2021|Drinks|0 Comments
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Gin Campari Cocktail

Well it’s less then a week till Christmas and me and my hubby are kid free for the next 2 days! We made a nice happy hour Friday night and decided to use ingredients we already had on our bar cart. I wanted the drink to feel festive so I added a few garnishes to make it extra cheery. If you like gin you will like this drink!

Recipe:

  • 2 oz Gin
  • 1 oz Campari
  • Splash of Bitters
  • 1 oz simple sirup
  • sprig of Rosemary
  • 5 frozen cranberries

Shake in a martini shaker over ice, pour into glass and garnish with rosemary and frozen cranberries.

Enjoy!

XX Malika

By | Dec 20th, 2020|Drinks|0 Comments
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Hot Chocolate Station

This Holiday Season is definitely different for previous years. From Christmas shopping with a mask on 24/7 to not being able to see our friends and extended family to celebrate. I know it is hard on everybody! I sure am trying to find silver linings and things that we can do to keep up the festive cheer in our home and our hearts. We are playing lots of classic holiday movies and making hot chocolate and popcorn most nights. I decided it would be fun to set up a hot chocolate stain in the kitchen so that we are ready with all of the fixings.

We stocked up the station with cute holiday mugs, christmas tea, hot chocolate mix, candy cane toppings, marshmallows and chocolate peppermint swirl sticks. For the adults there is baileys ;). I used this cute crate and barrel tiered server to keep it nice and tidy in one corner of my kitchen and seeing it every day makes me smile. We need more smiles in 2020!!

xx Malika

By | Dec 10th, 2020|Drinks|0 Comments
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Apple Fashioned Smash

The holiday season is upon us and so is hosting friends and family. Me and my hubby just hosted our first Christmas party together last night. I always like to serve a signature cocktail to guests when they arrive. Recently we were in Montreal for a few days and I had this really nice drink at the airport coming home called an Apple Fashioned Smash. I don’t know what exactly they put in it but I knew it had apple juice and bourbon so I recreated my own version and they were a hit last night. I hope you like them!

xx Malika


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Apple Fashioned Smash Recipe
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Recipe type: Drink
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Serves: 1 drink
 
Ingredients
  • 2 shots Bulliet Bourbon Whiskey
  • ½ lime juiced
  • Dash of Old Fashioned Bitters
  • ¼ cup Fresh Pressed Apple Juice
  • Sprig of Rosemary
Instructions
  1. Fill a rocks glass with ice
  2. Add the bourbon, lime juice and bitters
  3. Top up with apple juice and stir.
  4. Add Rosemary sprig
  5. Enjoy

By | Dec 8th, 2019|Drinks|0 Comments
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Dairy Free Egg Nog

Wow, I can’t believe its only 2 weeks left till Christmas! December always flies by so fast. I recently went to a naturopath and got some food testing done…. It seems I am intolerant to a lot of foods, one of them being dairy. I have loved eggnog since I was a kid and since I have found that the store bought dairy free ones just haven’t seemed to taste anything like real eggnog, I decided it was time to make my own.

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Dairy Free Egg Nog
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Recipe type: Drink
Cuisine: Vegan
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Serves: 4
 
Ingredients
  • 1 cup cashews (soaked in water over night)
  • 1 tbs maple syrup
  • ½ cup toasted coconut
  • 1 can light coconut milk
  • ½ pitted dates (soak in water for 30 min prior)
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • ¼ tsp ground cloves
  • 1 tsp nutmeg
Instructions
  1. In a blender puree all the ingredients together util smooth, if the consistency is too thick, add some of the water you used to soak the dates.
  2. Serve over ice to chill and add Spiced Rum if desired!
  3. Enjoy

I hope you like this dairy free eggnog recipe, it sure is tasty! What is your favourite holiday recipe?

 

xx Malika

By | Dec 11th, 2017|Drinks|0 Comments
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Maple Whiskey Sour Cocktail

Wow, its been a while since my last blog post! I have been super busy with work and I was in Portugal travelling last week, it was so beautiful. If any of you are interested in me doing a blog post about my trip, please leave me a comment below?! I was asked last month to make a recipe for wayfair.com  with maple syrup in it and I decided to do a whiskey sour. They are so good, just the right amount of sweet and sour. I thought I would share the recipe here on my blog in case you missed it on my Facebook page. Enjoy!

xx Malika

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Maple Whiskey Sour Cocktail
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Recipe type: Drink
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Serves: 1
 
Ingredients
  • ½ shot maple syrup
  • 1 egg white
  • thyme
  • ½ lemon juiced
  • 1 shot whiskey (I used chives regal)
  • shot of bitters
Instructions
  1. Add all of the ingredients to a shaker filled with ice, shake vigorously.
  2. Pour over ice in a scotch glass, garnish with thyme.
  3. Serve and enjoy.

 

By | Mar 25th, 2017|Drinks|0 Comments
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Elderberry and Pomegranate Cocktail

Vodka and elderberry

It’s holiday time!! 🙂 Which means you may be having a cocktail or 2….! I usually just stick to wine but I do enjoy a cocktail from time to time. This pomegranate and elderberry sparkling drink is just delicious, so refreshing. I served it to my girlfriend the other night and we both loved it. When I serve drinks, I like to serve snacks too. I am loving these cassava chips from Pura Vida. Cassava is a nutty flavored, starchy tuber of South American origin. Sweet and crunchy, it has been a popular edible root for centuries among many ancient cultures of the world. It’s a great alternative to potato chips and its healthier too. What is your favourite holiday drink or cocktail?!!

xx Malika

Vodka Elderberry drink

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Elderberry and Pomegranate Cocktail
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Recipe type: Drink
Serves: 2
 
Ingredients
  • 3 shots vodka
  • sparkling pomegranate and elderberry juice
  • ice
Instructions
  1. Shake the vodka over ice and then pour over ice into glasses, top up with sparkling juice
  2. Serve and enjoy!

elderberry cocktail

By | Dec 23rd, 2015|Drinks|0 Comments
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Tropical Peach and Pineapple Rum Slushy’s

Fruity Rum beach cocktails

Happy Friday!! 🙂 This week was a bit of a hard one for me work wise, so I’m very glad to see the weekend arrive. I haven’t been posting any summer cocktails recently and I thought it was due time. I finally have a fully stocked bar and I haven’t been using it much….lol.  So last night I got out my blender and made these icy cold rum slushy drinks and they were perfect. I didn’t add any extra sweetener as I am avoiding extra sugar. They tasted great to me but if you like drinks a bit sweeter you could add a bit of honey to your mix. I can’t believe that that summer is over in a few short weeks! I hope you all have an amazing weekend!

xx Malika

Peach and Mango blended rum drink

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Tropical Peach and Pineapple Rum Slushy
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Recipe type: Drinks
Serves: 2
 
Ingredients
  • 2 shot of Malibu rum
  • ½ a try of ice cubes
  • ½ cup of almond milk
  • 1 cup of mixed tropical frozen fruit (I used pineapple, mango, strawberries and mango)
Instructions
  1. In a blender mix together all the ingredients for 2 minutes.
  2. Pour into glasses and serve immediately.
  3. Enjoy!

Blended Rum and tropical fruit smoothie

By | Aug 14th, 2015|Drinks|0 Comments
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Raspberry and Vanilla Cocktails

Rasberry cocktails

Hellooooo Weekend. 🙂 Such a gorgeous day today! We went to the park this morning and then to the pool for swim this afternoon. This may be the best weather in May ever……. I thought since it’s the weekend and its definitely patio season I would share another fruity cocktail recipe. This might be my last fruity recipe for a while. I just downloaded my kindle edition of the famous book I Quite Sugar.  Me and my friend an fellow blogger Karen plan to start the 8 week program to get rid of sugar from our diets…….should be an interesting challenge. 😉 Until I start my sugar purge June 1, I plan to get my fill on fruity cocktails and sweet fruit. Happy Weekend. 😉

xx Malika

Raspberry Vanilla Cocktail

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Raspberry and Vanilla Cocktail
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Recipe type: Drink
Serves: 2
 
Ingredients
  • 1.5 shots vodka
  • 1.5 shots vanilla liquor
  • 1 tbs simple syrup
  • 1 tsp orange blossom water
  • 1 dash bitters
  • 3 tbs frozen rasberries
  • ice
  • soda water to top up the glasses
Instructions
  1. In a martini shaker mix together all of the ingredients and shake over ice.
  2. Pour into 2 glasses with ice and top up with soda water.
  3. Serve and enjoy!

 Refreshing Rasberry Vanilla drinks

By | May 31st, 2015|Drinks|0 Comments
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Rhubarb Raspberry & Vodka Jam Jars

Rhubarb and Vanilla Cocktails

Happy Friday!! 🙂 It’s been an amazing week weather wise. My outdoor pool is open and I have been basking in the sun and swimming whenever I have free time. I definitely think this is going to be a VERY hot summer! This fresh summer cocktail is perfect for a backyard BBQ. 😉 I don’t buy rhubarb that often but I really do enjoy it. It reminds me of summers as a kid growing up on Salt Spring Island. My mom would get a fresh bunch from a neighbour and we would dip them in sugar. What’s your favourite summer food? I love serving drinks in these cute recycled jam jars. Have a great weekend!

xx Malika

Rhubarb and rasberry cocktails

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Rhubarb Raspberry & Vodka Jam Jars
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Recipe type: Drinks
Serves: 2
 
Ingredients
  • 2 Stalks of fresh Rhubarb
  • 1 oz simple syrup
  • ¼ cup frozen raspberries
  • 1.5 shots vanilla liquor
  • ½ cup water
  • 1/.5 shots vodka
  • dash of bitters
  • ½ lime, squeezed
Instructions
  1. In your blender or bullet puree the raspberries, lime juice, simple syrup and 1 stalk of rhubarb.
  2. In a martini shaker with ice shake up the fruit puree, the alcohol and the bitters and water.
  3. Put 4 iccd cubes into your jam jars and our in the cocktail.
  4. Cut the other rhubarb stalk in half and garnish the drink.
  5. Enjoy!

Rhubarb cocktail ingredients

By | May 22nd, 2015|Drinks|0 Comments
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