Your Weekend Cocktail
The Lemon Float
Freely adapted from Joe’s Lemon Drop, available at Plate World Cuisine in Colorado Springs. Joe is a damn fine bartender, but my version is prettier — Melissa made me practice making it. A lot. Sure, it’s a girly drink, but it’s also a great way to get my wife to drink something with a high proof.
You’ll need:
A martini glass.
Some sugar.
1-1/2 ounces of premium citron vodka.
1/2 ounce of Cointreau.
1/2 ounce of Chambord.
1 teaspoon of simple syrup (Just sugar fully dissolved in water. Make a big batch ahead of time and refrigerate. Alternately, you can try using a teaspoon of sugar, but it won’t quite dissolve in the cocktail.)
Juice of 1/2 lemon.
1 drop of vanilla extract.
Rub the exposed end of the lemon around the rim of the glass, then sugar the rim. Pour the Chambord into the glass, careful not to mess up the sugar.
In a cocktail shaker, mix the rest of the ingredients over ice and shake vigorously for 15 seconds. Here’s the fun part. Over the underside of a tablespoon, slowly — slowly — pour the cocktail into the glass. Done correctly, the liquid will hit the sides of the glass, leaving the Chambord mostly undisturbed.
Drink quickly. Repeat until naked.
TO: Stephen Green
RE: APOSTATE!!!!
All martinis should be done with GIN.
In this case, I’d prefer a citron flavored version.
Get better, bro. We NEED you.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[Alcohol, the last gift of the relenting gods. The one substance that allows us to illucidate Life's 'puzzle'.]
P.S. I just wish I could remember the answer in the morning…..
P.P.S. It looks delicious!
Is there a place on this site with all the various recipes?
I like the repeat until naked part. But, that pretty much requires that I wait to make this one when I am not alone.
Stephen,
I know, you’re known far and wide as “Martini Boy”, but that gives you no license to debase vodka with your recipes.
Oh, wait, flavored by the mfr. is hardly premium vodka.
The very PC incorrect DC resturant of the 70′s, The Serbian Crown, introduced me to flavored vodka’s, they took premium vodka, added whole citrus, berry or whatever and froze for several weeks.
The only mfr. flavored vodka worth the time was Stoli’s “grass”.
Oh well, you’re back to blogging, can’t be any better news than that, regardless of what you’re drinking.
Be well my friend,
Mike
TO: Stephen
RE: There You Have It!
“I know, you’re known far and wide Martini Boy”, but that gives you no license to debase vodka with your recipes.” — – MikeD
You’re catching it from ‘both sides now’, bro.
Where’s Carly Simon when we REALLY need her?
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[NOOOooobody expects the Martini Inquisition! -- a Monty Python moment (paraphrased)]
TO: All
RE: THIS….
…is the beginnings of the Wars of the [Martini] Reformation!
On one side you have the martini purists, a la moi; “GIN or Death!”
On the other side you have the vodka purists, a la MikeD. [Note: He'll have to come up with his own credo.]
In the middle, we have the hapless unfortunates, such as VodkaBoy; torn between his immature tastes for tasteless alcohol and his desire to explore the possibilities of an unfettered world of alcohol.
What will become of it/us all?
Stay tuned….
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[When the elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.]
P.S. Why am I suddenly in mind of watching drunken Sumo wrestling?
alcohol– the cause, and cure, out of all life’s problems!
Sound good, but before we met, my wife had an unfortunate incident involving chambord-based cocktails, a post-food-poisoning empty stomach, and a four-star restaurant. I don’t think she’d drink one of these.
Have one for Boris Yeltsin — actually, if it’s for Yeltsin have 2, 3, 4, . . .
TO: rbj
RE: Yeltsin
“Have one for Boris Yeltsin — actually, if it’s for Yeltsin have 2, 3, 4, . . ” — rbj
I have to admit….
….I admire a guy whole stand on a a tank and order it to fire on a bunch of Commies trying to suborn the democratic process he started.
Here’s to YOU Yeltsie, babe. We miss ya. And we bet the Russians are missing you too.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
As a former (reformed?) bartender, I have to admit to a bias against calling drinks of this nature “martinis”. I prefer to call them shots.
As a bonus, it’s an even speedier route to nudity (as long as you avoid that magic line of over intoxication).
Now, must stop by the liquor store before the weekend as this drink looks tasty, indeed.
Wow. Like a yard sale: comments all over the place. First, don’t pay close attention to someone who uses an apostrophe in a plural noun; second, the name of the drink did not include “martini”, so the vodka/gin argument is a waste of time, and third, the most important part of the recipe was the last line. Steven, thanks for posting. It’s a real treat to have you online.
Pay even less attention to someone who can’t spell “Stephen”. heh.
Well, I’m not much for girly drinks. But as another former bartender, this is the best one out there. It’s politely called Ladies’ Delight, but most commonly known as an Orgasm
6 oz sweet cream
1/2 shot Kaluah
1/2 shot Amaretto
1/2 shot Bailey’s Irish Cream
Build on ice, shake and strain.
For a sweeter, more frothy drink, add 1/2 scoop ice cream (vanilla bean is best, if you don’t have homemade), and blend.
This one is guaranteed, boys. She will absolutely love it.