Martini Marathon Day 20 – Green Tea Martini

Green Tea Martini

Good evening! It’s my father’s birthday today so my parents came home for supper. We had an incredible opera cake for dessert with green tea to wash it down. Of course we had way too much cake, and because of extreme stuffing, we left most of the tea on the table. Once they left I though, “hmmmmm…let’s make a martini with these leftovers” (the tea not the cake!).

Green Tea Martini

Ingredients

  • 2 Parts Vodka Citron
  • 1 Part Grand Marnier
  • 1 Part Chilled Green Tea
  • Sugar for the rim
  • Lime juice for the rim
  • Lime slices for garnish

Preparation

Start by rimming a chilled martini glass with the lime juice and sugar. Pour the Vodka Citron, Grand Marnier and green tea in a shaker filled with ice. Shake until very cold. Strain into the rimmed martini glass and garnish with lime slices.

Appreciation

Oh my! this is a good surprise! The green tea martini is refreshing and actually tastes like tea. Nice! When you think the alcohol is going to become too intense, the sugar and lime from the rim pops to the rescue and blends all the ingredients in a smooth flavor. You have to try this martini. When I was done with it, I wished I had made a pitcher…but no…what a fool. I give it nine dolphin out of ten.

Enjoy!

VG Cocktail: Gin Rickey (L.A. Noire)

Gin Rickey

My fiancée and I are currently enjoying L.A. Noire for Xbox 360. It is pretty good: the characters are interesting, the story is well written and has intrigue, it’s full of clichés that had to be there. The gameplay is simple but solid: interview suspects, collect clues, drive around L.A. and shoot bad guys. It reminds me of old point and click adventures, which is a good thing!

The cocktail for today actually comes from the game. Without spoiling anything for you, at some point there is a clue, a bar tab, with classic cocktails of the time (mostly whiskey based ;)). One of them is a classic I never had the chance to try: the Gin Rickey. It is incredibly refreshing! If you like Gin tonics, you are going to love this one!

Gin Rickey

  • 2 parts Gin
  • 1 part Lime juice
  • Carbonated Water
  • Lime wedge for garnish
  • Crushed Ice

This cocktail is prepared directly in a short glass. Pour the gin and the lime juice on the crushed ice and fill the rest with carbonated water. Stir gently and add a lime wedge for garnish.

See! Pretty simple! Make yourself one for your next L.A. Noire case and enjoy! 🙂

Sexy & Refreshing: the Kiwitini

The fresh and sexy Kiwitini

WOW! I don’t know about you but today was a fantastic sunny day for me. For the first time in the year I could stroll around the city wearing nothing but my Jack Daniel’s t-shirt…and pants off course. The point is: no coat! I needed something fresh to go along with the warm day, so my wife and I checked the fridge and found lonely kiwis. PERFECT!

The Kiwitini

  • 3 parts Vodka or Lemon Vodka
  • 1/2 to 1 skinned kiwi
  • 1 tsp simple syrup
  • Kiwi slice for garnish

Skin the kiwi and reserve one slice. Muddle the skinned kiwi with the simple syrup in a cocktail shaker. Once you have a nice kiwi paste, add ice and the vodka. Words of advice, if your kiwis don’t taste a lot, don’t use lemon vodka as the lemon taste will be too strong. Shake well and strain in a chilled cocktail glass. Add the reserved kiwi slice as garnish.

BOOM! Enjoy!