Cocktail Year - Week One

Cocktail Year - Week One

After the success of our cocktails over Christmas, we have decided to make drinking cocktails part of EVERY weekend in 2016. I know everyone else is committed to dry January and all that, but not us.  We are all about the cocktails.  Wine is soooooo 2015.

I have a huge list of cocktails that I want to try on Pinterest.  but this weekend was all about the Margarita.  

Our inspiration came from here, and although there are loads of variations we decided to stick with the classic recipe. 

The Tequila and Triple Sec came from Waitrose (where there is an amazing selection of booze) and the limes came from the Co-op.

Olmeca Altos 100% Agave Tequila

Gabriel Bonner Curacao Triple Sec

Limes

The worlds best cocktail shaker from Debenhams.

These bad boys got us very drunk, very quickly and I forgot to take a photo of the finished product (oops - hic).  However it should look this (preferably in a nicer glass):

CLASSIC MARGARITA RECIPE

PREP: 5 MINS COOK: 0 MINS TOTAL: 5 MINS

YIELD: 2 cocktail glasses

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 shots Olmeca Altos Tequila
• 1 shot Gabriel Bonner Curacao Triple Sec (orange liqueur)
• 1/2  freshly-squeezed lime juice
• 2 shots simple sugar syrup 
• Ice
• 
  
• DIRECTIONS:

Add all the ingredients to a cocktail shaker, and shake until the ice has broken down.  

Pour into the kitschest cocktail glass you can find.

Serve immediately, garnished with an extra lime wedge if you are fancy.

Drink.

Make another one.

Drink that.

Then pass out in a state of bliss :)

What to do when it won't stop raining..

As soon as Christmas is over, my attention turns to my garden - I have a Pinterest board for both my back and front gardens and I am impatient to get started on them.

However, my plans are being buggered up by the rain and my garden looks sad, neglected and WET.

So I decided to embrace the endless rain and get photographing.  I was inspired by this photo by Bator Horvath on FlickR, but I have not yet got to grips with the clone stamp on Photoshop (goal for this year):

So these are my little attempts - what do you think?

I love the concentric circles that happen with each plop of rain.  I wanted to get the splash, but need to understand my camera settings better for this.

Raindrops on windows make me think of the Sound of Music (so do whiskers on kittens and brown paper packages tied up with string)...

I don't have many flowers or leaves to photograph at this time of year, but the ones I do have were sparkling :)

Rain rain go away  - come again another day (and when you do I will be ready with the right camera settings and a clone stamp tool).

Happy rain day blog land.