Here's Some Holiday Drink Ideas (add your own)

[cincygreg]

Saw these, and thought some of them looked pretty darn tasty.

Drink Ideas


More drink ideas

Feel free to add a few of your own.

I've mentioned it many times, but if you serve hot chocolate (even with a bit of booze in it) to your guests, just drop a candy cane in it. kinda hang it on the side. They can stir their hot chocolate with it and give it some of the minty taste, then they can finish their candy cane.

Cinnamon sticks work well too to give it a cinnamon taste, or just sprinkle a little cinnamon in it.

Happy Ho Ho!


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[reason]

Recipe:

Glass

Egg Nog (non United Dairy Farmer variety)

Rum

[Sean Pa]

Recipe:
Glass

Scotch

[cincygreg]

Ok, you are getting way too technical now. [img]wink.gif[/img] LOL!

I'm waiting for the skip the glass, pass the bottle around post.


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[travelinman]

Trav's Fathers New Years Eve Punch

2 quarts fruit cocktail
1 quart vodka
2 bottles Champaign
2 bottles ginger ale
Block of ice

24 hours before the party drain the fruit cocktail well and let sit in a colander for a few hours to dry out. Put fruit back into it's container and replace the liquid with the vodka.

After the guests start to arrive tell them your going to make a Champaign punch.

Put ice block in punch bowl.

Pour fruit over ice making sure to look like it's the first time the jar has been opened

Pour Champaign and ginger ale over ice and serve, making sure every glass gets some fruit.

Take keys and provide places to sleep.

[Dulcinea]

I like the ideas from your links, greg. Every Christmas time a couple of guys down the hall bring in a large crockpot and have a batch of mulled cider going all day long. They have cookies and plates/cups and the aroma wafts down the hall. I don't think they get much done that day, but these are guys that decorate their shared cubicle for the holidays (all of them - they even decorated for the cicadas this year).

And just a couple of weeks ago one of the guys got married to one of my friends. So I figure I'm good for at least two cups this year. I'll bring some cookies too.

[gae]

Recipe:

Glass

Ice

Scotch

[cincygreg]

Thanks Al. Most look pretty easy to make.

KInda gives you that homespun holiday feeling.

Setting up and decorating the tree with the family around. All with cider or cocoa or whatever.

Very Norman Rockwell.

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[gae]

Since we're in flyover country, we all need to know what we're missing.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Drinkers might want to keep a clear head when ordering a martini at New York's historic Algonquin Hotel or they might pay $10,000 for that cold sip.

The landmark hotel, where famed wit Dorothy Parker and fellow literary lights at the Round Table imbibed, offers a $10,000 martini, complete with a loose diamond at the bottom.

No one has ordered one yet, in the martini's first week on the menu, but the hotel hopes some romantic soul will buy one any day now.

"We haven't had any buyers yet, but a lot of people are talking about it," said Anthony Melchiorri, the hotel's general manager, on Wednesday.

The drink is designed to fit with tradition at the Algonquin, where Round Table members including Parker, writer Robert Benchley, playwright George S. Kaufman and "The New Yorker" magazine founder Harold Ross gathered regularly.

Today, Parker's ode to the martini adorns hotel napkins: "I love a martini -- but two at the most. Three I'm under the table; Four, I'm under the host."

Parker's response to the $10,000 martini might be mixed, the manager conceded.

"I think she would like the idea so long as she'd get to drink it," he said. "I don't think she'd care about the diamond, but she'd care about the martini."

Fear not, the manager added, no one can really order the martini by mistake. The tipple requires 72 hours' notice, and buyers meet with a jeweler to select a gem and with hotel staff to ensure the cocktail is delivered to the right table.

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[cincygreg]

I Heard about that. Amazing $10,000.00 for a martini.

That thing better come with a wakeup call and an iron clad excuse. [img]wink.gif[/img] [img]eek.gif[/img]

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