To get in the mood for St. Patrick's Day, set up a "Make Your Drink Green" bar and let the girls help themselves. Fill one ice bucket with bottles of a light Irish beer (such as Harp) and another with bottles of white wine. Arrange beer and wine glasses and green food coloring nearby. Have everyone tint their drinks green.
Also set out the ingredients for a specialty cocktail and write the recipe for the drink, so your guests can play bartender. This interesting cocktail features Irish whiskey making it wonderfully appropriate for the holiday. It combines the whiskey with fresh ginger, lemon juice, apricot jam, and orange liquor.
To look at the recipe, read more.
From Food and Wine
Ingredients
2 thin fresh ginger slices
1 teaspoon apricot jam
1/4 ounce fresh lemon juice
Ice
2 ounces Irish whiskey
1/2 ounce Grand Marnier
1 lemon twist
Directions
- In a cocktail shaker, muddle the ginger with the jam and lemon juice.
- Add ice and the whiskey and Grand Marnier; shake well. Strain into an ice-filled rocks glass. Garnish with the lemon twist.
Makes 1 drink.
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This sounds yum!!
1Drink looks good...but I COVET those glasses! So chic.
2This Irish girl says thumbs down to the idea of making things green. But the drink does sound good.
3Ah to be sure....you know if you gave up drinking for lent it is OK to imbibe on St. Patrick's day. He says so!
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