Mom’s pour a lot of juice, and a lot of wine. Relaxing with a glass of wine at the end of a long day is scrumptious, but some days require more refreshment, herbs, and alcohol! These drink recipes highlight those elements and more while giving you a new and delightful spark to any afternoon. I mean, night. Any night.
Enjoy momma’s! You know you deserve it!
Mommy Juice
Ingredients:
Captain Morgan’s Spiced Rum
Mountain Dew
Directions:
Grab you a glass and fill it with ice. Pour about a shot and a half of Captain and fill the rest with Mountain Dew. Stir and you’re ready to go. It doesn’t sound too delicious, but it is. It has a calming taste to it, but it’s one to define on your own. It’s not too sweet, but just right. It is the perfect mixture especially if you do not like tasting alcohol in your drink. So, a forewarning to watch how many you have! These can catch up on you.
A Bi-Polar Breeze
Ingredients:
Kool-aid – Flavors, Tropical Punch, Cherry, Orange, Pineapple, etc. (Choose a 2-3 different flavors that you like. )
Vodka
Ice Tray
Lemon-Lime Soda (Sprite)
Sugar and a lime wedge
Directions:
Follow the instructs on the Kool-Aid Packet and make at least three assorted flavors. Pour the Kool-Aid into ice trays. Let them freeze. Once frozen fill the glass with a few of each kool-aid ice cube. Then add in your vodka, and lemon-lime soda. To start a vodka seven but it changes color and flavor the entire tine you’re drinking it. Enjoy! As you
For an extra breezy taste/look: cut the lime wedge in the middle and rub it along the rim of your glass. Then dip the top of your glass onto a plate of sugar and softly move in circular motions a few tines on the sugar. This will line your glasses rim with sugar giving it a more exciting look and feel.
Baby Firefly Sweet Tea
Ingredients:
Sweet Tea Vodka
Water
3 Lemon Wedges (One slice in the middle close to the Rhine to rub along the rime fo the glass)
Sugar
Directions:
Take the cut lemon wedge and rub it along the rim of your glass. Put glass on top of a plate of sugar and swirl it in circular motions 3 times. Carefully, pour ice in the glass. Pour in the sweet tea vodka. Depending on glass size will determine how much vodka you would like in there. pour in water and mix with a long spoon. Add lemon wedged on rim of glass for décor and squeeze one or two fresh lemon slices in the drink. And, wa la! You have one strong iced tea to kick it back with now.
A La Mia Bella Vita Vodka
Ingredients:
Pineapple Juice
Lemon-Lime Soda (Preferably Sprite)
Vodka (Preferably Titos)
Watermelon Chunks
Directions:
Fill a glass with ice. Pour in your amount of vodka you prefer. We suggest 1 ½ oz. Then pour in an ounce of Pineapple Juice and the rest fill with Sprite. Add chunks of watermelon for color, a hint of flavor and once you’re done you have liquor-soaked watermelon to snack on. A taste of the Caribbean is coming your way and you can only think it is a beautiful life the moment you take a sip.
Cilantro Limeade Vodka Recipe
Ingredients:
1 cup Limeade
2 ounces Vodka, or Gin
1 tablespoon Fresh Cilantro, finely minced
Directions:
Add a few ice cubes to a short cocktail glass, set aside. In a cocktail shaker add a few ice cubes, limeade, vodka and cilantro. Shake until the drink is cold and pour into the prepared glass. Taste first to make sure you have just right amount of cilantro with the limeade. They even each other out well and this drink is a striking one full of bliss.