Tropical Cosmopolitan

As visitors to this website know, Pam and I enjoy our evening cocktail hours, and I love playing the role of mixologist. Why? Maybe it harkens back to my childhood, when I mixed chemicals from my Glibert Chemistry Set to see what might happen. News flash: Mixing cocktails is way more fun, and safer!

While I may never earn a spot in the Mixology Hall of Fame (like Henry Ramos, whose Ramos Gin Fizz, a gin and egg white cocktail, required 12 minutes of shaking and employed dozens of "shaker boys" to meet the demand in the 1890s), we enjoy going "out of the box" from time to time and try something new.

Our preferred spirit is vodka, and our "go-to" cocktails include lemon drops, French martinis and Cosmopolitans, always served in a martini glass or coup. Nothing else will do.

This recipe is a variation on a Cosmo, which I call the "Tropical Cosmopolitan." Since we live in the tropics for all practical purposes, why not?

Here it is:

Tropical Cosmopolitan

Ingredients:

2 oz. vodka
1 oz. cranberry juice
1 oz. pineapple juice
1 oz. Triple Sec or Cointreau

Combine and shake vigorously -- but not for 12 minutes unless you want to.

We create our own ice cubes from various juices, and usually top with one or two of those.
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Salud!

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