The Orange Tyrant

Since PeachMint failed to catch on in the cuisine of the day, all checks, balances and guardrails have been removed. I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say Orange now, Orange tomorrow and Orange forever!!!!!!!!!!

To celebrate with the Orange Tyrant, we use 5 orange ingredients, one for each term of his great bigly beautiful presidency:

Step 1. Gather Ingredients:
60 mL Absolute Mandarin
30 mL Cointreau 
30 mL fresh squeezed OJ
1/2 tsp orange marmalade
2 dashes Orange bitters
Orange peel for decoration

Step 1. Assemble

Muddle marmalade and vodka in cocktail shaker:

Step 2. Assemble

Add OJ, Cointreau, bitters, ICE

Step 3. Shake

Step 4. Pour into cordial glass

Step 5. Garnish with a tribute to the Tyrant and cry:

The Mal-o-Lago

The following parable illustrates the importance of using peachmint in the cuisine of the day...

Fast forward 17 years, the President is finishing his fourth term in office, and seeking to step aside so his two older sons can take over as President and Vice-President. The club at Mar-a-Lago continues to be the place where members of the ultra-elite curry favor with the ruling family by purchasing ultra-premium memberships. To boost revenue after buying out and foreclosing on Congress, the Family has opened a slightly-less exclusive club next door where ordinary millionaires may attempt to ingratiate themselves by purchasing the signature drink, the Mal-o-Lago. This minty-peach daiquiri is priced is $1000, and you get to keep the plastic skull mug...

Step 1. Gather Ingredients:
2 cups frozen peaches
1/2-cup rum (Use rum obtained on your trip to the Cayman Islands to set up your off-shore holding company)
1/3 cup white Crem de Menthe
ICE
Blender
Mal-O-Lago mug (imported from China)

Step 2. Assemble

Charge blender with frozen peaches,

 2 handfuls of ICE,

    rum,

and Crem de Menthe:

Step 3. Blend:

Step 4. Serve

Step 5. Cry:

The In Peach, Mint

This is the drink that started this whole idea...

The assistance of the French in the American revolution and the special bond formed then is celebrated by mixing Kentucky Bourbon with French peach brandy.  The resulting elixir is then infused with smoke from the still-glowing ruins of our democracy. Decorated with an upside down American flag in a desperate cry for help, even though we know none is forthcoming...

STEP 1. Gather Ingredients:

2 oz quality bourbon
2/3 oz sweet vermouth
1/3 oz peach brandy
wood chips
mint leaves
ice
rocks glass
cocktail-size American flag

STEP 2. Smoke the glass:

On a non-flammable surface, ignite wood chips with a blowtorch fueled by conspiracy theories and foreign meddling. Invert serving glass over the embers.

STEP 3. Assemble the drink:

Charge cocktail shaker with mint leaves and liquors. Muddle for 15 seconds. Add ice and shake for 30 seconds.










STEP 4. Serve:

Double strain into the smoked rocks glass.

with a single large ice cube

Decorate with flag.

The Kiyiv Mule

Peach, ginger and mint work at crossed purposes through back channels in this refreshing take on an old classic. Embraced by a brown bear to celebrate the great Russian motherland's resurgent march across Ukraine, Syria, and all norms of international behavior.


STEP 1. Gather Ingredients:

30 mL vodka
15 mL peach vodka
5 mL fresh lime juice
60 mL ginger beer
mint leaves
ice
copper mule mug
great brown bear

STEP 2. Assemble

Muddle 4-5 mint leaves with vodka in the mug. Add remaining drink ingredients, then fill mug with ice. Stir to combine and chill.

STEP 3. Serve embraced by the bear.

The Bad Hombre

Traditional American peaches and mint are muddled with migrant liquor and chili peppers from across our southern border. Decorated with a piece of our somehow crumbling but as-yet unbuilt border fence

STEP 1. Gather the Ingredients:

2 oz. tequila reposado
1.5 oz peach shrub syrup*
1/2 oz fresh lime juice
mint leaves
jalapeno pepper
ice
martini glass
toy fence

Step 2. Assemble

 In a cocktail shaker, muddle one slice of pepper,  4-5 mint leaves and tequila for 15 seconds. 

Add syrup, lime juice and ice. Shake for 30 seconds. 

Step 3: Serve

Strain into a chilled martini class, serve up.

Garnish with a slice of pepper and decorate with fencing.

*Peach Shrub Syrup (from America's Test Kitchen)

2 cups fresh or thawed frozen peaches

1 cup sugar

6 oz water

2 oz cider vinegar

Bring fruit, sugar, water to boil, reduce heat, simmer 10 min. Remove from heat, mash with a potato masher or blend with immersion blender. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve. Mix in vinegar. Keeps in refrigerator for up to 1 week, shake well before using

In the Beginning...

Welcome to my new blog. I have been looking for a new creative outlet, and had the inspiration to make a line of cocktails inspired by the newsy times we live in. Over the next week, I will be dropping new recipes, each of which feature Peach, Mint and are infused with news of the day. These elixirs will be tasty, but (like the news of the day) not necessarily easy to swallow.  I will provide detailed instructions, and serving suggestions. Please stay tuned...