Disaster Movies Cocktail Night...

Disaster movie night! Incredible how many movies there were to choose from! And these cocktails were far from disastrous--- it was a night of success and triumph in the bartending department...

 The first drink of the evening was 'The Titanic', based of course on the famous sea tragedy and the film.

Leonardo was not the king of the world in this case... Judith was. Because her drink was incredibly tasty and totally in keeping with the theme...

Here you can see the cold blue ocean and that pesky iceberg rearing out of the water.

Titanic I (nonalcoholic):
-rum raisin ice cream  (must be frozen into a cone shape prior to serving-- can make a cone with cardboard and baking paper)
- drop 'iceberg' into glass
- fill with blue gatorade

Titanic II:
- rum raisin ice cream
- rum (about 300ml.)
- 2 shots black vodka
- with with blue gatorade
(the alcoholic version comes out with murkier, nighttime water)

Rice Crispee squares... made here with barley puffs in place of rice crispees. These were meant to be shaped into balls and represent meteors from outer space. However, being the first time I've made these, I had no idea how sticky and impossible they are to mold. So, squares it was.

My drink was next... it presented some other problems...

The drink was based on the movie Outbreak and was meant to suggest an epidemic.

Getting the pox to stay afloat atop the beverage was harder than we'd expected. Using a syringe, I had to quickly drop as many alarming blemishes as I could before they all sank.

In the end-- it worked just long enough to take the picture.

Outbreak (alcoholic):
makes 5 drinks
- one tin if 1/2 peaches
- 250 ml. cream
- 5 ounces Cuarenta Y Tres
- add drops of grenadine with a syringe or eye dropper







Outbreak (nonalcoholic):
same recipe but in place of booze add dash of vanilla extract-- still delicious!

I forgot how disturbing this movie was until we watched the trailer!







Towering Inferno was next!

Remco brought in some red hot shots! The color of fire! The cinnamon taste was sharp and fiery as well. Something really nice for post-pregnancy!

Towering Inferno:
-3 parts vodka
- 1 part Hot Shots (or cinnamon schnapps)

Tastes like the candy red hots!

Arjen's drink was a doomsday affair based on the film The Day After Tomorrow. He represented the sharp, deep freeze after an atmospheric disaster with a lot of ice!

The Day After Tomorrow:
- 1 ounce lemon juice
- 1 1/2 ounces lime rum
- 1/2 ounce orange curacao
- add crushed lice (lots of it)
- blitz into a slushy with a processor

THE HULK! A genetically-altered human disaster. This was Astrid's brainstorm--- deliciously green and terrifying. The alcoholic version was far more threatening, but the non alcoholic was also fabulous!

Virgin jello shots had 1 part hot water, and 1 part cold water plus lemon jelly (stuff I got to flavour muffins after baking) think lemon curd, or lemon sirup could do as well

The Hulk:
Jello shots with alcohol: amount of water according to package instructions. 1 part hot water, 1 part gorzka. A little layer with colorant for the pants (and 2 eyes from bits of liquorice)


Try the alcoholic version and you too will be busting out of your pants at some point during the evening.

Consulting Mr. Boston, the cocktail god who taught Bacchus all he knew.

A brainwave! A Johnnie cocktail....

A little something sophisticated and devoid of disaster:
Johnnie Cocktail:
- 3/4 ounce tripel sec
- 1/2 ounce sloe gin
- 1 tsp. anisette
- shake with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass


What a fun and disastrous evening! Nest Friday is Sint Maarten's so we will be employing an all-Dutch theme and waiting for little rats to come singing and begging for candy!