Happy Easter!
The Hospitality Hub: Traditional Easter Brunch Cocktails [by Jonathon Boas]
April 14, 2017 By Leave a Comment
Happy Easter from The Hospitality Hub! Enjoy these delicious and fun holiday cocktails:
Carrot Easter-ita
Margarita glass rimmed in green sugar
(use superfine sugar and green food coloring)
Make a blender full!
Recipe yields one drink.
2oz Patron Silver or your favorite Tequlia
1/2oz Grand Mariner, Cointreau or Triple Sec
1/2 freshly squeezed lemon (no seeds please!)
1oz OJ
1oz Carrot juice
1 scoop Crushed ice, cubed will do
Blend until slushy
Garnish with a Chocolate Carrot!
Peepitini
Chilled Martini Glass
Make several saucers with Easter colored Superfine sugar and food coloring to rim the glasses.
Make your favorite Martini or a pitcher full on ice.
2oz Double Cross Vodka or Bombay Sapphire Gin
1/4oz or a Dash of Dry Vermouth
Pour into a mixing glass with cubed ice for one, or in a pitcher for several, and stir until very cold. Be careful not to bruise the ice too much.
1 drop food coloring in bottom of glass with colored sugar rim
Garnish with a Peep on the rim and a Jelly Bean in the Glass
Chocolate Easter Egg, Cosmopolitan and Appletini Trio
Three Chilled Mini Martini Glasses
Build each with ice in three separate mixing tins, shake and strain.
Chocolate Egg
Swirl Chocolate Syrup decoratively around the inside of the glass
Pour into the tin
2oz Marshmallow Vodka
1/2oz Godiva Chocolate Liquor
1/2oz Baileys Irish Crème
Splash of 1/2 & 1/2
Shake and strain
Float small chocolate Easter egg on top. (without the foil!)
Cosmopolitan
2oz Tito’s Handmade Vodka
1/2oz Triple Sec
Juice of 1/2 fresh Lime
1oz Cranberry Juice
Shake and strain
Garnish with a Lime wheel or spritz and float a Lemon twist
Appletini
2oz of YOUR favorite vodka – Tito’s? Double Cross? Stoli?
1/2oz Green Apple Pucker
1/2oz Apple juice
Shake and strain
Garnish with Maraschino Cherry
Get Fancy and Stack ‘em up!
Image of the Day – April 13, 2017
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Newly opened “Twisted Olive” in the Wingate Hotel – check it out!
Image of the Day – April 12, 2017
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Niagara Falls by Michelle Petrazzoulo
Drug charges lodged in Super Walmart parking lot caper
April 10, 2017 By Leave a Comment
[From BuffaloNews.com]
An 80th Street woman arrested on drug charges early Sunday was attempting to enter cars in the parking lot of the Super Walmart on Military Road, Niagara Falls police said.
Joslyn C. Harris, 19, was charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance outside its original container. Police said they found Xanax on her…
READ FULL STORY HERE: http://buffalonews.com/2017/04/09/1979695/
Image of the Day – April 11, 2017
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Niagara Falls, USA - via Max Eddy
Image of the Day – April 10, 2017
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Dan Mocniac’s Night Life in the late eighties at the Polish Nook on Dyngus Day. Left to right: Myself, Gary Dalasandro, Dave Faccini, Stan Kalfas (owner of the Nook), Walter Ostenek (Canada’s Polka King. He had recorded lots of polka albums, lol!) Darrell Miller and Danny, sitting as usual. Walter always showed up on Dyngus Day and Stan (Stash) liked to sit in and sing the Laughing Polka! - via Ted Kerchner of The Real Old Falls Street Facebook group.