Weekend Drinks

Here are two drinks recipes - perhaps one more suitable for Friday/Saturday night and maybe the other one for Sunday night....? :)

Bloody Mary

This is a great cocktail to make at home as you need some store cupboard ingredients - chances are when you have it anywhere else, it won't be that great and will literally just consist of vodka and tomato juice. But there's so much more to it than that....

• Ice
• 75ml Vodka
• 2 tbsp lemon juice (bottled is fine if you haven't got lemons)
• 1 tsp Worcester sauce
• Dash of Tabasco or to taste
• 1/4 tsp celery salt
• 150ml tomato juice
• Dash of red wine

Put the ice, vodka, lemon juice, Worcester sauce, Tabasco and celery salt in a tall glass and stir a little. 

Add the tomato juice and give it another stir. Add the red wine. Drink!

Flamingo optional

You can chop and change different elements of this recipe - A Beautiful Mess have some great ideas such as using Jalapeños. 

Vanilla Chai

Here is a great recipe I picked up from one of my favourite YouTube-rs Estee Lalonde.
The recipe can be found on the old version of her website - click here. Here is the recipe as she describes on her video.

• 2 cups of water
• 2 peppercorns
• 2 cardamon pods
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1/4 tsp ginger
• 1/4 tsp nutmeg
• 2 tea bags - you can use decaf if you prefer
• 1 tsp brown sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• Milk

Combine the first six ingredients and simmer for a few minutes. 

Take off the heat and add the brown sugar (sweetener works fine too), vanilla and tea bags to stew (length of time depends on how strong you like your tea - but about 2 minutes).

Strain into your mug and add the milk.

Again, you could make this into a latte, by heating up the milk beforehand and then using a milk frother before adding the tea.

If you'd like more drink-related posts let me know in the comments!
L xx