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What could be more fun during these lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer?....add your favorites here......





Beach





Book





Cocktails

One of my favorite cocktails is the "Blue Lagoon"

3/4 oz apple rum

3/4 oz coconut rum

1/2 oz banana liqueur

1/2 oz curacao

splash of pineapple juice

lemon slice and maraschino cherry to garnish

My summer books to read are:

Anthony Bourdain "The Nasty Bits"

Jodi Picoult "Plain Truth"

David Mc Cullough "John Adams"



One of my favorite beaches is "Siesta Key in Florida"

:-6:-6 I going with you Kathy Ellen.

"Cosmopolitan"

1&1/2 oz vodka or citrus-flavored vodka

1/2 oz cointreau

1 oz line juice

Combine in a shaker with crushed ice. Strain into rocks glass.

"Fuzzy Navel"

1 oz vodka

1 oz peach schnapps

4 oz orange juice

Sleeping in late....

CARLA;906494 wrote: :-6:-6 I going with you Kathy Ellen.


WOOOOHOOOOOO Carla:wah:

Come on over and bring your hula skirt and dancing toes:-6

"Sloe Gin Fizz"

1 shot sloe gin

sour mix

splash of soda water

cherry for garnish

Shake sloe gin, sour mix and ice.....add soda water.

Place drink in a tall glass with lots of ice

Mojito

Show: Melting Pot

Episode: Nuevo Latino - Cocktail Party Show



Ice

6 ounces light rum

12 mint sprigs, or spearmint, 8 roughly broken apart

6 tablespoons fresh lime juice

4 tablespoons sugar

Club soda

4 slices lime

Place ice in beverage shaker then add in the rum, 8 broken up mint sprigs, lime juice and sugar. Shake well and serve over ice in a high ball glass. Top off each glass with a splash of club soda.

Garnish each with a slice of lime and a sprig of mint.

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This summer book is for our "Bee Charmer" Idgie





http://bestsellers.about.com/od/fiction ... bees_r.htm

"Creamsicle"

2 oz orange juice

1 oz milk

1 oz vanilla liqueur

Pour over short glass with ice

Hi Chonsi.....I love sleeping in late and laying in bed for hours with lots of coffee watching tv

Hi Carla.....I must try a mojito this summer:-6

You won't be sorry they are so good Yummmm!! :-6

[QUOTE]Hi Carla.....I must try a mojito this summer[/QUOTE]

"Margarita"

4 oz tequila

2 oz cointreau

1 oz lemon juice

Pour in a rim salted margareta glass

This summer book is for Along-for-the-Ride"

"Blue Highways"





http://books.regehr.org/reviews/bluehighways.html

"SeaBreeze"

4 oz cranberry juice

1 oz vodka

1 oz grapefruit juice

Serve in a tumbler with ice

Pina Colada

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One of my favorite beaches is Fripp Island in South Carolina





http://www.islc.net/~fripplog/

CARLA;906533 wrote: Pina Colada


OMG they are so yummy:-6

"Malibu Bay Breeze"

1 & 1/2 oz Malibu rum

2 oz cranberry juice

3 oz pineapple juice

Pour into small glass with ice

"Chocolate Martini"

- 2 oz base spirit (vodka, light rum or brandy)

- 1/2 oz chocolate liqueur

- 1/2 oz white creme de cacao

- Chocolate syrup to coat rim of martini glass

Coat rim of martini glass with chocolate syrup. Mix all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice and strain into a martini glass.

Another lovely beach is Huntington State Park in South Carolina"





http://www.southcarolinaparks.com/park- ... /1020.aspx

This is the Beach in Del Mar California a block from my sisters house. I will be staying there for 2 weeks in August. :-6:-6

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This is a great chick book



"UP ISLAND"



http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5 ... _SH20_.jpg

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Low-Co ... 0641901553

CARLA;906545 wrote: This is the Beach in Del Mar California a block from my sisters house. I will be staying there for 2 weeks in August. :-6:-6


Del Mar Beach look absolutely beautiful Carla....WOOOHOOOO...2 weeks at a beach with your sister...sounds like loads of fun Carla:-6

"Long Island Ice Tea"



1 part vodka

1 part tequila

1 part rum

1 part gin

1 part triple sec

1 1/2 parts sweet and sour mix

1 splash Coca-Cola®

"Sex on the Beach"





1 1/2 oz vodka

3/4 oz peach schnapps

1/2 oz creme de cassis

2 oz orange juice

2 oz cranberry juice

orange slice for garnish

maraschino cherry for garnish

Preparation:

Pour all the ingredients into a shaker with ice cubes.

Shake well.

Strain into a highball glass.

Garnish with the orange slice and maraschino cherry.

Kathy Ellen;906543 wrote: Another lovely beach is Huntington State Park in South Carolina"



http://www.southcarolinaparks.com/park- ... /1020.aspx


I knew I recognized that Egret! :wah:

"Shandy"

A shandy is a refreshing drink found in the UK and Ireland....In America it's called a Ginger beer

1/2 glass of beer

1/2 glass of lemonade...or ginger ale, 7-up or sprite...

Mix together and add a slice of fruit

Kathy Ellen;906564 wrote: "Shandy"

A shandy is a refreshing drink found in the UK and Ireland....In America it's called a Ginger beer

1/2 glass of beer

1/2 glass of lemonade...or ginger ale, 7-up or sprite...

Mix together and add a slice of fruit


And it was seen drinking a Shandy or Sandy on the Beach.:wah:

Any Fat Book of Classic Poetry



Some hidden spot on the icy Colorado River



California Sparkling Wine

Ahhhhhh...that's lovely Red....

Well not to be contradictory but Jesus returning to Earth would be better than getting liquored up and passing out on the beach.

Or a cure for cancer.

Solving the worlds hunger crisis.

But thats just me.

Ocean City, NJ, any book by Agatha Christie and whatever the bartender is serving.:wah:

Maybe so, but a ice cold Mojito can't be beat in the summer time. :-6:-6

[QUOTE]Well not to be contradictory but Jesus returning to Earth would be better than getting liquored up and passing out on the beach.

Or a cure for cancer.

Solving the worlds hunger crisis.

But thats just me.[/QUOTE]

Kathy Ellen;906487 wrote: What could be more fun during these lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer?....add your favorites here......

Beach



Book



Cocktails




owww Kathy! i want to come too!

there's nothing i like better than goin to the beach! :-4

Oooolala I am with Carla on the drinks mmmmmmmm

Well due to the fact that the beach is a 13 hour drive from here, I think I will have to settle for a nice quiet day of stream fishing... awwww the sound of the water, birds, a nice breeze sigh....

Oh was I spose to be reading a book dang :-6

minks;906588 wrote: Oooolala I am with Carla on the drinks mmmmmmmm

Well due to the fact that the beach is a 13 hour drive from here, I think I will have to settle for a nice quiet day of stream fishing... awwww the sound of the water, birds, a nice breeze sigh....

Oh was I spose to be reading a book dang :-6


When you do make it to the beach Minks, where do you go?

Kathy Ellen;906492 wrote: [IMG]

One of my favorite cocktails is the "Blue Lagoon"

3/4 oz apple rum

3/4 oz coconut rum

1/2 oz banana liqueur

1/2 oz curacao

splash of pineapple juice

lemon slice and maraschino cherry to garnish


Hey sweet lady, hope you had a great 4th! :yh_flag We tried your blue lagoons on the 4th......and tried them and tried them and tried them :wah: Yep, they are a keeper. Excellent drink but you forgot one thing.....need to put a limit on how many to drink. :p We had a great time BBQing, chatting with friends and trying new drinks. :yh_dance

Were you bad Mustang?:sneaky:

[QUOTE=Mustang;908455]Hey sweet lady, hope you had a great 4th! We tried your blue lagoons on the 4th......and tried them and tried them and tried them Yep, they are a keeper. Excellent drink but you forgot one thing.....need to put a limit on how many to drink. :p We had a great time BBQing, chatting with friends and trying new drinks.

Hello Mustang:-6

I'm so happy that you like my drink "Blue Lagoon." It's a lovely drink, but you do need to only have maybe 2 So glad you had a nice 4th of July. It's so nice to just sit around with friends and chew the fat, isn't it:wah: That's what I plan to do all summer.

It was very quiet at the beach, but at least the rain held out until the fireworks ended:-6 My company is coming down this week sometime so things will be busy here at the beach. Have a great night.

Hubby plans to run out in the am and I'm planning to call you on the phone. Game?

Sorry KE, the phone needed charging, hubby never went out and I ended up taking a nap yesterday. Really tired from the night before.

I've somehow missed this great thread. So glad you pointed it out, Kathy - haven't time to read it all now, but I'll be back.

Keep me a spot in the sun, please, and can one of you ask the waiter to put some champers on ice for later!!! Catch you all again, soon!!

:-6

Idgie;912873 wrote: KAHLUA COLADA

1 1/2 oz. Kahlua

1/2 oz. Rum

2 oz. Coconut Cream

2 oz. Pineapple Juice

1/2 oz. cream

Blend ingredients with 1/2 cup crushed ice. Blend at slow speed until smooth. Pour into a collins glass and serve with a wedge of pineapple.




Mustang will be trying this one for sure, Thanks Idgie :-4

The beaches are a bit chilly here now, but hopefully on Sunday the sun will be shining and I'll be going with the fam to Manly!!!!

Beaches!!!!

Kathy's beach is just wonderful. Another American beach I love is Misquamicut, Rhode Island.

There's some wild and wonderful beaches in the west of Ireland too.

Books - my book club's next one is Elizabeth Gilbert's "Eat, pray, love". I haven't started it yet. Looks interesting.



It's dawn here, so a bit early for a cocktail. Either coffee or maybe champers???

:sneaky:

I'm not doing too well with Eat, Pray, Love - I think I may be allergic to this writer!! Has anyone else read the book?

Back to the beach and cocktails!