38% of Americans wouldn't buy Corona "under any circumstances" because of the Coronavirus outbreak.On the one hand, this message bears repeating. On the other, LOL, what a bunch of covidiots who believe this!
It's about to get all patriotic up in here... EZ SQUEEZE 4TH OF JULY ALL AMERICAN JELLO SHOTS! This treat is the perfect treat for your picnics, parties, and 4th of July themed birthdays and weddings!Both guns, the shotgun and the .50 caliber rifle, play central roles in two other videos. Each clip also ties into TV shows, so I might feature them in a future Sunday entertainment entry. Meanwhile, the guns make good props for this video.
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4TH OF JULY ALL AMERICAN JELLO SHOTS
Red Layer:
1 Pack EZ-Jello Strawberry Daiquiri Mix
2 1/2 cups (590 ml) Hot Water
1 1/2 cups (350 ml) UV Cherry Vodka
White Layer:
1 Pack EZ-Jello Pina Colada Mix
2 1/2 cups (590 ml) Hot Water
1 1/2 cups (350 ml) Coconut Rum
Blue Layer:
1 Pack EZ-Jello Blue Mai Tai
2 1/2 cups (590 ml) Hot Water
1 1/2 cups (350 ml) Blue Curacao
Refrigerate each layer before adding the next layer!
Each year on July 11th, people across America join together to mark National Mojito Day.Once again, I'm sharing recipes from Tipsy Bartender to mark the occasion, beginning with their basic instructional video, How to make a Mojito.
Known to be a favorite drink of author, Ernest Hemingway, the Mojito is a traditional Cuban highball consisting of white rum, sugar, lime juice, sparkling water and mint.
With a low alcohol content, this refreshing cocktail has found popularity in the summertime for its refreshing combination of sweetness, citrus and mint flavors.Lime wedges and mint leaves garnish an ice filled glass of Mojito.Although born in Cuba, the exact origin of the Mojito is under debate with theories with origins as early as 1586.
The Mojito is classic cocktail that was born in Cuba. It's the perfect mixture of mint, lime, rum, simple syrup and soda water. It's super easy to make and extremely delicious. Enjoy!Follow over the jump for the two most recent mojito recipes from Tipsy Bartender.
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MOJITO
1/2 Lime
12 Mint Leaves
1oz Simple Syrup
11/2oz White Rum
Top with Soda Water
The night before Thanksgiving is one of the biggest bar nights of the year along with New Year's Eve and St. Patrick's Day. To celebrate, I'm offering Thanksgiving Punch from Tipsy Bartender.
THANKSGIVING PUNCHI concluded my comment by noting that "I have lots more Thanksgiving drinks where those came from, especially if one likes apple and pumpkin pies." That works just as well as a transition here. Follow over the jump for more of this year's Thanksgiving drinks from Tipsy Bartender.
10 oz. (300ml) Apple Vodka
10 oz. (300ml) Pear Vodka
10 oz. (300ml) Cinnamon Whiskey
34 oz. (1020ml) Angry Orchard Cider
13 oz. (390ml) Apple Cider
13 oz. (390ml) Apple Juice
Apple Slices
Pear Slices
Cinnamon Sticks
PREPARATION
1. Add fruits to base of punch bowl before pouring over alcohols and mixers.
2. Drop in apple slices, pear slices, cinnamon sticks, star anise and cranberries and stir gently.
3. Enjoy responsibly!
BOOZY BUNNIESThe second recipe is for Easter Egg Shots.
1 Part Irish Cream
1 Part Amaretto
1 Part Butterscotch Schnapps
Splash Milk
Hollow Chocolate Bunnies
PREPARATION
1. Gently cut the top off of hollow chocolate bunnies. Set aside.
2. In an ice filled glass combine irish cream, butterscotch schnapps, amaretto and milk. Shake well.
3. Strain mix into bunnies and add straws. Enjoy responsibly!
EASTER EGG SHOTSI think Skyy is interested in these recipes as much for the candy as he is for the booze, if not more so. I don't blame him, although that's not the case for his Halloween drink recipes; those aren't nearly as candy-centric as his Easter drink recipes are.
1 oz. (30ml) Irish Cream
1 oz. (30ml) White Chocolate Liqueur
1/2 oz. (15ml) Peppermint Schnapps
Splash Milk
Cinnamon
Artificial Hay
Easter Eggs
PREPARATION
1. In an ice filled glass combine irish cream, white chocolate liqueur, peppermint schnapps and milk. Shake well.
2. Cut the top off of hollow easter eggs.
3. Place artificial hay in base of martini glass and place easter eggs in center.
4. Strain mix into egg and garnish with cinnamon. Enjoy responsibly!
Each year on July 19, people across the United States fill their glasses with a rum-based cocktail and toast to National Daiquiri Day. So, raise your glass and join all of the others in this celebration!As I did for Tipsy Bartender recipes for National Pina Colada Day and Tipsy Bartender recipes for National Mojito Day, I'm sharing three recipes from Tipsy Bartender to celebrate the booze holiday. Follow over the jump for them.
Daiquiri is a family of cocktails whose main ingredients are rum, citrus juice (typically lime) and sugar.
Tasting of sunshine and beaches, it might be hard to believe the daiquiri was likely invented by men blasting away in the mines of a small community off the coast of Cuba. Jennings Cox, an American engineer, supervised a mining operation located in a village named Daiquiri in 1898 during the Spanish-American War. Every day after work Cox and his employees would gather at the Venus bar. Then one day Cox mixed up Bacardi, lime, sugar in a tall glass of ice. Naming the new beverage after the Daiquiri mines, the drink soon became a staple in Havana. Eventually, shaved ice was used and sometimes lemons or both lemons and limes.
In 1909, Admiral Lucius W. Johnson, a U.S. Navy medical officer, tried Cox’s drink and subsequently introduced it to the Army and Navy Club in Washington, D.C. The popularity of the Daiquiri then increased over the next few decades.The Daiquiri was one of the favorite drinks of writer Ernest Hemingway and President John F. Kennedy.This drink is sometimes served frozen, combined and poured from a blender eliminating the need for manual pulverization. Drinks such as the frozen Daiquiri are often commercially made in machines which produce a texture similar to a smoothie and come in a wide variety of flavors. Another way to create a frozen Daiquiri is by using frozen limeade, which provides the required texture, sweetness and sourness all at one time.
150 years of tension may be coming to an end.The key word is "may." Vox posted that video in 2016 and relations have chilled since then. I'll save that for part 2, which I'll post on National Daiquiri Day 2017. Stay tuned, but first please follow over the jump for mojito recipes from Tipsy Bartender.
National Pina Colada Day is observed annually on July 10th. The Pina Colada is a sweet, rum-based cocktail. Along with rum, a Pina Colada includes cream of coconut and pineapple juice and is usually served blended or shaken with ice.I know exactly where to go for recipes -- Tipsy Bartender, which has instructions on How to make the best PIÑA COLADA!
Pina Colada literally means ‘strained pineapple’, a reference to the freshly pressed and strained pineapple juice used in the drink.
There are different claims to the invention of the Pina Colada beginning in 1952 in San Juan, each sticking to their story. The truth is that pineapple and rum have been together from the beginning of the distillation of rum. The first written reference to a Pina Colada was in 1922. This recipe, however, did not include coconut.
It's tropical. It's delicious and it's fun...THE PIÑA COLADA!Yes, the Pina Colada is the national drink of Puerto Rico, at least according to the people who promote tourism to the Commonwealth. That's something I didn't know before encountering the holiday.
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PINA COLADA
1 1/2 oz. (45ml) White Rum
1 1/2 oz. (45ml) Cream of Coconut
1 1/2 oz. (45ml) Pineapple Juice
Pineapple Slice
Suicide Squad Shots....The Joker and Harley Quinn!Skyy wasn't the only one thinking up drinks for these characters in this movie.** Follow over the jump for more.
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HARLEY QUINN SHOT
*Blue Layer:
Blue Curacao Syrup
Pina Colada
*White Layer:
Pina Colada Drink
Coconut Rum
*Pink Layer:
Pina Colada
Bubble Gum
White Rum
Strawberry Liqueur
Overproof Rum
Pink Sugar Rimmed Glass!
THE JOKER
*Green Layer:
Melon Liqueur
Coconut Rum
*White Layer:
Pina Colada Drink
Coconut Rum
Overproof Rum
Purple Sugar Rimmed Glass!
"So that's the story of how I'm celebrating a fake holiday that the Archdruid came up with" was how I ended the tale in Good news for animals in entertainment on the first Norther! It has now become the story of why I'm celebrating a second fake holiday that the Archdruid came up with. Never say that Greer hasn't had a lasting effect on my blogging.Druids would likely demand a Souther and a Norther, too, with a Souther Wombat and a Norther Lemming as animal mascots; I'll leave you to decide what if anything they do with goodies.Greer professed ignorance and wisely asked for someone else to inform us.
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Ah, but which solstice gets which holiday? At first, I was not amused by your suggestion, as I thought one parody holiday was enough. Then I slept on it and not only was I OK with it, I decided that Norther would come after the Winter Solstice and Souther would come after the Summer Solstice. Why would a lemming visit in the middle of summer? Norther would usually have little competition for holidays, at least in the U.S., most of the time. Next year, it would fall on January 15th, the day before MLK Day. Not a bad three-day weekend! Souther, on the other hand, falls in more crowded field. Next year, it would be July 16th, after a long series of patriotic holidays, Canada Day, 4th of July, and Bastille Day. Oh, well, why not another reason to celebrate?
As for the animals' actions, lemmings could stampede off a cliff and drop presents into the sea. I don't know what a stereotypical wombat thing to do is other than be the alternative to a panda for a joke about an animal that "eats roots, shoots, and leaves." Maybe eats roots, shoots, and leaves presents?
Pinku-sensei, we'll have to ask Cherokee for advice on the behavior of wombats. I admire them but have no personal experience of them.Cherokee Organics chimed in.
Hi JMG and Pinku-Sensei,That might have been helpful. Unfortunately, what he responded with had more to do with Greer's "Wombat of Entropy" than the kind of holiday animal I had in mind. Read about Fatso the Wombat at his blog. Oh, well, I have until July to figure out the story for the Souther Wombat.
Ooo, I do like the idea of a Souther wombat minor deity. Very cool. And thanks for the suggestion.
More on wombats tomorrow evening! ;-)! I'm busy writing a day early this evening.
National Ice Cream Day is observed each year on the 3rd Sunday in July and is a part of National Ice Cream Month. This day is a fun celebration enjoyed with a bowl, cup or cone filled with your favorite flavor of ice cream.That settles it. Souther will be celebrated with ice cream.* Follow over the jump for Tipsy Bartender recipes for ice cream drinks, which I promised I would do at the end of Tipsy Bartender recipes for National Mojito Day.
Thousands of years ago, people in the Persian Empire would put snow in a bowl, pour grape-juice concentrate over it and eat it as a treat. They did this when the weather was hot and used the snow saved in the cool-keeping underground chambers known as “yakhchal”, or taken from the snowfall that remained at the stop of mountains by the summer capital.
It is believed that ice cream was first introduced into the United States by Quaker colonists who brought their ice cream recipes with them. Their ice cream was sold at shops in New York and other cities during the colonial era.
Ben Franklin, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson enjoyed ice cream.
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- 1813 -First Lady Dolley Madison served ice cream at the Inaugural Ball.
- 1832 – African American confectioner, Augustus Jackson, created multiple ice cream recipes as well as a superior technique to manufacture ice cream.
- 1843 – Philadelphian, Nancy Johnson, received the first U.S. patent for a small-scale hand-cranked ice cream freezer.
- 1920 – Harry Burt puts the first ice cream trucks on the streets.
In 1984, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed July as National Ice Cream Month and established National Ice Cream Day as the third Sunday in the month of July.
It's a local custom that became a worldwide tradition.Why am I not surprised that Christmas trees became more widely popular through the British royal family, which is originally German, intermarrying with their sometimes not-so-distant cousins from Germany at least twice, and then from German emigration to the U.S. and elsewhere? Then again, I shouldn't complain, as I'm one-eighth German and one-eighth English, so I wouldn't exist without German immigration into the U.S.*
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The Christmas tree tradition as we know it today has a long and varied history.
It is believed to have roots in ancient cultures, where trees were decorated as part of celebrations.
In the 1500s and 1600s, the Christmas tree became a Germanic custom, with fir trees being a popular choice.
In the 1840s, the practice of having a Christmas tree in the home became more widespread, thanks in part to the influence of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, who were both of German descent. The Christmas tree also gained popularity in the United States during this time due to a large influx of German immigrants. The tradition was further popularized through the mass media, such as The Illustrated London News, and the publication of Christmas cards and books like Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Today, Christmas trees can be found in homes around the world and can even be spotted from satellite images of Christmas tree farms.
Why the story of the poinsettia is a troubling one.While I will still say that any day I learn something new is a good day, learning about Poinsett's key role in The Trail of Tears is enough to make me want to change the name I use for the plant. I take that fact a bit personally for reasons I described a decade ago.
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Depending on where you live, there is one plant that you can spot anywhere during the winter holiday season (outside of, well, Christmas trees): poinsettias. It was named for the first US minister to Mexico: Joel Poinsett. In Mexico, Poinsett saw the plant — called cuetlaxochitl by the Aztec and with a long history of use in the region — and shipped some cuttings back to the US.
Many around the world started calling the plant “poinsettia” to celebrate Poinsett’s legacy. But that legacy is a troubling one. Poinsett was a slave owner, a firm believer in American expansion, and during his tenure as secretary of war he oversaw the displacement of thousands of Native Americans. In his role as minister to Mexico, he meddled so much in local politics that he was asked to leave the country.
Because of that history — and the fact that the US still corners the lucrative poinsettia market while restricting their imports from Mexico — many people today reject the name poinsettia in favor of the plant’s Native name, cuetlaxochitl. Check out the video above for more on how the US got the poinsettia.
My wife, my ex-girlfriend, and my ex-wife all have Native American ancestry. At least two of them would qualify as Native Americans under U.S. government policy, and one of them is enrolled as a Cherokee...Now to choose between cuitlaxochitl and flor de noche buena. Decisions, decisions.
So I need to point out, as this is the Internet, LINKS are everything around here. They link to me, I link to them, people can follow through those links to new and exciting places that offer up drink recipes and NSFW comments about crazy Republicans.Super Bowl drink recipes it is. Of course, they're from Tipsy Bartender.
A jungle juice for each of the Super Bowl teams, Denver Broncos vs Carolina Panthers. Each of these jungle juices cost less than $50!I'm old enough to remember when the nickname of the Broncos defense was the Orange Crush, so if were making the first recipe, I'd use that instead of Sunkist.
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DENVER BRONCOS JUNGLE JUICE
2 (1.75L) Vodka
1 (.75L) Malibu Rum
6 (2L) Orange Soda
Oranges
Blackberries
CAROLINA PANTHERS JUNGLE JUICE
2 (1.75L) Vodka
1 (.75L) Peach Schnapps
3 (1 Gal) Polar Blast Hawaiian Punch
Blueberries
Blackberries
Limes
SUPER BOWL MARGARITA JUNGLE JUICEFor a couple months, Skyy had no Tipsy Girls in his video besides his girlfriend Emma. It turned out he noticed that he was slowing down, as I had pointed out in Tipsy Bartender drinks for Thanksgiving 2016, and thought he should eliminate the girls so he could post more videos. He was able to do that, but his viewers missed the girls. They returned last week. I'm glad he was able to find a balance.
5 Cups Tequila
1 1/2 Cups Grand Marnier
3 Cups Triple Sec
1 1/2 Cups Lime Juice
3 Cups Sweet & Sour
4L Mango Nectar
4 oz. (120ml) Blue Curaçao
Limes carved into footballs
Orange Slices
Strawberry Slices
*Bottle (750ml size)
October's NaBloPoMo Theme: DISH!Fortunately, the post on the website gives a spin I like better. Follow over the jump.
Let's dish on who does the cooking at your house, dreaded foods from childhood (that are still dreaded foods), and the people who created your favourite recipes this month with NaBloPoMo.
Food is definitely on the brain due to #BlogHerFood15 in Chicago on November 6th and 7th, but beyond that, colder weather means saying hello to favourite autumn dishes like chili and soups.
This is the perfect time to collect up recipes from your fellow NaBloPoMo'ers and to get your latest creations out there to the wider community.
You can read more about the new NaBloPoMo theme on our opening post.
I'll have more from Tipsy Bartender tomorrow, when I present this year's edition of Drink recipes for July 4th from Tipsy Bartender. Stay tuned and stay tipsy!I begin with the most recent video,
We give you two super fun drinks for the 4th of July holiday!I think Inna was trying to say either oppressed or repressed when she said that "women are pressed in Russia."
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4TH OF JULY IN A BOTTLE
Red Layer:
1 oz. (30ml) Strawberry Vodka
Frozen Strawberries
1 oz. (30ml) Strawberry Daiquiri Mix
1 oz. (30ml) Grenadine
Diced Strawberries
White Layer:
1 oz. (30ml) Coconut Vodka
1 oz. (30ml) Cream of Coconut
2 oz. (60ml) Pina Colada Drink
Blue Layer:
Blueberries
1 oz. (30ml) Blue Raspberry Vodka
2 oz. (60ml) Blue Curacao
THE DIVERSITY BOMB SHOT
Blue Raspberry Vodka
Blue Curacao
Pina Colada Drink
Coconut Rum
Grenadine
So what is the NaBloPoMo theme of the month?I'm ambivalent about this theme. On the one hand, this blog is about how to survive or delay collapse, which means it should be about practical things as much as ideas. That's been difficult for me, as I'm about ideas, so I've been working mostly on awareness and knowledge instead of skills and action. On the other, the prompts for this month work better for me than I expected, as they explore whether the blogger is a DIY person (not for anything big) or someone who hires others (generally yes), ask if the blogger has seen stuff being made (Maker Faires and 3D Printing, for example), and ask if the blogger cooks (yes). I certainly do cook and have posted recipes here, so I think I'm OK. Besides, there's always this out.
MAKE
The BlogHer community is a creative bunch. I've made your recipes, tried your craft tutorials, and even bookmarked a DIY post on renovating your bathroom. I'm going to get to that project one day.
This month we want to celebrate you and your creativity. Hopefully by writing about projects gone right (or even... er... wrong) you'll be inspired to roll up your sleeves and try something new. Support a food blogger by trying out her recipe and leaving a comment about your experience. Buy something handmade on Etsy. Or think about something that you know how to do well and whip up a tutorial that other people can follow.
The point is to get your hands dirty, try something new, and write about the experience. So take a deep breath, plug in the glue gun, and let's make something.
NaBloPoMo is what you make of it. At its core, all you need to do is post daily on your blog. The point of NaBloPoMo is not to be restricted by the theme, but instead to either take it or leave it. If you'll do better blogging every day based on what's happening in your world, throw aside the daily prompts.This means that if I don't feel like posting about building chicken coops, planting home gardens, installing solar power, or influencing local government to allow a homeowner to do such things, I don't have to. It also means I can get away with posting recipes from Tipsy Bartender. That's a relief.
Sign up for February's NaBloPoMo and make something.I already did and at least plan on making some noise. Speaking of noise, stay tuned for the Sunday entertainment entry, which will most likely be about the Super Bowl.
Nothing says St Patrick's day fun like this IRISH FISHBOWL.Welcome back, Sophia!
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IRISH FISHBOWL
Green Apples
Melon Balls
4 Leaf Clover Cookie Cutter
6 oz. (180ml) Jameson Irish Whiskey
4 oz. (120ml) Apple Juice
4 oz. (120ml) Sour Apple Pucker
4 oz. (120ml) Midori Melon Liqueur
2 Green Apple Sodas
1 1/2 oz. (45ml) Blue Curacao
Top with Apple Juice
Just arrived! Find out the top 10 baby names of 2018 from Social Security, the source for baby names each year!Once again, Emma, as in Stone and Watson, is the most popular girl's name and Liam, as in Hemsworth and Neeson, is the most popular boy's name. As for Logan, Wolverine's first name, it has fallen all the way down to tenth.
2,545 girls have a name, and it’s Arya. That’s according to Social Security data on last year’s baby names, which continues the trend of new parents naming their children after “Game of Thrones” characters. And though everyone’s favorite knife-wielding daughter of Winterfell was once again the show’s most popular namesake, other inhabitants of Westeros had a good showing as well: 516 girls named Khaleesi were born last year (as were, somewhat distressingly, 19 Caleesis, 14 Khaleesias, and five Khaleesies) in addition to 434 Yaras, 319 Lyannas, 125 Shaes, and 102 Renlys.CBS News reported on the change in rank instead of the raw numbers in "Game of Thrones" baby names are more popular than ever.
But wait, there’s more! 2018 also introduced the world to 58 Tyrions, 33 Briennes, 30 Jorahs, 29 Sansas, 21 Catelyns, 17 Ellarias, 15 Oberyns, 14 Theons, and 11 Gregors whom one hopes weren’t actually named after the Mountain. (His track record with children isn’t exactly great.)
The name Arya ranked 119th for female names, making a significant jump from 942nd place in 2010 - the year the show debuted. But another spelling of the name, Aria, was much more popular in 2018, ranking 19th.Khaleesi actually ranked 549th in 2018, not 2019. As for Yara, I associate that name with Yara Martinez, who acts in both "Jane the Virgin" and "The Tick," more than "Game of Thrones." Speaking of "Jane the Virgin," Xiomara, the name of Jane's mother, continued to increase in popularity, rising 130 places from 855 to 725. It might do that one more year, as this is the final season of the show.
Khaleesi, the title given to wives of nomadic warlords, rose nearly 100 spots in 2017, ranking 549th. Yara made one of the largest increases last year, jumping a few hundred spots to 672nd.
Jayne is back with some delicious, easy-to-make drink recipes - perfect for Mother's Day!A toast to mom! Speaking of which, it's time for me to call mine. Happy Mother's Day!
Happy EASTER!!!That was fun, but she makes me miss Skyy John the Tipsy Bartender, so here are two of his videos, beginning with Easter Egg Cocktail.
Party Shakers Easter Cocktails!
We know Easter won’t be the same this year, but we hope these cocktails will make it feel a little bit more fun while at home. We created a Baby Blue and a baby pink cocktail inspired by the peeps marshmallow candies. The taste of these cocktails are similar to candy. We blended them into a slushy consistency.
Blue Bunny
1 oz of white rum
1/2 oz of blue curaçao
1 oz of heavy whipping cream
Agave syrup
Directions: Grab Your blender add ice, add the rum, Blue Curacao, heavy whipping cream and agave into the blender. Now BLEND! Grab your glass, put agave syrup around the rim and then coat it with some sprinkles or small colorful candies. Pour your blended part into your glass, garnish with a peep candy and Enjoy!
Pink Bunny
1 oz of vodka
1 splash of strawberry puree
1 oz of heavy whipping cream
Agave syrup
Directions: Grab Your blender add ice, add the vodka, strawberry puree, heavy whipping cream and agave into the blender. Now BLEND! Grab your glass, put agave syrup around the rim and then coat it with some sprinkles or small colorful candies. Pour your blended part into your glass, garnish with a peep candy and Enjoy!
This creamy and vibrant martini is perfect to celebrate the spring festivities!That's a recipe I could have shared in More Tipsy Bartender drinks for Easter 2019, but decided to be a good environmentalist by conserving my resources. It came in handy today!
