Gettin' Out & Leslie's 70th

Kala & I are getting out on the AFA hiking pretty often. We've discovered a number of new trails and we've wandered off trail too. Keeps us sane and the AFA is a lot more sequestered than Blodgett Open Space where recently Kala counted 50 cars! Get out, spread out.

Our good friend Leslie Wilke celebrated her 70th birthday and we were on point for the online virtual gathering of her family and friends. It came off well. Many attending built Leslie's Sunrise cocktails, a libation I prepared for her previously and resprised on this auspicious day. Another cocktail made for virtual happy hours with the CoWW and family is the Rum Quarantini - a mule variant also shown below.

Recipes for this and the recently used Rum Quarantinis are provided below.
Leslie's Sunrise...

• 1 pt Galiano
• 1 pt Creme de Banane
• 2 pts Anejo Tequilla
• 1 tbsp Cream (if pt = small jigger)
• 1 pt OJ
• Splash of grenadine 
• Shake over crushed ice into martini glasses and splash in grenadine.

Rum Quarantini...

• 2 Aged Rum (I’ll use Pyrat reserve)
• Juice of 1 Lime (~.75)
• Juice of 1/2 of Cutie Orange (~.5)
• 1-2 Ginger Beer (preferably Cock & Bull); BTW, never buy diet Ginger Beer
• 1 tbsp maple syrup
• 1 dash Angostura bitters
• Orange peel twist 
• Shake all but Ginger Beer over ice, pour over ice in tall glass then top with GB and fold in.