Top secret recipes_ sodas, smoothies, sp - Todd Wilbur [39]
1 cup frozen sliced peaches
2 ounces champagne
1 ounce peach schnapps
1 ounce vodka
4 ounces (½ cup) Kern’s peach
nectar
2 or 3 ice cubes
1. Combine all of the ingredients in a blender. Blend on high speed for approximately 30 seconds or until ice is completely crushed and the drink is smooth.
2. Pour into a 12-ounce glass and serve with a straw.
• MAKES 1 DRINK.
P.F. CHANG’S BUDDHA’S DREAM
Even though bartenders are instructed to make this creamy drink without adding ice, go ahead and thicken yours up by adding a few cubes to the blender for more of a shake-like drink with the perfect richness level.
¾ ounce Malibu rum
½ ounce Bacardi light rum
½ ounce Myers’s dark rum
¾ ripe banana
4 ounces (½ cup) pineapple juice
1 large scoop vanilla ice cream
dash grenadine
GARNISH
maraschino cherry
1. Combine all ingredients except grenadine in a blender. Blend until smooth.
2. Drizzle grenadine around the inside of a 14-ounce stemmed glass.
3. Pour the drink into the glass, add a maraschino cherry on a toothpick, and serve with a straw.
• MAKES 1 DRINK.
P.F. CHANG’S HEAT WAVE
Go from zero to hero in seconds with this easy-to-make, and always refreshing, light rum drink.
1¼ ounces Bacardi light rum
1¼ ounces peach schnapps
4 ounces (½ cup) pineapple juice
splash grenadine
GARNISH
pineapple slice
maraschino cherry
paper umbrella
1. Fill a 16-ounce glass with ice.
2. Combine all ingredients in glass over ice. Shake or stir and garnish with a pineapple wedge and maraschino cherry speared on a paper umbrella. Add a straw and serve.
• MAKES 1 DRINK.
P.F. CHANG’S NUTTY UNCLE CHANG’S FAVORITE
You will thaw out a box of frozen strawberries, Grasshopper, to make this most delicious drink in a blender, with rums and juice and amaretto. Ah, yes, you have learned much, my son.
1 ounce Malibu rum
1 ounce Bacardi light rum
½ ounce amaretto liqueur
1½ ounces (3 tablespoons)
frozen sweetened sliced
strawberries, thawed
2 ounces (¼ cup) pineapple juice
½ cup ice
GARNISH
pineapple slice
maraschino cherry
paper umbrella
1. Combine all ingredients in a blender until ice is crushed.
2. Pour into a 14-ounce stemmed glass. Add a pineapple slice and maraschino cherry speared on a paper umbrella. Serve with a straw.
• MAKES 1 DRINK.
P.F. CHANG’S THE POOLSIDE
Got pool? Make drink.
1¼ ounces Captain Morgan’s
spiced rum
1¼ ounces Malibu rum
2 ounces (¼ cup) orange juice
2 ounces (¼ cup) pineapple juice
splash Sprite
GARNISH
lemon wedge
lime wedge
1. Fill a 16-ounce glass with ice.
2. Combine the rums and juices in the glass, and stir.
3. Add a splash of Sprite, then garnish the drink with a lemon wedge and lime wedge on the rim of the glass. Toss in a straw and serve.
• MAKES 1 DRINK.
PLANET HOLLYWOOD THE COMET
Arnie, Bruce, Sly, where are you guys going? What’s that? To cash in all of your Planet Hollywood stock to buy a dirt bike? Why so gloomy? You still get to share a cool dirt bike. Here, better have a drink. This one’s perfect because it’s the chain’s signature drink and it’s really big. It comes in one of those 22-ounce souvenir glasses. You guys probably have a few of those lying around the house, right? Go ask your wives. Oops, sorry, Bruce.
1 ounce vodka
1 ounce Captain Morgan spiced
rum
1 ounce Myers’s rum
3 ounces (approx. cup)
pineapple juice
3 ounces (approx.cup) sweet
& sour mix (from page 231)
3 ounces (approx. cup)
cranberry juice
¾ ounce DeKuyper Razzmatazz
raspberry schnapps
GARNISH
orange wedge
maraschino cherry
1. Fill a 22-ounce glass with ice.
2. Combine all ingredients, except Razzmatazz, in a shaker and shake well.
3. Pour over ice and add Razzmatazz as a floater to the top of the drink.
4. Garnish with an orange wedge on the rim of the glass, drop in a cherry, add a straw, and serve.
• MAKES 1 DRINK.
PLANET HOLLYWOOD COOL RUNNING
The impressive ingredients list makes for an equally impressive cocktail. Serve this with a 7-dollar cheeseburger, crank up some clips of bad Stallone movies, and it