For Black Peppercorn Syrup:
Combine all ingredients in a small saucepan over medium-high heat, stirring until sugar has dissolved.
Bring to a boil and then reduce heat to bring mixture to a simmer; cook for 20 minutes. Remove from heat and cool to room temperature.
Strain the cooled syrup and refrigerate it in a container with a tightfitting lid.
For Martini:
Combine all ingredients in a shaker filled with ice. Stir with a bar spoon, and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
Spread sugar over a small plate. Pour lemon juice onto another small plate. Dip the rim of a martini glass in the lemon juice, then into the sugar to coat.
Fill cocktail shaker with ice. Add vodka, black cherry juice, grapefruit juice, and agave nectar. Cover shaker with lid and shake vigorously until chilled, about 10 seconds. Strain drink into prepared martini glass and garnish with maraschino cherry.
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uns, drizzled with Black Pepper Vinaigrette.
Black Pepper Vinaigrette:
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Rinse clams thoroughly.
Place in 5 cups of water and bring to a boil.
As soon as clams start to open, remove from stove and set aside and drain.
Prepare black beans by soaking in warm water and mashing it.
Heat oil; add garlic and black bean.
Add broth, sugar, oyster sauce, shoyu, salt and ajinomoto.
Make cornstarch paste by adding water to the cornstarch.
Add to sauce to thicken.
Set tofu in a bowl that will fit in a steamer basket, wok or deep wide pan; cover tofu.
Place on a rack over about 1-inch of boiling water in pan.
Cover and steam until hot, about 10 minutes.
Serve warm tofu, topped with Black Bean Sauce or honey.
Combine ingredients in a shaker.
Stirred, not shaken.
Pour into martini glasses.
Attach a small orchid to rim of glass.
Enjoy!
Place all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with about 1/2 cup ice. Shake and pour into a martini glass.
Enjoy!
Simple syrup: In a small saucepan, combine 1 cup sugar with 1 cup water and bring to a boil. Simmer until the sugar is dissolved about 3 minutes. Store in a closed container in refrigerator.
Rim of Glass: Line the rim of a martini glass with honey and dip into graham cracker crumbs, coating the rim with crumbs.
Martini: Combine vanilla vodka, fresh key lime juice, simple syrup, half and half and ice in a martini shaker. Shake well until very cold. Strain into martini glass. Garnish with cinnamon stick and lime wedge.
Mix first 6 ingredients together and allow flavors to mix for one hour.
Add softened cream cheese and mix well. Use reserved olive liquid to thin if dip is too thick.
Chill overnight.
Serve in Martini glass with a skewer of additional olives or pearl onions, surrounded by raw veggies or crackers of your choice.
**This recipe can be made low fat, by using fat free cream cheese**.
Pour all ingredients into a martini shaker filled with ice.
Then Shake -- Shake -- Shake and pour into a martini glass with a few black raspberries on the bottom and a strawberry hanging on the side.
Cheers!
Drizzle chocolate syrup in chilled martini glass. Rub marshmallow cremem around the rim of the martini glass and coate with crushed graham crackers.
Shake vodka and liqueur over ice and pour into glass.
Place large marshmallow on skewer and dip end in chocolate syrup then in crackers. Put on top of drink, serve happy guests!
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Fill your martini shaker with crushed ice and use a chilled martini glass.
Put all ingredients in shaker and shake for a minute or so.
Pour into glass. Grind a little nutmeg on top.
You can also rim the glass with cinnamon sugar and put in a cinnamon stick.
Enjoy!
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Make the spice recipe as listed above. Store in
Add Godiva chocolate liqueur, black cherry vodka, coconut rum, and ice cubes into a coctail shaker.
Shake well for 4 seconds and strain into a martini glass.
Garnish (sprinkle) chocolate shavings into the drink.
Add all ingredients to a martini shaker full of ice; shake until ice cold, about 30 seconds.
Pour into a martini glass and garnish with orange peel and cherry.
Combine Godiva Original Liqueur, Captain Morgan Parrot Bay Coconut Rum, and Smirnoff Black Cherry Vodka.
Shake with ice and strain into martini glass.
Garnish with chocolate shavings.
Combine peach schnapps & cranberry juice in a martini shaker with ice.
Shake well and strain into a martini glass.
Using the back of a spoon or a pourer spout, carefully pour the Blavod on the edge of the glass so that it rests on top, causing a layered look.
In a martini shaker, fill with about 1 cup of ice.
Add Creme de Cacao, vodka, and Chambord.
Shake well.
Pour into chilled martini glasses.