Jenn Plays With Food: May 2013

About Me

I'm a full-time working mom of 3 in the IT industry, with a great husband. When not spending time with the family, I like to spend my time in the kitchen. I like to cook. I love to eat. I adore entertaining people. I prefer not to go by any particular recipe, but experiment on my own. I'm not professionally trained in any way and I don't claim to be correct on anything I might post. Meals are often tossed together at the last minute. Sometimes I think about them during the day, sometimes I browse my cook book library and compare ingredients of great chefs before me. Sometimes I scour the internet, and sometimes they are literally pulled from the freezer and tossed into a pan.

I also used to dabble in cake decorating. {shameless plug: Cakes By Jenn Facebook}

These are those stories. I play with my food.

Saturday, May 25, 2013

No Mimosa, No Problem

Tonight was breakfast for dinner. Nothing special, just pancakes from Joy of Cooking, bacon and sausage. Sided up with orange juice for the girls. Kassidy has been asking to have pancakes all week, and I kept putting it off and putting it off. So last night I told her fine we'll do breakfast for dinner and do it right, for tonight. While there were no Mickey Mouse pancakes this evening, I did toss in some dark chocolate chips.

I chose today as Day 1 in potty training for Karsyn. So. Today was a long day. I'm glad I chose breakfast for dinner. Nothing better than comfort food, and something easy, while not quick, was certainly in order. But as 6:00 rolled around, I needed more than just comfort food. With a fresh bottle of orange juice in the fridge and breakfast being put on the table, a cocktail was indeed being called for. Yet, the breakfast standard mimosa could not be made as my stock of champagne was fresh out. It's one that honestly I don't keep stocked.

So, what to do? Open the cabinet and see what I can find of course! And voila, have fun, I did indeed. This turned out to not only be a great substitute for Mimosas, but dare I say better??

Ingredients:
Orange Juice
Triple Sec
Coconut Vodka
Blue Curacao
Ice

Place 3 or 4 ice cubes in the bottom of your drink shaker.
2.5 shot classes of the coconut vodka
1.5 shots of triple sec
pour orange juice to fill the shaker
Shake vigorously
pour drink into martini glass
pour about .5 shot glass of the blue curacao into the glass and watch it settle

Enjoy!