Cocktails In The Time Of Covid

Whether it’s the end of an exhausting day or you’re just looking to pass the time during this ECQ, we don’t judge. Knocking back a few to wind down or loosen up might just be exactly what you need. You deserve it, ma. Just make sure you hydrate accordingly (hangovers suck) and please remember to drink responsibly.

Here are a few easy-to-make alcoholic refreshments that have been tried, tested, and sealed with our approval. Take note of the ingredients, so you know exactly what to look for on your next grocery run.

Rise & Slay

2 parts brewed coffee
1 part Bailey’s Irish Cream

(Advanced preparation needed. Not to be mistaken for substituting it for your morning cup of joe, this drink is meant to be prepared in the morning for late afternoon/early evening consumption)

Pour brewed coffee into an ice tray and freeze. Set aside the rest, in a pitcher or a jar, and chill. Wait a few hours.
Toss in frozen coffee cubes in a glass, add Bailey’s Irish Cream, and desired amount of chilled brew. Stir gently.

Sláinte! That’s pronounced “slawn-che”, which is commonly used as the Irish drinking toast. Now you know. You’re welcome.

Quarantini

3 oz. Tonic Water
2 tsp. Calamansi Syrup
1.5 oz Gin

Pour gin over ice. Add tonic water and calamansi syrup. Stir well.
Add some mint leaves or rosemary if they haven’t died on your balcony or gone mushy in the back of your fridge yet. Drink it with a straw (reusable, of course) if you’re trying to get buzzed faster.

Bonus: If you’re lucky enough to have extra help and are looking for ways to keep your kids busy, have them squeeze some fresh calamansi. Should take them a while; enough for a 30 minute bath.

What Tan

3 oz Water
3 Tbsp Lemon
2 Tbsp Maple Syrup
A dash of Cinnamon
1.5 oz Rum or Whiskey

Combine water, lemon, and maple syrup. Stir well and set aside. Pour your rum/whiskey over ice, add the lemonade mixture, and top it off with a dash of cinnamon, and stir.

This drink is a sneaky mother fucker. A few of these will be enough to knock you back to a different life, pre-kids, and you don’t wanna go down that rabbit hole.
Or do you?

Chuvaness

1 oz Lime juice
1 oz Orange juice
1 oz Four seasons or punch
1 oz Vodka

Pour vodka, lime juice, orange juice and 4 seasons over ice. Stir.

Toss in a slice of lime or lemon because you’re hella extra like that. Shit, add whatever fruit you have on hand and throw yourself a party. Get dressed up, blast some music, and go wild. Trust me, you’ve got time.
Just don’t forget to replenish the juice box you took from your child’s stash.

Lulla-bye

1 bottle of wine

Pop that bottle.
Pour into glass.

Go on Pinterest, start a board, and pin some photos for that small start-up project you’ve been wanting to do. Plop yourself on your couch and binge-watch Tiger King on Netflix (if you haven’t already). The culture shock from that show is sure to distract you, and you’ll finally understand why everyone and their mothers are hating on Carole Baskin. Who did it, by the way.

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