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The sangria looks delicious, although I've never had one. I'm thinking it might be time to try it!

I'm mixing cranberry juice and vodka for Memorial Day, although last night it was just beer with salt and a twist of lime.

We're mixing Dr. Pepper with Goldschlagger. Hubby loves it.
Thanks for the contest!

Key Lime Margaritas

I would love to learn how to make a good mojito. I'm new to the world of mixology, so I think that's a good place to start. :)

Thanks for this giveaway. We're having Malibu Rum and cranberry juice. Thanks for this giveaway.

rum and coke

I have never made any kind of mixed drinks, so I am not familiar with mixology but would sure like to be! The drinks look delicious and fun.

basil lime gimlets are my new favorite. i muddle the basil with the lime and add some good quality vodka or gin and then serve it straight up in a martini glass. it's the best!

We've been making Chocolate martinis and boy are they good. Would love to try out some more recipes.

Margaritas by the pitchersfull........

Mmmmmojitos...

Nothing today, it's more of a family and kids thing at our house, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't whip up a batch of Margaritas at the drop of a hat...any hat.....

I'm brewing some iced tea today.

I may accidentally pour some Stoli in it.

Stranger things have happened. :D

Mojitos and gin & tonics with lime... fresh!

Tonight we are having champagne...the rest of the summer...my husband and I are thinking it's the summer of the rum.

Margaritas and Mai Tais!
Would love to try some sangrias!
Thanks :)

I want to learn a good cocktail with (preferably) or without alchohol BUT sugar free or as close to that as possilbe...fruit in its natural juice is ok

Sangrias and Mojitos! Of all flavors!

Margaritas because I can make them
I've tried making Sangria a few times and haven't gotten the hang of it, I'd love this book!

Just making white wine spritzers today but would love a good recipe for Sangria!

I'd like to learn to make a pitcher full of Rum anything. I love me my rum.

I would LOOVVE this book!

I actually really want to make the limoncello that was on the site today.

I'd love to make Mojitos this summer and we just got back from Barcelona couple of weeks ago and I loved the Sangria which is also on my list of todos.

Peach Sangria -- just love it! I would love to test lots more varieties though!

Rhubarb Ginger Spritzers! Yum!

Lemon & Thyme anything, a la Jean Georges

Margaritas (Mango) and Mojitos (Lychee)

daiquiris are my favorite!

I love Sangria. It is nice and sweet and fruity! Lately we have only been making margaritas and funky things that we create.

White sangria (with champagne, gin, pineapple juice) is the order for the summer!

Last night I tried to make a black cherry soda by adding juice concentrate to sparkling water, it was not tasty so I added some Kijafa, Danish cherry wine and it reminded me of the great drugstore treat, Cherry Smash. will do more experimenting with light fruity concoctions.

Today I'm making a simple drink, cabernet sauvignon & ginger ale. It's so good and perfect for sitting on the porch and watching the grass grow.

Mostly making all kinds of margaritas, but would love to try Sangria, it's been years since I've had it. Thank you!

A pitcher of daiquiris would hit the spot.

I've been on a negroni kick lately.

...mixing up a icy, cold pitcher of Lemon Drops. YUM!

Mojitos!

mixing up lemonade with mint!

we just made sangria today!

My husband always mixes up a batch of strawberry daiquiris when it's nice outside.
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I'm trying to figure out some sort of cocktail of lemonade, vodka and frangelico. It tastes exactly like chocolate cake and that's amazing.

Lemonade with mint for the kids and some rum for the grownups.

I made a strawberry lemonade. I picked my own strawberries from a local farm and blended them with lemonade and a little vodka. Then I sliced some more berries and put them in a glass with ice. Then put on a really pretty lemon garnish. It was delish.

limonada

lemonade

I quite liked that strawberry basil martini. I might have another one...and another!

i will be making rasberry martinis

mojitos and a big jug of sangria

Peach Fresca with gin and a lime.

I would like to know how to make white wine sangrias. For me that's the perfect summer drink.

I don't know anything about mixing drinks. I'd like to learn about ones that taste good, but won't pack on too many calories.

we just got a margarator, so margaritas and daiquiris today!

Preferred summer drinks are Gin and Tonics or if lounging at the beach or by the pool, Pina Coladas. I love Sangria (esp white from a local tapas place), but just don't make it because I don't have any good recipes, so this would be perfect.

I would love to learn how to make some refreshing, colorful summer drinks like sangrias, frescas, lemon drops. Thanks so much for the giveaway!

Margaritas & Jameson and Gingers

Margaritas are my specialty.

I'm giving the Sidecar a try.

potato vodka, limoncello, triple sec, fresh squeezed lemon, splash of Target's clearance organic blueberry juice, chilled, straight up w/a sugar rim. yum.

salty dogs!

Pomegranate Margaritas

gin and tonics! where I come from it's not summer till you have had your first G and T of the year....... although I looove Sangria, so i definitely need this book.

I am all about the mojito this summer, I've got lots of mint overflowing in the garden.

Sangria, pomegranate margarita, Pimm's cup

Sex & the City Drink Recipes.

Dirty Martini (Samantha) 3 oz. Grey Goose Vodka Splash of Dry Vermouth Splash of Olive Juice Garnish with olives
Cosmopolitan (Carrie) 2 oz. Grey Goose L'Orange 1 oz. Cointreau Splash of Lime Juice 1 oz. Cranberry Juice
Pomegranate Martini (Miranda) 1 oz. Pomegranate Liqueur 2 oz. Pomegranate Vodka 1 oz. Pomegranate Juice 1 oz. Pineapple Juice
Cranberry Cooler - nonalcoholic (Charlotte) 3 oz. Cranberry Juice 3/4 oz. Lime Juice Club Soda/Ginger Ale
Thanks for the chance to win!

In the summer we like vodka tonics, but I would love to learn how to make more summery drinks.

Sangria!!

frozen margaritas- yum!! Perfect for summer!

Sunset martinis...

Mix Raspberry vodka, pineapple juice, and triple sec and pour in a martini glass. Put a drop of grenadene in it and it goes red to yellow (top to bottom) like a sunset.

Mojitos!

that looks most awesomely orange and delicious! i'd love a mimosa on days like today...

lots of kids here today so we made iced tea

Vodka tonics with meyer lemons and Tochi cherries. Delish!

Love to learn how to make Mojitas and Sangria

Ginger Martini
Portland, OR

1 cup diced ginger
1 cup water
1/2 cup lime juice (from 3 limes)
1/2 cup sugar
combine and boil in saucepan. reduce to simmer until sugar is complete dissolved, strain, and cool.

Sugar rims of 4 martini glasses

1/2 oz lime juice
1/2 oz ginger syrup (from above)
3 oz House Spirits' Medoyeff Russian Style Vodka

Combine in a shaker over fresh crushed ice, shake and serve immediately.

Garnish with lime wedge.

lets see...i hope to try sangria itself, mojitos, margaritas, daiquiris, and (teehee) non-alcoholic snow-cones

this would be a lovely book...

nothing like a good mojito...

Mango colada

Frozen Margaritas with my Jimmy Buffet Frozen Margaritaville Margarita Maker!! YUMMY!! Worth Every penny I spent on it!

this weekend it has been microbrews, but I would love to know how to make sangria and mojitos.

As it gets warmer, we love cucumber margaritas with chili salt and Tom Collins.

I loooooove sangria but I've never made it myself -- I'd love to give it a try!

I'm making a gin and tonic.

Today we're abstaining but I did manage to try the pineapple/basil/lime cocktail recipe a couple of days ago. Not crazy about gin, I don't think. Maybe I'll get used to it, lol, but it was my first real mixed drink! I've always mixed wine with either juice or soda to make sangria but I'm ready to spread my wings and try new things.

A yummy green iced tea with pomegranate and lemon juices.

Sangria for me

petite punch: rhum agricole, slice of lime, sugar syrup, served over ice.

I made a few pitchers of fresh banana daiquiris, paired with several light beers and red bull. Is it a holiday?

strawberry daiquiris!

Gin n' Tonic, with Ten specifically.

About all I can manage are amaretto sours.

today - prosecco orange juice...summer house cocktail : lavender syrup, soda water, and vodka!

Key lime martinis, but I really need to expand the repertoire!

pom margaritas

gin, soda and tonic with lime

This weekend we made Pineapple smoothies with some rum thrown in, they were delicious. I love Sangrias and would love to try to make my own.

I like a drink we discovered in Mexico. Mix Tequila and Squirt, the grapefruit-flavored soft drink. Very refreshing, not too sweet, and tastes like summer!

pina coladas

vodka & lemonade is my old summer standby!

Margaritas!

Ooh! I totally need this book! I'm serving Sangria at my wedding in October - but I've never made it before. So I most definitely need a good recipe for a yummy white and red Sangria for my guests.

I'm wondering what do you call sangría... I'm from Spain (where sangría was created) and we most certainly have just 1 thing called sangría, and it's made out of red wine. The word sangría itselt meand "bloodletting", so it has to be red! The only variation we're starting to see over here is the white one, made out of white wine instead of red, but it definitely has very different ingredients from the ones you're mentioning.
Don't take me wrong, I'm all for experimenting in the kitchen and variating (although it kind of hurts when I think what king of paella people eat on the other side of the Atlantic) I'm just curious about what do you mean by sangría.

what king of paella? I'm sorry for the typos, the spelling, the grammar... I do my best, but it's not my language :)

Strawberry daiquiris

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I love Sangria.

I baffled my Belfast housemates and celebrated by dipping into my precious stock of southern liquor to whip up some mint juleps because the holiday (it's one here as well) was making me homesick for my Southern roots. I've been thinking about making some strawberry basil hard lemonade for our belated get-together with work friends next weekend. Not strictly for memorial day, a celebration of summer nonetheless.

Memorial Day, my own concoction, as on Sunday we cut up watermelon and had let it soak in citrus vodka overnight, the remaining vodka and watermelon juices we mixed into OJ, WOW... made an awesome screwdriver!

Frozen Mud Slides--YUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mojitos...

it all sounds delicious!

I almost always mix up strawberry margaritas but I'd really like to learn some other drinks that are lighter and maybe a little less fruity but still summery.

We like to try new fruity drinks in the summer. The latest one we've had is Mango Mojitos. Wasn't sure how the mint would go with the mango, but they were delish! I'd really like to try some new, dependable, EASY recipes.

Margaritaon the rocks no salt

Tequilla sunrise~!!~

Margaritas, I suppose

I'd like to make some strawberry margaritas to take to the pool with me.

We mixed up some margaritas. They were great! All the adults ended up on the trampoline.... A fun time was had by all.

Frozen Margaritas are usually on our summer menu, but I would like to branch out into different flavors, like mango and passion fruit. Yum!

oooh. I love sangria. But I would love to learn how to make a good chocolate martini. I can never mix drinks well enough to taste good!

Tea with peach juice---iced.

Yesterday I mixed up a sangria type drink I named catus koolaid..

The ingredients: Prickly Pear Catus Juice, vodka, cranbery juice, any clear soda, little splash of lemonade........and fruit(grapes, strawberries, oranges, melons, granny smith apples).........serve over ice....but do not let your brother use one of your new gold trimmed martini glasses....lol

I'm not even sure if this was healthy, but our friends got a still and made their own moonshine. We took shots, and to wash it down, I had my favorite- Malibu and pineapple.

I just got a bottle of Belvedere Pear Vodka and would love to find a way to use that......

Cheers!

Now that it's summer and the mint is growing.........MOJITOS!!!!

strawberry maragritas

Mojitos are definitely my favorite summertime drink, but I love anything with lime.

Actually, I'm just popping the top of a Mike's Hard Lemonade.

mmmmm gin and tonics

I am very new mixing drinks and I really just need to start at the beginning. Thank you so much for the great contest!

I would make a strawberry limeade, yum.

Martinis!

I love Sangria, and pomegranate seems to be "in". Wonder if those two would mix?

I am trying to make limoncello.

But I love sangria!

Yes! Something to use my green glass pitcher for!

Mamosas! Yummy

I love sangrias but my pitcher right now has iced tea with slices of lemons and oranges in it

... envisioning tropical island beach, palm trees, salty breeze with a frosty cocktail and pitcher at hand. (sigh!)

I need more pitchers!

yum - I keep trying to push tinto de verano on my friends (cheap red wine mixed with citrus), but they don't seem to be buying it.

I made candied kumquats for cupcakes, and the leftover syrup was delicious with gin and fizzy water.

Margaritas!!

Alas, we're working today in the yard. I have a Lemon Propel water!

Mojitos, but with basil.

Mmmmmmmm. Sangrias are the perfect summer drinks!

Okay, so what's a mojito? See, I NEED this book. Some of you really have imaginations!

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Vodka or gin paired with tonic and lime juice.

mango margaritas!

Mia ti's

mojitos

I love gin and tonics, but I'll be mixing up a BIG batch of mint juleps for my wedding in a few weeks.

Looking forward to making a pitcher of sangria like I had in Madrid!

Gin & Tonics, Salty Dogs--and would love to learn more about Pimm's

yay! sangria!

Anything with an umbrella in it. ;-) Thanks. Also fruit smoothies because I have a smoothie maker. Love SANGRIA!!!!!! Keep the ice cubes coming.

Mud Slide

margaritas

Anything with soda, spritzer, etc. I just found a nice pitcher at the flea market, so I hope I'll win for inspiration!

Sangria all the way!

My favorite Sangria recipe ever is a white wine sangria from the July 2006 issue of Bon Appetite but the recipe is not available online.

Something with summer fruit...mmm.

Trying new combinations with fruit juices :)

I want to try drinks with fruit juice, everything has to much soda in it!

Regular and white sangria!

Mango margaritas to start. After a weekend of drinking my neighbor's sangria, I need a day to mellow...but just one day!! lol

Thanks guys, so much to read and do. Thanks for the easy dessert recipes.Wow!! the farmers market is great. What a treat to shop there.

Good old fashioned Screwdrivers for summer!

Summer is such a great time to just relax. Sitting outside, sipping...thanks for the chance to win this book!

I prefer iced herb tea. It is healthy and delicious.

I'd love to have some sangria recipes. Meanwhile, it's bloody marys on the deck. Yay summer!

iced tea w/ fresh mint..refreshing!

love sangria, but any twists to it would be lovely to try

Margaritas!

Great way to start the summer!

We usually have margarita's at our backyard BBQ's and set up different fresh fruit mixtures. Somthing different every time.

lemonade slushies

I would like to learn how to make a good sangria!!

Spuer food and kombucha-battling cancer related health problems

margaritas of course~

definitely some daiquiris! yummy!

long island iced teas

I'm new to mixology but love Sangrias so would love to win this book!

peach margarita

I'm new to mixology, would love to learn about sangrias.

White Sangria with peaches

I'm too nervous about my mixology knowledge, I need this book to help my confidence as the bartender.

i want to know how to make a good mojito

I'm planning a high school reunion, so I'm trying to learn yummy drinks that are...blue. Should be a hoot.

I'm making margaritas, frozen peach sangria, and strawberry daquiris

My favorite and refreshing summer drink is Malibu Bay Breezes. Yuuuummmmy. I like all kinds of mixed drinks but don't know how to make them, sooo I hope I win this prize to learn and so I can entertain with them.

Pina Colada, Strawberry Daquiri--I like mine slushy and fruity!

love to learn mojitos, thanks for the contest

Hello, I hope I am not too late. I will be having "Island Coolers!" A fabulous book, so please enter me in your drawing. Many thanks,Cindi
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I would like to make a good strawberry margarita.

The only thing I know how to make are wine coolers. I want to get some good ideas for the summer.

i'm not a drinker but having christmas at my house this year and would love to learn to make drinks to serve.

Long Island iced tea

Im very into lemon drinks this summer.

We love, love, love mojitos!

i'm mixing up my red wine sangrias... any red wine i have lying around seems to do... mixed with a dash of triple sec, pomegranate juice, and some grape juice. sometimes a couple of cinnamon sticks. apple slices, orange slices, and blackberries are my favorites to include. let sit for several hours or overnight and voila!

problem is, that's the only real drink recipe i've got...