Showing posts with label weekend. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weekend. Show all posts

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Blog Every Day in January Day 12: Fun Drinks for My Friend's Birthday

Today was my friend Victoria's birthday, and since one of our favorite YouTube series is You Deserve a Drink, I figured it would be fun to create some drinks with pun-y names related to Victoria. They turned out pretty good, so I figured I would share the recipes with you!

Victoria Rosé Wine Coolers

The name for this one was easy, since her name is Victoria Rose (she distinguishes her middle name because she knows someone else with the same name). As it turns out, real Rosé wine is a little out of my price range (a lot out), I just used blush wine. Pink moscato probably could have worked, too! This drink was good in concept, but wasn't the most exciting of the three. I think this could have used some more fizz and less wine. I probably won't muddle the strawberries next time, and instead keep them frozen to keep the drink cool. The chunks were a little...grotesque. Also, I used diet strawberry kiwi sparkling water, but I'm listing in the recipe to use peach seltzer because that's what I originally wanted to use but forgot to buy. Hence the diet strawberry kiwi whatever whatever.

Ingredients
-Peach seltzer water
-Frozen Strawberries
-Pink wine of your choice

Instructions
1.) Thaw your strawberries and muddle them at the bottom of your cup OR keep them frozen to use as ice cubes (choose your own adventure!)
2.) Fill your cup about 2/3 (give or take, depending on taste) with peach seltzer
3.) Fill the cup the rest of the way with wine (assuming you have accounted for space at the top so you don't...you know...spill everywhere. How drunk are you?? Jeez.)


IF IT'S YA BIRTHDAY SHAKE SOME NOISE

This drink name is a pun on a very aggressive birthday song. Nevertheless, it was SO FREAKING GOOD. I'm serious, make this. I don't have anything else to say except for YOU SHOULD MAKE THIS.

Ingredients
-2 or more scoops of Vanilla ice cream (depending how you prefer the consistency of your milkshake)
-About a shot of Bailey's Irish Cream (or more if you really love Baileys)
-Milk (JUST A SPLASH AHH)
-About 1 tbsp of Nutella (don't go too heavy on this stuff, a little goes a long way!!)

Instructions
1.) Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend them together.
2.) That's it that's the whole recipe idk what you were expecting it's a milkshake.

Schnapp-era Zinger Shots

She's a voice performance major!!! Do you get it???? GUYS I'M HILARIOUS. Anyways, this shot was RE-DONKULOUS. While I was prepping it, the entire kitchen smelled like lemons and we 100% thought it would be disgusting, but O M G IT WAS SO GOOD. And it was like stupidly easy. We also tried an alternate version, which added orange juice to bulk up the volume and make it more like a cocktail and WOW so good. Try both!!

Ingredients (for 2 shots)
-1 1/2 shots of peach schnapps
-The juice of 1 lemon
-Lemon sugar (mix the zest of 1/2 a lemon with about 1 tbsp of sugar)
-A shaker full of ice

Directions
1.) Use the squeezed out carcass of your lemon to rim the shot glasses, then dip the shot glasses in the lemon sugar. THAT'S RIGHT, YOU'RE BEING FANCY TONIGHT.
2.) Pour the peach schnapps and lemon juice into the shaker and cover it and shake it up like that Florence and the Machine song that everyone is like obsessed with.
3.) Pour the shots into the shot glasses and enjoy!


I'm pretty impressed with myself for making these up. Like I ain't no bartender, but WHATEVER. MAYBE I SHOULD BE.

...Uhh.

Make these drinks and let me know how they turned out for you! 

Saturday, October 19, 2013

October in October: A Quick List of To-Do's for Tomorrow

I still have two more things I want to talk about for my September recap, but since I have NATS tomorrow morning (it's a singing competition...but I didn't want to use those words because it sounds a lot more exciting than it actually is) and I have to wake up early, I figured I would take a quick break from last month and focus on what's going on this month. More specifically tomorrow.

1.) NATS. I need to wake up early to eat breakfast and attempt to look like a real person before heading over at 9:40 to register. Then I have to come back to my apartment to actually compose myself and BE a real person. Warm up, sing, wait, maybe sing again OR maybe not. My fingers are a little bit crossed that I wont make it to the finals, because as much as I would love for my ego to be stroked just once in one of these competitions, I do have a lot of other stuff I need to get done.

2.) Run some errands. Mainly I need to pick up a card to give my roommate JT for his senior recital, since I'm a polite human being. Also I might need some big ol' rubber gloves, because my shower drain is clogged and I am super grossed out by the idea of having to fix it. I think the rubber gloves might help me not vomit, because thinking about touching the shower stopper and potentially removing hair wrapped around it or plunging out a clog makes my gag reflex go OUTTA CONTROL. Maybe I can convince my landlord to do it?

3.) Sing in JT's recital! And also attend it.

4.) Laundry laundry laundry laundry. In the meantime, also clean the kitchen. And maybe the fridge. Another task I would prefer not to do without gloves. It's gonna be a WILD SATURDAY NIGHT WOOO.


And of course you can expect a blog post tomorrow night, which I will probably write as a way to avoid cleaning the kitchen!

Monday, October 14, 2013

September in October: THE MAGIC OF THE PENNSYLVANIA RENAISSANCE FAIRE

Back in September I went to Lancaster with my sister and her husband and some of our friends, and we all went to my favorite fall activity...

THE PENNSYLVANIA RENAISSANCE FAIRE!!

I did a lil' vlog about it, so y'all enjoy:



We went during the Celtic Fling weekend, so there were lots of men in kilts and tons of plaid, and we also watched some very underwhelming highland games. I didn't manage to get that on camera, but I'm sure you can use your imagination...

SELFIES FOR DAYS


Overall I would give this outing 4.5 turkey legs. It would have received the full 5 if not for the rain.

Sunday, September 8, 2013

My Weekend in Photos

I had a really busy weekend, but it was super fun and I am exhausted! I think if I get lucky, I might manage to go to bed before midnight tonight. I'll just let these pictures speak for themselves.