Ile de Re - Fine Island Cognac from Camus

Please believe that we will be telling you a whole lot more about this amazing brand in the next few days, until then stop by your local libation purveyor and ask if they are in supply of any of Camus’ amazing line of perfectly blended Cognacs, they are truly smoother than a glass of silk. 

For more info on this and all of their other wonderful releases, check out: www.camus.fr/fr

End of Summer Refreshment Recipes

I don't know about where you live, but where we are located these last few weeks of nothing but incredibly hot days and annoyingly hot nights have begun to take their toll on our abilities to withstand wanting an ice cold libation. Ok who are we lying too, we just were looking for a reason too try out some new recipes and with the last few days of Summer sitting before us and it being so hot as of late, how many more reasons do we truly need to do some out of the box drinking, I mean thinking.

As always enjoy these recipes, RESPONSIBLY.

National Rum Day Recipes courtesy of Captain Morgan

It comes as no secret that we are lovers of Rum here at The Supreme Plate. So much so that when our favorite holiday, “National Rum Day” rolls around we shut down and have ourselves a much needed party. Seeing as how that great day happens to occur on a Friday this year, we figured lets get to putting up some recipes in advance so everyone and their mama can have a chance to enjoy the greatest liquor to have ever been created, Rum. The good folks over at Owl’s Brew created a few incredible recipes for Captain Morgan and sent them our way, so in turn we place them in front of you.

Remember with everyone running around yelling “Turn Up” take a moment and relax with some good friends and enjoy your libations responsibly, just because you want to look like a fool doesn't mean the rest of us should have to suffer for it.

Happy National Rum Day!!

PORT ROYAL PUNCH (Serves 25)

Ingredients:

2 46-oz. cans of pineapple juice

3 cups mango juice

1 750 mL bottle of Captain Morgan Original Spiced Rum

4.5 oz. grenadine

3 oranges sliced thinly and quartered

3 cans of Sprite for fizz

Directions:

In a punch bowl or large serving vessel, add the above ingredients and stir. Serve over ice in a punch glass – or glass of your choosing.

BLACK & GINGER TEA

Ingredients:

3 oz. Ginger Tisane (tea base)

1 oz. Captain Morgan Black Spiced Rum

1 Tablespoon agave nectar (or sweetener of choice)

1/4 oz. lemon juice

Directions:

Brew tea base or tea bag in 6-8 oz. of water. Brew hot for four minutes and flash-chill, or cold for one hour. Shake with Captain Morgan Black Spiced Rum, sweetener and lemon juice, and pour into rocks glass over ice. Created by Owl’s Brew.

CAPTAIN’S INVASION

Ingredients:

1 ¼ oz. Captain Morgan Sherry Oak Finish Spiced Rum

¼ oz. Grand Marnier® Liqueur

¾ oz. lime juice

2 dashes of bitters

Directions:

Add all ingredients to an ice-filled rocks glass. Stir to blend and garnish with lime wedge.Created by Owl’s Brew.

Recipes To Get Your Mind Right: Mixed Drink Recipes from the Great Googa Mooga, in Brooklyn

Last weekend, New Yorkers relished the opportunity to take in the best the city had to offer in the way of music, food & drinks at the annual Googa Mooga festival in Brooklyn.  Despite a rainy backdrop, thousands of adults packed Prospect Park to listen to the likes of Matt & Kim and The Flaming Lips while sipping on some top-notch cocktails made by a few premier NYC mixologists.

Knowing that our readers love strong drinks, one of our good friends shot us a few recipes they had booming in their booth at the event. With names like Quiet Storm & One More Chance, yeah the groups performing might have been a bit on the rock side, but the drinks sounded all Hip Hop. Over all the 3 day event saw over 50 food vendors and 75 beer and alcohol manufacturers do their thing for the lovely people of BK. Heavyweights from the big East Coast in the form of food and drink on hand serving up everything from duck sausage to grilled Maine lobster and Guiness stout brownies to fois gras doughnuts, this years food line up was something to behold.

Check out these drink recipes for new ways to kick up your next back yard function, picnic or whatever you choose to call it.

Enjoy Responsibly.

Uncle Buck

Ingredients:

1 ¼ oz Tequila Don Julio Blanco

¾ oz Pineapple Juice

½ oz Fresh Lime Juice

1/3 oz Ginger Syrup

1 tsp Green Chartreuse

Directions:

Combine Don Julio Blanco, pineapple juice, fresh lime juice, ginger syrup and green chartreuse in a cocktail shaker filled with ice.

Shake well

Strain contents into Collins cocktail glass over fresh ice.

Quiet Storm

Ingredients:

1 oz Bulleit Bourbon

¾ ounce lemon juice

1 oz extra dry vermouth

¼ oz simple syurp

Top with ginger beer

Directions:

Combine all ingredients into a mixing tin

Strain contents into a rocks glass filled with crushed ice.

Garnish with 1 mint sprig and lemon

One More Chance

Ingredients:

1 ¼ oz George Dickel Rye

¼ oz Gran Classico bitters

¼ oz maple syrup

¾ oz lemon juice

Directions:

Combine all ingredients into a mixing tin

Strain contents into a rocks glass filled with crushed ice.

Garnish with 1 orange half wheel

Four Mother's Day Libations Fit For A Queen (Mixed Drink Recipes)

When Mimosas just no longer cut the mustard for your Mom, make sure you check out this list of libations built for a Queen (or King.) Mother’s Day is right around the corner so don’t be that guy or girl who plans to show their Mom some love at the last minute, resulting in a crappy gift and brunch at a packed restaurant. 

Show some class this year, by making a few cocktails to pre-game up before you take Mom somewhere she has never been to eat. Some people love flowers while others love getting liquored up and if your guest of honor sways towards the latter, well then let us help you out with some incredibly easy but amazingly elegant looking and tasting drink recipes. 

The Supreme Plate wishes to say “Happy Mother’s Day to all of the Moms found around the World.” Whether you raised your own or someone else’s children the World appreciates all that you real women have done for us over the years.

To my Mother, I couldn’t have gotten this far without you and hope that I am making ya proud.

Having brunch out or at home with the fam? Order or mix up the Maple Collins – a perfect drink that goes well with any Mother’s Day brunch celebration.

Maple Collins

Ingredients:

1.5 oz. Crown Royal Maple

.5 oz. Lemon Juice

1.5 oz. Pineapple Juice

2 dash Angostura Bitters

.5 Simple Syrup

Preparation:

Mix ingredients in a shaker, top with club soda and strain into a Collins glass. Garnish with half an orange slice and a cheery.

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The Ginger Julep '68 Fastback

Sometimes all it takes is a bit of classic understated elegance to complete a look. Standing around holding some toxic color cocktail when you're a stand-up individual just doesn't always work. This libation culminates so exquisitely because of the high grade ingredients used and the simplicity in which it is created. Add this recipe to your arsenal of straightforward yet effective cocktails.

The Ginger Julep ’68 Fastback

Ingredients:

1 .5 oz. Bulleit Bourbon

.5 oz. Organic Brown Sugar

¼ oz.  Peeled Minced Fresh Ginger

1.5 oz. Soda Water

1 Lemon or Lime Twist

Preparation:

Muddle the ginger and brown sugar together until all of the sugar is moistened and nearly dissolved.

Add a dash of soda to finish dissolving the sugar, stir in your Bourbon.

Finish with ice, soda to taste and a lemon or lime twist.

Boodles British Gin

Gin doesn't always get the respect it deserves nowadays. With all of these fancy, colorful and celebrity-endorsed liquors coming out, the juniper berry derived nectar of the Gods somehow seems to fall by the wayside when drinks are being ordered. Boodles British Gin, a classic brand that was a favorite of Winston Churchill’s, stands tall above its competitors merely because of how smooth and mild its flavors are especially when mixed into a classic cocktail. A few years back, Gin was all the rage as people began re-experimenting with classic Martini recipes and other Gin based drinks. But as times changed and people began focusing their attention elsewhere, many brands were left shaking their heads in disbelief at how fast the climate changed in the world of mixology. 

Boodles Gin, a longtime favorite libation base to quite a few of our British friends is not what you would expect it be considering its rather cost friendly price. Mixing up a couple of colorful cocktails yesterday after a long day in the test kitchen we decided two things; 1. Boodles deserves to be our house brand of Gin from here on out and 2. Boodles will have you not leave you with a headache the next morning (that is unless you're a sloppy drinker and you should probably be seeking help elsewhere, not in a bottle.) We took the smooth route and put a slight spin on a few old world classics such as the and had a quite relaxing evening, while plotting the next days debauchery out.

Our favorite drink of the night came simply from pouring 1 part Boodles Gin over ice into a chilled rocks glass, adding 2 parts Ginger Ale & 1 thin slice of Lime. I believe they call that a Gin Gin in certain circles but we ended up calling the “Gin Limey.” A few of those will have you ready for just about anything, so this is where you must make sure to have a designated driver close by, cause you will get hungry eventually.

The end result, get your hands on a few bottles before the weekend arrives and practice the fine art of cocktail making at home. Your friends will love you and appreciate your thoughtfulness.

For More Info Check: Boodle British Gin

Enjoy Responsibly.

Cherry Pie Cocktail (In Honor of National Cherry Pie Day)

Ingredients:

1.5 oz Silver Tequila

½ oz White Crème de Cacao

1.5 oz Brandy

½ oz Cream

6 – 8 Cherries (frozen cherries will be ok if you can’t find fresh ones.

Directions:

Place the cherries & tequila in a drink mixer and muddle until thoroughly mixed together.

After muddling the cherries and tequila, place all of the ingredients in a drink mixer filled with ice, cover and shake until the outside of the mixer feels frozen to the touch.

Serve in a chilled rocks glass.

Enjoy Responsibly

The Brandy Alexander

January 31^st is National Brandy Alexander Day. Being that its an old school drink that doesn’t receive the proper attention it deserves in this day & age we figured we would help to enlighten everyone about what exactly this drink is.

The Brandy Alexander is a sweet, brandy based cocktail consisting of Cognac and Crème de Cacao that became popular in the early 20^th century. It is a play or variation of an earlier, gin based cocktail that was simply called an Alexander.

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Cherries Jubilee Made At Home

Cherries Jubilee Made At Home.

Sometimes the ingredients we choose to use need a little sprucing up before we can actually consume them how we want too. In this case, the cherries we are using to make our Homemade Cherries Jubilee need to be flambéed (or set on fire) to bring them together perfectly with the Vanilla Ice Cream.

Be careful when trying to make this dish at home, its not overly hard to do, but if you have had a few drinks or aren’t familiar with the technique, when the fire does finally catch onto the alcohol, it may surprise you and we’d hate for you to get burned before you get to enjoy your hard work.

Enjoy this tonight when your kids get home from school or by yourself while everyone is gone, we’re sure you deserve some ice cream after a long hard weekend.

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Infused With Imagination... Bombay Sapphire

Labor Day Libations The 8 Rum® Mint Julep

Ingredients:

2 parts Bacardi® 8 Year Old Rum

6 parts Mint Leaves (washed thoroughly)

2/5 part Sugar Syrup

2 dashed Peach Bitters (found at most liquor stores & supermarkets)

Cubed Ice

A few Sprigs of Mint to garnish

Directions:

Gently muddle the mint, sugar syrup and peach bitters in the base of a mixing glass, then pour the rum in and add ice to the top.

Stir the mixture until combined completely.

Fill a chilled High Ball glass with crushed ice, then pour the liquid from the mixing glass using a julep strainer, stir and add more ice.

Garnish with another sprig of Mint and enjoy with some delicious BBQ.

The Whiskey Sour (National Whiskey Sour Day Recipe)

It’s a Saturday near the end of August and the weatherman said it wasn’t supposed to be blazing hot for the next 24 hours. Mix those two facts together with a great day entitled “National Whiskey Sour Day” and you have the makings for a perfect poolside rest & relaxation session that should ease whatever troubles you, right out of your mind.

The Whiskey Sour, a cool almost punch-like drink is one of those old classics you just can’t live your life without trying at least once.

Quite simple to make and extremely delicious this is a drink you need to have in your arsenal for moments such as these.

Enjoy Responsibly.

The Whiskey Sour –

Ingredients:

1 part Gentleman Jack

3 parts Sweet & Sour Mix

1 Orange (washed and cut into slices)

Cherries (as a garnish)

Directions:

Pour Gentleman Jack & Sweet and Sour mix into a chilled rocks glass over ice.

Stir together and garnish with and Orange slice and one Cherry.

National Rum Day Recap: A Quick List of All Things Rum from TSP

We figured to make today as easy as possible we would compile all of our favorite Rum recipes and post them up right here, for everyone to enjoy.

The Bacardi Rum n CokeFloat –

The Bacardi SuperiorRum Mojito –

Don Q Gran Anejo –

Don Q Aveja Reina –

The Don Q BootsyCollins –

The Razz & Sprite –

The Bacardi Enter TheDragon –

Don Q Limon Madras –

The Original Cuba Libre (Rum & Coke) –

The Hurricane –

The Un Clasico –

The Don Q Limon Madras

Some take Lemons and turn them into Lemonade. The thoughtfully intuitive people behind what has quickly become a staple in our kitchens & offices, Don Q Rums, instead have taken island Key Limes and turned them into Limon. Through a process of infusing tangy citrus and natural essential flavors to their aged Rums, a few sips will have you feeling like your on a tropical island with your feet in the sand enjoying the warm Sun rays.

If you’re a lover of the Cuba Libre or Mojito and you feel like elevating your game a few levels, try a few splashes of this in your next empty glass and see just what you have been missing. A winner of numerous awards, this Rum and everything else Don Q produces are what we call instant party in a bottle, something everyone should have in a cabinet somewhere in their house.

The Don Q Limon Madras –

Ingredients:

1 ½oz Don Q Limon

1 oz           Orange Juice

1 oz         Cranberry Juice

Crushed Ice & Cubed Ice

Drink Mixer

Chilled Rocks Glasses

½ Lemon cut into slices.

Directions:

Pour all of the ingredients minus the cubed ice in the drink mixer, cover and shake well until the drink mixer is cold to the touch.

Pour into a chilled Rocks Glass over cubed ice and garnish w/ a slice of Lemon.

Enjoy Responsibly.