Slimming Summer Cocktails

Our Low Calorie Summer Cocktail Recipes Summer is officially here. Bad tan-lines are on display, elderly men are insisting on persevering with the socks-and-sandals trend, and I seem to wake each morning with a hankering for a Magnum. So this means it’s time for summer drinking – beer gardens, plastic cocktail glasses, and a concoction […]

Tall Tales and Cocktails

Lock up your black cats, kick over the ladders, and dust off your lucky rabbit’s foot, because today is Friday 13th. Now I’m not superstitiously inclined, but there’s still something about the day that makes me relieved that I’ve made it to sunset without choking on an olive or accidentally selling my kidneys online. One […]

Cocktails – A Dieters Friend or Foe?

If you are a cocktail lover trying to lose a few pounds in 2014, you need to be careful when selecting your cocktail of choice or you may find that shifting those few unwanted cocktail calories suddenly becomes Mission Impossible. Despair not though, there are also a few healthier cocktails which will do only limited damage […]

The Pina Colada Cocktail

The piña colada cocktail (which means “strained pineapple” in Spanish) is a tropical rum cocktail made with rum, coconut cream and pineapple. The piña colada cocktail is generally classed as a Tiki-style drink and is normally served either blended or shaken with ice. The drink is often served in a highball or hurricane glass or, […]

Cocktails – A Dieters Friend or Foe?

If you are a cocktail lover trying to lose a few pounds, you might need to be careful when selecting your cocktail of choice or you may find that shifting those few unwanted cocktail calories suddenly becomes Mission Impossible. We often get emails asking whether healthier cocktails actually exist or whether they are just a myth! It has […]

Tiki-Time

Tiki culture is a 20th-century theme used in Polynesian-style restaurants and clubs throughout the world, but originating in the United States. Tiki Cocktails combine exotic fruits with rum and other rich spirits and include such drinks as the Mai-Tai cocktail, the Pina Colada and the Zombie. Tiki culture was inspired, in part, by Tiki carvings which were large […]