Some Cocktails to Try at Home

Sicilian Rose

Makes 2 cocktails

1.5 oz Averno

1.5 oz Campari

1 oz Blood Orange Puree

1.5 oz Sweet Vermouth

Orange wheel

Pour all ingredients into rocks glass, add ice, stir, garnish with an orange wheel.

Sazerac

Makes 2 cocktails

pernod (or absinthe)

3 ounces Mitcher’s Rye

6 dashes Peychaud's Bitters

1 ounce simple syrup

Lemon Peel

Chill 2 rocks glasses. Pour a dash of pernod into each glass and twirl to coat the inside of the glasses. Combine the Rye, bitters, and simple syrup in a cocktail shaker. Top with ice and stir gently. Strain into the chilled glasses. twist a piece of lemon peel over each glass to release the fragrant oils into the glass. discard the twist and serve.

Negroni Classico

Makes 2 cocktails

2 oz Gin

2 oz Campari

2 oz Dubonnet rouge

Orange slice or orange twist Stir the ingredients together over ice and strain into a chilled martini glass straight up or serve on the rocks. Garnish with an orange slice or an orange twist.

Aperol Negroni Spritz

Makes 2 cocktails

2 oz gin

2 oz Aperol

2 oz Carpano Antica

2 oz club soda

Pour all but soda into rocks glass, add ice, add soda, stir