Welcome to fall and a MacIntosh Cocktail

Fall is well underway here in Madtini-ville, but being so close to Lake Ontario we haven’t seen the wide variance of fall colors amongst the leaves that you might see if you drove north of the GTA (Greater Toronto area) or southeast to upper New York State and...

Speak… I mean Drink like a Pirate Day with the Madtini Crew

“Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest — Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!” Well, shiver me timbers it looks like it’s “International Talk Like a Pirate Day” again already. It seems just yesterday that I was annoying friends, colleagues...

Drink like a Pirate Day: Pirate Bay Breeze

Ingredients 2 1/2 oz Vodka 1 oz Cranberry Juice 1 oz Pineapple Juice Preparation Fill a rocks glass with smashed ice; add the vodka, then add pineapple juice and the cranberry juice for color. Garnish with a wedge of pineapple. Stay in touch, follow Madtini now...

Cranberry-Lime Margarita – Cinco de Mayo #6

Blueberries, limes, pineapples, strawberries, jalapenos… sometimes I think we spend just as much time in the produce section as we do at the LCBO (as they call the Liquor Stores in Ontario). Hey wait, wait, wait… hold the horses, we haven’t tried...

Malibu Coconut Rum Dream

Ingredients 2 oz Malibu coconut rum 2 oz pineapple juice 2 oz cranberry juice Preparation Add coconut run, pineapple and cranberry juice to a cocktail shaker with 3 ice cubes. Shake and then strain into a chilled cocktail...