Mad Men Martini Prize Package – Weekly Blog Giveaway
2 Comments | Written on September 19, 2011 at 5:00 am , by Kristina Vanni
Shaken, stirred, on the rocks, or straight up. No matter how you order your cocktail, this prize package will take you back in time!
Did anyone else watch the Emmy Awards last night? I was tuned in to see if my favorite show, Mad Men, would take top honors. The show was named “Best Drama” and we can toast the win with this week’s blog giveaway!
Mad Men Martini Prize Package
-4 Martini glasses (Let me tell you, these are super cool. Pop them in the freezer before serving your drink. They get ice cold and keep your beverage perfectly chilled!)
-Martini shaker
-Jigger
-Marimekko dish towels (This bold, colorful design has been around since the ’60′s and will give your kitchen a fantastic retro flair.)
-101 Martinis Cookbook
-Cocktail Food Cookbook
Everything you need to throw a chic and delicious cocktail hour in the comfort of your own home! Simply leave a comment here on the blog in order to be entered to win this fantastic prize. Tell us who you would like to sit down and enjoy a drink with! It could be anyone you choose, living or dead.
For me, it would have to be Julia Child. Can you imagine the wisdom she could impart and the laughs we could share! I can’t wait to hear who you all choose!
It’s not a big secret, I was totally born in the wrong decade. I look at scenes from Mad Men and long for the days of white gloves, a strand of pearls, cinched waists and high heels. Heck, I would even put up with their uncomfortable undergarments for the put-together glam of that era!
In celebration of the prize package this week I wanted to share four timeless martini recipes. My personal favorite is the Vodka Gimlet, even if I do get teased anytime I order one in a hip LA nightclub! I may have to live in 2011, but part of me likes to imagine it’s 1960 every once in a while.
(By the way if anyone knows a dashing “Donald Draper” type, please feel free to send him my way…Cheers!)
2 1/2 oz gin
1 1/2 oz dry vermouth
3 green olives
Rinse martini glass in dry vermouth and pour out. Shake gin with ice until chilled. Pour into martini glass. Add olives.
2 1/2 oz gin
1 1/2 oz dry vermouth
1/2 oz olive juice
3-4 green olives stuffed with blue cheese
Add dry vermouth to the martini glass, rinse, and pour out. Pour gin, olive juice and ice into mixing glass and shake until chilled. Strain in the martini glass and drop the 3 to 4 olives as garnish.
2 1/2 oz of gin or vodka
3/4 oz dry vermouth
3-5 cocktail onions
Stir gin or vodka and vermouth on ice in mixing glass. Strain into martini glass and add cocktail onions.
1 1/2 oz vodka
3/4 oz lime juice
3-4 lime slices
Pour vodka and lime juice into mixing glass. Shake and strain into martini glass. Add 3 to 4 slices of lime.
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2 Responses to “Mad Men Martini Prize Package – Weekly Blog Giveaway”
Robert DeNiro. He is my al time fav. He is talented, good looking, an oh man would I love to have a conversation with him about his younger years.
my grandfather. He’s 94 and still kickin’ He has the best stories!