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Red, White & Blue Mojito – A Perfect Summer Cocktail

Summer is here and it’s the time for refreshing and light cocktails. Nothing says that more to me than juicy summer fruit like raspberries, blueberries and cherries. July is National Berry Month and the peak season for all sorts of berries. So it’s the perfect time to explore cooking with more berries. All through the month of July, look to The Bubbly Girl for cocktail and food recipes using fresh berries. With the 4th of July approaching, I created this Red, White & Blue Mojito with raspberries, white cherries and blueberries. Look for organic berries – Driscoll’s organic berries can be found at many grocery stores – as berries can absorb chemical residue from pesticides. You can enjoy this drink two ways: as a non-alcoholic faux-jito with sparkling water or a sparkling cocktail flavored with a little Chambord black raspberry liqueur and brut sparkling wine for those who do. I removed…
June 28, 2022
Cocktail Recipes, Drinks, Pop Culture
Three French Cocktails for Bastille Day!

Even if you’re not French, Liberté, Egalité & Fraternité — the rallying cry of the revolutionaries who stormed the Bastille Prison — is a pretty good motto to live by. There’s a je ne sais quois I love about French culture, idea of taking pleasure in sharing a meal made with fine seasonal ingredients with friends and embracing your own special style. I still get choked up when Les MisÃérables comes on KQED. To celebrate Bastille Day, I thought I’d share three of my favorite French-inspired cocktails. 1. The French 75 This spirited combination of champagne, lemon and either gin or cognac depending on the season, is a quintessential aperitif. As the story goes, it was created by WWI American officers serving in France who marvelled at the 75mm artillery guns that were still quite powerful and smooth The piquant quality primes your appetite. Since it’s warm outside, I’ll be…
July 14, 2011
Drinks
The Raspberry Dream: A Yummy Valentine’s Day Cocktail

It’s that season when people start thinking about red and pink drinks — the two staple colors of Valentine’s season entertaining. I love working with red fruits like raspberries because the color is so inviting and the sweet-tart berries add such a bright flavor. I was thinking about a grown-up raspberry milkshake when I came up with this Raspberry Dream cocktail that mixes the fruit with the black raspberry liqueur Chambord, vanilla-infused vodka and a splash of half-and-half. If you need another reason besides deliciousness to drink your raspberries, it turns out they’re really good for you. Raspberries are high in ellagic acid which helps prevent free radical damage and the flavonoid compounds quercetin and kaempferol, which play a role in fighting a number of diseases, according to World’s Healthiest Foods. Black raspberries may help ward off colon cancer, according to this study from the University of Illinois at Chicago…
February 3, 2011
Drinks
Red, White and Blue Mojito – with Chandon American Summer

It’s almost the 4th of July, which means its time to pull out this recipe for my berrylicious Red, White and Blue Mojito. I admit, I’ve shared this recipe for a sparkling mojito with red raspberries, white cherries and blueberries before. But I think it bears repeating, since it’s such a fun way to use seasonal summer fruit. And it’s the perfect way to feature the limited edition Chandon American Summer Brut Sparkling, a cool white bottle covered in red and blue stripes. And it’s so much better to create a color-coordinated Fourth of July or Bastille Day cocktail without resorting to artificial grenadine or blue curaçao, don’t you think? Red, White & Blue Mojito Makes 1 cocktail 3 red raspberries 2 white cherries, pitted and halved 4 blueberries 4 fresh mint leaves 1 ounce Homemade Sour Mix 3/4 ounce Chambord black raspberry liqueur 3 to 4 ounces sparkling wine…
January 31, 2011
Drinks
Chambord Has a New Look, and a Vodka too

I was sitting at the long Carrara marble bar of the Lake Chalet looking out at Lake Merritt and the rows of liquor bottle on the back bar. I saw lot of familiar bottles, but noticed that the familiar round Chambord bottle had changed. And Chambord, the venerable black raspberry liqueur has a new sibling — a flavored vodka The bottle has lost its crown, it’s replaced with a crown medallion on front. The top of the cap and the bottle have a new flower with four pointed petals, like a play on the French design called a quatrefoil. Chambord has a new look that stars the quatrefoil, a four-pointed floral motif. Quatrefoils are popular motifs on churches in France, England and especially Italy. But the most familiar example of the quatrefoil is on the iconic Louis Vuitton logo created in 1896. One thing that hasn’t changed is the distinctive and deep…
October 2, 2010