Bloody Mary Mix

4 cups v-8® vegetable juice
2 large lemons -- juiced
1 tablespoon worcestershire sauce -- may want more
1 tablespoon prepared horseradish -- may want less
1 1/2 cloves garlic -- pressed
2 teaspoons ground pepper
1/4 teaspoon tabasco sauce -- or to taste
Mix all ingredients together and add to vodka.

Cosmopolitans

1 cup vodka
1/2 cup Triple Sec
1/2 cup cranberry juice
1/4 cup fresh lime juice

Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake well and pour through a strainer into four martini glasses.

Grandma's White Sugar Cookies

2 cups sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 large eggs
4 1/4 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder -- rounded
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup shortening
1 cup cream

Cream sugar, shortening, salt and nutmeg. 
Add eggs and mix well. Add cream and mix well. Add sifted flour, small amounts at a time. 
It helps to put in the freezer for 2 hours or overnight. 
Roll out, cut and bake. Sprinkle sugar on before baking. Bake at 400 degrees.

Mexican Lasagna

2 cups frozen corn -- thawed
1/3 cup green onion -- sliced
2 teaspoons ground cumin
2 teaspoons dried oregano
15 ounces black beans -- canned,rinsed and drained
14 1/2 ounces diced tomatoes -- w/basil, garlic, oregano
4 1/2 ounces chopped green chiles
4 whole 6-inch corn tortilla
1 1/2 cups reduced fat Monterey Jack cheese -- or four-cheese mexican cheese

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Combine the first 7 ingredients in a bowl. Place 2 tortillas in a 11x7 inch baking dish coated with cooking spray. Spoon half of the corn mixture over tortillas. Top with 3/4 cup cheese. Repeat layers; end with cheese. Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes. Let stand 2 minutes.

Pumpkin Cake

1 can pumpkin
1 box angel fook cake mix -- 1-step
1 cup water
2 tablespoons pumpkin pie spice
fat free cool whip

Mix together first four ingredients and pour into sprayed 9 x 13 cake pan. 
Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. Cut in to 12 pieces and top with cool whip.

Rosemary Cashews

1 1/4 pounds cashews
2 tablespoons rosemary leaves -- coarsely chopped
1/2 teaspoon cayenne
2 teaspoons dark brown sugar
2 teaspoons kosher salt
1 tablespoon butter -- melted

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.

Place the nuts on an ungreased baking sheet and bake for about 10 minutes until they are warmed through. Meanwhile, combine the rosemary, pepper, sugar, salt and butter in a large bowl. Toss the warm nuts with the rosemary mixture until the nuts are completely coated serve warm,

Three-Bean Chili

2 tablespoons olive oil
1 medium yellow onion -- chopped
1 large red pepper -- chopped
1 large green pepper -- chopped
1 medium jalapeno -- chopped (optional)
4 cloves garlic -- crushed and chopped
1 cup beer or chicken stock
32 ounces crushed tomatoes
14 ounces dark red kidney beans -- rinsed
14 ounces black beans -- rinsed
1 tablespoon ground cumin
2 tablespoons chili powder -- 1 chipotle, 1 regular
1 tablespoon tabasco sauce -- optional
1 teaspoon coarse salt
1 cup refried beans

Over moderate heat, add oil to a deep pot and combine onion. peppers, and garlic.. Sauté for 3 to 5 minutes to soften vegetables. Deglaze pan with beer or broth, add tomatoes, black beans, red kidney beans, and stirring to combine.

Season chili with cumin, chili powder, hot sauce, and salt. Thicken chili by stirring in refried beans. Simmer over low heat about 5 to 10 minutes longer. Serve with shredded cheese, scallions and sour cream.

Baked chicken can be added to chili. Marinate chicken breasts in lime juice, cumin, salt and pepper. Bake in shallow pan with a bit of chicken broth until cooked through. Uncover pan during the last portion of the baking process so that the chicken browns up slightly.

Tom/Jerry Batter

6 large eggs -- separated
1 pound powdered sugar -- (3 1/2 cups)
rum
brandy -- spiced works well
nutmeg

Separate the eggs. Beat the yolks until thick and yellow colored. Gradually add the powdered sugar. Beat until thick.

In separate bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff peaks can be formed. Slowly combine the yolk and sugar mixture to the beaten egg whites. Beat for 20 minutes.

To serve: Fill mug half full with hot water. Add 1/2 jigger of rum and a 1/2 jigger of brandy. Fill the rest of the mug with the batter. Sprinkle the top with ground nutmeg.

Jäger Bomb

1/2 can Red Bull energy drink (wings optional, but they might help keep you off the floor)
1 shot Jagermeister
Drop the shot in the Red Bull and gulp

Jäger Väcation

1 oz Jagermeister
2 oz Pineapple juice
2 oz Pina Colada mix
Shake with ice

Jägermonster

1 shot Jager
Grenadine to taste (1 oz)
5 oz orange juice

Guinness Ice Cream Recipe
Three words...Guinness ice cream.
1/2 vanilla bean, split lengthwise
1 cup whole milk
1 cup heavy cream
2/3 cup Guinness stout
2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons molasses
4 egg yolks
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1. In a medium saucepan, scrape in the vanilla bean seeds. Add the pod, milk, and cream. Bring to a boil over medium heat. Turn off the heat, cover the pan, and let the flavors infuse for 30 minutes.

2. Meanwhile, in a small saucepan over medium-high heat, whisk together the stout and molasses. Bring to a boil and turn off heat.

3. In a large mixing bowl, whisk the yolks, sugar, and vanilla extract. Whisk in a few tablespoons of the hot cream mixture, then slowly whisk in another 1/4 cup of the cream. Add the remaining cream in a steady stream, whisking constantly. Pour the mixture back into the saucepan.

4. Stir the beer mixture into the cream mixture. Cook the custard over medium heat, stirring often with a wooden spoon, for 6 to 8 minutes or until the custard thickens enough to coat the back of the spoon.

5. Strain the mixture into a bowl and refrigerate for at least 2 hours or overnight. Process the custard in an ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's instructions.

Three more words...makes one quart.

Chewy Bloody Mary
2 oz vodka
3 oz pasta sauce
1 oz salsa
1 packet of Taco Bell hot sauce
Stir until your wrist gets tired, then add a good measure of ice. I can
tell you it took a great deal of steely-nerved determination to get this
one right. Pasta sauce is deceptively sweet, and you need just the right
amount of salsa. If you add too much, it ends up with a disconcertingly
chunky texture, bringing to mind something that violently exits out of a
drunkard's mouth. Furthermore, a gentleman should never chew his drinks.

White Trash Russian
3 oz Vodka
2 oz Milk (Skim is fine)
2 tbsp chocolate milk mix (the syrup type is best)
1 tsp of vanilla extract
Stir and pour over ice.
This is surprisingly tasty. It doesn't exactly measure up to its
inspiration, but it's a damn fine variation. On a side note, you will
find vanilla extract an excellent masker of failed experimentations.
Just lay it in until it's all you can taste.

The Reanimator
3oz vodka
Water
All the leftover muck on the bottom of the jam and jelly jars
languishing in your fridge 3 tbsp Instant potato flakes Add a little
water to the jelly jars, shake them violently, then pour and, if
necessary, scrape as much fruit nectar as you can into a blender, if you
have one. If you don't you're going to have to shake the hell out of it.
Add the vodka, blend it up, and you'll find you are in possession of a
very watery cocktail. This is where the potato flakes come into play.
Lay them in and blend it up. It will thicken nicely. Serve with or
without ice (depending how thick it gets.)

While the flakes may seem a foolhardy addition, you'll be pleasantly
surprised to find you can barely taste them. It's not the most
delectable cocktail in the world, but it will keep you interested enough
to finish it.

Russian Coffee
2oz Vodka
3oz coffee (instant works fine, just lay in some water)
Combine in coffee mug, add sugar and cream to taste.
If you find yourself flagging at night's end, you may want to try this
eye-opener. Your first impression will most likely be: My God yes, this
is waking me up. You're second impression most likely be, vodka and
coffee don't play so nice when they're on an unchaperoned date. Just
keep adding cream and sugar until your gag reflex settles down.

Mustard Gas
1oz Vodka
Squirt of yellow mustard
Combine in shot glass and shoot very quickly indeed.
This is actually much better than it sounds. The tang of the mustard
overwhelms the vodka's belligerence very nicely.

Southern Skid
1 oz Vodka
1 oz Barbeque Sauce
Dash of olive juice (you may substitute Worcestershire sauce, steak
sauce or almost any other kind of sauce) Stir or shake thoroughly, serve
as a shot. Sludgy and sweet, with a bit of a tang, you may find it a tad
thick for a shot. If you heat it up a little however, it thins very
nicely.

March on Leningrad
2 oz vodka
1 cup hot water
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 tbsp butter
1 tsp vanilla extract
Dash of cinnamon
Dash of Nutmeg
Milk
Combine, microwave until warm, stir, add milk to taste.
This started as a spirited attempt at a hot-buttered rum mutation, but
didn't come off as well as one might have hoped. By adding milk,
however, you end up with something reminiscent of mom's spiced oatmeal.
A really mean mom.

Warsaw Waffle
3 oz vodka
1 oz maple syrup
Stir and stir until you arrive at a uniform consistency. Serve in shot
glass. Not something you'd want to nurse in front of a roaring fire, but
as a shot the Warsaw Waffle is just plain delicious. It's no surprise
that this is an actual long-standing existing recipe, reputedly invented
by those ever-improvising Poles (hence the geographical ringer).

Bull Shot
2 oz vodka
1 oz water
1 ramen seasoning packet (beef or shrimp is best)
Dash of hot sauce
Dissolve the seasoning packet in the water, add the vodka and hot sauce,
shake well and serve as a shot.
Salty, spicy and undeniably bold, this cocktail will put hair on your
chest and a song in your heart. An angry, brutish, death-metal sort of
song, perhaps, but a song nevertheless