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I have a love/hate relationship with
Valentine's Day. When I'm with someone I really love being given a
chance to put on a show for the current young lady of my affection.
However when I'm
 single, there seems to be no more annoying holiday.
So in college several of my friends and I started referring to
February 14 as "Singles Awareness Day" and throwing "Black
Valentines Parties" where the theme was a kitschy anti-celebration
of Valentines. We'd rent the 1967 movie "The St. Valentine's Day
Massacre" or the 1989 anti-romance comedy "The War of the Roses".
Everyone would wear black. We'd play music by the Cure. And, of
course, we'd also mix up a few drinks with some slightly bitter
names.
The party ends up being a lot of fun, in a
dark-humor sort of way. It gives all of the singletons a place to
be, and gives the mixologist of the bunch a chance to try out a few
new recipes. Over the years these have been my favorite creations.
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Heartbreak Hotel Martini
2 oz vanilla vodka
1 oz Godiva white
chocolate
1 dash orange bitters
Shake and serve neat in martini glass
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Bleeding Cupid
1/2 oz peach schnapps
1/2 oz Bailey's Irish
cream
1/2 oz vodka
1/2 oz grenadine syrup
Mix vodka and schnapps then add Irish cream.
The Irish cream will begin to curdle immediately. So wait a few
seconds and then add grenadine. This can be served either as a
cocktail in an old-fashioned glass or as a shot in a double-shot
glass
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Black Valentine |
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1/3 oz Godiva chocolate liqueur
1/3 oz
Kahlua coffee liqueur
1/3 oz Grenadine
Layered shot: Layer grenadine, then Godiva, and
finally Kahlua.
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That Blue Feeling
1 bottle Blue Moon beer
1 1/2 oz blue
curacao
Mix and serve in nonic or tulip glass
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Black Heart
16 oz of Guiness
2 oz orange juice
dash
of bitters
Pour bitters and juice before beer to ease
mixing. Serve in a 20 oz nonic or tulip glass.
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Heart of Darkness
4 oz dark coffee (preferably espresso)
1 oz
Myers dark rum
1 oz Tia Maria coffee liqueur
1/2 oz triple-sec
Mix and serve in a coffee mug.
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