Chartreuse Swizzle

April 14, 2016
Drinks,Recipes

I’ve been in a bit of a creative funk lately. Life’s been busy, in a good way, and consequently cocktails have taken a backseat to more important matters, such as family. Fiona is changing in new and exciting ways each and every day. This week she’s been focusing on imaginative play. She walks around the house pretending to drink from one of her stacking boxes. I like to think she’s sipping her morning coffee, just like her dad. She’s also been really working hard on her language skills. She doesn’t know too many words yet, but it’s almost as if she’s trying to perfect the few that she does know before moving on to the rest. Quality over quantity, I suppose.

Chartreuse Swizzle | HonestlyYUM (honestlyyum.com)

Speaking of quality, given that I haven’t had much time to recipe test anything new, I’m mixing up one of my all-time favorites from San Francisco bartender Marco Dionysos. If you’re new to Chartreuse, definitely checkout this post by Chris from A Bar Above. Basically it’s a crazy complex liqueur with a secret recipe made from 130 different plants and flowers passed down for centuries by Carthusian Monks. Pretty cool if you ask me! Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some imaginary coffee to finish.

Chartreuse Swizzle | HonestlyYUM (honestlyyum.com)

Chartreuse Swizzle | HonestlyYUM (honestlyyum.com)

Chartreuse Swizzle | HonestlyYUM (honestlyyum.com)

Chartreuse Swizzle | HonestlyYUM (honestlyyum.com)

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Chartreuse Swizzle | HonestlyYUM (honestlyyum.com)

Chartreuse Swizzle | HonestlyYUM (honestlyyum.com)

Chartreuse Swizzle

A chartreuse based cocktail that is simple and delicious
Servings: 1 cocktail

INGREDIENTS

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Add all the ingredients into a highball glass, fill with crushed ice and mix by spinning a swizzle stick between the palm of your hands until the outside of the glass becomes frosty. Top with more crushed ice, add mint (and any other garnishes), a straw, and serve.

(images by HonestlyYUM)

Conversation

I feel like this is something that would be served up at our favorite local bar/Chinese restaurant where they are big fans of unique drinks with pineapple juice. Also, am I the only one who sang “Swizzle it, just a little bit.” and did a little twist dance move when they saw this drink?

Love the photos! Definitely would love one of these chanteuse swizzles too – I just love refreshing cocktails.

Big fan of Dionysos and this is a great one. Looking forward to Summer!

It’s only a matter of time until she starts to stack toys and arrange them in different ways in mock cocktail photo shoots 🙂

OKay this is amazing and everything I could ever be into about a drink…tropical (pineapple AND lime!!), full of ice and garnished with mint! 🙂

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