Heya! We’re starting to move the archives over from Tiki Bar TV’s main site to here – so TikiJohnny will be serving as the main archive for all the cocktails featured on our episodes. Search by cocktail, ingredient, what have you.

Starting from the first episode, I’m going to quickly play catchup. So here we go!

We opened our Tiki series with a tequila based cocktail. ‘Cause we’re crazy like that. Yeah, thanks for all the “friendly fan mail”, Tiki afficinados. Please take a moment to notice the many Rum based cocktails that soon followed!

To be honest, the classic Marg is still one of my all-time favorite cocktails. It’s refreshing, energizing, and gets you good and loopy. Jimmy’s recipe is still my all time favorite – god’s honest truth, it’s taped to the inside of my kitchen cabinet on an index card, a subtile reminder that while I may have opened the door for a coffee mug, it’s never too early to mix me up a marg.

Oh, and if you haven’t watched episode one yet? Please don’t. Even now, when I watch that one, it’s like the podcasting equivalent of looking at my 8th grade yearbook photo.

Jimmy Buffett’s Classic Margarita

Fill shaker with Ice
Squeeze the juice of two fresh lime wedges into the shaker.
2 oz gold Tequila
1/2 oz white Tequila
1 1/4 oz lime cordial
1/2 oz Triple Sec
a splash of Cointreau

Shake, rim the outside of your glass with a lime peel, salt; squeeze in the juice of one final lime wedge, pour yourself some magic.

So two good ideas in the past couple of days; Midori and Ben Reed. Ben’s got another book, one that favors Tequila, called Margaritas and other Tequila Cocktails. Like the title says, there’s more than just Margarita recipes in the book… For instance, you’ll find this little gem, which is easy to make, and really delicious. I’m a huge fan of Tequila, and think it’s one of the most under used ingredients – push aside the shot glass, leave the salt at home and mix it up for a change!

The Green Iguana

A curious combination of Melon and Tequila. Ben says he favors Midori over fresh melon juice, as it’s a little sweeter, which is needed to balance the drink. Fix one for yourself and tell me you don’t agree with him!

1 1/4 oz Tequila
1 oz Midori
1 oz of fresh lime juice (never from a can…)
1 oz of Cointreau
Lime wedge for garnish.

Add all the goodies to your shaker, beat it with some ice a bit, and decant into a rocks glass which has some fresh cubes in it. Go on, give it a whirl and find out why Absolut Vodka declared Ben as the “Cocktail Bartenter of the Year” a few years back.

Enjoy!

Cheers,

JJ.