The A to Z Blog Challenge 2021, Cocktails A to Z. From the Letter H

Well, here it is another Friday, the day I go and get my weekly Covid test so that I can continue to visit my mother. It’s also my father’s birthday. He would’ve been 93 today. He died in the fall of 2019, and I still miss his smile.

When Mom and Dad were younger seniors, they did a lot of traveling, and one of the places they visited was Hawaii. Dad used to talk about the dancers and the various islands they’d seen, and how lush and green everything was.

My husband and I had hoped to go there this fall to celebrate our fiftieth wedding anniversary, but that’s not likely to happen now.

Still, today’s cocktail coming from the letter H is a Hawaiian Sunset.

Like every cocktail chosen for these posts, I selected this one because of its potential for a story. Hawaiian Sunset sounds like a wonderful title, a romance that one that could have all kinds of hilarious consequences.

I can picture the beauty of the sunset on a beach, the surfers riding the waves and glimmering in the rays of the setting sun with a sky in the background the same color as this. But of course, my father would want me to include a dead body, rolling onto the beach. He wasn’t into my romances , but he loved my thrillers.

Make It Your Own

Ingredients

2 1/2 oz Cranberry juice

2 1/2 oz Orange juice

1 1/2 oz Soda water

1 1/2 oz Vodka

Mix It.

Fill a glass with ice cubes. You can make this a slushy drink if you use crushed ice.

Add cranberry juice, orange juice, vodka, and soda water.

Stir or blend if you prefer.

Serve with a cocktail umbrella and maraschino cherries

Enjoy! Come back tomorrow to see what the letter I has for you!

Want to see other blog challenges? Check out the master list! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mvSm8FsuFVkOQulQ0EgzslGiNd8CZWWrqaRhCG8Sv4o/edit#gid=1500973813