The Glam-Pop icon serves as inspiration for a fabulous and colorful cocktail. Cocktails on the fly Episode “Date with David Bowie” Alberta Strauss: Greeting, salutations, hey. I am going to tell you how to make a fun little cocktail. It is called a date with David Bowie. The date with David Bowie has kind of a fun and kooky history. I had some customers coming in, I was having a hard time and they heard that I thought I was all that mixing these cocktails. And you know flighty is kind of all that. I guess, I don’t know but there telling me, first there asking me for this drink. They want a drink that’s Pinocchio after he gets in a fight with Gepetto. Ok so flighty tries to mix this cocktail. And then after awhile they drink that down and they like it. Believe me flighty is searching her brain to figure out what the hell a Pinocchio fight with gepetto blah, blah, blah. And then they want Socrates to fall. And I am like oh my god; I put out something for that. We are having fun it is a Saturday afternoon, it is kind of slow. And then finally the last cocktail of the day was the date with David Bowie. And so you know I thought who wouldn’t want to go on a date with David Bowie. I mean I know I would, and so I got this fun sparkly sugar at the bar. And you can get this too, at your local fine food store. Normally it comes in a single color. Don’t get cake decorated sugar, its real granulated sugar. And you can mix two colors together. Maybe David wants to go on a little color scheme and a little blue and white. Or a little red and blue or something like that, you never know what David wants to do but this is a Ziggy Stardust sugar. I did all kinds of colors mixed together. Because you know Ziggy is kind of crazy, it is different every time, I figure on a date with him. So anyway, this cocktail is a fun cocktail, it is not a serious cocktail like flighty normally drinks. This is a fun drink. It is a date with David Bowie; I mean okay, so it’s easy its fun. Alright so I am going to put some orange vodka in there, I got some Sky going. So I am going to put in about an ounce and a half, there we go, an ounce and a half of vodka, and then Luxardo Maraschino liqueur. Fabulous stuff, not related to the red bar cherry. Pour in about half an ounce, yum, yum. I can tell this is going to be good. I mean whatever I put in this glass is going to be tasty because it’s a date with David Bowie. Okay put in a splash of this fabulous stuff after all. Look at that color, fantastic. Okay, there we go and then we need about an ounce or so of fresh lemon juice. There we go and then we are going to match it with simple syrup. Okay that I starting to look pretty tasty. You know it has got alcohol in it so you know flighty is going to think it’s tasty. So for a little David Bowie Pizzazz we are going to put some blood orange in there. Flighty is going to muddle it, muddle, and muddle, muddle it. Muddling it always makes things better. And who wouldn’t want to muddle with David. I got to say, cha, cha, cha, changes; okay I am not going to sing anymore I promise. There we go I had to just get it out, a little bit of changes. Muddling, and then the excited part comes, okay we are going to edge this glass with the Ziggy Stardust sugar. Here we go shoo, shoo, wishoo, sound effects makes things better. So we are edging oh look at this, look at this fabulous sugar. It’s going to be so good. Okay look at that, sparkly deliciousness. Okay so let’s add some ice, to our glass. And let’s add some ice to this glass too. You don’t want to use the, the same ice that you use in the glass that you’re mixing with. Because after you shake this up this is going to be called tired ice. And we don’t want tired ice in our drinks. We just want fresh, fun delicious. Okay so let’s put a little layer of the blood oranges in there. He would probably like that, I would think so. I mean I know so, I like blood orange. Yes. Add some ice here. Okay. And then we are going to shake it up, okay. Make a face. Always make a face, no I am just kidding that was a bad face. I am just goofing with you. Silly boy face, okay now we are ready to pour. Oh we are going to pour a tall glass; it is going to be delicious because it is a date with David Bowie. Okay, and then we are going to top with a little bit of seltzer. There we go. It is looking good isn’t it? Just like David himself. Put a little mint sprig garnish, get yourself a red straw. And you are ready to let’s dance, right baby? There we go cheers, a date with David. Aah dreamy, let me taste it to make sure. Yeah it’s dreamy. Date with David Bowie: 1. Add 1.5 oz Orange Vodka 2. ½ oz. Maraschino Liqueur w/Aperol 3. Add 1oz fresh lemon juice 4. Match with simple syrup 5. Add slices of blood orange and muddle 6. Edge a tall glass with Ziggy sugar 7. Add ice and layer with blood orange slices 8. Shake and strain baby 9. Top with Seltzer 10. Delicious
