ONE
"Cherry Coke Snowball"
Benny Grunch
1 cherry flavored snowball
1 Coca Cola
Pour coke into snowball, stir and blend.
TWO
"Victoria's Virgin Mary"
Actress Virginia Rowell
Tomato juice over ice
Add Tabasco sauce to taste
Squeeze in a slice of lemon
Garnish with olives, celery stalk
THREE
"Chef Duke's Hot Apple Toddy"
Chef Duke Locicero
4 cups apple cider
1 stick softened butter
1 tsp. mango butter
1/4 cup light brown sugar
1 tsp. ground nutmeg
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 tsp. ground cloves
8 graham crackers
1 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
2 tsps. rum or vanilla extract
2 cups non-dairy whipped topping
1 cup whipped marshmallows
4 whole cinnamon sticks
Heat the apple cider in a non-reactive saucepan. In a bowl, combine the butter, mango butter, brown sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves. Whip until the butter becomes creamy and the ingredients are incorporated. Place graham crackers and pumpkin pie spice in plastic baggy and crush with a spoon. Combine the rum extract with the non-dairy whipped topping. In a fluted glass, ladle the hot cider to fill the glass. Place one tablespoon of the butter mixture in a glass. Garnish with a dollop of rum-flavored topping and sprinkle graham cracker crumb mixture over the topping. Add cinnamon stick.
FOUR
"Sweet Lorraine's Tropical Mist Delight"
Sweet Lorraine's Deacon John
1/4 cup pineapple juice
1/3 mango or nectar juice
Mint leaves
Boil mint leaves for 10 minutes. Allow to steep for 10 minutes to make fresh mint tea (or substitute mint tea if fresh is not available). Set aside to cool.
Combine juices in a shaker with 2/3 cup mint tea. Use a large martini glass. Fill half of glass with sparkling cider. Fill remainder of glass with juice tea mixture. Garnish with fresh mango, pineapple and mint leaf.
FIVE
"Blueberry Pompadour"
Vince Vance
1 cup ice
1/2 cup blueberry juice
1 cup crushed fruit of choice
1 tbsp. (5 packets) artificial sweetener
1 tsp. strawberry extract
1 cup French Vanilla Coffeemate
Combine ingredients in blender. Mix until smooth.
SIX
"The Mr. Bingle"
A Non-Alcoholic Coffee Milk Punch
Actor Ricky Graham
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup cold coffee
1 cup half & half
2 cups Barq's Root Beer
2 cups creme soda
Vanilla ice cream, Cereal Straw
Mix ingredients together in a serving pitcher (except ice cream and straw). Add ice and stir. Place a scoop of ice cream in a glass and pour over mixture. Add cereal straw.
SEVEN
"Virgin Mawgawita"
Ingrid Lucia
3 limes
1 grapefruit
1 cup soda water
1/2 cup orange juice
Shaker of ice
Touch of sugar (optional)
In a cocktail shaker, squeeze fruits, add juice, soda water and ice. Shake and pour.
EIGHT
"Fruit Medley Smoothie"
James Bernazzani
5 ounces low-fat chocolate milk
5 ounces calcium-fortified orange juice
1/2 bag frozen berry medley
4 tbsps. ground flax seed
Combine ingredients in a blender. Mix until smooth. Serve.
NINE
"Lou's Raz-Ma-Taz Tini"
From the Ritz Carlton
Actor Louis Gossett Jr.
5 raspberries
pinch of sugar
Ice
1-1/2 ounces fresh grapefruit juice
1-1/2 ounces fresh orange juice
1-1/2 ounces fresh cranberry juice
In a cocktail shaker, muddle the raspberries with a pinch of sugar. Add ice and the juices. Shake well and strain into chilled martini glass. Garnish with an orange slice float and a raspberry skewer.
TEN
"Mardi Gras Whirl"
Blaine Kern
1 gallon Brown's Velvet Milk
1 gallon Vanilla Brown's Velvet ice cream
16 ounces liquid condensed coffee
Put ice cream out to melt 30 minutes prior to making. Mix ingredients and serve.
ELEVEN
"The Guiding Light"
The Mother-in-Law Lounge
7th Ward Non-Alcholic Libation
Cast of Guiding
Antoinette K-Doe
Mix
1/4 tsp. Grenadine
1/2 cup orange juice
1/3 cup cream
Season tastefully
Pinch o' nutmeg
Pinch o' cinnamon
Pinch o' vanilla extract
Dress Stylishly
Mint leaf
Orange Slice
Top triumphantly
Cherry
Favorite flavor whipped topping
TWELVE
"501 Juice Cocktail"
Tipitina's
1/3 part orange/banana/pineapple juice
1/3 part ginger ale
1/3 part pineapple juice
Squeeze of fresh lemon
Chill ingredients. Combine and serve. Garnish with lemon slice.
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WWL-TV
Action Reporter, Bill Capo introduced this special series to New Orleans
21 years ago, as part of Channel Four's commitment to encourage safe
holiday driving.
Twelve for the Road counts down to New Year's Eve with a favorite
non-alcoholic holiday beverage from a range of well-known local and national
personalities.
Beginning Wednesday, December 20, the series airs for twelve consecutive
nights during Eyewitness News at 10 p.m.
So let's toast to the spirit of a safe and happy holiday, with a dozen
great alcohol-free drinks! |
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