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August 9, 2017 Susie O

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🙌🏼🍹 WELL, THAT WAS FUN ... 🍹🙌🏼 🙌🏼🍹 WELL, THAT WAS FUN ... 🍹🙌🏼

Thanks to everyone who hopped on to watch the margarita class I hosted with @cheapcaribbean tonight from @dreamstulum!! Congratulations to all of the TWENTY TWO WINNERS who each got a pair of RT flights!! I had a blast and am sorry I didn’t get to all your questions. 

Here are the margs we made—a traditional margarita and the CC Marg. ¡Salud!

CLASSIC MARGARITA
1.5 oz Tequila
1 oz orange liqueur
.75 oz fresh lime juice
.25 oz simple syrup (1:1)

Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice and shake until well chilled. Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.

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CC MARG
2 oz Reposado Tequila
1 oz fresh lime juice
.5 oz agave syrup
.5 ounce orange juice
5 strawberries, cored
strawberry sugar*

Muddle 5 strawberry halves in a shaker tin. Add tequila, lime juice, orange juice, agave syrup, and ice to the tin and shake until well chilled. Fine Strain into a chilled martini glass, rimmed with strawberry sugar. Garnish with strawberry half and lime wheel dipped in strawberry sugar.

*strawberry sugar: finely chop 1/2 cup of strawberries, mix with 1/4 cup of sugar, and spread in a thin layer on a baking sheet/plate. Allow to sit for at least 30 minutes.

@CheapCaribbean #CheapCaribbean #TrueBeachLover @DreamsTulum @DreamsResorts #dreamsresorts @patron #patron #tequila #margarita #cocktails #draaaaanks
📸 1: Erick from Dreams Tulum
2: @air_el
3: me 😉
🇲🇽✈️ Mexico for Margarita Day? ¡Sí, po 🇲🇽✈️ Mexico for Margarita Day? ¡Sí, por favor! ✈️🇲🇽

My friend and I decided a few days at a resort would do us some good ... soaking up Vitamin D, eating ceviche, drinking daiquiris, and all that. So, we headed to Tulum for the week, and the week just so happened to start with National Margarita Day. The obvious #30000ftcocktails for the flight had to be a margarita!

Since Southwest still isn’t serving booze (AND OPENING YOUR OWN IS STILL ILLEGAL), I made a mocktail version, then for show I stuck an unopened mini bottle in. 

So, happy margarita week, and I’ll see some of y’all at my cocktail class spon by @cheapcaribbean tomorrow! (BTW, thanks for the support ... the class filled up super fast!!!!)

#susiedrinksmexico #margarita #milehighcocktailclub #planedrinks #drinksintheair #drinkswithaview #tequila #southwestairlines #southwest #drunkonaplane #✈️ #🍹#thewanderingboozehound
✈️✈️ WIN ONE OF 22 PAIRS OF FLIGHTS FROM C ✈️✈️ WIN ONE OF 22 PAIRS OF FLIGHTS FROM CHEAPCARIBBEAN.COM! ✈️✈️⁣
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GET THIS: my friends over at @CheapCaribbean want to celebrate their 21st birthday in a big way … so they’re going to give TWENTY TWO of you a FREE PAIR OF FLIGHTS!⁣
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And to get y’all really excited about National Margarita Day (today!) and celebrate all the margaritas that have been drunk on the vacations they’ve helped all of us book over the years, they thought it’d be fun to do a margarita class! I’ll be teaching y’all how to make a traditional margarita AND a fun twist on the classic during a class Wednesday, February 24 at 6:30pm ET that I’ll be doing from @DreamsTulum.⁣
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So how do you enter to win? (We’re all asking.)⁣
Sign up for the live stream on the link in my bio, then join us Wednesday (6:30ET/5:30CT) and you’ll be entered to win! (They’ll email all participants what you’ll need for the class beforehand.)⁣
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They’ll randomly select 22 people participating in the livestream to win a pair of free flights for a future vacation for two. (A PAIR of flights means you can take a friend or S.O. along with you!!!!)⁣
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See y’all Wednesday, because, as they say … “Less responsibilities. More margaritas.”⁣
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Check out their page, @CheapCaribbean, for more details and follow along for more fun chances to win great prizes.⁣
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Thanks again to my friends at CheapCaribbean for letting me play along for this sweepstakes! SALUD! #CheapCaribbean #TrueBeachLover @DreamsTulum @DreamsResorts #dreamsresorts #caribbean #tulum #mexico #margarita #margaritaclass #cocktail #cocktailclass #susiedrinksmexico #teqiula⁣
This promotion is being presented by CheapCaribbean.com.Find full rules on the link in my bio. Not sponsored by Instagram.
SOMETIMES YOU JUST NEED TO LOOK AT A SEXY PICTURE SOMETIMES YOU JUST NEED TO LOOK AT A SEXY PICTURE OF A COCKTAIL AND CHILL OUT.⁣
What do you do to calm yourself down when you’re spinning? 🌪 Editing pictures I've taken for clients is, oddly, a way I relieve stress.⁣
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And yes, I’m stressed today. While it’s finally for a good reason, stress is stress. After this week of trying to cover my overload of client work because of the weather (🥶) while chasing electricity, WiFi, and safe, running water has taken a lot out of me.⁣
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I’m leaving town Monday for a great trip (something fun for Y’ALL is coming out of this trip … watch for the announcement Monday!) followed by another trip, and I’m usually a little more excited and settled before heading out of town than I am today. Suffice it to say that I’ll be putting in some late nights to be ready to fly Monday.⁣
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But, a friend reminded me yesterday that we all have tough times, and it’s nothing to be ashamed of. So … there it is.⁣
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So check out this sexy picture of a cocktail from my client, @bowenhousedallas, from their new menu.⁣ 
👉🏼 HIP HOP CAREE: Clement VSOP Rhum, Pierre Ferrand 1840 Cognac, Bonal Aperitif, Bénédictine Herbal Liqueur, Regan’s Orange Bitters, Bittermen's Burlesque Bitters
❄️ DRINK LIKE A SWEDE ❄️ Today was another ❄️ DRINK LIKE A SWEDE ❄️
Today was another COLD day in Dallas, and y’all asked for both a hot cocktail AND one topped with snow … so, here’s the latter. 

I figured that, if I was topping a drink with snow, that I should take some cues from the people who really know how to be cold—Scandinavians. I had some lingonberry syrup (from Ikea, naturally) and aquavit (thanks, @theaaronhendrickson!), added some citrus and bitters, and it made for a PERFECT cocktail.

SCANDANAVIAN SPRITZ
2 oz aquavit (vodka can be substituted)
.75 oz lingonberry syrup (cranberry can be substituted)
.5 oz fresh lemon juice
5 dashes orange bitters
Top with soda water

Stir together all ingredients except soda water and top with ice. Top with soda water. Garnish with a lemon wheel and whole cranberries.

Give a hand to my awesome mom who helped me video this in the park today!
#cocktail #ikea #lingonberry #aquavit #drinkrecipe #cocktailrecipe #coldweathercocktail #swedishdrink #draaaaanks #booze #cocktail
🛷🍷 WENT “SLEDDING” TODAY AND TOOK SOME M 🛷🍷 WENT “SLEDDING” TODAY AND TOOK SOME MULLED WINE ALONG 🍷🛷

Dallas is still pretty locked down thanks to the unpredictable weather (and snow-covered ice on the roads). So, to get out and stretch our legs between work emails from the couch, my neighbors and I grabbed some pool floats and mulled wine and went “sledding”!

I LOVE mulled wine, and it’s such an easy drink to batch out and share. (And I keep adding wine to the recipe below so the batch doesn’t need to end.)

🍷 MULLED WINE + BRANDY 🍷
2 bottles of dry red wine
1 cup brandy (I used apple brandy)
2 oranges
1 large apple, cored and sliced
1 lemon
4 cinnamon sticks
4 star anise
a dozen whole cloves
6-8 whole black peppercorns
.5 cup sugar
2 T honey

Prepare a dutch oven or crock pot and clean all fruit. Use a peeler to peel off the orange rind and add to pot, then zest half the lemon rind into the pot and add apples. Add 1 bottle of wine and juice of the oranges to the pot and turn heat on high, then bring to a boil. Once boiling, lower heat and allow to simmer, covered, for about 20 minutes.

Add sugar, honey, and spices (I use a tea ball for the spices) and stir well. Add second bottle of wine and allow to simmer for at least 20 minutes, or as long as you’d like. (The longer, the better … more flavor!) Add the brandy just before serving. Garnish with grated nutmeg, fruit slices, or cinnamon sticks.

#mulledwine #Glühwein #coldweathercocktail #wine #sledding #Dallas #dallassnow #dallasweather #draaaaanks #cocktail #cocktailrecipe #warmdrinks #hotdrinks #winecocktail #winterfun #wintercocktails #winter
Plans for tonight ... 🥂🍾 anyone else? Plans for tonight ... 🥂🍾 anyone else?
🌶🍫 SPICY HOT CHOCOLATE, ANYONE? 🍫🌶 Thi 🌶🍫 SPICY HOT CHOCOLATE, ANYONE? 🍫🌶
This arctic blast we’re all seeing is enough to keep us inside, so here’s a spicy tequila hot chocolate recipe for y’all to get a little festive.

Since the forecast for Dallas next week is showing one day with a LOW OF 1° and some snow in the forecast, I’ll be making another hot drink for y’all when I get back from Shreveport! Keep an eye out ... 

SPICY HOT CHOCOLATE
3 oz Patrón Tequila (more if desired) ... I used Roca
3 C milk*
3 T cocoa powder
3 T tbsp granulated sugar
Pinch of sea salt
¼ t cinnamon
¼ t cayenne pepper

#hotchocolate #tequila #hautechocolate #cocktails #cocktail #cocktailsofinstagram #hotcocktails #warmweatherdrinks #draaaaanks #drinks #cocktails #tequilahotchocolate #passthepatron #patrontequila #patron #tequilapatron
❄️☃️ DALLAS FEELS THIS COLD TODAY … and ❄️☃️ DALLAS FEELS THIS COLD TODAY … and it makes me want a whiskey hot chocolate real bad. ☃️❄️

Are you a ski sipper? 🥃

I’ve been reviewing my pictures from my ski trip to @sunvalley, and it hit me that the temperature in Dallas this week will about the same as the same as what we were skiing in there!

I got to ski in my new @oldforester sweater last week and got some snaps while we were up eating at a fancy sit-down, white tablecloth restaurant on the mountain, The Roundhouse. (10/10 would recommend.) Yes, I was drinking a whiskey hot chocolate, because that’s what you do when you ski.

📸: @iamsarahmize
Thanks for braving the cold (and the gondola) to help me get these shots, Sar!
And thanks for the badass sweater, @tristlea / @oldforester!

#sunvalley #ski #skiseason #skisips #oldforester #whiskey #hotchocolate #skitime #sunvalleyidaho #drinkswithaview #drinkstagram #drinkingfortheinsta #draaaaanks #whiskeywarmup #susiedrinksidaho
🥭🌶 BARMALADE GIVEAWAY 🍓🍑 My friends at 🥭🌶 BARMALADE GIVEAWAY 🍓🍑
My friends at Barmalade want y’all to try out their delicious cocktail mixes. These rich mixes are 100% natural and couldn’t be easier to make cocktails at home—Barmalade, liquor, and citrus … that’s it!

👉🏼👉🏼👉🏼 To enter to win SIX bottles of Barmalade (your choice of flavors) …
🤍 Like this post.⠀⠀⁣⠀⁣⠀⠀⁣⠀⁣
➕ Make sure you're following me (@susiedrinks) and @barmalade.
💬 Comment with the flavor(s) you want to try. Comment as many times as you’d like—every comment is an entry
 —OR— @ mention someone that likes cocktails (easy!)
⨁ Share this in your stories for TEN extra entries. (Make sure to tag me so we know you shared it.)⠀⠀⁣⠀⁣⠀⠀⁣⠀⁣
🏆 I’ll pick a winner Thursday around 5pm.⠀⠀⁣⠀

Barmalade flavors you’ll get to choose from …
Mango-Habanero
Blackberry-Mint
Grapefruit-Elderflower
Blood Orange-Guava
Berry-Basil
Apple-Pear
Passionfruit-Lemongrass
Raspberry-Hibiscus

Don’t want to wait to see if you win? Central Market carries several flavors and you can order at barmalade.com!

📸: @ricostudios
#barmalade #cocktails #athomecocktails #drinkingathome #centralmarket @centralmarket #draaaaanks #cocktail #cocktailrecipe #drinks #booze #drinkvideo #cocktailvideo #giveaway #drinks
Prize valued at $25. Not sponsored by Instagram. If in Dallas, winner will be asked to pick up product; winner will be shipped product directly from Local Hive if outside of Dallas. Thanks to @localhivehoney for making this giveaway possible!
Thanks to @barmalade for sending me some of their delicious product and asking me to share it with y’all!
😍🍸 I’ve found heaven ... and it sells anti 😍🍸 I’ve found heaven ... and it sells antique barware. 😍🍸

I went to visit my aunt and uncle in Fort Myers this week, and they were so excited to show me a shop they found. The shop, Board & Bar, sells barware, glassware, bars, and more ... most of it vintage, and some antique! Think mid-century modern bars to sterling silver cocktail collapsible shakers. 

The owner, Melinda, was very kind and let me get some pictures of a martini setup while we were there. (And then let me drink it. 😈)

I walked out with two sets of brass cups, a couple bottle tags, and a few other little goodies. (And I’ll be back anytime I visit the aunt and uncle, because I saw a ton more fun items I want for my bar once I move!)

Thanks to my aunt for her great photo help!
#fortmyers #florida #🍸 #martini #martinitime🍸 #cocktails #cocktail #antiques #antiqueshop #barware #barlife #midcenturymodern #antiquing #fortmyersflorida #boardandbar #pour #liqpic #drinkstagram #cocktailsofinstagram
Après all day. 🥃🎿 (We finally got some sun Après all day. 🥃🎿

(We finally got some sun on the third ski day ... and they don’t call this spot Sun Valley for nothin’!)

#skisips #woodfordreserve #whiskey #drinkswithaview #drinksdrinksdrinks #draaaaanks #drinksintheair #drinksofinstagram #susiedrinksco #sunvalley #skiing #ski #idaho @woodfordreserve @sunvalley #apreslovelist
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