“Island Taxi” cocktail recipe with Rum & Curacao
This Curacao Cocktail Recipe was one of our first recipe posts back in 2008. An oldie but goodie. The “Island Taxi” cocktail is kind of a rum variation of one of our favorite cocktails, the Sidecar.
Curacao Cocktail Recipe
We’re in serious need of cocktail therapy to sooth our nerves and prepare us for another all nighter of re-coding and html corrections on the blog. It seems appropriate to write up one of the cocktails and indulge. So for tonight’s session of inebriation therapy, we made a couple of “Island Taxi” cocktails made with rum and curacao and fresh lime juice
A single is not enough tonight…
What is Curacao?
Curacao is a gorgeous blue liquor that is used in many popular cocktail recipes. It’s flavored from the dried peel of a citrus tree called Laraha, which is a bitter orange. This citrus is native on the Dutch island of Curacao, thus given the name of this liqueur. One taste and you know why this is such a popular world wide liquor.
Rum Cocktail with Curacao
The Island Taxi is a rum cousin to the classic Sidecar. We replaced the cognac with a light rum, swapped the triple sec to curacao to give it a beautiful color, then we played with the citrus to find a nice balance to the new alcohols. The result is quite refreshing. Tonight we might have to make a few more to soothe the pain for all the loss of blog posts.
If you make any of our cocktail recipes, please share in the comments in the comment box. Or share our photo with us on our social media Facebook page or Instagram account. We’d love to see your creations and share it with our food community! Thanks so much! More cocktails that you might enjoy Here.
Island Taxi Curacao Cocktail Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 ounce (30ml) light Rum (Havana Club if you can get it)
- 1 ounce (30ml) Curacao
- 1 1/2 ounce (45ml) fresh Squeezed Orange Juice
- 3/4 ounce (20ml) fresh Squeezed Lime Juice
- 1/2 ounce (15ml) Simple Syrup, or to taste
- sugar for the rim
- lime wheel for garnish
Instructions
- If possible, chill your cocktail glass beforehand.
- Moisten the rim of the cocktail glass with a piece of lime, then sugar the rim.
- Add your cocktail ingredients to an ice filled shaker (rum, curacao, oj, lime juice, and simple syrup), and shake vigorously for 15 seconds. Strain into cocktail glass and garnish with lime wheel. Lick & sip.
Ugh. How horrible!
I know just how it feels to be messing with back-end website disasters when all you want to be doing is cooking and eating. Or blogging. Or really, anything other than server and software issues. Best of luck on the cleanup process!
Cheers!
Miss G.
a nice way to celebrate your blog’s restoration. glorious colour.
What an ordeal. Hope you will restore all your posts soon. I dread this will happen one day and if someone can give us a link where we can back-up our files that would be great.
OH NO!! What a nightmare…email or call me if u need help. I’m actually pretty good in WordPress
oh no! I’m glad to see everything back in action… FYI, I’m a software engineer and do a fair amount of web stuff, and am happy to help my fellow bloggers when website troubles arise
As for cocktails, my favorite as of late has been the Blackberry Bramble: muddle 3-4 blackberries with some sugar, add cold gin, and a splash of seltzer water. Garnish with mint — yum!
What a bummer about your HTML troubles! I’m glad the two of you were able to patch things up.
I love your blog!
Oh nooooo! All of that beautiful work! You must be devastated! I hope that you guys can get it sorted out and recover as much as possible.
This is why I am so terrified to change anything on my blog. I am clueless about HTML, coding, scripts, etc., and I know if I tried to do these things, my computer would explode and my blog would be blown to smithereens!
Good luck, and drink an extra Island Taxi for me!
P.S. I’m still getting feeds in Google Reader.
Argh! Sounds like a nightmare. Silly question – how do I backup my blog?
Ouch! An Island Taxi is definitely needed. Love the color too.
I have you on Google Reader and the feed is still updating but is titled “undefined”
I was poking around to see if I could dig up any of your older posts out on the internet (e.g. google cache, wayback machine, etc), but didn’t have much luck. The drink looks great and it definitely seems like an appropriate time for it…I could only imagine how frustrating this experience has been. :-/
The feed showed up in Bloglines, so here I am. But the feed itself looks a bit weird (your blog title is showing up as an Http link).
Poor thangs. I’ve got your feed on google reader, and that hasn’t been wiped out. Phew.
Hey guys,
I get the feed in the Safari bookmarks and I got this one OK – sometimes it takes forever to load but I just assumed it was the weight of all those gorgeous photos…
Poor you! I wondered why some of your posts were truncated and some were full feeds. Do you get all of your posts emailed to you? I do that and save them all just in case anything ever happens. *Knock on wood.* My feed shows previous posts in full so if you subscribe to yourself, you can get your old posts. Then it’s a matter of cutting and pasting. A pain, but at least all is not lost?
Beautiful blue color indeed! I hope you guys have had a chance to relax now. It will please you to at least know this came into my preexisting feed just fine 🙂
Oooooh, ouch! I’ll drink to a speedy recovery. (And go back up my own stuff.)
This post showed up in my Google reader, so there’s one you didn’t lose.