“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.
oh, no! I don’t even know how to back up my blog… is there a feature on word press that does that?
the good news is that the feed seems to be working! i hope you get to recover everything!
Sorry to hear about your troubles. I’ve had some issue myself and know how frustrating it is. That drinks look like a fantastic diversion from fixing a blog though:-)
Sorry to hear about your troubles guys. I hope you’ll be able to resolve the problem soon. I know how frustrating it can be to loose some precious work. The feed seems to work fine though.
I’m drinking with you. Cheers!!
I feel the pain. What a nightmare.
Glad that finally you could sit down and relax sipping this beautiful drink. Cheers!
I have been drinking a similar drink for over 30 years, a recipe straight from Playboy’s Bartender Guide. It’s called a Chapel Hill, and needless to say, that’s where I went to college: UNC-Chapel Hill. Go Tar Heels! Here’s the recipe as I remember (drink) it:
1 jigger whiskey, 1/2 oz Curacao, simple syrup, 1/2 oz lemon juice, juice from 1 slice of orange. It’s a little darker than your Island Taxi, but it sure is good.
Sorry to hear about all the problems. I’m sure it’s nothing a lovely drink can’t ameliorate!
Have I told you, you have absolutely stunning photographs?
Well, you have absolutely stunning photographs. 😀
Navigating the dodgy world of blog editing always calls for a drink or two with me. Of course, that might also be the reason why I have the worst luck making changes to my blog too.
I hear that you are meant to back up your blog often.. Problem is, I have no idea how, and no idea what to do with the backups when I have them!
I’ll join you all for a double too. What a week huh?
My heart skipped a beat just reading this. I have no idea what I’d do. Eek!
Delicious looking drinks!
I am pretty ignorant about this entire blogging process, so I just fly by the seat of my pants. Your tale of woe put the fear of God into me. Just reading it made me want a stiff drink! 😉
Hey guys, I hear your pain. The same thing happened to me. I tried to upgrade WordPress, something went horribly wrong and I lost the whole site for 2 days. It was absolutely crippling as you say. I really didn’t know how awful it would feel to have the blog gone. I cried! A lot! Anyway, I managed to sort things in the end, as have you but I now realise the importance of backups, backups, backups and I will never let anything like that happen again.
Whatever platform you use, wordpress, typepad etc, you should install a local copy of it on your computer (instructions on the web) – that way, you can mess about with the design as much as you want without fears then when it;s ready, upload it. Don’t know if you’ve already done this but thought I would mention anyway.
Good luck and hope to see your blog here every time I click!
Major bummer! Looks like you’ve done a great job in recovering stuff, though.
Keep drinking the Island Taxis. They’re clearly helping. 😉
ah, there’s nothing like some blue booze to clear the stress away. i love the action shot!
I’m getting my feed through yahoo… I would flip out if I didn’t get my white on rice… have a drink for me too!
oh I am so sorry you had to go through that. I will drink to you.
Oh how I can relate to that one. I’ve had something like that happen twice. I now have my first blog sitting out there in the virtual world: you can read it, you can comment on it but I can’t edit it. One day I’ll take it down.
You showed up in my RSS.