“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.
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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.
I’m going to be making this for NYE. I had the chance to try this out over the weekend and it was just delicious.
OMG!!! How horrible. I would make that drink a triple! You guys work hard enough as it is. God, I never even thought of backing up my blog. Jeez, I’m gonna have a drink or two for you!
Thanks for the info about backing up a blog. I’ll have to look into that.
Thanks for all the sympathies, everyone. D. was pouting pretty hard while things were messed up. There are still some posts truncated that will take some time to recreate. WAPITA. (What a pain in the ass!) Several have asked how to back up their sites. We are on WordPress, and there is a plugin that will automatically back your site up regularly, but it didn’t work for us correctly when we tried to restore the site. We are still researching why. A probably better solution would be to follow the methods listed on the wordpress site listed here :
http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
It probably works for other platforms as well, but we don’t know for sure since we’ve only used wordpress. And Sandie, don’t harass the bartenders too much if they don’t know how to make an Island Taxi. It is our own creation. Just tell them they have to start reading our blog. Thanks again everyone for the support. T.
oppppsssss…..glad to see you back! and glad to know that you didnt resort to drinking chinese cooking wine like some people did (no no not me) LOL
Hey guys – I’m truly sorry to hear of your coding issues. It’s amazing how 1 tiny, miserable piece of code can mess up a whole blog, but I know it happens. Best of luck getting everything up & running at 100%.
Now… onto the really good stuff. Holy Moly! This drink looks delicious! I’m spending the month of July in Florida and am getting ready to visit various beaches over the next 2 weeks. Are you familiar with those little tiki hut bars found near oceanside pools? I’ll be looking for these “Island Taxi’s” in the days to come, and if the tiki bar bartenders are lame and don’t know how to make these (off chance, but still a chance,) I’m printing this recipe, making copies and handing it to him or her, with instructions to keep the glasses coming while I soak up some serious sun & waves! Cheers in advance…
Looks like the kind of drink that could get me into trouble. Tastes so good that you drink more than your share and then bam…you are stumbling around.
Glad you are back and running.
Oh dear..it happened to me once too when I went to change the layout of my blog. Ended up everything gone and I spent hours restoring it. It was a nightmare and I was crying and scolding myself for hours.
I hope you will sort out all your links and stuffs soon.
Such a pain to have all your hard work messed up! Hope that it has righted itself now. One Island Taxi for me please! (Love the colour!)
Ouch, sounds like a nightmare. The good thing about having our own domain is that all the published pages will still reside at the FTP even though they got wiped out from the blog management tool. But it’s a pain.