A fantastic lounge lizard recipe for: Black Haus Icicle, with Black Haus® blackberry schnapps, Smirnoff® vodka and Cointreau® orange liqueur.
Category: Shots & Shooters – by base-ingredient
Ingredients: 1 oz Black Haus® blackberry schnapps
1/2 oz Smirnoff® vodka
1/2 oz Cointreau® orange liqueur
How to: Pour the Black Haus blackberry schnapps into a shot glass. Add Smirnoff vodka, followed by Cointreau, and serve.
Glassware: Shot Glass
What’s in it for you?
(per 2 oz serving)
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Calories (kcal)
Energy (kj)
Fats
Carbohydrates
Protein
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146
612
0 g
13.1 g
0 g
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Fiber
Sugars
Cholesterol
Sodium
Alcohol
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0 g
-
-
-
22.7 g
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A fantastic lounge lizard recipe for: Creamy Pflueger, with peach schnapps, coffee liqueur and half-and-half.
Category: Cocktails – peach schnapps
Ingredients: 2 oz peach schnapps
1 oz coffee liqueur
3 oz half-and-half
How to: Combine peach schnapps and coffee liqueur over ice cubes in an old-fashioned glass. Add half-and-half, and serve.
Glassware: Old-Fashioned Glass
What’s in it for you?
(per 6 oz serving)
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Calories (kcal)
Energy (kj)
Fats
Carbohydrates
Protein
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365
1528
10.4 g
28.1 g
2.7 g
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Fiber
Sugars
Cholesterol
Sodium
Alcohol
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0 g
24.1 g
-
37 mg
20.6 g
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Throwing a birthday party for kids can be a real nightmare for some parents. Depending on your child’s age, there are lots of fun ideas but concerning ideas as well. At all ages, you try to come up with a theme. Whether it’s a cartoon character or a famous person, most kid’s birthday parties tend to have a theme. Parents go crazy trying to find plates and cups that represent those particular themes and find themselves spending entirely too much money on purchases that will simply be thrown away the moment someone is done getting food all over the plates.
The real joys of kid’s birthday parties shouldn’t always be based on a theme. It should be based on creating memories that your child will always store in their memory banks as happy. If you are going to have a theme for your kids’ birthday parties, pick something unique and fun. Simply picking out a character and getting the matching silverware and cups doesn’t exactly mean you are having a brilliant theme party. Knowing that your daughter wants to be a princess when she grows up and having each little girl come to the party dressed as a princess is an adorable idea for a theme party. All little girls love to play dress up and have tea parties. Making a kids birthday party out of those themes is something that is sure to be remembered for a long time. If your child is a boy and he’s into the superheroes, why not have each child come dressed up like his or her favorite superhero? It will make for some great games and some wonderful photo opportunities.
What is always amazing, is watching how much money people will toss out the window when it comes to kids birthday parties and planning. They shouldn’t have to cost a fortune. No matter what age your child is turning, the amount of money that is spent on the actual party should not matter. Don’t go crazy buying party favors and decorations. Quite frankly, going to discount stores can allow you to create and make your own decorations for so much cheaper. You can make your own invitations instead of buying them. Perhaps your child can help you make the invitations and make them much more personal. They can be adorned with paints, stickers, glitter - whatever your child wants their birthday party invitations to look like.
Make sure at your kids birthday parties that there is plenty for the kids to do. At any age, restless and bored kids can get into sticky situations really quickly. Have some games and activities planned for everyone to ensure that things go smoothly. With some careful planning, your kids birthday party will be one that they remember for years to come.
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A fantastic lounge lizard recipe for: Amarita, with amaretto almond liqueur, margarita mix and ice cubes.
Category: Cocktails – Long drinks
Ingredients: 2 oz amaretto almond liqueur
6 oz margarita mix
ice cubes
How to: Pour Amaretto and margarita mix over ice. Stir well and serve.
Glassware: Collins Glass
What’s in it for you?
(per 8 oz serving)
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Calories (kcal)
Energy (kj)
Fats
Carbohydrates
Protein
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265
1108
0 g
35.5 g
0 g
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Fiber
Sugars
Cholesterol
Sodium
Alcohol
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0 g
6 g
0 mg
67 mg
15.9 g
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A fantastic lounge lizard recipe for: Bunky Punch, with vodka, melon liqueur, peach schnapps, cranberry juice, orange juice and grape juice.
Category: Cocktails – Long drinks
Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz vodka
1 oz melon liqueur
1 oz peach schnapps
1 1/2 oz cranberry juice
2 oz orange juice
1/2 oz grape juice
How to: Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes. Shake well, and strain into a parfait glass. Garnish with a slice of lime, and serve.
Glassware: Parfait Glass
What’s in it for you?
(per 7.5 oz serving)
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Calories (kcal)
Energy (kj)
Fats
Carbohydrates
Protein
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338
1416
0.2 g
32.2 g
0.7 g
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Fiber
Sugars
Cholesterol
Sodium
Alcohol
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0.1 g
30.7 g
-
2 mg
30.6 g
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A fantastic lounge lizard recipe for: Cola-Rolla, with Dry Orange Curacao liqueur, cognac, vodka, lemon juice and cola.
Category: Cocktails – Long drinks
Ingredients: 1/2 oz Dry Orange Curacao liqueur
1/2 oz cognac
1/2 oz vodka
1/2 oz lemon juice
1 bottle chilled cola
How to: Funnel the curacao, cognac, vodka and lemon juice into one small cola bottle (185-200ml), roughly half-filled with cola. Briefly invert the bottle to mix the ingredients. Place in the center of a large glass (tankard, stein or british pint), and fill glass with broken ice. Add a straw to the bottle, and serve.
Glassware: Beer Mug
What’s in it for you?
(per 27 oz serving)
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Calories (kcal)
Energy (kj)
Fats
Carbohydrates
Protein
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433
1815
0 g
89.1 g
0.6 g
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Fiber
Sugars
Cholesterol
Sodium
Alcohol
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0.1 g
87.2 g
0 mg
25 mg
16.3 g
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Strange as it may sound, it’s true. The internet, with millions upon millions of sites to see, can easily become an alternate reality. One link leads to another and before you know it, hours have passed. You may have started out your net session with some serious purpose, researching a health topic or locating information for a term paper.
You decide to take a short break to visit your favorite message board. You find a response to one of your posts from one of your online friends. The response really gets your dander up, so you fire off a quick response. The responder is also online and shoots back with another message. Again, before you know it, dinner’s burning and the kids are after you - “When’s dinner?”.
Does this situation qualify as internet addiction? If this scenario arises once in a blue moon, no. However, in most cases like this, it’s a regular event. Once you’re on the net, you find you’ve got to tear yourself away to tend to business. If surfing the net interferes with regular responsibilities, or keeps you up until the wee hours such that you can’t get up in time for work, you’ve got the dreaded internet addiction.
So prevalent is this phenomenon, there are now institutions and support groups dedicated to curing this brand new addiction. You may be shocked to discover that people are paying money to be rehabilitated from their internet addiction.
If you suspect that you’re creeping up to addictive status, or already there, how do you recognize the signature characteristics of internet addiction? What steps can you take on your own to wean yourself from excessive stints on the web?
To answer the first question, if you’ve got internet addiction, your surfing adventures take priority over other mundane, but necessary tasks, such as doing last week’s laundry, fixing tonight’s meal or helping the kids with homework. Do you become annoyed when someone tries to get your attention while you’re on the net? Do you spend hours playing online games, leaving poor Fido to his own dinner devices? Chances are, you’ve got internet addiction.
Now, what to do? You really don’t want to let dinner burn, or have nothing for the kids to wear tomorrow. Not to mention Fido making off with the meat sitting on the counter. Curing internet addiction requires a disciplined approach and establishing proper priorities. Here are a few clues to get you clean.
Establish certain times of the day or evening when the net won’t interfere with work and family responsibilities. Let’s say you do housework for an hour in the morning and on Saturdays. Pencil that time into your calendar. Homework help is nightly, between 4:00 and 6:00 pm. Mark it down, along with all regular tasks. What’s left is when you fit in net excursions.
Yes, it’s all easier said than done. However, it’s doable. Buck up. Get up an hour earlier than usual, or forego your favorite TV program. Yes!
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