Guess what comes out in 4 days? Taylor Swift’s new album! Happy birthday to me! Where I live, we are fully out of late winter vibes and the sun is shining, the trees are budding, and the magnolias are blooming! It is officially spring! While I cannot wait for Tay Tay to drop her latest album, I’ve been busy listening to my Spring Playlist! Spring music to me is about fresh starts, driving beats, and playing the music loudly with the car windows down and the wind rushing through my hair! It’s going for walks with my earbuds in, music blaring, and the warm sunshine on my face. It’s about grabbing life by the horns and rushing headfirst into adventure! Wow! I certainly hope these songs live up to all that I just described lol. These are 20 songs that are on my Spotify Spring Vibes Playlist that have been total earworms so far this season. Enjoy.
My Spring Music Playlist:
Blame Brett * The Beaches
Notion * The Rare Occasions
Closer to Fine * Indigo Girls
Free * Florence & The Machine
Shower You Love on Me * Kula Shaker
Start Me Up * Rolling Stones
In Love With a Camera * The Struts
Sunshower * Chris Cornell
Feeling Good * Michael Buble
Son of a Preacher Man * Dusty Springfield
Bobby Sox * Green Day
Good People * Mumford & Sons, Pharrell Williams
West Coast * Imagination Dragons
Creatures in Heaven * Glass Animals
Animal * Neon Trees
All These Things That I’ve Done * The Killers
I’m in a Hurry * Alabama
Ol’ Sweet Day * AHI
Hide Away * Daya
Too Fake * Hockey
Are you ready for some AMAZING Spring Cocktails??? These 6 drinks blew our minds! They are basically spring in fancy glasses! Ninja used fresh springtime fruit to make these FRESH, DELICIOUS and EXCITING spring cocktails. Just click on the name of the drink below and it will take you directly to the recipe!
We started with Taylor Swift’s favourite drink, and possibly MY new favourite as well, a French Blonde! This is classy, timeless and light… perfect for spring sunshine!
We love trying new margaritas and this one did not disappoint! This Strawberry Champagne Margarita was spring in a glass! I mean really, can you go wrong when you put strawberries, champagne and tequila together? I think not!
This Blueberry Smash is exactly the spring drink you want to sip on this April! It is creamy, bright, full of coconut flavour and a perfect way to welcome spring! We used edible flowers I bought from Amazon to really make this drink look special!
Palomas are MY favourite drink and Old Fashions are Ninja’s favourite, so we put them both together and found this PERFECT spring drink, The Old Fashioned Paloma! It has the bourbon of an old fashion but the grapefruit of a paloma, put them together and you have a springtime old fashioned!
There is nothing that says spring to me like fresh melons and cucumber! This drink takes a little extra work to prepare it but honestly you will thank me later because this Cucumber Melon Sparkler is fresh, bursting with flavour and could possibly be considered life changing LOL. OK maybe not, but you won’t argue with getting your daily dose of fruits and veggies with this phenomenal drink!
Of all the spirits, gin is my favourite. It is clean and fresh tasting. I already told you how much I love palomas because of the refreshing grapefruit taste, well this marries the two. It is an Elderflower Spanish Gin & Tonic that will BLOW YOUR MIND! The mild gin, the floral elderflower and the tart grapefruit makes me wish spring lasted longer so we could enjoy these year round! Heck, with a drink that tastes this good? Who says we can’t?
Ingredients
2 oz Lillet Blanc
2 oz grapefruit juice
1 oz gin
1/2 oz St Germain
1 teaspoon lemon juice
2 strips lemon peal
Directions
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Pour in the Lillet, grapefruit juice, gin, St-Germain and lemon juice. Shake the mixture for about 20 seconds.
Strain the mixture into your glasses. Gently twist the lemon peel over the drink to release the oils, then lightly draw it over the rim of the glass before dropping it in.
Ingredients
8-10 medium sized strawberries, hulled and sliced, plus more as garnish
2 oz lime juice
2 oz tequila
2 oz triple sec
zest of a lime
crushed ice
4 ounces of Champagne or Prosecco
2 leaves of fresh basil
Directions
Muddle strawberries in a cocktail shaker. Add in the lime juice.
Stir in tequila and triple sec.
Add in ¾ cup of crushed ice. Strain the strawberry margarita onto the ice.
Top it off with champagne. Garnish with basil and a a few whole strawberries.
Ingredients
1/2 cup blueberries
3 oz vodka
3 oz cream of coconut
2 oz pineapple juice
2 oz lemon juice
ice (smashed and cubed)
2 oz blueberry syrup
- Blueberry Syrup
1/2 cup blueberries
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup water
Directions
Put blueberries, water and sugar in a medium-sized pan over low heat until the blueberry juices release and sugar dissolves. Take off heat and set aside until cooled off. Once it’s cooled, strain the syrup into a cup and set aside. Store it in the fridge.
At the bottom of each cocktail glass, muddle 5-8 blueberries and fill 3/4 of each glass with crushed ice.
- Directions for Blueberry Syrup
Put blueberries, water and sugar in a medium-sized pot over low heat until the blueberry juices release and sugar dissolves. Take off heat and set aside until cooled off. Once it’s cooled, strain the syrup into a cup and set aside. Store it in the fridge.
Ingredients
4 oz bourbon
4 dashes Angostura bitters
8-12 oz grapefruit soda
squeeze of a lemon or lime wedge
Directions
Fill 2 highball glasses with ice. Add the bourbon and bitters to the glasses and stir to chill.
Top with chilled grapefruit soda and a squeeze of lemon or lime juice.
Garnish with grapefruit and a sprig of fresh basil.
Ingredients
1 cup cantaloupe
½ cup water
1 cucumber
ice
2 oz cucumber juice
2 oz cantaloupe juice
1 oz Hendrick's Gin
4 teaspoons simple syrup
4 oz prosecco chilled, divided
Directions
Add one cup of cantaloupe and ½ cup of cold water to a blender. Blend on high for 30 seconds or until the cantaloupe is completely pureed in the water. Place a fine mesh sieve over a glass measuring cup or bowl. Pour the cantaloupe juice into the sieve and strain away the pulp. Discard the pulp
Place a sieve over a bowl and set aside. Peel the cucumber. Slice in half lengthwise and scoop out the seeds. Use the large holes on a box grater to grate the cucumber and transfer to the sieve. Lightly press on the cucumber to extract the last of the juice.
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add the cucumber juice, cantaloupe juice, gin and simple syrup. Seal the shaker and shake vigorously for 20-30 seconds until icy cold.
Strain the cocktails into a coupe glasses and top with the chilled prosecco. Garnish with a melon and basil.
Ingredients
4 oz Gin (a botanical gin)
12 oz Elderflower Tonic
4 pink grapefruit slices
a few juniper berries
rosemary sprig
Directions
Add ice to the glass. Squeeze one slice of grapefruit into the glass and discard. Add the other grapefruit slice, the juniper berries, and rosemary sprig to the glass. Pour gin into the glass. Add the tonic and stir before drinking.
Check out How Was Your Week, Honey? Episode #376: Boob Sweat. This week, we get together on a sunny, warm afternoon to discuss: podcast community, the Masters, Kiwanis, Fest of Ale, biopsy, Apple charges, hockey pool, SOW, pop country, & Coachella.
This was a slow week. I worked and got everything ready for my infusion next week! I read a few wonderful books and I can’t wait to share my next reading list with you all very soon. I took in the beauty of fruit blossoms popping up all around, enjoyed the sunshine on the balcony and HBear’s gym class took it outside. This weekend is The Masters! My favourite! It was also SBean’s Musical Theatre Competition! She has been working so hard and we were blown away by the entire performance! SBean can sing apparently! LOL It was really good! Her 2 Besties came to watch, brought her flowers and took her to White Spot for a lunch celebration. HBear attended a birthday party on Saturday night while SBean and her G6Besty has a sleepover, Ninja finished the deck and I finished The Masters!
