Welcome back to the show.
You know when the heat is on,
we are all looking for a long
tall drink to cool us down.
And luckily for us today I've got
beverage master and award-winning
culinary author James Fraioli,
standing by hello to you, my friend.
Hello, thanks for having me thank
you for for coming and bringing
all these delightful goodies.
We're making three summer cocktails today,
but you've got one already made.
What is this?
Yeah, so this is a macadamia
rum with champagne.
And this is one of Sammy Hagar's
specialties with his with his
redhead rum and it's it's delicious.
I love it and it's technically
a Kir Royale, right?
It is. It's a Kir Royale and it's
if you like bubbly, this is a nice
spin on on on a wonderful cocktail.
I love Akira Royale.
I always feel like I
should be at Studio 54.
Having a having a cocktail
whenever I drink one.
But cheers to this sure is delicious.
Oh my goodness, all that is so good.
You taste that macadamia you mentioned
the red rocker and that's his.
You worked on this book with him, right,
correct, correct? Yeah, we were.
You know he has a. He has a tequila
line and a rum line and and Cabo Wabo.
So yeah it was a great collaboration.
OK so let's start with the Santos sunrise.
What's in that? And I'm just gonna
just gonna hold on to this one because
that macadamia really comes through.
Yeah it's nice.
It's very nice and it's smooth.
Yeah so, So what we're gonna
do is we're gonna just.
Throw some ice in here.
OK, I should probably just
you think so could just be
easier if I just use my hands.
My hands are clean, we're good.
We're a hands on kind of team here.
There you go. OK so.
We gotta we gotta mess
Keela and this is 1/2 mess.
Mescal and half tequila interesting
OK and this is a samy's line
that he owns with Guy Fieri.
Ohh I love it so we're
gonna we'll do the big one.
OK alright then fill her up
alright just one yeah just one OK?
Well, that smells good.
It's not as actually when you when
you mix them as Callen tequila,
it's it's a little smoother. It
seems very smooth, very smooth.
They're gonna top it up with
orange juice about about four oz,
4 ounces. So what is this 2
ounces here? Yeah, OK, hold
on. Yeah, yeah, there you go
all right. So 2 ounces of the Aquila. OK,
and then 4 ounces of OJ? Then what's next?
A little splash of blue carousel.
This is what gives it its color.
OK, just a splash.
Yeah, just a nice splash.
I splash it everywhere,
that's that's what I do
and just a drop of this, OK?
Drop perfect and there's
there's your. Santos sunrise
wow. Just like that.
It's beautiful.
It's a beautiful cocktail.
OK, because you put all these and
you don't really mix it, right?
You don't mix with them,
settle where they are,
OK, well let's try it.
Ooh, that is ohh, that
is that wakes you up
and that goes down real easy on a hot day.
OK yeah, my goodness and I have
to say that you got to work
on this book with Sammy Hagar.
You've been doing the you.
This is your first cocktail book,
but you've written many cookbooks.
Yeah, many cookbooks that I've
done a few cocktail books.
OK, but this is the first one with
a with a real high profile name.
What brought you and Sammy together?
They used to go down to Cabo
Wabo all the time and and.
They love their cocktails down
there and I was I was like,
hey Sammy needs a cocktail
book so we got together and it
was a great collaboration.
I hate love Cabo wabo.
That is a very fun place.
And music is always great there,
but if I had been if they had a
cocktail book when I was there I
would have absolutely bought one,
especially for this.
Wabba Rita. We're about to make.
Yeah, the wabba Rita's fun and that's
one of their signatures down there.
They make it with now they
make it with a popsicle.
We're not going to make it
with the popsicle but but it's
basically the whopperito frozen
and you just add it to your drink.
Ohh how fun,
OK, I actually I should have.
I should have given you my pictures to
share on here couple of timing cover
while but no I shouldn't no no no.
So how does the how was the WABA arena made
all right? Well, have you make this one
so this one is with a reposado tequila
reposado very smooth and this
is also the Santo line right?
That's the other Santo line.
So Yep, so we'll just fill that up. OK
two about 2 ounces, Yep. The rapper sat.
Oh OK. And then Damiano Lacour.
This is sort of the Mexican
version of triple SEC.
Oh, it smells delightful.
Just 1/2 ounce. Oh well,
whoops, sorry I didn't.
I was I wasn't telling
you the ingredients.
You put half of that in here,
OK and then and then a splash of that.
About 1/2 ounce.
Alright, I can eyeball it,
that's about right alright.
And then we're not my first cocktail,
that's OK all right. And then
we'll do a squeeze of the line half Oz.
So we'll throw one more half in there.
OK, FYI, if you have one of
these at home and you always
wonder which way you put it,
you put it like opposite the
little thing just so you really
get all the juices out, OK?
Terrific and then a splash
of blue carousel, OK?
Yeah, that's more than
a splash, you know. I love, you
know I love my splashes
excellent and give it a give it a shake.
OK? What are
their wonderful delightful cocktails?
Can people find in this? Well, there's a
lot of you know a lot of rum cocktails,
but they have the classics you know,
like the Pina coladas and the
daiquiris, a lot of margaritas.
I don't string this right, just pop it up.
Yeah, just Yep, just pour right in.
There you go. Well had a little lime
wheel, a lime wheel. There you go.
Well, thank you. Here's the
burrito. Try this. Hmm.
Ohh, I think this might be the most
dangerous of all that is. Still,
that's a fun summer drink.
Ohh my gosh, James.
Thank you so much.
I feel so into summer right now.
These are delightful.
Cheers to you my friend.
Cheers, Congrats.
On the new book.
Cannot wait to check in.
Thank you.
Thanks for having me absolutely
and the recipe for these drinks
are on our website.
It is the perfect weather
for any of all three so
you can find them there.