Hello lovely people, OK this is going to be fast and furious, it's very exciting. It's
nearly Christmas, friends, family, stress, cooking, but we want the wonderful world of
cocktails and Drinks Tube to give a little love. So, we are gonna do a cocktail based
on prosecco and festive flavours and actually, hardly any of it involves any physical work
from me. Which I like at this time of year because it's so chaotic and busy. OK first
up, let's do a little sister of bucks fizz, we've got pomegranate, grapefruit, mandarins,
let's do it. I'm keeping my glasses in the freezer, it's a lovely little tip, here my
friends, you can see the glass, looks fantastic. Pomegranate first, come and have a look at
this. I'm just going to simply cut the pomegranate in half, look at that, the colour of it is
fantastic, so take it over and very simply just squeeze it into a glass, you can do this
into a bowl or through a sieve if you want, beautiful. And we're gonna top it up with
some prosecco. Pomegranate prosecco, oh God. Brilliant. Next, grapefruit, very simple,
into quarters, in it goes, very very nice. Clementine, there is nothing more Christmassy
than clementine, look you can see I'm just making a mess and getting on with it and that's
basically what the corner of my kitchen looks like on Christmas Day. But it smells great
and it tastes great. Good times. Nice, we like. OK moving on, we've got 2 more cocktails,
we've got the ginger syrup, right in here, stem ginger in syrup, a couple of teaspoons
topped up with prosecco is a joyful, joyful thing. I put a little bit in and then just
get a little spoon or something, well maybe not that kind of spoon, just mix it up, just
an inch and then it's a little bit more soluble and then we're gonna top it up and it truly
is a wonderful thing, it reminds me of my grandad, it's really clean, it feels good
for your tummy, we'll talk all through this later when I have a little drink up. Next
up, mulled wine syrup, now you buy this to put with bottles of red wine and then simmer
and make your mulled wine with a few oranges in it. But actually you can use it to glaze
ham, glaze pork chops, but also you can put it into sorbets, just a little something.
And I don't know if you've noticed but in front of me now we've got really different
colours, really different presentations. Two more! Over to the freezer, let's get some
more prosecco because we're getting through it. Let's put it in here, and one here. We've
got pineapple in a tin, but it has a really retro taste and this is a light sugar syrup
in here and it's wonderful. We can use that retro pineapple, cut it into little chunks,
put it on cocktail sticks with some really good cheddar cheese. Oh my God, bring back
the 80s! Yes! And I swear it's genius! Cranberry, it's got Christmas written all over it, there's
our cranberry here, let's top it up. Right, time to taste, the ginger. Delicious, perfect
for the winter, refreshing but also kinda warms your throat. Mulled wine, oh! Tutti
frutti flavour, really delicious! Pineapple time, very clean, very elegant, brilliant.
Next, pomegranate, really nice, very elegant and also very Christmassy! Let's go pink grapefruit,
nice. It reminds me of Don Johnson in Miami Vice, white shirts, white suits, no socks
and slip-ons. Yes, I'm correct. Clementine, old favourite, Christmas in a glass, nothing
else to say. And then cranberry. Don't bother doing this one, that's a terrible idea, I
thought it was gonna be better than it was, forget that one. So let me show you the last
one, would be blood orange which is basically bucks fizz. So in you go, a little top up
and another classic drink, but with the blood orange just a little bit darker. And very
very nice. So there you go guys, we've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven brilliant,
simple two ingredient cocktails and if you want more inspiration for Christmas, hit the
box because there's an epic Christmas playlist for cocktails and drinks this season. And
also, subscribe to Drinks Tube! It's free, it's brilliant, we've got Christmas sorted.
Take care.