Breakfast Martinis

This special cocktail from the Emirates business class menu features bitter orange marmalade, gin and Cointreau, a delightful libation to perk you up any time of the day.

Back when we were living in Dubai, my husband flew Emirates Airlines for all of his business trips. The upside to his constant travel was that he quickly moved up to a platinum frequent flyer membership which allowed him to nominate one friend or family member to gold status. I was that lucky person!

There were several advantages to gold status the least of which was occasional upgrades to business class or, more often, offers of an upgrade for a just a few hundred dollars more at online check-in. For flights longer than seven hours, I always jumped on those deals. Once I even got to travel first class and take a shower at 30,000 feet but that's a story for another day!

On the Emirates A380, the business class cabin includes a bar, with drinks, snacks and places to sit and chat. The friendly cabin crew manned the bar and would make any cocktail you could imagine. We even had them make our own cocktail invention Bulago Breezes for us on occasion. 

But one of my favorites from their own menu were their breakfast martinis. Sharp in a good way from the marmalade, gin and lime juice but sweetened slightly by the Cointreau and orange juice, I think breakfast martinis are the perfect Sunday morning brunch drink. 

Breakfast Martinis

Full credit for this drink recipe goes to the lovely folks at Emirates Airline and the wonderful crew who always made each trip such a great experience. I don’t recall the name of the lovely person who gave me permission to take photos as he made the cocktail and share them, but I am very grateful. We miss flying Emirates so much and it will probably be our favorite airline forever. 

Ingredients for 1 breakfast martini (easily doubled for two!)

1 teaspoon orange marmalade

1 1/2 oz or 44ml gin

3/4 oz or 22ml Cointreau

3/4 oz or 22ml lime juice

3/4 oz or 22ml orange juice

Ice

Note: 1 1/2 oz is one standard jigger, also known as "a measure" in many cocktail recipes. 

Method

Put 3-4 ice cubes in a cocktail shaker. 

Add the teaspoon of orange marmalade, the gin, Cointreau, lime and orange juices. 

Shake for 10 seconds.

 Strain into a martini glass. 

Good morning and enjoy! 

It’s Sunday FunDay and today is all about breakfast! Check out the great breakfast recipes below. Many thanks to our host, Sue of Palatable Pastime. 

• Breakfast Martinis from Food Lust People Love
• Breakfast Quesadilla from A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Cinnamon Sugar Dutch Baby Pancake from Our Good Life
• Cottage Cheese Pancakes from Palatable Pastime
• Egg-Free Wheat Pancakes from Mayuri’s Jikoni
• Millet Set Dosa from Sizzling Tastebuds
• Mini Cinnamon Rolls from Amy’s Cooking Adventures
• Kesari Semolina Sheera / Kesari Rawa Sheera from Sneha’s Recipe
• Maple-Sweetened Overnight Oats from Culinary Cam
• Quick Kande Pohe from The Mad Scientist’s Kitchen

 

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Bulago Gin Breeze Cocktail #FoodieExtravaganza

With equal parts gin, orange juice, Campari and tonic, a Bulago Gin Breeze Cocktail is super refreshing and a doddle to make.

For the last few years, I've been hearing my friends David and Nicky talking about a small home they have on Bulago Island in the Ugandan portion of Lake Victoria. It's a sweet retreat from the hectic world, where there is scarcely any internet and lazy days are best spent sipping cocktails, doing 1,000-piece puzzles, reading and watching the wildlife.

We finally got ourselves organized for a trip last April. It's less than a five-hour flight from the United Arab Emirates. Completely do-able for a long weekend.

The whole trip was a joy and Bulago is indeed a treasure. The birds alone require a reference volume for birds of East Africa because there are so many that inhabit the island, including enormous Hornbills and colorful Kingfishers and the Egyptian geese that wandered our garden. A pair of binoculars were always at the ready and I kept my telephoto lens on my camera as well. One never knew who or what would turn up.

One afternoon, as my husband and I were sitting out on the lawn reading, I heard a noise in the tree branches overheard. I thought it was some of the birds building nests because they had been going back and forth in an exhaustingly productive manner. Imagine my surprise, when this is what I saw.

I beat a hasty retreat to the house since he looked like he was about to leap down upon me. After my less than endearing experiences with monkeys when we lived in Malaysia, I am not a fan. Eventually he lost interest and we went back to our state of relative inactivity, reading and watching this scenery, keeping an eye out for otters and alligators. (Saw some of both!) There may have been Bulago Gin Breeze Cocktails involved, if not that day, certainly the next.

 Hardly anyone swims in this part of Lake Victoria. Now you know why.

We arrived on Bulago with two bottles of gin, one bottle of vodka and a box of red wine. There was some mix up in our grocery order so a whole case - 12 liters - of orange juice was delivered, along with tonic, beer and fresh vegetables. The store cupboard revealed an elderly bottle of Campari. And so our host created this new drink we aptly named a Bulago Breeze. When the breeze is blowing (or flowing) on Bulago, there is no more pleasant place to be.

Ingredients for one 8 oz drink
1/4 cup or 60ml orange juice
1/4 cup or 60ml Campari
1/4 cup or 60ml gin
1/4 cup or 60ml tonic
Ice

Method
Mix together all the ingredients in a glass. Add ice. It couldn't be more simple.

And enjoy. Cheers!

Today my fellow Foodie Extravaganza friends are sharing recipes with gin, six in all. Many thanks to our event host, Caroline of Caroline's Cooking for her hard work behind the scenes.

Need some gin-piration? Check out our link list:

• Bulago Gin Breeze from Food Lust People Love
• Gin-Steamed Bratwurst with Kraut Slaw from Palatable Pastime
• Grapefruit Salty Dog with Fizz from Hardly A Goddess
• Jamuntini from Sneha's Recipes
• Raspberry Collins Cocktail from Caroline's Cooking
• Shrimp Martini from A Day in the Life on the Farm

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