Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Cocktails! Say, how about the Low Carb Way?

It's very easy to be a bad girl much too often in Vegas with all of the delicious eats and endless posh bars in town.  I went out last night with friends and still managed to be good (until I slipped up and had a piece of Wolfgang Puck Pesto pizza at 4am, but anyhow).  With all of this nightlife at my fingertips, it inspired me to let you know of a couple of easy cheats to have different kinds of cocktails while you are out or at a party without ruining your "Good Girl" days.

Note:  These are just a few Low Carb Cocktail recipes.  Enjoy, enjoy and if you have one, share!  I will post it on my blog for all the boys and girls to see and try.

GOOD GIRL LONG ISLAND ICED TEA

1/4oz gin
1/4oz rum
1/4oz vodka
1/4oz tequila
1/4oz triple sec
1oz sugar-free sour mix
dash diet coke

Put all into a shaker with ice and shake briefly. 

GOOD GIRL HIGHBALL

Ingredients:
2oz whiskey
diet ginger ale

Serve on the rocks with a twist of lime.

GOOD GIRL MARGUERITA

Ingredients:
1/2 tsp orange extract
1 packet Splenda (or 2 tsp powdered)
1 tsp water
1 shot tequila
1/8 tsp lime juice
1/4 tsp lemon juice

Serve on the rocks and rim the top of the glass with salt if you like.

GOOD GIRL WHITE RUSSIAN

Ingredients:
1/4 cup STRONG brewed coffee
1/4 cup Splenda
1 tsp vanilla
4oz vodka
4oz brandy
2oz (1/4 cup) low carb milk

Serve on the rocks.

THE $100 DIET VODKA SPECIAL (replaces the sugar and carb loaded Vodka Tonic)

1 shot of Vodka
Fill the rest of the tumbler with Pelligrino or Perrier
Crushed ice
Twist of lime

Serve on the rocks.

GOOD GIRL VODKA COLLINS

1 shot of vodka
2 slices of lemon
2 packets of Splenda
0 calorie seltzer

Mix the first three ingredients together, then put in a tumbler on the rocks and fill the rest of the glass with seltzer.

How about that?  I have a ton of easy low fat recipes and easy low carb recipes in the good girl section of my cookbook.

Cheers