Blueberry Lemon Peppertini

B-Sides

My husband (for whom the B-Sides are named) made up this drink! He loves the peppery flavor of the chartreuse, and blueberries are perhaps his favorite fruit, so it's really very "him".

We made the blueberry syrup to use up some blueberries that weren't super ripe and were going to go bad before anyone ate them, but if you'd like me to show you the process let me know in the comments!

If you find this cocktail a bit sweet for you as is, we do think it might be even better with about a quarter ounce of lemon juice added to each drink; I've included that in the list below.

Full Ingredient List -- for 1 cocktail

* .75 oz Blueberry simple syrup

* 1.5 oz Vodka

* .25 oz Chartreuse (green)

* .25 oz Lemon juice (optional)

* twist of lemon for garnish

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[00:00]: [Music]
[00:09]: on this episode of cooking the books
[00:10]: with heather we're actually not cooking
[00:12]: from a book
[00:12]: um my husband put together a cocktail
[00:15]: that he wanted me to share with you guys
[00:17]: that he is calling
[00:18]: the blueberry lemon peppertini
[00:22]: so he's made some
[00:26]: blueberry simple syrup i think it was
[00:28]: equal parts
[00:29]: blueberries sugar and
[00:33]: water boiled until the blueberries sort
[00:36]: of popped and then
[00:37]: strained the solids out of that and
[00:39]: that's what's in here
[00:45]: um and then we're just going to add
[00:48]: some vodka and some chartreuse he likes
[00:52]: it
[00:52]: uh it's kind of herbaceous and a little
[00:54]: bit peppery thus the peppertini
[00:57]: and we're going to serve it in a martini
[00:60]: glass that i have
[01:01]: chilling with some ice and water right
[01:04]: here
[01:06]: so i have my mixer and i'm going to be
[01:08]: making a double batch but
[01:10]: i will tell you what the amounts are for
[01:12]: each one
[01:14]: um i'm just going to use this single
[01:19]: we have two of them but one of them has
[01:21]: measurements the other one doesn't so
[01:22]: whatever
[01:23]: um so for each drink we're going to do
[01:27]: an ounce and a half of vodka
[01:39]: i hate when i lose a little bit
[01:43]: and for each drink we're going to do
[01:46]: three quarters of an ounce of the
[01:48]: blueberry syrup
[01:50]: that we've made we didn't show you that
[01:54]: but it's
[01:54]: pretty simple
[01:58]: there we go
[02:04]: and now for each drink he made it with a
[02:06]: little bit more
[02:07]: last time but we're gonna we came down
[02:10]: on the green chartreuse for this
[02:12]: um a quarter ounce of the chartreuse
[02:15]: so for
[02:19]: two i'm gonna do half an ounce
[02:24]: there we go so in my
[02:27]: shaker here i have just ice
[02:30]: so i'm going to
[02:34]: shake it up
[02:44]: it's nice and chilled it gets really
[02:46]: cold up here not as much down here
[02:47]: because it is
[02:48]: um insulated which i enjoy
[02:52]: and i'm going to dump the ice and the
[02:53]: water out of my martini glasses
[02:57]: so now we have our chilled martini
[02:59]: glasses
[03:00]: and this has a nice strainer in it so i
[03:03]: don't even have to do anything else
[03:05]: i'm going to split it roughly
[03:09]: evenly
[03:17]: between
[03:18]: these two and that is pretty good it's
[03:21]: not a super full martini
[03:22]: which is not a bad thing because
[03:27]: i always i'm afraid i'm gonna spill
[03:30]: martinis
[03:31]: but we're going to garnish this with a
[03:34]: twist of lemon
[03:36]: i think i did the wrong way there we go
[03:39]: so twist get the oils
[03:42]: into the drink
[03:48]: there we go there's our
[03:52]: blueberry lemon peppertini
[04:01]: definitely enough still of the um
[04:04]: chartreuse i get that flavor it's it's
[04:07]: pretty sweet
[04:08]: because of the blueberry but it's super
[04:10]: easy to drink it's got the interesting
[04:12]: flavor
[04:14]: of the the peppery herbaceous uh
[04:17]: chartreuse in it i hope you guys enjoy
[04:20]: it
[04:21]: thanks for watching if you've enjoyed
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