After a long time, had a Tom Collins. This is one of the few citrusy cocktail I can deal with. Used Malfy gin today. Malfy gin uses 20% lemons from the Amalfi coast and 80% lemons from Sicily to give the distinct nose.

Gin, lime juice, syrup and soda…

Picked this recipe up from Melanie Milhorat of New York from Taste of Home. The drinks tastes great and even as importantly, looks great.

This cocktail is stirred not shaken. Fill three fourth of a stirring glass with ice and then pour two teaspoons of lemon juice, two ounces of coconut rum, two ounces of guava juice, a dash of syrup and couple of dashes of bitters. Stir it thoroughly and then pour it in a glass with a few pieces of ice already in it.

Got back to the guava juice Sharmila had bought. This is a relatively simple cocktail – two ounces of vodka, two and a half ounces of guava juice and half an ounce of sweetened lime juice – shaken over ice and served in a martini glass without any garnish.