Cooking Lesson #730: Love Potion #9 Cocktail for Valentine's Day

...from the Perspectives’ Happy Hour Bar

How are you doin’? Valentine’s Day is just 5 days away.  Are you tired of waiting patiently for cupid to show up and shoot his love arrow? Maybe you need a little liquid courage?
 
As the lyrics to song Love Potion #9 go:
 
I took my troubles down to Madame Rue
You know that gypsy with the gold-capped tooth
She’s got a pad down on Thirty-Fourth and Vine
Sellin’  little bottles of Love Potion Number Nine
 
I told her that I was a flop with chicks
I’ve been this way since 1956
She looked at my palm and she made a magic sign
She said “What you need is Love Potion Number Nine”
 
She bent down, turned around and gave me a wink
She said “I’m gonna make it up right here in the sink”
It smelled like turpentine, it looked like Indian ink
I held my nose, I closed my eyes, I took a drink
 
I didn’t know if it was day or night
I started kissin’ everything in sight
But when I kissed a cop down on Thirty-Fourth and Vine
He broke my little bottle of Love Potion Number Nine
 
Love Potion #9 was written in 1959, and made famous by The Clovers in 1964, 60 years ago.
 
I am not guaranteeing that this cocktail is a love potion, because it sure didn’t smell like turpentine or look like Indian ink. I can assure you I did not have to hold my nose while I drank it.  Nope this is a sweet-tart little drink, which may work on that certain somebody that needs a little nudge or two or three…. or shove.  So mix it and serve it up this Valentine’s Day and give it a shot. Get it?  A shot—you know like cupid with his arrows (now that’s funny!). Keep me posted on your winning results.
 
Prep time:  5 minutes
Yield:  1 cocktail
 
Ingredients 
1-1/2 ounces vodka
1/2 ounce peach schnapps
3 ounces pink grapefruit juice
1 strawberry
 
Directions

1. In a martini shaker filled with ice add vodka, peach schnapps and grapefruit juice.
2. Shake it like you mean it.
3. Strain and pour into a martini glass.
4. Garnish with a 1/2 strawberry on to the rim of martini glass.

ChefSecret:  Love Potion No. 9 is a 1992 American romantic comedy film starring Tate Donovan and Sandra Bullock. The film takes its name from the 1959 hit song, "Love Potion No. 9". The story is about a love potion, which enables a person to make people of the opposite sex become completely infatuated with them by simply talking.

Quip of the Day:  Q. How do chefs show their love?  A. They whisk you off your feet!
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