A Kiss from the Cocktail Deeva – Friday’s Featured Cocktail

Sealed with A Kiss Cosmo - credit to CocktailDeeva

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 ounces PAMA Pomegranate Liqueur
• 1 ounce vodka
• 2 ounces pink grapefruit juice
• 1 ounce of pulp free orange juice
• 1 ounce soda water

Rim:

• white sugar
• black pepper

Method: Add Pama, vodka and grapefruit juice to your shaker and shake well. Rim glass with a mixture of sugar and a pinch of black pepper. Pour into a large glass filled with ice. Add the o.j and soda water on top. Garnish with fresh pomegranate seeds on top and of course a breath mint….for minty fresh kissing…

Lifestyle and Cocktail Deeva, Dee Brun, is the author of the award winning book, Libations of Life and A Girls Guide to Life One Cocktail at a Time. She is also a cocktail stylist and developer, mom of 4, avid TV watcher, shoeaholic, and a self confessed, boarder-line George Clooney stalker.  You can find Dee Brun at CocktailDeeva.com,  on her blog or tweeting @CocktailDeeva.  She guest posts here about Valentine’s Day and gives us her humorous and racey rankings on kissing…

By The Cocktail Deeva

So Valentines Day is on it’s way and it is a time for professing your love with grand gestures and romantic tributes. Possibly some expensive bling or romantic weekend getaway…Or maybe as it is in my world, we will see if we can get the kids to bed a little earlier and not fall asleep before 9pm. Don’t get me wrong, I do like Valentines Day, I love the idea of having a “day of love”. However, I like the idea of having “everyday love” better…Fancy shmancy romance stuff is great, but the most romantic thing to me is KISSING…I LOVE KISSING..Good kissing that is.
I have kissed a ton of frogs, toads, lizards and the odd blowfish before I found my Prince. I have even been to know to kiss a little ass every now and then. But there is nothing worse than a bad kiss…So to help you know if your in the midst of a bad kiss I have made a list of my top 5 worst…

1. The Lizard - I do believe the name says it all…Quick darting motions, in and out and in and out. A skinny, somehow overly stiff tongue…This does not make for a romantic kiss. this makes for a chipped tooth.
2. Fast Eddy - A first kiss is so exciting and a great way to start any relationship, but slow and steady wins the race. Trying to get to 3rd base during said first kiss is so not a great start to anything. This is one time when patience is truly a virtue.
3. Spitty Spitter Face- Passion is fantastic…But drowning in your saliva isn’t. Please stop trying to swallow my face. I’m really into you too but do not feel the need to have my face exfoliated by your tongue. This kiss rates an eleven on the “ick factor” for me.
4. Sahara Sam- The opposite of #3…How does one function without saliva? Dry lips, dry mouth, dry kisser. I am really not quite sure how to fix this one…I hear Olive Oil is good for everything.
5. Tight Lipped- There is always a time and a place to be “tight lipped”, however when your kissing, it is not one of them. I really don?t want to feel like I am trying to PRY you open. With this kiss…I am bored.

So this Valentines Day be sure to get in a few “Good Kisses? with the ones you love.  After all you can burn up to 2 to 3 calories for every minute of kissing, and it’s way more fun then the treadmill. Also the endorphins produced by kissing are 200 times more powerful than morphine and people who kiss regularly live an average of up to 5 years
longer than those who don’t. It’s a great way to keep your New Years resolution. Cheers! and Big Sloppy Kisses…