71 Some drinks look better than they taste

Sunshine & Pumpkin ZTL 71 Some drinks look better than they taste

Lets face it, not all drinks are good drinks. The Coconut Willie from the Coco Palms on Kuaui is not exactly our favorite. Though you may want to try this one for the unusual gin flavor just to see for yourself. The gin sends Pumpkin on a tiff against the elderly and Jesus. Speaking of Jesus, there is no info that shows that he may have been a little bit closer to Judas than history would have us believe. Sunshine relives a bit of high school memories with his thoughts on the original Star Trek and specifically Mr. Spocks brain. Check out some Star Trek ASAP.

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Drink of the Week
Coconut Willie
1oz Coconut Cream
2oz Gin
1 tsp Coconut snow
1/4oz Couintreau
Put everything in a blender with 1 1/2 cups ice, blend for a full 30 seconds. Should be very frothy. Garnish with a lime wedge and squeeze over drink just before enjoying.

70 Gin makes a nutty Pumpkin

Sunshine & Pumpkin ZTL 70 Gin makes a nutty Pumpkin

This is week two of our Gin drinks. The Kamaaina should be pronounced Kah-ah-mah-A-nuh. Pumpkin says it a little different but thats most likely because booze makes her mind go a little on the dirty side. After we get the drink going it only gets less professional from there. We welcome lots of great new listeners from myspace and read an email or two. Remember, this is tell a friend about the show month. Get out there and send a few emails to your friends, tell them how much you enjoy the podcast. We just want everyone to love us as much as we love doing this show.

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Drink of the Week
Kamaaina
2oz Lemon lime soda
1oz Gin
1oz Coconut syrup
1/2oz Triple Sec
1/2oz Fresh lemon juice
1 1/2 cups ice cubes
Blend all ingredients with ice for 20-30 seconds. Pour into tall tiki mug and garnish with a mint sprig and a pineapple wedge.

69 Tiki Oasis VII San Diego

Sunshine & Pumpkin ZTL 69 Tiki Oasis VII San Diego

Theres not a whole lot to say about our latest and greatest trip to the Zen Tiki Lounge. You just gotta listen. This week we broadcast LIVE from Tiki Oasis in sunny San Diego. Plenty of cocktails, pool parties, questionable food and a huge helping of awesome hawaiian, polynesian and surf rock music. Theres nothing better than relaxing in the pool with a nice mai tai and live music that takes you the islands. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh.

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Drink of the Week
Classic Mai Tai
1oz OJ
1oz unsweetened pineapple juice
1/2oz fresh lime juice
1/4oz fresh lemon juice
1/4oz orgeat syrup
1/4oz sugar syrup
Shake with 1 cup crushed ice and pour into large rocks glass. Garnish with pineapple spear, cherry and parasol .

68 Tennessee to Brazil in just an hour

Sunshine & Pumpkin ZTL 68 Tennessee to Brazil in just an hour

Sunshine and Pumpkin are back from Tennessee with a few tales to tell. No shortage of southern influenced shenanigans this episode. Take a listen to some of our snips from our new recorder that Sunshine actually remembered to bring along on the trip. As if the south wasn't enough we head much farther south for our cocktail this week. Listener Barret suggested we try a Caipirnha, a classic cocktail from Brazil made with cachaca, pronounce that last "C" as an "S" you you'll get it. Let this be a lesson to all of our listeners, you send us a suggestion and you got a 50/50 shot of using it on the show. Sit back and relax, we'll take it from there.

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Drink of the Week
Caipirnha
3-4oz cachaca
1oz fresh squeezed lime juice
2 tsp bar sugar (super fine)
1 cup crushed or small cube ice
Shake all ingredients with ice vigorously. Take cap off and pour everything including ice into a highball glass. Garnish with a single lime wedge .

67 Ernest Hemmingway and the Daiquiri Floridita

Sunshine & Pumpkin ZTL 67 Ernest Hemmingway and the Daiquiri Floridita

Wow, what a Summer this has been. Both Sunshine and Pumpkin have been traveling and making the most of our time away from the horrors of working the grind. Our drink this week takes us to yet another exotic location, Havana and Key West, Florida. The weather is nice to. Good old Hernest Hemingway was quite possibly the biggest fan of the daiquiri. This man drank 10,000 cocktails in his time and we salute his memory. This is our first show in a few weeks so we pack in as much shenanigans and vacation stories as possible. Drop in the Lounge for a great alcoholic treat and the usual banter .

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Drink of the Week
Daiquiri Floridita
1oz white rum
1oz Flavored Rum
Juice of 1/2 large lime
3tsp fine sugar
1 cup crushed or small cube ice
Shake all ingredients with ice vigorously until the shaker is to cold and frosty to hold any longer. Take cap off and pour everything including ice into tall slim glass. Garnish with a single lime wedge .

66 Love in the South Pacific

Sunshine & Pumpkin ZTL 66 Love in the South Pacific

This week we bring you a cocktail from one of our listeners. KK from Ventura, CA suggested we try "love in the south pacific." So we did. Not bad at all, not bad at all. This drink has pretty much every booze in it so theres something for everyone. Sunshine tells us the second story about his Mother, this time a trip to a coffee shop gone wrong. Mothers, they are what they are. This is also week two for our tiki style learning experience. You won't need pen and paper, there won't be a test. And to make sure you get some shenanigans this week we threw in a fun little tale about Sunshines recent experience with Killer Hummingbirds. Wow, thats enough for a movie.

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Drink of the Week
Love in the South Pacific
1oz white rum
1oz Southern Comfort
1/2oz creme de banana
1/2oz triple sec
1/2oz sloe gin
1/2oz Vodka
4oz Orange Juice
Club Soda
Shake with ice, pour over ice and top with club soda. If you try real hard you can taste all the different forms of booze. Garnish with a lime wedge and cherry.

65 Tiki style and a Zen cocktail

Sunshine & Pumpkin ZTL 65 Tiki style and a Zen cocktail

Time to go back to school. Sunshine brings us a lesson from the book of Tiki Style. Don't say we never teach you something useful. Pumpkin gives us an idea of what her upcoming trip to Europe will be like. Starting in London and then swimming over to Spain for some roller coasters and a zip through Euro pride in Madrid. She better bring me a t-shirt. Lastly Sunshine tells the dramatic and insane story of his mother in the pasta restaurant. We end it all (well not END it all) with the usual shenanigans.

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Drink of the Week
Fabulous Fruity Flamingo
1 cup chopped frozen fruit (strawberries, pineapple)
2oz gold rum
1oz Midori
Throw everything ina blender and add a splash or two of OJ or pineapple juice.
Squeeze a lime over the top
Garnish with a parasol and pineapple wedge with maraschino cherry.