Dun-Dun-Dun-Dun…Spirit of Shark Week

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But is there a shark at the bottom of the glass?

Always look before you take a sip—or a dip. Turquoise blue liquid and festive drink glasses look delightfully ominous. So is the Blue Hawaiian cocktail the recipe for disaster I can’t live without?

Dreamy blue liquor + hot summer + impending Shark Week (Discovery Channel, July 7-13)=shark bait

It all adds up. Yes. The Blue Hawaiian sends a shiver of sharks up my spine—in a good way. Especially when Nate mixes the drinks.

Here’s the recipe he’s fin-essed—in his words:

2 ¼ ounces of pineapple juice

1 ounce of cream of coconut

1 ounce of blue curaçao

½ ounce of lime juice

Ice

Combine everything in a shaker and shake violently, then pour into a tall glass with ice.

Result:

Creamy, smooth, well-balanced, and full of fresh fruit flavor. Tastes nothing like a shark, thank goodness. I’d give it 10/10 exploding scuba tanks.

Serve this drink with

–a bucket of shrimp

–a marathon of Shark Week videos

–a kiddie pool filled with gummy sharks

–lifeguards on duty

–David Hasselhoff

–a bigger boat

Your Turn: What’s your favorite in-season treat where you live at the moment?

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18 thoughts on “Dun-Dun-Dun-Dun…Spirit of Shark Week”

  3. I’ve never known what blue curaçao tastes like and just exerted myself enough to google it — orange flavored? Sound like a nice creamsicle kind of drink. Here the summer treat is a swim in the lake, most of the ice floes are gone, no sharks, no gummy sharks, no jellyfish and very few Viking raiders, so relaxing and refreshing.

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    1. Oh, my! My dad spent his teen years in Florida and built a canoe from a kit. He doesn’t like to follow directions, so he threw them away and just built it anyway–and then he got in the water and a shark as long as his boat swam right up to it…just as my dad’s boat was falling apart. He made it back alive with one oar and a sliver of the boat. The shark didn’t snap at the boat, but it stayed next to it the whole time.

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      1. Oh, that would be terrifying!! My shark was a small lemon shark, not fully-grown, and I was too distracted by its cuteness to be as afraid as the guys on the boat told me I should be–apparently they can be quite aggressive even when they’re young!

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