Drink of the Month: Irish Tea

Drink of the Month: Irish Tea Looking for a refreshing twist on the typical St. Patty’s Day cocktails?  Try this relatively healthy Irish Tea recipe, which you can make by the glass or the pitcher! What You Need: 4 Parts Sweetened Green Tea, Chilled 1 Part Jameson Irish Whiskey ½ Part Pernod Absinthe Lime Slice for garnish What You Do: Combine liquid ingredients, serve over ice in a rocks glass,... [Read more]

Cooking with Courtney Crave – March 2012

Courtney Crave by DallasPinUp.com International Fetish Model, performer, event producer, and Texas Pin-Up Model of the Year 2011 (Hot Rods and Heels), Courtney Crave is amazing both to look at, and in the kitchen.  She is kind enough to share her favorite seasonal baking & cocktail recipes with Pin Curl Magazine monthly.  For more on Miss Crave, please visit her at GermanDreamGirl.com. Carrot... [Read more]

Merry Christmas Cocktail

Christmas wouldn’t be complete without a lot of booze. For December’s Drink of the month, it comes in the form of the Merry Christmas Cocktail! Ingredients: 1 oz Plymouth Gin 1 oz cranberry juice 1 tsp lemon juice club soda fresh or dried cranberries for garnish Preparation: Pour the gin and juices into a Collins glass filled with ice. Stir. Top with club soda. Garnish with cranberries... [Read more]

DIY: The Big Apple

With September being the month that brings Fall, and The New York Burlesque Festival an apple cocktail & dessert seemed the obvious choice! The Big Apple Manhattan Ingredients: 1/2 oz Wild Turkey bourbon 1/4 oz Amaretto Di Saronno 1/4 oz Apple Pucker liqueur 1 oz cranberry juice cherry garnish Preparation: Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker. Add ice. Shake vigorously... [Read more]

DIY: Saving the Taste of Summer

DIY: Saving the Taste of Summer (for Cocktails!) by: Shoshana Though it may not seem like it now, considering the record heat wave, soon summer will be over and with it goes all of the fabulous flavors of the season: fruits, berries, peppers, and herbs.  Here are a few simple and clever ways to enjoy your favorite summer flavors, long after the sunshine is gone! Herb Infused Ice Cubes You can have... [Read more]

Cooking w/ Courtney Crave- July

One thing you may not know about internation fetish & pin-up model Courtney Crave, she's a whiz in the kitchen! Photo: DallasPinUp.com MUAH: Ladonna Stein. Apron: Mia Maria Designs Vegan Crispie Treats Since it’s July I wanted to come up with some traditionally American recipes that you could create for your 4th of July celebrations.  I also haven’t done a vegan recipe in a while, so... [Read more]

White Sangria

Summer is here!  In Texas, that means it’s incredibly hot!  Make it a little more tolerable with Courtney Crave’s fabulous White Sangria! White Sangria White sangria has to be one of my favorite summer drinks. I proved this once by drinking an entire punch bowl of it on my own at a pool party (not recommended, do not drink and swim). It’s really that good, so you want to make a lot,... [Read more]

Cooking with Courtney Crave

Courtney Crave. Photo: DallasPinUp.com, MUA/H: Ladonna Stein. Apron: Mia Maria Designs April happens to hold the ever so confusing holiday of Easter (seriously… a rabbit leaves eggs around your yard?) and my beloved boyfriend’s birthday.  To pay homage to my boyfriend and our inner child who once was able to believe in some bunny deftly stuffing candy and toys into plastic eggs and hiding them... [Read more]

Cooking With Courtney Crave: March 2011

Courtney Crave by Shoshana of DallasPinUp.com, MUA/H: Ladonna Stein, Apron: Mia Maria Designs Cooking with Courtney Crave: March 2011 Car Bomb Cupcakes Ah March, you bring such wonderful things; my birthday, the ides, and St. Patrick’s Day.  That’s right, a day where you can abuse/sexually harass (seriously, what do you think pinching is) people not wearing green and get wasted on green beer all... [Read more]

Drink of the Month- Vieux Carre Cocktail

The people of New Orleans sure know how to mix a drink!  This recipe was invented in 1938 by Walter Bergeron, who named the drink after the French name of the French Quarter.  Recipe taken from Looka THE VIEUX CARRÉ COCKTAIL 1 ounce rye whiskey. 1 ounce Cognac. 1 ounce sweet vermouth. 1 teaspoon Bénédictine D.O.M. 2 dashes Angostura bitters. 2 dashes Peychaud’s bitters. Half-fill a double Old... [Read more]