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0February 13, 2015Cooking by Erica

The Bloody Valentine

Fifteen years ago, my now-husband and I went out for our first Valentine’s Day date. We went to a nearly-empty pub, sat down for a beer, and within 10 minutes some drunk guy we’d never met had twisted his barstool around started describing the sordid details of his ongoing, bitter divorce.

We were young, and West-coast raised conflict avoiders, so we allowed this guy to steam-roller our date with an hour of angry relationship advice.

That evening was brought to us by cheap lager and betrayal.

We stay in for Valentine’s Day now.

Bloody-Valentine

If, like me, you aren’t really a sappy-card and dozen-red-roses kind of girl, freshly squeezed blood orange juice, blood orange liqueur and bourbon makes a charmingly macabre drink for Valentine’s Day.

The color comes out reddish-pink, but the flavor is all exotic citrus and smokey whiskey.

Bloody-Valentine-Components

The Bloody Valentine

Makes 1 rather giant cocktail, or 2 petite pours.

Ingredients

  • 2 oz bourbon
  • 1.5 oz. freshly squeezed blood orange juice
  • .25 oz. blood orange liqueur
  • Several generous shakes orange bitters

Method

Shake all ingredients hard with cracked ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a twist of blood orange peel.

Bloody Valentine-Overhead

Happy weekend, and happy Valentine’s Day, friends.

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Author: Erica Filed Under: Cooking Tagged With: Citrus, Bourbon, Valentine's DayImportant Stuff: Affiliate disclosure

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Hi! I'm Erica, the founder of NWEdible and the author of The Hands-On Home. I garden, keep chickens and ducks, homeschool my two kids and generally run around making messes on my one-third of an acre in suburban Seattle. Thanks for reading!

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  1. GreenEggs says

    February 13, 2015 at 10:29 am

    I’ve gotta say, I’m not a card and flowers kinda girl either and we tend to stay in for VDay as well. But I do love the idea of The Bloody Valentine. Very clever and sounds delish! thanks!

  2. Colette says

    February 13, 2015 at 4:33 pm

    yumm. I love the idea of blood orange liqueur. I’ll have to look in to that … or maybe figure out how to make it! 🙂

  3. Castle says

    February 13, 2015 at 4:36 pm

    Here’s our Valentine stay at home drink -http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/12523-boulevardier
    We just moved to MA and are preparing for Valentines and more shoveling.

    • Sanj says

      February 15, 2015 at 4:46 pm

      Courageous move, Castle! My daughter wants us to relocate to MA. (Yikes – snow is taller than our grandchildren!) I’m a spoiled west coaster by now, so am spinning at the options. How did you decide?

  4. Jan says

    February 13, 2015 at 5:04 pm

    I have never been a Valentine’s Day girl myself. My husband and I do exchange cards on the day but the day after we usually go out for breakfast. To my mind I want someone who will be there the day after V day. So after 40 years of mostly happy marriage I am looking forward to my day after breakfast. Somehow it feels like we are still going steady…still best manners. 🙂 I’m a lucky girl.

  5. Jane in NC says

    February 14, 2015 at 9:12 am

    Hmmm…I think I may try a variation on this today. How about bourbon, blood orange juice and some Aperol?

  6. Ravenna says

    February 14, 2015 at 3:14 pm

    We are definitely not V-Day people, both of us thinking it is yet another “holiday” devised to get us to dole out money on useless crap we really don’t need. We generally use it as an excuse to buy and split a box of really good chocolate…though we don’t really need much of an excuse for that 🙂

    That cocktail looks divine 🙂

  7. Jason Sinclair says

    February 14, 2015 at 9:27 pm

    I’d love to know what you think makes a good Bloody Mary. I like them, but only if they’re not made with the God-awful Bloody Mary mix…

  8. Kyle says

    February 15, 2015 at 6:54 pm

    Couldn’t find my orange bitters (which I DO own) and tend not to buy one-off liqueurs, so I went with blood orange juice, bourbon, a splash of sweet vermouth, and a splash of triple sec. Pretty good as is but would love to find my bitters!

  9. A.J. Coltrane says

    February 16, 2015 at 7:24 am

    We always do Valentines Day a few days early to avoid the Love Tourists at the better restaurants. Actual V-Day takes place at a random not-super-romantic bar with nibbles.

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  1. The Anti-Valentine | Greens, Eggs and Cans says:
    February 13, 2015 at 10:44 pm

    […] Anyway, Erica wrote a funny post today describing her disasterous first Valentine’s Day date with her then-boyfriend, now husband, and how as a result they tend to stay in on Vday.  I’m sure I could have written that post myself.  But to follow up she offered the most fabulous sounding Anti-Valentine’s Day remedy that I just had to repost.  She calls it: The Bloody Valentine. […]

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