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Cookin’ With The KingDude-The Perfect Piña Colada & The Sailor Smash Boat Drink!

July 12, 2020 29

Independence Day 2020 Boat Drinks! The Blender-Less Pinâ Colada!

WATCH THE LIVE SHOW, BELOW! "If you like Piña Colada's, Gettin' caught in the rain And the feel of the ocean and the taste of Champagne" - Rupert Holmes, Escape I LOVE Boat Drinks and so do you and Jimmy Buffett! "Boat drinks, boys in the band ordered boat drinks, visitors scored on a home rink, everything seems to be wrong!" Today we will make the KingDude version of THE […]

July 4, 2020 19

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Cookin’ With The KingDude LIVE!! The New Orleans Classic, The Sazerac!

Join Mike For A Some Saturday Afternoon Fun & Mirth: Cookin' With The KingDude-Cocktail Edition. Today: The Sazerac! WATCH LIVE ON FACEBOOK! Dontae To The Cookin' With The KingDude Supplies & Improvements Fund! I return to FaceBook LIVE!! This afternoon at 2:00pm Central with our first KingDude Cocktail by Request: The Sazerac with Sazerac Rye Whiskey ! Who made it first!? HOW do you make it!? Coming to New Orleans!? […]

June 27, 2020 28

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Cookin’ With The KingDude Episode 8 – The Lemon Drop!

Dedicated to the memory of Dennis Anthony "Julio" Gomez 1957-2020. Hey Y'all, I am going LIVE! today at 2:30 pm central with a Cookin' With The KingDude show dedicated to my late cousin, Dennis "Julio" Gomez. The ONLY drink outside of beer "Cuz" would imbibe was The Lemon Drop and so that's what we'll make today in Cuz's honor and memory. The Lemon Drops were AMAZEBALLS! The KingDude brings the […]

June 13, 2020 28

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How To Make The World’s Most Perfect Margarita & Her History – Cookin’ With The KingDude Episode 7!

How To Make The World's Most Perfect Margarita & Her History - Cookin’ With The KingDude Episode 7! by: Mike Church The Margarita the subject of everyone's favorite Jimmy Buffet song and many people's favorite summer cocktail but I betcha most folks don't know who concocted the mixture, when and why or how to make a delightful homemade version of the "sour mix" sludge made by José Cuervo et al. […]

June 8, 2020 4

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Cookin’ With The KingDude: The Amazing History & The Making of The Martini

by Mike Church The Martini story is an amazing one as are all great cocktail creation stories. The origin of the drink begins with a breakout of kidney disorders in Denmark in the 17th century. A Doctor Francois de Boe Sylvius concocted a liquor made with grain alcohol then sweetened by steeping the Juniper flower in it, he called it "genever"; a name the English later stole and shortened to […]

June 3, 2020 30

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Cookin’ With The KingDude-The “Louisiana Peach of A Mojito” Edition

video by Mike Church From my personal FaceBook page. Join The KingDude for another Saturday, cocktail classic with a Louisiana twist: The classic Mojito made with fresh, Louisiana Peaches! INGREDIENTS 2 oz Bacardi Rum 12 ounces cubed ice 1/2 Fresh lime cut into quarter wedges 1 oz lime juice 1/2 Fresh Louisiana Peach, cored, cut into 1/4 wedges with peels removed and reserved 4 Fresh mint leaves 2 oz clear […]

May 25, 2020 8

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Cookin’ With The KingDude: Franco’s Bloody Mary Mix!

Mandeville, LA - Why do I call this Franco's Bloody Mary? Well, the story involves a first cousin of mine who earned the nickname "Franco", details of which I will spare you to maintain our "G" rating. While working at Friend's Restaurant in the summers of 1994-5 we developed this (yep, I tended bar to make ends meet early in my radio vocation) and at one point had an investor […]

May 18, 2020 15