LIZ'S LONG ISLAND ICED TEA
Buy a bottle of 4 C brand Iced tea (also comes powdered---buy the pre-made type). Pkged diet or regular w/ lemon.
METHOD Pour the 4 C brand Iced tea into a tall highball glass. Add a couple glugs Southern Comfort, a lemon slice and sip sip sip.
SKINNY HOT BUTTERED RUM / Helen Gurley Brown recipe
Popular Christmas libation sans calories. The only cals are in the rum-100 proof rum is about 100 cals.
METHID Mix tb rum, tea butter buds (in spice section), bit sweetener. Add mixture to cup of boiling water in pretty mug.
SERVE w/ 3-4 whole allspice floating on top.
If they're sipping the bobbly at your house, you can sip-along sans calories. Ordered in a bar, the bartender places a sugar cube in a champagne glass, wets the sugar cube w/ a few drops of brandy. Then fills the glass w/ champagne.
CHAMPAGNE COCKTAIL
Fill champagn flute w/ club soda, add bit sweetener, 1-2 drops good brandy. Serve w/ fresh strawberry perched on rim.
LOL! I used to know a lady whose specialty was ‘Long Island Iced Tea’ - but mega-loaded with booze. The last time I saw her, we were high as a kite drinking that stuff on her daughter’s deck, deeply engaged in conversation as only two drunk ladies can be. It was Christmas, freezing out there; and we were quite warm and happy ;-)