Bahama Mama

When look­ing for the per­fect drink to make the back­yard feel like you are on trop­i­cal island sur­rounded by an end­less beach & beau­ti­ful sparkling water the Bahama Mama is your gal.  Hubby & I have a Bahama Mama con­nec­tion to being on our Hawaii Hon­ey­moon (the last big nonworking-outside of Michigan-vacation we’ve taken in 7 years), one of the places we hung out at made awe­some Bahama Mama’s.  It got me think­ing about mix­ing a batch up & how it will prob­a­bly be at least another 17 years before a nonworking-outside of Michi­gan vaca­tion hap­pens, but we’ll always have fun trop­i­cal drinks.

What You Need:

1 Cup of Orange juice

1 Cup of Pineap­ple juice

1/2 Cup of Rum, light

1/2 Cup of Coconut rum

1/4 Cup of Rum, dark

2 Table­spoons of Grenadine

Ice for your pitcher

Cher­ries & Orange slices for top­ping with.

How To Put it Together:

You will sim­ply layer the ingre­di­ents for mak­ing the drink in a large drink pitcher over ice.  When you serve the drinks to your guests don’t for­get to top your drink glasses with your fruit. I mean if it has fruit then you know the rules it sud­denly becomes healthy!   It’s mag­i­cal or it could be that I find fruit being present an excuse to indulge, nah, it has to be that mag­i­cal elves trans­form the drink from empty calo­ries to health food with the pres­ence of an orange slice.

After your drinks are served then sit back & enjoy the sum­mer breeze with some good con­ver­sa­tion & friends.   You might also want to con­sider a healthy serv­ing of snacks to nosh on while chat­ting.  Because I can attest that hav­ing a good time is not much fun if you have a drink on an empty stom­ach & as always make sure you are drink­ing responsibly.

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