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Cooking with Alcohol: Spirited Food Recipes

Liquor is not just for drinking, it can also add subtle flavors to many of your favorite foods. This is a growing collection of outstanding food recipes, all of which include at least one distilled spirit.
Cooking with alcohol substitutions, tips and hints
Why use alcohol in foods? Aside from flavor alone, there are a number of reasons, including some scientific ones. Find out why, how to reduce the alcohol content, and how to substitute for alcoholic ingredients.
Baked Spicy Pumpkin and Rum Cheesecake
This Baked Spicy Pumpkin and Rum Cheesecake is the ultimate dessert and a nice alternative to pumpkin pie after the fall harvest. It is not too sweet, but just sweet enough and the rum is the perfect touch
Big Game Salsa
Recipe for Big Game Salsa, a salsa recipe for Super Bowl parties that is easy to make and includes tequila.
Blueberry Limoncello Cake
If you like lemoncello you know its qualities as a dessert drink. This cake recipe from About.com Baking Guide, Carroll Pellegrinelli,takes the sweet lemon liqueur to another level, pairing it with blueberries for a sweet adult treat.
Buttermilk-Banana Pancakes with Pomegranate Syrup
Recipe for Buttermilk-Banana Pancakes with Pomegranate Syrup. This delicious, made from scratch banana pancake recipe is topped with a pomegranate syrup made with PAMA Pomegranate Liqueur and maple syrup.
Campari-Poached Pears with Raspberry Sauce
Recipe for Campari-Poached Pears, a delicious dessert of pears poached with Campari liqueur and served with raspberry sauce.
Caribbean Lobster with Rum-Jerk Butter
This is not your average lobster in butter dish, no this is Caribbean Lobster with a Jerk-Rum Butter. For even more flavor, beyond the spicy jerk seasoning and the sweet rum, this recipe also calls for onion, pepper, lime, chives and pepper.
Chipotle Glazed Chicken Skewers
Recipe for Chipolte Glazed Chicken Skewers, a recipe featuring a Chipolte Vodka Sauce of Van Gogh Pineapple Vodka.
Cocktails & Grilling
The natural marinating power of alcohol and the wonderful flavors of your favorite cocktails make grilling with them a great idea.
Forget Me Not Fudge
Recipe for Forget Me Not Fudge, a recipe for homemade fudge that uses a little Maker's Mark Bourbon.
Grapefruit-Campari Sorbet
Dessert recipe for a Grapefruit-Campari Sorbet, a delicious frozen dessert made of fresh grapefruit, lemon and orange juices with Campari Italian liqueur.
Hazelnut Chocolate Mousse
About.com's French Food Guide, Rebecca Franklin, has a delightful recipe for Hazelnut Chocolate Mousse. It is a delectable dessert that has just a hint of Frangelico, a hazelnut liqueur.
Jerk Chicken and Avocado Salad
If you love the spiciness of jerk seasoning and can't get enough fresh avocado, you will really like this recipe. The Jerk Chicken and Avocado Salad uses pairs spicy jerk with sweet rum and tart lime in a chicken marinade and adds the freshness of a garden salad to cool everything off.
Pomegranate Salsa
An easy recipe for Pomegranate Salsa, a sweet and spicy salsa dip that uses pomegranate seeds, blueberries, strawberries, jalapeno peppers, mint, lime juice and PAMA Pomegranate Liqueur.
Tequila Herradura Shrimp Tacos
Recipe for Tequila Herradura Shrimp Tacos, a spiked food dish of shrimp, garlic, cilantro, Tequila Herradura Silver and Newcastle Brown Ale on warmed tortilla shells.
Tomato Vodka Cream Sauce
Recipe for a Tomato Vodka Cream Sauce, a spiked pasta of chicken sauce that uses fresh tomatoes, red pepper, parmesan and romano cheese, butter, cream and Blue Ice American Vodka.

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