Hurricane drink

We've been to Pat O'Brien's in Orlando a couple of times now, each time meeting other bloggers for a great evening of food, drink, and general debauchery. Well Pat O'Brien's serves a very tasty drink called a Hurricane. And when you buy a Hurricane or Margarita (and probably other drinks), you get to keep the glass (and even with the glass, the drink price is about the same as most places). So the pic at the bottom of this post shows our Hurricanes in Pat O'Brien's Margarita glasses (we have one or two Hurricane glasses, but they're probably in storage or something while our house is being built).

OK, I'm not going to claim that this recipe is the same as the Pat O'Brien's recipe (in fact, I know it's not, since their recipe calls for four ounces of rum and four ounces of the mix that you can buy there). This recipe uses "only" 2 ounces of rum per drink, yielding a very tasty drink that still packs a little kick, and does not use a mix (using a mix is against our religion!)

Enough idle chatter. Continuing our selfless quest to derive recipes for wonderful adult beverages - without using store-bought mixes - we offer the Litton version of a Hurricane:

These ingredients yield 2 Hurricanes:

• 4 ounces dark rum
• 8 ounces passion fruit juice (this may be hard to find, so you could probably substitute juiced mango or papaya)
• 1/2 ounce sugar syrup (to make sugar syrup, heat equal parts sugar and water stirring often until sugar is dissolved)
• 1 teaspoon Grenadine
• Juice of 1 lime

Put all ingredients into a shaker with some ice cubes and shake for a bit to mix and cool ingredients. Strain into glasses, add ice - and maybe an orange slice for a garnish - and kick back! Dedicated to our friends Matt and Jess (pic), who introduced us to Pat O'Brien's. Cheers!