what are your favorite drink recipes?

Two fantastic summer drinks include:

Maxim's Iced Tea
Check out the gourmet food stores (or visit Paris) and pick up a package of tea from Maxim's De Paris (apricot, apple, or mixed fruit). Their teas are some of the best blends I've tasted. Place several tablespoons of tea in a kitchen strainer. Take a half gallon pitcher and place a few leaves of mint and lemon balm into the bottom of the pitcher. Boil a regular teapot of filtered or bottled hot water (I prefer using Fiji bottled water) and pour the water very slowly over the strainer, into the pitcher. When done, use a spoon to squeeze any last bit of tea out. Then fill the remainder of the pitcher with cold bottled water. Do not drink the tea immediately. Let the tea sit in the fridge for two days before drinking. By the second day the tea should be a dark amber color...and the flavor is fantastic. So rich and smooth...no sugar necessary.

My other favorite drink is chilled sake. Great for dinner parties. You can get a good bottle for about $8. Place it in the fridge and chill the bottle a few hours before use. When cold, pour three or four shots of sake into a mixed drink shaker with four ice cubes. Then pour in a tablespoon of black currant juice into the shaker. Shake about 10 seconds and strain into a martini glass. I pre-chill the sake to keep the ice cubes from melting too fast and diluting the sake. What I love about this is the black current isn't too sweet and adds a really cool colored effect to the sake. If you want to garnish it, add one or two frozen blackberries.

dude.

domestic much?

And I didn't even include my iced coffee recipes.

Cranberry juice, sprite, and vodka mixed together tastes really good

yeah I need iced coffee recipes right about now.

One of my favorites is making Vietnamese coffee. It consists of three ingredients: ice, espresso, and evaporated milk. This recipe is for two people, or one person with a large bladder. I prefer http://www.illyusa.com/homepage.asp coffees, but that is up to you. Pour half a can of evaporated milk into a tall glass. Then add ice to the top of the glass. Brew one or two shots of espresso (per person) to your taste, then add the coffee to the iced milk. Stir with a tall spoon and drink up.

A slight variation of this is to add a shot of coffee liquer to the glass...the taste is richer...and hey...it has alcohol.

If you want just a straight glass of iced coffee...one nice step is to always have ice cubes made from coffee in the freezer. This way it doesn't dilute the coffee as you drink it. You can also make an iced coffee smoothie with a splash of milk, three scoops of real vanilla ice cream, two shots of espresso (chilled), a teaspoon of ground espresso beans, and a tablespoon of malted milk. Garnish it with whole coffee beans on the top. Add unsweetened cocoa for mocha if you like. Who says you have to grow up all the way?

I'm looking for a way to keep martini's mixed in a pitcher 'cold' without putting ice directly in the mix where it will melt and dilute the drink
Ideas ???