Cajun Martini…

[shil]

Quarter a couple of jalapeno peppers, remove the seeds and pith, jam them into a big bottle of gin and leave it sit for as long as you can.

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice cubes and the gin. Add a dash of dry vermouth, about 1/12 as much vermouth as you've got gin.

Shake it up and strain into a Martini glass.

Surprisingly hot, and good for you too! Maybe use just one pepper...

[ceebe]

There's a brewery in Cave Creek AZ that brews Chili Beer. They put a jalapeno in the bottle before they cap it.

http://www.chilibeer.com

You need a regular beer in your other hand

[madjack]

...hmmmmmmmmmm, seems if it were to be a Cajun Martini you would need to be using Tabasco Peppers instead of Jalapeno's...just a thought
madjack

[bledsoe3]

I may have to try that. Since it's good for me.

[SteveH]

...hmmmmmmmmmm, seems if it were to be a Cajun Martini you would need to be using Tabasco Peppers instead of Jalapeno's...just a thought
madjack

Maybe a Mexican Martini?

[gailkaitschuck]

If anyone wants to try this with habanero peppers, let me know. The one healthy pepper plant in the garden is producing these peppers (MANY of them). Deadly critters!

I've picked a few, ran them through a blender, added water, strained them and am using the juice as bug spray to kill palmetto bugs/roaches. Very effective but you have to hold your breath as you spray.

Gail

[bledsoe3]

If anyone wants to try this with habanero peppers

Not if it'll kill roaches!

[asianflava]

...hmmmmmmmmmm, seems if it were to be a Cajun Martini you would need to be using Tabasco Peppers instead of Jalapeno's...just a thought
madjack

Maybe a Mexican Martini?

My wife gets Mexican Martinis. They are basically a Margarita on the rocks, but you get the whole shaker with it.

[subtearanean]

On the topic of martinis......

"If everything goes as planned, these cocktails may make their way onto Eve's short list, alongside Eamonn's Cocktail, a bracing rickey made with Irish whiskey and a red lemonade that chef Armstrong used to drink as a boy in Dublin, and the stunning pickled martini, "based on my grandmother's pickle recipe," which contains sweet pickle juice, vodka infused with fennel (to balance the tartness) and topped with a frothy mountain of whipped pickle juice that's almost sudsy in texture."

Full story here:

http://tinyurl.com/rgzj4