May 3, 2025 • 9 mins
May The Fourth Be With You drinks. Neil is giving tips on some yummy and fun Star Wars themed drinks, kid friendly and not so kid friendly. Take a listen!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I thought for technique of the week, let's do a
couple of beverages that surround Star Wars. These are beverages
that people have concocted for celebrating me the fourth. For
those of you who don't get the obviously obvious pun,
there may the fourth be with you? Yeah, yeah, okay?
(00:23):
And then what is it? What's the next one? What's
the one? Anybody else know? I know there's the Revenge
of the sixth on the sixth, but what's the fifth?
It'll come to me AnyWho. One of the things that
I enjoy the most is the and have the memory
(00:44):
of growing up and watching Star Wars. The original Star Wars,
which is a new hope, was the blue milk. You
remember that Luke's drinking it and it turns out that
it's Bonta milk. Bantas are those big elephant looking, mammoth
(01:06):
looking creatures with the big horns and the like that
we have become to know and love. But there is
a recipe. I saw this on Bakingmischief dot com Baking
Mischief dot com and it's called the Frosty Bantha Milk.
So this is something if you got kids, grandkids, or
(01:27):
you yourself, are a fan and are going to be
spending some time celebrating Star Wars tomorrow, which I most
definitely am, to the chagrin of my wife. Probably this
is a great drink for you, and it's sweet and fun.
You can control the sweetness on this, and I will
tell you how. But the concoction is put together with
(01:47):
very few ingredients, so it's not very complicated. Two cups
of vanilla ice cream and you're going to have a
couple scoops aside too, plus three scoops you're gonna put
aside one and a half cups milk. Now, you can
use any percentage of milk you want, and you could
probably use an oat milk or something like that. But
(02:11):
at that point, if you're not drinking milk, you know,
because it's dairy, you have a problem with the ice
cream part. Sweet and blue drink mix. So that means
your kool Aids, you know, powder drink, they have blueberry
or raspberry or anything. Some of them. There is a
(02:31):
blueberry raspberry lemonade or something if I remember correctly. When
it comes to kool Aid, there's a couple flavors. There's
also one that is just blue or raspberry, but any
one of those that is blue you can use on
this drink and it works out quite nicely. So you
want enough for two cups. That's sixteen ounces of liquid.
(02:55):
There ten to twelve drops of blue food coloring. Now,
if you're not crazy about food coloring, you can maybe
leave that out. It just won't be as blue. But
you put it all in a blender, you combine all
the ingredients, you blend it until it is smooth. You
divide it between three eight ounce glasses, and you top
with a scoop of vanilla ice cream serve and people
(03:16):
enjoy it. If it's too sweet for you and you're
not into very sweet things, you just start with about
half the amount of the drink. Mix, blend, taste, and
modify as you see fit. You know, blueberries might be
a nice addition. You could put them in a blender
or smash them up and then siv them out if
(03:37):
you don't want the chunks in there. But it's just
this light kind of blue hue if you remember from
the film, and it is tasty. All right, we're doing
technique of the week obviously Tomorrow Tomorrow is May the
fourth be with You and the unofficial Star Wars holiday
that's kind of become official. Been around for a long time. Actually,
(03:59):
back in seventy seven when the film came out, it
was kind of an inside joke, and it was referenced
again in seventy nine, and you know, kind of it
was the Star Wars geeks thing that we used to
love to do. But after about gosh, what was the
twenty eleven, twenty twelve whatever, when Disney picked up the property,
(04:23):
you know, they said, let's focus on this, let's make
it a part of things. So they have Season of
the Force going on right now, which is always fun
there at the park. And then you know, they have
the Star Wars Nights, the special Star Wars Nights. I
think there's still some tickets if you're into that. It's
a lot of fun. I loved it. I think it's
(04:43):
a lot of fun. They have new foods, They have
a lot of the live characters walking around, which I
think is super cool. They're doing more and more of
that at the parks too. I saw a Soka the
other day walking around. I saw the young Luke Skywalker
walking around from a Return of the Jedi, and pretty cool,
(05:05):
pretty pretty cool. Indeed, all right, So talking about that
a little bit. For our technique of the week, I
gave bonta milk recipe now on to a website called
high Cookery Hi Cookery, and this one is Yoda soda
and it's really easy ingredients, but it reminds me of
(05:27):
something that my mom would make and still does but
make as kids. And it was using Sherbert and seven
up or sprite or something like that. So this just
made me think of my mom, who's alive. She's not dead.
I mean that made it sound like she's dead. She's
alive and kicking stronger than most of us. But it
(05:50):
made me think of her and how fond I am
of the you know, she would do it with like
an orange Sherbert or something like that, but this is
lime shrbert, that good greenness lemon lime soda like steven
up or sprite, and then you can you mix them
together and you use lime wedges if you want as
part of the garnish. Another fun garnish and I had
(06:14):
this actually at Disneyland the other day, is they have
they had a new beverage that is like a fifty
to fifty bar. You know, it kind of tastes like
an orange julius the way it comes together. But at
the bottom there was one of those candied wedges like
(06:36):
a gummy candy with sugar on it, like the wedge
of an orange at the bottom. So you can get
them in lime flavor as well. That might be fun
in here as well. So as far as your ratios go,
it's not super complicated. You just mix them per your
desire of how much you want of that lime Srbert.
(06:56):
But you know, sometimes you just put very simple. You
put two scoops of the lime Sherbert pour a cup
of lemon lime soda and it creates that kind of
swampy like fizz to it and green color and it's playful. Okay.
Now for the adults in the room who want to
(07:17):
have something a little more m I don't know, libaceous, maybe, yeah,
we'll go with that. Is this cute little Yoda drink.
It's the same as the baby Yoga Yoda cocktail that
was going on after Mandalorian first came out and everybody
(07:38):
freaked out because there was the grogu baby Yoda and
everybody thought it was the cutest thing in the world.
Because it's the cutest thing in the world. So this cocktail.
The specs for this one is one point five ounces
of gin, half ounce of fresh lime juice, half ounce
of fresh lemon juice, a quarter ounce of Saint Germain
(08:03):
Saint Germaine. You can get it smaller bottles if you
don't use it. Otherwise you get this big bottle of it.
It's very delicious and it's kind of you know, years
and years ago, it was the competitive kick that a
lot of bartenders and mixologists would use when competing. It's
just a lovely little something extra that really sets the
(08:27):
drink apart and make gives it a little bit of sophistication.
Quarter ounce simple syrup, which is you can buy at store.
You can make it by boiling off one part water,
one part sugar until it's liquefied and then let it
cool down. You can use that and then two ounces
of green apple soda. Now, green apple soda might not
(08:49):
always be easy to come by, so any green soda
can be used, but you can go to I think
Galco's still around. It's a Galco. I think it's Galco
Galco Galco? How come that sounds wrong to me? In
(09:09):
an Eagle Rock area? And why does that sound wrong?
To me Huntingdon Park or Highland Park rather there. I
think it's on York. Very cool. They have every like,
all these old sodas and regional sodas that are hard
to get. Very cool Galco, right, Galkos, I don't
I thought for technique of the week, let's do a
couple of beverages that surround Star Wars. These are beverages
that people have concocted for celebrating me the fourth. For
those of you who don't get the obviously obvious pun,
there may the fourth be with you? Yeah, yeah, okay?
(00:23):
And then what is it? What's the next one? What's
the one? Anybody else know? I know there's the Revenge
of the sixth on the sixth, but what's the fifth?
It'll come to me AnyWho. One of the things that
I enjoy the most is the and have the memory
(00:44):
of growing up and watching Star Wars. The original Star Wars,
which is a new hope, was the blue milk. You
remember that Luke's drinking it and it turns out that
it's Bonta milk. Bantas are those big elephant looking, mammoth
(01:06):
looking creatures with the big horns and the like that
we have become to know and love. But there is
a recipe. I saw this on Bakingmischief dot com Baking
Mischief dot com and it's called the Frosty Bantha Milk.
So this is something if you got kids, grandkids, or
(01:27):
you yourself, are a fan and are going to be
spending some time celebrating Star Wars tomorrow, which I most
definitely am, to the chagrin of my wife. Probably this
is a great drink for you, and it's sweet and fun.
You can control the sweetness on this, and I will
tell you how. But the concoction is put together with
(01:47):
very few ingredients, so it's not very complicated. Two cups
of vanilla ice cream and you're going to have a
couple scoops aside too, plus three scoops you're gonna put
aside one and a half cups milk. Now, you can
use any percentage of milk you want, and you could
probably use an oat milk or something like that. But
(02:11):
at that point, if you're not drinking milk, you know,
because it's dairy, you have a problem with the ice
cream part. Sweet and blue drink mix. So that means
your kool Aids, you know, powder drink, they have blueberry
or raspberry or anything. Some of them. There is a
(02:31):
blueberry raspberry lemonade or something if I remember correctly. When
it comes to kool Aid, there's a couple flavors. There's
also one that is just blue or raspberry, but any
one of those that is blue you can use on
this drink and it works out quite nicely. So you
want enough for two cups. That's sixteen ounces of liquid.
(02:55):
There ten to twelve drops of blue food coloring. Now,
if you're not crazy about food coloring, you can maybe
leave that out. It just won't be as blue. But
you put it all in a blender, you combine all
the ingredients, you blend it until it is smooth. You
divide it between three eight ounce glasses, and you top
with a scoop of vanilla ice cream serve and people
(03:16):
enjoy it. If it's too sweet for you and you're
not into very sweet things, you just start with about
half the amount of the drink. Mix, blend, taste, and
modify as you see fit. You know, blueberries might be
a nice addition. You could put them in a blender
or smash them up and then siv them out if
(03:37):
you don't want the chunks in there. But it's just
this light kind of blue hue if you remember from
the film, and it is tasty. All right, we're doing
technique of the week obviously Tomorrow Tomorrow is May the
fourth be with You and the unofficial Star Wars holiday
that's kind of become official. Been around for a long time. Actually,
(03:59):
back in seventy seven when the film came out, it
was kind of an inside joke, and it was referenced
again in seventy nine, and you know, kind of it
was the Star Wars geeks thing that we used to
love to do. But after about gosh, what was the
twenty eleven, twenty twelve whatever, when Disney picked up the property,
(04:23):
you know, they said, let's focus on this, let's make
it a part of things. So they have Season of
the Force going on right now, which is always fun
there at the park. And then you know, they have
the Star Wars Nights, the special Star Wars Nights. I
think there's still some tickets if you're into that. It's
a lot of fun. I loved it. I think it's
(04:43):
a lot of fun. They have new foods, They have
a lot of the live characters walking around, which I
think is super cool. They're doing more and more of
that at the parks too. I saw a Soka the
other day walking around. I saw the young Luke Skywalker
walking around from a Return of the Jedi, and pretty cool,
(05:05):
pretty pretty cool. Indeed, all right, So talking about that
a little bit. For our technique of the week, I
gave bonta milk recipe now on to a website called
high Cookery Hi Cookery, and this one is Yoda soda
and it's really easy ingredients, but it reminds me of
(05:27):
something that my mom would make and still does but
make as kids. And it was using Sherbert and seven
up or sprite or something like that. So this just
made me think of my mom, who's alive. She's not dead.
I mean that made it sound like she's dead. She's
alive and kicking stronger than most of us. But it
(05:50):
made me think of her and how fond I am
of the you know, she would do it with like
an orange Sherbert or something like that, but this is
lime shrbert, that good greenness lemon lime soda like steven
up or sprite, and then you can you mix them
together and you use lime wedges if you want as
part of the garnish. Another fun garnish and I had
(06:14):
this actually at Disneyland the other day, is they have
they had a new beverage that is like a fifty
to fifty bar. You know, it kind of tastes like
an orange julius the way it comes together. But at
the bottom there was one of those candied wedges like
(06:36):
a gummy candy with sugar on it, like the wedge
of an orange at the bottom. So you can get
them in lime flavor as well. That might be fun
in here as well. So as far as your ratios go,
it's not super complicated. You just mix them per your
desire of how much you want of that lime Srbert.
(06:56):
But you know, sometimes you just put very simple. You
put two scoops of the lime Sherbert pour a cup
of lemon lime soda and it creates that kind of
swampy like fizz to it and green color and it's playful. Okay.
Now for the adults in the room who want to
(07:17):
have something a little more m I don't know, libaceous, maybe, yeah,
we'll go with that. Is this cute little Yoda drink.
It's the same as the baby Yoga Yoda cocktail that
was going on after Mandalorian first came out and everybody
(07:38):
freaked out because there was the grogu baby Yoda and
everybody thought it was the cutest thing in the world.
Because it's the cutest thing in the world. So this cocktail.
The specs for this one is one point five ounces
of gin, half ounce of fresh lime juice, half ounce
of fresh lemon juice, a quarter ounce of Saint Germain
(08:03):
Saint Germaine. You can get it smaller bottles if you
don't use it. Otherwise you get this big bottle of it.
It's very delicious and it's kind of you know, years
and years ago, it was the competitive kick that a
lot of bartenders and mixologists would use when competing. It's
just a lovely little something extra that really sets the
(08:27):
drink apart and make gives it a little bit of sophistication.
Quarter ounce simple syrup, which is you can buy at store.
You can make it by boiling off one part water,
one part sugar until it's liquefied and then let it
cool down. You can use that and then two ounces
of green apple soda. Now, green apple soda might not
(08:49):
always be easy to come by, so any green soda
can be used, but you can go to I think
Galco's still around. It's a Galco. I think it's Galco
Galco Galco? How come that sounds wrong to me? In
(09:09):
an Eagle Rock area? And why does that sound wrong?
To me Huntingdon Park or Highland Park rather there. I
think it's on York. Very cool. They have every like,
all these old sodas and regional sodas that are hard
to get. Very cool Galco, right, Galkos, I don't
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