Grapefruit Cranberry Martini

Refreshingly tart and delicious, this Grapefruit Cranberry Martini will have you in fun mode in no time. A few sips of this delightful cocktail and you will forget all about winter.

Grapefruit Cranberry Martini

I feel like I’ve served up WAY more cocktails than usual this time of year. This winter has been something else. The Best Mojito and Clementine Margaritas got me through a lot of it. There has been so much rain and so MUCH snow in the hills of Oregon (where I live). It has truly been epic.

We normally get snow a couple of times during the winter and it usually melts after a couple days. No biggie. However, this year has been one snowstorm after another, followed by extremely low temperatures, turning the snow to ice and not melting for days and days.

Roads in Oregon are not salted and the area I live in is not really equipped to deal with so much of the white stuff. So you sit inside, don’t go out and the skies have been grey since late October.

Luckily the Friday snow melted and Saturday was beautiful. We ate fresh crab from Astoria on the deck, in the sunshine (heck it was 45 degrees, a new high) only to wake up to more snow on Sunday morning. Insert maniacal laughter here.

What I do know is these martini’s got me through it. ALL. OF. IT.

Anything citrus is the answer to the winter blues. Along with vodka of course. I have even indulged more in this Fresh Citrus Salad (the dressing is amazing) because it tastes like spring. I have also slathered on this homemade Zesty Grapefruit Sugar Scrub to make sure I am ready for shorts and tank tops when the time arrives. In Oregon that usually means the first 60 degree day.

Just the colors will put you in a good mood.

As you can see this lovely cocktail looks fabulous against the bleak, winter landscape. I swear it has magical powers.

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