A Dutch liqueur made from an old Indonesian recipe - or so they claim. It is made from bananas and other fruits plus herbs. Pisang means banana and Ambon is Island so this syrupy, baked banana flavoured liqueur is Banana Island. The liqueur retails for around £15 in the UK.

Star Wars

• 2 shots Cognac
• 1/4 shot Pisang Ambon
• 1/4 shot Blue Curacao
• 1/8 shot lemon juice
• 1 shot grapefruit juice
• 1/3 shot sugar syrup

Mix all the ingredients and shake with ice. Strain and pour into a martini glass. Apparently - and I havent tried this one - it loks like swamp water but tastes OK.

The photo is taken from flickr and taken by mramberg. Pure drink porn!

Blood oranges kind of creep me out. They look like normal oranges on the outside, but when cut open, the pulp and juice are, well, the color of blood. I'm not sure why it's so odd to me, especially since there are plenty of other fruits that bleed red (like pomegranates!). There must be some strange psychology somewhere in there.

But as much they weird me out, I love the way taste - much brighter and tarter and stronger of a flavor than regular orange oranges. (Or is that psychology, too?). The juice mixed together with an orange flavored vodka makes for a killer martini for Friday afternoon happy hour. The best I've had so far has been at Jiraffe, but if you can't afford the gas to get to Santa Monica, there are plenty of recipes to make it at home.

My personal brew for two? A half cup of orange flavored vodka and a quarter cup of blood orage juice shaken together with ice. Just vodka and juice. No frou frou stuff. Come on, it's Friday Happy Hour. And if it's been that kind of week, start earlier and have it for breakfast. I mean, it does have orange juice.