I don't know if this recipe refers to the month of June or a woman named June. Perhaps Ward Cleaver created it after his wife got all jealous and suspicious when he worked late at the office so many nights in a row. But it just sounds like a June (the month) the drink, so here we go.

It's from Alex's Cocktails in the UK and includes very summer-sounding ingredients such as Midori, white rum, Cointreau, and pineapple juice.

Not sure what the weather is where you are. Here it's icy cold (love it!) and windy but sunny. We had a dusting of snow over the weekend, but nothing to resemble a snowstorm, and certainly nothing resembling a blizzard.

But that doesn't mean we can't have a blizzard tonight. Several of them, in fact. I've found a bunch of different recipes for a cocktail called the Blizzard, including this one from Cocktail.com that includes Chambord, vodka, Kahlua, and white creme de cacao; this one from SuperCocktails.com that uses brandy, Irish cream, coffee liqueur, and white rum; and this one for a Kickin' Blizzard that uses ice cream.

The quirkiest variation I've found is this one called The Bleeding Blizzard, which mixes beer, Kool-Aid, and peach Schnapps!

Sure, on any normal day, $35 for a bottle of rum may sound like a lot compared to what you would pay for say...generic "RUM" at the market, but $35 for Bambu White Rum is a steal compared to what your water and power bill will be after running your air conditioning for 30 days straight on full-blast.

Bambu is a triple-distilled product launched in the US last year. It is made to taste like traditional rum, yet for how white and light it is, it is more like vodka. To stay cool on this Monday's Happy Hour, muddle a couple of limes that that have been cut into wedges, a few mint leaves and a teaspoon of granulated sugar. Add ice, 2 oz. of Bambu Rum, and top the whole thing off with soda to make it sparkle.

$35 a bottle split over how many cocktails to keep you cool? Much cheaper than A/C.

Organic is a great option in all kinds of foods. Not only do you avoid hormones that may have been fed to your chicken or cow, but you can avoid pesticides in or on produce. You might be surprised to hear that your spirits can be organic, too. Utkins makes an organic vodka called UK5. It starts with organic grains and mineral water, so all the ingredients are organic. According to their site, many crops that are used for alcohol production receive large amounts of chemical pesticides, some which have been shown to cause damage to the human nervous system and even possibly cause cancer. The Utkins brand also puts out a Fair Trade White Rum, which shares its profits with the sugarcane farmers in Paraguay that supply the sugar for its production. Now, you can feel even better about your drink while you're having it, though I don't know that it will help you feel any better in the morning.