Happy Halloween from all of us at Bigfork Mountain Lake Lodge

Eat, drink and be scary!!!   It's Halloween!

Wishing you a very Happy Halloween from all of us at Bigfork Mountain Lake Lodge.

Fun Fall Drink Recipes to try

Cranberry Margarita

2 cups of your favorite Tequila
1-1/3 cups cranberry juice
1 cup orange-flavored liqueur (grand mariner triple sec or Cointreau)
2/3 cup fresh-squeezed lime juice

Combine the tequila, cranberry juice, orange liqueur, and lime juice in a large pitcher.
Shake over ice.
Strain into margarita glasses filled with ice.
Serves: 10



Champagne and Pomegranate cocktail
1 sugar cube
1 fluid ounce pomegranate juice
3 fluid ounces dry Champagne
3 Pomegranate seeds

Place a sugar cube in the bottom of a champagne flute.
Pour the pomegranate juice over sugar cube
Add Champagne
Place a few pomegranate seeds into the glass.
Serves: 1











Caramel Apple Martini - with real caramel drizzle
2 parts butterscotch Schnapps
2 parts Sour Apple Pucker
1 part Vodka

Shake ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice.
Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
Rim glass with real caramel and crushed nuts or cinnamon sugar or crushed cinnamon almonds.
Serves: 1





Fall Sangria
1 750-ml bottle red wine  Chianti
1/4 cup brandy
1/4 cup orange flavored liqueur (triple sec or Grand Mariner)
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
2 tablespoons fresh orange juice
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 orange, thinly sliced
1/2 lemon, thinly sliced
1 apple, cored, and cut into thin wedges
1 750-ml bottle sparkling water, chilled

Combine everything but the sparkling water in a large plastic container or glass pitchers.
Cover and chill for2 hours.
When ready to serve, add the sparkling water.
Serves: 8

Saturday, October 15th, 2011 Plan to join in all the special fall/harvest activities planned…..

Autumn abounds!!

You will want to be in Bigfork Montana, Saturday October 15th, 2011 to join in all the Harvest Activities planned…..

Tamarack Time
11 am to 4 pm Tamarack Time - Hay Rides downtown Bigfork, MT

Noon Tamarack Time - Community Cider Press on the deck of La Provence Restaurant - downtown Bigfork, MT Bring your apples and containers to ”make your own cider” or stop by and help press apples into cider with the wonderful cider press.

1 pm Tamarack Time! Old-fashioned celebration of the HARVEST> Bite-sized food tasting of the area’s outstanding prepared by the Bigfork community members. $4 per person for tasting.

Bigfork Merchants will be offering specials all day long too.

OctoberFest2 pm Bigfork Octoberfest! – The Garden Bar downtown Bigfork, MT - $15 person includes four Octoberfest Brews and one brat with all the fixings.

Rotary Barn Dance
6:30 pm Bigfork Rotary’s Annual Barn Dance
– at the River Bend Ranch – which is located north of the Ferndale Firehall -
$50 per person includes buffet dinner, beverages of beer and wine, music by The Ashley Creek Ramblers with Roy Wilhelm, dancing, cake walk, prizes, and silent auction.

All proceeds from the Barn Dance are used by Bigfork Rotary to support various projects like the construction of the Swan River Bike Trail, Christmas Baskets for needy families, a global drive to eradicate polio, and so much more.

Tickets are available at these local Bigfork businesses:
Bigfork Drug, The Jug Tree, and Nancy O’s.