Video report by Nico Hines and Arion McNicoll

Perfect these three simple recipes using basic ingredients from your own kitchen and you will be complete as a human being.

Impress your significant other with a properly mixed martini. Create mojitos that actually taste like mojitos. And when you wake up the next morning, start the process again with a Bloody Mary to get the day going in precisely the wrong way.

These drinks are easy to make, but equally easy to get wrong. Watch the video above with Steve Harman, the bar manager of Prohibition, St Katherine’s Dock, for expert tips on getting smashed properly.

Bloody Mary

2-3 drops of Tabasco
4-5 Worcestershire sauce
Small dash of Soy Sauce
(Optional) Dash of red wine
One turn of salt
Three turns of pepper
Squeeze of lemon juice
Shot and a half of vodka
Tomato juice

Add Tabasco, Worcestershire sauce, soy, wine, salt and pepper. Add vodka, then pour in tomato juice. Stir or tip from glass to glass – do not shake. Pour over ice. Squeeze lemon into finished drink and add a touch of pepper to finish off. Stir with a stick of celery.

Martini (with a twist)

Half a teaspoon of martini dry
Two and a half shots of quality vodka

Cool martini glass (either by putting ice into it or leaving it in the freezer). Add vodka and martini dry together, put as much ice as possible into the glass and stir 22 times. Strain into martini glass. Cut a strip of lemon and squeeze its oils over the drink and then rub the lemon strip around the edge of the glass and drop it into the drink to serve.

Mojito

4-5 lime wedges
8-9 mint leaves
2 teaspoons of soft brown sugar
Shot and a half of rum
Crushed ice

Add the lime, mint and sugar and muddle (with a roller or similar) until they begin to combine and form a syrup. Twist them so that they are well combined. Add half a glass of crushed ice and then pour in the rum. Take a spoon and mix the ingredients together thoroughly. Add crushed ice to the top of the glass to form a snow cone and serve with a straw and a sprig of mint.