This event's drink, the Bad Attitude, is in honor of Nick Diaz.  Looking at the recipe, I'm pretty sure after 1 or 2 of these, you'll not give a f**k, Nick Diaz style.

1/2 oz rum
1/2 oz vodka
1/2 oz gin
1/2 oz tequila
1/2 oz triple sec
1 oz Amaretto liqueur
1/2 oz grenadine
pineapple juice
orange juice
cranberry juice

Shake all ingredients with equal parts of each juice and pour into a tall glass.

Photo courtesy of Sherdog.

Warning!  If you make these brownies, it's guaranteed that at least 1 person will hump your leg and call you a goddess.  Seriously folks, these things are ridiculous, and super easy to make.

Take Your Hands Off Maia Brownies

Ingredients

• 1 cup margarine or butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 4 eggs, slightly beaten
• 1 cup all-purpose flour or unbleached flour
• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 8 ounces (8 squares) semi-sweet chocolate (coarsely chopped)
• 1 cup pecans, chopped (optional)

Well, I've been wanting to post this for a good while, but I kept procrastinating.  Now, though, I'm inspired by Donna's punch recipe from earlier today.  It seemed like this was the perfect time, with the fights coming up Saturday.  So, here is my version of a drinking game for UFC 118!  Well, it's actually a pretty general UFC game.   I want everyone to feel free to add their own contributions to it in the comments, the more the better! 

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Photo courtesy of Sherdog.

Wanna get blitzed and make poor life choices?  Then the official drink of your UFC 118 Fight Party should be our James Toney Punch Drunk Punch.  Caution!  After a few of these, you'll be as incoherent as the man himself.

James Toney Punch Drunk Punch
aka Rum Punch

Ingredients

• 1 cup fresh lime juice
• 2 cups grenadine syrup
• 2 cups Jamaican white rum
• 1 cup light rum
• 2 cups fresh pineapple juice
• 2 cups fresh orange juice
• Pinch freshly grated nutmeg, optional
• Orange slices, for garnish
• Pineapple slices, for garnish

Thank you, Watch Kalib Run, for this photo that brings us such joy.

The Fraggle Rock

1/2 oz Vanilla Vodka
1/2 oz Cherry Schnapps

Pour into a shot glass and drink it!

Alright, I'll admit it. This stuff is VERY time consuming to make, however, it is SO delicious that the payoff is well worth it. Well worth it if you like people bowing at your feet that is.

Holla for Sadollah Apple-Honey Challah Bread

Ingredients
4 ounces (1 stick) unsalted butter or nondairy margarine, plus more for bowl, pan, and plastic
3 1/2 cups unbleached bread flour, plus more for surface
3/4 cup warm water (100 degrees)
2/3 cup honey
2 large eggs plus 3 large egg yolks
2 teaspoons active dry yeast (from one 1/4-ounce envelope)
2 teaspoons coarse salt
1 1/2 tart green apples, preferably Granny Smith, peeled and cut into 1/4-inch-thick slices (about 1 3/4 cups)

Directions
1. Butter a large bowl, and melt 4 tablespoons butter in a saucepan over medium-low heat; let cool. Combine 2 tablespoons melted butter, the flour, water, 1/3 cup honey, the eggs and yolks, yeast, and salt in a large bowl. Mix until dough forms. Turn dough out onto a floured surface, and knead until smooth, about 10 minutes. (It will be super sticky at this point. Just do the best that you can to knead it)

2. Transfer dough to buttered bowl, and brush with 1 tablespoon melted butter. Cover with plastic. Let rise in a warm place until dough almost doubles in volume, about 1 1/2 hours.

3. Turn dough out onto a floured surface. Pat into an 8 1/2-by-14-inch rectangle. Top with apples; knead to incorporate. Return to bowl. Brush with remaining tablespoon melted butter; cover. Let rise again in a warm place until dough almost doubles in volume, about 1 hour more.

4. Preheat oven to 375 degrees, with rack in lowest position. Butter a 9-inch round cake pan. Roll dough into a rope (about 24 inches) on a floured surface. Coil into a circle, and transfer to pan. Butter plastic wrap, and cover dough. Let rise again until dough almost doubles in volume, about 45 minutes more.

5. Heat remaining 4 tablespoons butter and 1/3 cup honey in a saucepan over medium-low heat until butter melts. Brush dough with half the honey-butter. Bake until golden brown and firm, about 35 minutes.

6. Brush challah with the remaining honey-butter. Let cool in pan on a wire rack for 30 minutes. Turn out loaf from pan, and let cool.

7. Prepare for leg humping from your adoring fans.

Ingredients-
- 1 large cucumber, peeled, sliced very thinly
- Salt
- 3/4 cup soft butter
- 2 teaspoons fresh garlic, minced
- 20 slices white bread
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- Pepper to taste

Preparation-
1. Lightly salt cucumber slices and place in colander to drain 1 to 2 hours.
2. Combine butter and garlic.
3. Apply to 1 side of each slice of bread.
4. In small bowl, stir together lemon juice, olive oil, and pepper.
5. Add cucumber slices, coating well.
6. Arrange cucumber on 10 of bread slices, top with other 10 slices, remove crusts, and quarter.
7. Serve immediately. Makes 40 tea sandwiches.

We're gonna go British for our official UFC 105 drink and food. Without further ado, we bring you the Pimms Cup. Yummy!

Ingredients
- 2 oranges, cut into half-moons
- 2 lemons, cut into half-moons
- 1 cucumber
- 2 cups Pimm's No. 1
- 4 cups Sprite or other lemon-lime soda
- 6 to 8 large sprigs mint, crushed gently, plus a few loose leaves

Preparation
Fill 2 pitchers 1/4 full with ice. To each, add a layer of orange slices, a few lemon slices, and a layer of cucumber slices. Repeat the layering. Pour in the Pimm's and Sprite, dividing between pitchers, and mix with a long-handled spoon. Poke mint sprigs and leaves down into drink. Divide drink among 8 tall glasses, with a few slices of fruit and cucumber in each glass, along with some mint leaves.

P.S. - Technically this is a summer drink, but we're all about breaking the rules.