Monthly Archives: June 2011

Watermelon Wine Margarita

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watermelon wine margarita ingredients

This recipe will make about a gallon of margaritas, and is low-alcohol, so it’s great for a party or BBQ.  It also tastes like watermelon Jolly Ranchers!

Get a bottle of White Zinfandel, a bottle of Trader Joe’s margarita mixer, some seedless watermelon, and lots of ice. Here’s how you make them:

  • Puree 4 cups of watermelon in the blender, then stir with:
  • 4 cups (the whole bottle) of Trader Joe’s margarita mixer.
  • 2 cups of White Zinfandel.

Serve the mixture in a pitcher or large beverage dispenser of some sort with LOTS of ice, at least 4 cups or more.  You’ll want the heat of the summer to get a little of the melted ice into the drink and get your dispenser all sweaty and cold.

watermelon wine margarita ingredients

Rim your glasses with salt (pink Himalayan looks particularly cool with this one) and serve on ice.  Nothing like an electric pink beverage on a hot summer’s day!

watermelon wine margarita

Tito’s Martini

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tito's vodka martini

“Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman…or a bad woman.” ~George Burns

The martini is the definitive “welcome home” drink from a hard day’s work.  While there’s a tireless debate about gin or vodka, shaken or stirred, wet or dry, I’m going to present one recipe here in order to stay true to the “simple” moniker.  Here’s my favorite vodka martini.

Vodka Martini

  • 2 oz Tito’s Handmade vodka
  • 1/2 oz dry vermouth
  • 1 or more olives to garnish
  • as JB says, “shaken, not stirred”

To chill the cocktail glass, I prefer using ice water (see picture above) while I build the drink.  This is faster and requires less planning than freezing the glass.