I Want Your Best Margarita Recipe - NOW

[NashVegas]

dammit!

[E_Zapata]

1. simple is best

FRESHLY squeezed lime juice - essential

Equal parts tequila (i like gold), triple sec (or to really do a great favor to your friends: Cointreau), and lime juice.

Shake like CRAZY with a few ice cubes.

Pour over the rocks in a salted or unsalted glass.

[rbnyc]

3. Fresh Lime Juice (like post 1 says)

4 counts of good tequila, 2 counts of Grand Marnier or Cointreau.

Pour over ice, shake, strain into large size martini glass rimmed with salt.

(I actually had a 2 year reputation for making the best margaritas in New York City when I was an East Village bartender.

P.S. The counts are rough. I think my 4 count is actually about a shot and a half.

[shance]

18. RB wins*** This is the best recipe right here.

It doesnt get any better than this.

[rbnyc]

19. Thanks. Rabrrrrrr's is essentially the same, tho.

And Rabrrrrrr goes into better detail. :D But I do appreciate the compliment.

:D

[Rabrrrrrr]

29. Hee hee - went away to pay bills,

and there's a compliment, just waiting for me, to take away the pain of another &@&*%^$#&*%^ $80 phone bill just for the damn phone, a few local calls, DSL, and SHITLOADS!! of taxes.

[NashVegas]

21. I gotta feeling

If I try that, I won't be walking anytime soon.

Hehehe.

[rbnyc]

23. Just don't have more than 3.

;-)

Try, savor, enjoy.

[SOteric]

4. To this recipe, I would just add

a half portion of sweet & sour mix and an ever-so-subtle drop of honey. (Especially good with the Cointreau.)

[rbnyc]

6. I'd replace the sour...

...with simple syrup. Most sour mix sucks, IMO.

Honey is a great idea. I'll have to try it.

[alwynsw]

2. Mix the margaritas

Toss 'em out, get out the salt and limes, finish the tequila in shots. If you have a willing partner, there are far better places than the back of you hand for the salt.

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. Okay - here you go!

And please note, it's not one of those blenderized frozen abominations.

1.5 oz. tequila - and use a good one!
0.75 oz. Cointreau (don't use triple sec, it's crap)
0.5 oz. lemon juice
0.5 oz. lime juice

Remember to have the lemon and lime at room temperature, and roll them on a board under your hand lightly for a few seconds before squeezing them with a hand juicer.

Pour ingredients into shaker with ice, shake vigorously, strain into chilled wine goblet or cocktail (martini) glass with kosher salt on its rim. Garnish with a lime wheel.

To get the salt on the rim - pour salt into pile, or if you are lucky and have one of the margarita salt tubs, use that. Run the lime wheel along the rim of the glass, take whell off, dip glass into salt, then put wheel back on. Pour in liquids. Drink, and enjoy, and mourn all the evenings you wasted drinking the "$2 happy hour special" pre-mixed blenderized abominations you got in those yucky bars you're probably too old and sophisticated to go to any more.

The amount of tequila vs. cointreau can be adjusted - this one allows one to taste the tequila. If you have people who aren't so keen on the taste of it, cut it down a bit, or add a splash more Cointreau.

If you want to serve them on the rocks, and not straight up, double the amount of fruit juices.

You can make margaritas with fruit, but people won't take you seriously any more, unless you are making margaritas at around noon, in which case strawberries etc. in the drink are perfectly acceptable. But if it's cocktail hour or later, no fruit is to be allowed.

[rbnyc]

7. Right On!

I was all set to disagree with you but you got it spot on!

:D

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. You were gonna disagree with me?

Oh no! Why?!

But thanks for saying spot on! Now I wish I had known you were at an east village bar and had a chance to have one of your margaritas. I onlt make them at home, since I never know, even in good bars, whether they'll blend a margarita, or even know what the hell to put in 'em.

Plus, 99% of the time I want a martini anyway. :-)

Now I just wish bars here in the city would start stocking Marschino Liquer so I could get a damn Aviation when I'm on the town. haven't found a place yet that does. I hear the Rainbow Room does, but I'm not gonna go there.

[rbnyc]

9. Only because I'm a know-it-all...

...and I was a very proud bartender. No refection on you at all.

;-)

I used to bartend at Life Cafe, then later at The Kniting Factory (I hated working there, but I saw a lot of great shows for free.)

Then I went into the non profit sector and I've been happy ever sinse.

;-)

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Yes, i can sense the ownership you have over your old profession!

You must have loved it, and definitely took it seriously!

How's the healing going? Can you drink any alcohol while you recuperate?

[rbnyc]

12. I'm off meds so I can drink...

...but I have to be careful because I still don't walk very well.

It is coming along tho. I went out yesterday without my cane and walked about 10 blocks. I bumped into an old friend I hadn't seen in 6 years. He had broken his thumb and had just gotten his cast off and has another month of PT. That's almost 3 months to recover from a broken thumb. It made me realize that I really am doing very well.

Emotionally it's very up and down. I'm just not over it. I'm angry. I'm still grieving. I can't go an hour without thinking about what happened to me. I have flashbacks. I don't know what to do except to just keep talking about it, just let the stuff come out.

I've been thinking about seeing a cognitive therapist, but I'm having so many insurance issues, I don't even want to go there.

But I do have an underlying sense of optimism and am generally a happy person, so ultimately, I'm ok. Thanks so much for asking.

Anyway, we should meet for a drink sometime.

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. Well, you've been through hell.

I'd be on ups and downs, too. You definitely have a lot worth grieving.

I was run over by a semi 25 years ago, and while I have no physical problems nor even really think about it that much any more, I still react strongly to the presence of semis. I stay well behind them or get well ahead of them on the highway, and here in the city, when walking, if there's one in a docking bay of a building and I have to walk in front of it, I'll walk a good ten feet or more away, or even cross the street.

The trauma will always be there. That's the shitty part; but then again, it also helps keep me safe by no longer darting ni front of traffic to cross the street 5 seconds quicker. :-)

Drinks would rock - and I work down on 1st and 34th, so I'm much closer to you now.

[rbnyc]

15. Most days I work in the West Village...

...so it would be pretty easy for us to meet after work. Let's set it up by PM.

Wow. A semi. You sure as hell know whereof you speak. I'm so glad you had no lasting disability from that.

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. Pretty damn lucky, I was!

Could have been a disaster. Thankfully, only 30 days in traction, then a few months more of healing, and was walking again in about 4 months, back in gym class in about 7.

I think the thread has been hijacked, at least one part of it. :-)

[rbnyc]

17. I think it's okay to hijack the thread...

...the best recipe has already been given. No need to go on about frozen strawberries and pre-made mixes. ;-)

[Rabrrrrrr]

30. Ewwwww, yes. Some of these later posts

sound dreadful. :bounce:

[NashVegas]

24. By All Means!

I've hijacked several :)

[NashVegas]

22. You Just Reminded Me

I need to get a shaker ..

[rbnyc]

27. pint glass will do.

put a rocks glass on top, should fit right inside, when you shake. Then lift the rocks glass out a little bit, to make a tiny smile to pour through that will strain the ice.

:)

[Rabrrrrrr]

28. You are a courageous woman

I can't do the two glasses thing - scares the bejeebus out of me. if I'm in a situation where all I have are glasses, my cocktails get stirred. :-)

but then, as I said, I almost always drink martinis, so they should be stirred anyway.

[rbnyc]

31. True...

...that's how we know James Bond is a putz.

;-)

[WWW]

11. my best

container of frozen strawberries
eight ounce frozen container of bacardi marqarita mix
eight ounces of tequilla
puree in blender with another shot of tequilla.
garnish with freshly picked strawberries and a slice of lime.
Serve chilled in a wine glass.

[trof]

14. 1 part tequila

3 parts Margarita mix.
By the second one it doesn't matter whether you squeezed all those limes or not.
Triple sec on the rim helps the salt stick on better.

[shance]

20. You know what this means, dont you?........

DU CITYWIDE MARGARITA FESTS!****

Lets have DU margarita contests to see who truly has the best margarita recipe. And any tried and true margarita fest should be equipped with Jimmy Buffett and what else is vintage margarita music? Jerry Jeff? Steely Dan? Who else?

[MissMarple]

25. After a few batches sometimes simple is good.

Except you do need a blender.

1 small can of limeade
put juice in blender
Using the same can add
1 can of tequila
1/3 can of triple sec
Fill blender with ice and blend.

This makes a nice, sweeter slushy drink. :D

[foo_bar]

32. the minute maid version

"add tequila to taste"

[SiobhanClancy]

26. A slightly different version...

Citrus Margaritas

1/4 cup fresh-squeezed orange juice

1/4 cup fresh-squeezed lime juice

1/4 cup fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice

2 cups tequila

1 cup orange-flavored liqueur (such as Cointreau)

Ice

Coarse salt

Orange, lime and grapefruit slices

In a pitcher, mix juices, tequila and liqueur. Chill thoroughly.

To serve, mix in an ice-filled shaker; strain into a salt-rimmed glass filled with ice. Garnish with orange, lime and grapefruit slices.

8 regular servings or 4 large

[americanstranger]

33. The secret ingredient is BEER.

K and I started making margaritas with beer this summer, and they kick butt.

-as