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07/26/2004: "El Margarita Perfecto"
If you twist and turn away
If you tear yourself in two again
If I could, yes I would
If I could, I would
Let it go
Surrender
Dislocate
I'm celebrating the end of my first week as a Hawaian resident... Most folks who find themselves in Hawaii after a week are either headed to the airport or are realizing that their holiday in paradise is half-over.
Mine is just starting. Things are going well. Most of the condo is setup now, we have a car, and the computers are up. Two of these died in-transit (word of warning, don't ship your computer via FedEd no matter how much bubble wrap you've used. My aluminum case is bent so badly that the motherboard has slipped its mounting screws and several of the rivets have popped. I hate to think whats happened to the drives, but the power supply takes the whole system off-line after 3-4 seconds, so I don't know yet.
Out in the bay sits "Coconut Island", and I, your humble bartender urge that we get on with the show:
2 parts Cointreau
2 parts limeade
3 parts Patron Silver
SHAKE violently with as much ice as will fit in the shaker.
strain into glasses -- or simply dump the contents of the shaker into a giant tumbler (if you're drinking alone)
add a wedge of lime
salt optional
Substituting another high quality silver tequila is OK. Porfidio is a suggestion here.
The Limeade is CRUCIAL. All of the pre-mix crap sucks. Roses lime juice is almost OK but it goes bad immediately, and tastes like shit afterwords.
Guerro's in Austin used to have something similar called "the Don" - made with Don Julio instead of Patron. Clinton used to frequen Guerro's when he was Prez, and I imagine he downed a "Don" or two while in-situ.
Trudy's "Mexican Martini" was similar to the above recipe. However their mix is much more acidic. Too much acid and your stomach says "stop" before you fall down drunk. With the version above you fall over before there is a hint of acid in your tummy.
Variants:
If you must use a gold tequila, (if you've run out of anything good), stick with the same ratio, but use half limeade/half orange juice.
You can substitute triple sec for the Cointreau.
If you are stuck using tequila mix, cut it with orange juice or seven up. You will be able to drink more if you do.
Libero por ti la gitano
Ainero a ti li, la gitani
Ainero
Laila bien la kali
La chiner la kali
La tu raban a la kali
Poi, poi, poi
Mina, mina
Ainero per ti li
Ainero ben di la
Ainero per di
La ti la a la kali
Latila la kali
Thanks to Phil Belanger for the recipie. He is the master. Feliz cumpleaņos mi amigo.
