Strawberry Margaritas and some more tequila

My friends and I are some of the few people I know who still love tequila. And since I bought a bottle of delicious almond tequila in Mexico and had yet to crack it open, this weekend was a girls weekend focused around tequila. I won't say too much except to say that we each tried several new flavors of tequila and started the evening with six bottles of tequila for six girls. I'm not sure whether this qualifies as an adventure or a misadventure...two days later, I'm still very aware of my experiments!

The opening act was strawberry margaritas from scratch. For our first attempt, I have to say that they were pretty darn good...perhaps a little bit too good!

We adapted our recipe from Rachel Ray's Strawberry Marg-alrightas. Originally we intended to make all of our margaritas from scratch, before we looked at the serving size and the amount of fruit and decided to use a mix. Unfortunately in Minnesota, strawberries and limes are still expensive enough that it seemed cost-prohibitive to make enough margaritas for all six of us from scratch. I do have to say, though, that the numbers on the original recipe are extremely deceiving. If the recipe makes four drinks, it must be four fishbowls, because we got about 8 or 9 normal sized margaritas out of less than half of the recipe. Also, I'm not sure what size blender she used to contain all that fruit, but it certainly wasn't a standard kitchen sized one! The original recipe linked to before could probably easily give you 12-15 margaritas, which makes it much more affordable and absolutely worth the great taste.

What we ended up creating was good, although I would say it could have very much benefited from another quarter box or so of strawberries. Steamboat Willie proved to be very talented at coating the rims with sugar (I was impressed!), and the only thing that was really lacking was the ingredients to make more!

Strawberry Margaritas

Yum.

Ingredients

• 1 pint strawberries.
• Juice of 3 large limes
• 1/2 cup orange juice
• 8 tablespoons sugar
• 5 standard shot glasses of tequila (we used Jose Cuervo, but I'm sure it would be delightful with Patron or another brand!)
• Around 2 cups ice (or whatever fits at the top of the blender after everything else has been added!)
• 1 lime wedge and sugar for coating the glasses

Directions

1. Cut up strawberries slightly for easier blending.
2. Add all ingredients except lime and sugar for coating to the blender; blend until smooth.
3. Use the lime wedge to carefully coat the top edge of the glass in lime juice. Pour the sugar into a small plate and press the rim of the glass into the sugar to coat.
4. Enjoy...probably a little bit too much. Make sure to drink plenty of water before you go to bed!