Recipes: Drinks

The Best Margarita Ever

I did it!!!! Finally! The Best Margarita Ever! The thing is, there are so many different recipes online all giving different proportions of ingredients and they all claim to be authentic! I tried at least a dozen, but none came close to my favorite margarita at Bar Taco, in Wesport CT. I gave up in frustration, but the other day as I was driving my kids to dance (what can I say, I am always thinking about margaritas), the correct proportions came to me like that!

If you can get your hands on them (they’re hard to find), use the brands in parenthesis which are the ones Bar Taco uses. I don’t like my margaritas overly sweet so 2 tablespoons of agave is perfect for me, but if you find that you like yours sweeter just add another tablespoon. I used Cointreau in this recipe, but many recipes use triple-sec or other orange flavored liqueurs. I get lazy about juicing limes by hand because sometimes they are too dry so if you have a juicer, just cut away the peel and juice in the machine. Continue reading »

Needless to say, after a week at Universal Studios in Orlando I needed to cleanse! I’ve discovered that a Green Juice Fast doesn’t have to be painful. To my surprise, it’s actually been quite pleasurable and I really look forward to drinking my favorite green juice! I know there are a lot of green juice recipes out there, but this one is so good that everyone I make it for asks for the recipe. So here it is. Let me know how it works for you.

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I became obsessed with trying to make The Best Red Wine Sangria after my family’s trip to Spain last Spring.

I have never been much of a drinker, so when I enthusiastically drank glass after glass, all the way from Madrid to Sevilla my husband started to get a little worried. The problem was temporarily solved however, when I got home and was unable to find a recipe that even came close to the red sangria I had at Botin in Madrid. Frustrated, I went back to my sober ways.

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