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Blood Orange Gose Margarita

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Blood Orange Gose Margarita is a colorful and festive cocktail using both beer and tequila for a refreshing beverage perfect to celebrate Cinco de Mayo

Blood Orange Gose Margarita is a colorful and festive cocktail using both beer and tequila for a refreshing beverage perfect to celebrate Cinco de Mayo

It’s Margarita Week!

Blood Orange Gose Margarita is a colorful and festive cocktail using both beer and tequila for a refreshing beverage perfect to celebrate Cinco de Mayo

What better way to celebrate Cinco de Mayo than with a collection of all things margarita! Kate at Hola Jalapeno has rounded up 7 days worth of margarita cocktail recipes and margarita inspired food recipes from food bloggers and influencers from all around the interwebs to bring you everything you could possibly need all in one place.  Be sure to swing over to Kate’s Margarita Week page and keep checking back because the list gets updated daily.  You won’t want to miss any of these delicious recipes.

Blood Orange Gose Margarita is a colorful and festive cocktail using both beer and tequila for a refreshing beverage perfect to celebrate Cinco de Mayo

My contribution is a Blood Orange Gose Margarita.  I was inspired by a Blood Orange Gose beer from Anderson Valley Brewing Company.  This beer is tart, fruity, and refreshing and in my opinion a perfect addition to this margarita (and magically delicious on its own).

Happy Margarita Week and have a fun and safe Cinco de Mayo celebration! Cheers!

Blood Orange Gose Margarita
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Blood Orange Gose Margarita

Ingredients

  • Juice of 1 blood orange about 6 tablespoons
  • 8 ounces silver tequila
  • 4 ounces triple sec
  • 1 can blood orange gose beer
  • Margarita salt for the rim
  • Lime and blood orange slices to garnish optional

Instructions

  1. Combine blood orange juice, tequila, and triple sec in a cocktail shaker with ice and shake
  2. Pour some beer in a bowl and margarita salt in another bowl
  3. Dip the rims of two tall pint size glasses into the beer then the salt to coat
  4. Add ice to the glasses, pour tequila mixture over ice, top with remaining beer, garnish with orange and lime slices if using

NOTES:

  1. This recipe made two Blood Orange Gose Margaritas
  2. I didn’t use lime juice because this beer is a sour style gose and it’s a perfect balance to the sweetness of the juice and triple sec
  3. I used Blood Orange Gose from Anderson Valley Brewing Company – I usually stick to North Carolina breweries, but I also happen to really love Anderson Valley and we can actually get it here

Blood Orange Gose Margarita

Strawberry Lime Frozen Margarita

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Strawberry Lime Frozen Margarita

 

Strawberry Lime Frozen Margarita

 

I think Mondays deserve booze.

 

Strawberry Lime Frozen Margarita

 

I find it hard to believe that I’m alone with this opinion.  Who’s with me?  Strawberry Lime Frozen Margaritas for breakfast, anyone?  No judgments here.

 

Strawberry Lime Frozen Margarita

 

It’s the week of Cinco de Mayo and while I’ve shared Mexican Street Corn and Shrimp Tacos with Avocado Salsa, life just isn’t complete until we’ve had a few cocktails.  I’m up to my eyeballs over here in strawberries, so I decided that when life gives you strawberries, Strawberry Lime Frozen Margaritas are the way to go.

And I’m totally not joking about the amount of strawberries I have.  I planted one tiny little strawberry plant last year in my garden and now it’s taken over one of my raised beds. I have so many that I even stopped fighting the birds for them!  Needless to say, I have a lot of strawberry posts in the pipeline.  I hope y’all like strawberries!

 

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I’m keeping things short today.  Because….tequila and Game of Thrones.  ‘Nuff said.

Have a great week, y’all!

 

Strawberry Lime Frozen Margarita
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Strawberry Lime Frozen Margarita

Ingredients

  • 1 cup fresh strawberries hulled and quartered
  • 6 ounces tequila
  • 2 ounces triple sec
  • 3 small limes juiced plus one lime sliced for garnish
  • 4 ounces simple syrup
  • 3 cups ice
  • sugar for coating glass rim
  • margarita salt for coating glass rim

Instructions

  1. Combine strawberries, tequila, triple sec, juice of 3 small limes, simple syrup, and ice in a blender and puree until combined and slushy
  2. Coat rims of glasses with sliced lime
  3. Combine sugar and margarita salt on a small plate
  4. Dip rims of glasses in sugar and margarita salt combination
  5. Fill glasses with frozen strawberry lime margarita and garnish with lime slices


This recipe made 4 margaritas

Strawberry Lime Frozen Margarita

Patio Passion Martini Knockoff

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Good morning, sunshine!  I say we start this week off on the right track with a martini for breakfast on this fine Monday. Who’s with me?

 

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There is a place in Charlotte called Dillworth Neighborhood Grill that used to be a go-to hang out for lunch and happy hour back in the day when I was an Assistant Public Defender. Just to be clear – lunch and happy hour usually happened at different times. 🙂 Usually.

 

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If you remember Happy Days and the Fonz, it was our version of Arnold’s.  Except we weren’t in high school and I didn’t have any friends named Potsie – even if we do share the same last name.

 

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What in tarnation does this all have to do with this pink martini, you ask?

 

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The Patio Passion was a signature drink at DNG that was my best friend at the end of a trial week.  Because when you have to explain to a jury that the smack in your client’s pants is not his and he should be found not guilty because of the not my pants defense…..

 

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You will need the Patio Passion Martini in your life.

 

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I hope you never experience either side of this story, but if you do, I have your remedy. Crappy trial weeks led me to recreate the DNG Patio Passion Martini.

 

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Cheers to a great week!  If it sucks,  you can always have the Patio Passion Martini!

 

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Patio Passion Martini Knockoff

Ingredients

  • 1.5 ounces Triple Sec
  • 3 ounces citrus vodka
  • 3 ounces pink lemonade
  • lemon to garnish

Instructions

  1. Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake and pour into a martini glass. Garnish with lemon slice.
  2. This will make enough for one average size martini glass with a small side car.

Butterscotch Martini with Bailey’s Irish Whipped Cream

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Happy Friday!

 

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Because it’s Friday.

 

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And I hope Happy Hour comes soon!

 

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I made you a cocktail.

 

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A butterscotch one.  With Bailey’s Irish Whipped Cream! Around here we call it the Dessert Martini.

 

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My friend Shannon gave me this recipe and it will totally blow your dress up!

 

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Cheers to the weekend!

 

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Butterscotch Martini with Bailey’s Irish Whipped Cream

Ingredients

For the Butterscotch Martini:

  • 3 oz. Baileys Irish Cream
  • 3 oz. Cake Vodka
  • 3 oz. Butterscotch Schnapps

For the Bailey's Irish Whipped Cream

  • 1 cup heavy whipping cream
  • 2 Tbs. sugar
  • 1 Tbs. Bailey's Irish Cream
  • Grated chocolate optional garnish

Instructions

  1. Add cream, sugar and Bailey's to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Mix on medium-low (I used setting #2) until stiff peaks form (about 7-8 minutes). Be careful not to over mix or you will have Bailey's flavored butter!
  2. In a cocktail shaker, add 5-6 large ice cubes, Bailey's, Cake Vodka, and Butterscotch Schnapps. Shake vigorously. Pour into a martini glass and top with Bailey's Irish Whipped Cream and garnish with grated or shaved chocolate, if desired.
  3. Note: this will make one large martini with a generous sidecar or two smaller martinis.