Margarita

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

– Jimmy Buffett

Freshly squeezed lime juice is the key ingredient to a good margarita. Nothing beats the taste of fresh lime, and here in the tropics, I have easy access to limes. Hence, many of the cocktails I make for sundowners have the zesty, fresh flavour of lime. It’s a great source of vitamin c and does, therefore, keep the scurvy at bay… well that’s what I tell myself.

Delicious Classic Margarita

Ingredients

2 parts tequila
2 parts Cointreau
1 part fresh lime
ice cubes
salt
lime juice

Method

Dip the rim of the serving glasses into a little lime juice and then dip it into salt.

Add some roughly crushed ice cubes to two glasses. Shake the first three ingredients in a cocktail shaker with a couple of ice cubes until well shaken. Then pour the delicious concoction into the prepared glass.