How to Make a Real Margarita
Monday, October 04, 2004
If you live in Mexico, sooner or later you are going to have to learn how to make a real Margarita. Forget Jose Cuervo Margarita Mix. All those Mexican restaurants manage to make Margaritas without it. Very seriously, it is not possible to make a great Margarita with Margarita mix. So put that mix away and follow the simple instructions. Our first experience with real Margaritas happened on a visit to Puerto Vallarta a number of years ago when we wound up in a little palapa restaurant on the beach in Mismaloya. We both had one of those very large goblets. We each had one and then we split another one. In the process my wife went into the kitchen area where they were making these things and got the recipe. They were killer, literally. As we were walking back to our hotel for dinner, my wife said to me, "Those things were hallucinogenic!". We don't remember much about the rest of the evening, it's all sort of a blur.
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