I enjoy a good margarita as much as the next person. Margaritas also have a tremendous advantage in that they are flexible. We've covered margaritas before on our first Cocktail of the Week! as well as the cranberry margarita 11 cocktails later. Today we have a special treat brought about more by serendipity than anything else. Alice enjoys fruit and while I sometimes do also, I mostly tolerate it. My general feeling is that the work to enjoyment ratio is far too high. In particular I am speaking of the tangerine.

Follow up:

An on sale purchase of a crate of tangerines inevitably left us a couple weeks later with a dozen which were, at best, not exciting candidates for a lunch-time snack. I seized my opportunity and deftly converted these into juice. And what an enormous quantity of juice it made! These were far juicier than their outward appearances suggested. As I wondered what to do with all this juice, an idea for a cocktail came to mind and I went to work.

I mixed, I poured, I experimented with permutations and blends. And finally, after many failures, I came upon a working recipe for a tangerine margarita! It's not far off from our 2:1:1 tequila, triple sec, lime ratio but it did need to be modified to work with the considerable sweetness of the tangerine juice.

Jackrabbitscrewball's Tangerine Margarita!

• 1 oz tequila
• 1/2 oz triple sec
• 1 oz tangerine juice (fresh squeezed)
• 1/4 oz lime juice (fresh squeezed)

Shake on ice and strain into a margarita or martini glass. Garnish with a lime or tangerine slice. Adding a coated rim to this drink completely changes it and you can experiment depending on the preferences of your fellow margarita connoisseurs. Coating the rim with salt enhances the lime sourness while coating with sugar brings out the tangerine sweetness. Mix and match as needed!

Cheers!

-Jack