Hi everybody, we're back!
We recently moved from Southern California to Northern California and are finally getting to the point where we have a little extra time to pay attention to our blogs at The Musick Channel again.
Let's get things started off with a new cocktail hour.
If you follow this blog, you know that we love a good margarita. I hate going to a bar or restaurant, ordering one, and then finding out they just used basic margarita mix and a shot of tequila. We appreciate those bartenders that take the time to mix each ingredient from scratch...like the bartenders we featured in our "Southern California's Top Three Margaritas" video.
Well, we left our comfy confines in the San Gabriel Valley, east of Los Angeles, and bought a house up here in the Gold Country of California's Motherlode region. We can't wait to settle in but, in the meantime, we have to spend a few nights at an Indian casino...the Jackson Rancheria in Jackson, California...until our sellers have moved out and we're cleared to move in.
Jackson Rancheria is a nice resort and casino but it's almost dry. Only one bar here that opens up at night...what're we to do?
Luckily, we're not packed for travel. We're packed for moving. I find the bag with the tequila, sweet and sour mix, some limes, brandy, and Grand Marnier. That's right...I have a Cadillac margarita bag packed for our adventure.
What I don't have is a cocktail shaker, salt, or glasses. Hmmm....how will we swing this?
The solution is a couple of salt packets my wife has in her purse, an empty water bottle, and the plastic glasses put in our room by the hotel's housekeeping staff.
I cut the limes, run them around the rim of the glasses, dump the salt out on a flat surface (an empty snack bowl we had), and make the drink.
In the empty water bottle, it's two shots of tequila, 1.5 shots of Grand Marnier, a splash of brandy, and the juice of one whole lime. Squeezing in that lime juice was the hardest part. Fill the bottle with sweet and sour until 2/3 full. Cap and shake.
Fill the two glasses with ice (procured from our floor's ice machine) and pour the mixture in.
Voila! Works very well.
Darryl Musick
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