Boozeday – Boozing it up, backyard style

(I sent out a tweet for cocktail recipes – apparently ya’ll like to drink as much as we do because we got a flood of awesome options – they will be featured in the coming weeks! Thanks to all our lush followers!)

Living in Florida, hot as Hades and alligator infested as it is, has some perks. I never have to shovel snow and for a good mixer, all I have to do is step out into my backyard.

We are quite lucky to have 2 orange trees, a lemon lime tree (no really it’s this grafted wonder that produces BOTH!), and a succulent Ruby Red grapefruit tree.

I can remember the first citrus season after we moved in, we gave away our bounty on freecycyle. Tisk tisk, so misguided were we. It didn’t take us long to discover we could coax friends into supplying booze if we supplied the mixers. Our backyard faves?

Quick and simple:

Fresh squeezed ruby red grapefruit juice with a shot of vodka over ice

Down and dirty:

2 limes
couple TBSP brown sugar
shot of rum
crushed ice

Now down here in central Florida, we be ghetto. We ain’t got none of them fancy frigerators that spit out crushed ice. If you want crushed ice, you drop it in a ziplock, wrap it in a towel and beat the hell out of it with a hammer.

Once all your rage is out, roll limes on the counter and use gentle pressure to loosen all that tasty juice. Hack em in half and drop into a glass. Use the back of a spoon to press the juice out of the limes. Drop in brown sugar and then the crushed ice. Swirl around in a saucy manner and dump the rum in. If lime rind makes your skin crawl or you don’t know what was sprayed on your limes you might want to juice them separately and then dump the juice into your glass.

With regular diligent application of backyard beverages to uptight adults, fun times will be had by all and nary a fruit will be wasted.

fidget thrives on the gluten free – thankfully fruit is gluten free – I think she should totes write a cookbook!

One Response to “Boozeday – Boozing it up, backyard style”

1. Al_Pal says:

   06/03/2009 at 5:50 pm

   Original daquiri FTW!

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