Jessie on the Rocks

Week 16 - The Pink Lemonade Margarita Girls weekends are one of life's greatest treasures.  This weekend, I met up with up with my friends Julie and Laura in Amelia Island, Florida.  Julie and I have known each other since we were babies and Laura joined our group in college.  There's only one things we love more than each other - The New York Yankees!  This trip was one of our rare trips that didn't involve a baseball game.  We decided to try Airbnb for the first time - I know, welcome to the 21st century already!  As much as I travel, I generally only stay in hotels.  Airbnb was out of my comfort zone, but ended up being an awesome experience.  We rented the house with the intention of spending time with each other and making lots of margaritas!  The house was perfect, the weather was amazing and the company was even better than that.  Sometimes getting away for a few days changes your perspective on life ...

The Blue Margarita - Week 15 It's been a busy few weeks and this was my last weekend with my parents before they head back north for the summer.  Because of all this, we decided to take it easy today.  We stayed in, watched golf and drank margaritas! It was a perfect Sunday.  I decided to try the Blue Margarita for week 15. This Margarita was super easy to put together and turned out to be a really pretty blue (shocking I know) color.  The blue coloring comes from the Blue Curacao ingredient.   I have never used Blue Curacao before, so it was fun to try a new ingredient.  This drink also allowed me to use a new glass I picked up a few weeks ago to complete the drink.  The glass wasn't anything fancy, but it worked great for this drink.  I also decided to use my cube ice mold.  As I've mentioned in prior posts, there is something satisfying about using the perfect shaped ...

The Sanga Rita - Week 14 True friends are one of life's greatest treasures and if you are lucky enough to find a few over the course of your life, consider yourself lucky.  I have the good fortune of having a few of these friends and I am so thankful.  However, now that I live in Florida, I often have to travel to see these friends or if I'm lucky, they come to me every once in a while.   I consider my friend Amy among one of those people.  I was thrilled when she said she was visiting Florida.  I happily agreed to drive to where she was staying and spend some time with her.  She and her mom, who I have also grown to know over the years, requested that we make a margarita together during my visit.  I excitedly agreed as I know Amy's Mom is a margarita fan - just like me!  However, I should have thought it through before I agreed.  I realized that I needed to bring my drink making paraphernalia as well as all the liquor and ingredient...

Week 13 - The Margatini    The plan for this week was the Pink Lemonade Margarita, but I have been travelling for the last 6 days straight - 4 states and 5 cities in 6 days. I can't even tell you what time zone I am in right now. With the 10 minutes I had to spend at the grocery store this evening, I totally forgot to pickup 7up which was instrumental in the Pink lemonade margarita recipe, so I had to go to Plan B.  Plan B was of course very well thought out.  By this I mean, it involved frantically searching through my cupboards and the book to find a recipe that matched up with things I already had at the house.  Thank goodness for The Margatini! This will do just fine for week 13. I have several visitors in town this week (It's that time of year) so I needed to make five versions of the drink.  Thanks to my previous shopping binges (see week 4 ) and my parents recent flea market adventures (see week 11 ) I had 5 p...

Week 12 - The Cottontail Margarita Happy Easter everyone!  As I have mentioned in earlier posts, I generally post a week or two behind when I actually make the drinks.  This gives me time to write and edit my posts and it also allows me to work around my travel schedule.  However, it just didn't seem right to post the Easter drink two weeks from now.  So I am jumping the Easter post in line in real time!  Please be advised that this means no one has edited this post except me and I have already disclosed that I am a bad editor, so you will have to bear with me on any typos!  This also means that I am totally unrestrained to use as many commas and exclamation points as I want!!!!  The possibilities are endless!! See week 2 for my full confession on overusing these two items. Over the last few weeks, no less than 10 people have sent me or tagged me in a post for a drink called The Cottontail Margari...

Week 11 - The Grand Gold Margarita Many of you already know that I grew up in Western New York.  Much of my family, including my parents and sister still live there and I love it with my whole heart.  Some days, it feels like I just left New York to start a new adventure in Florida.  However, today marks my 5 year anniversary of moving to Florida.  I miss home something awful sometimes, but Jacksonville also suits me and as each year passes, it feels more like home.  It also helps to have some pretty great new Florida friends and a steady stream of NY visitors:)  My parents have been enjoying the snowbird life the last few years and spend a few months during the dead of winter down in Florida with me.  While they are down here, they enjoy doing something I simply can't wrap my head around - Flea markets.  I tease them mercilessly about flea markets being a past time for old people:)  They remai...

Week 10 - The Grapefruit Margarita One of my college roommates came to visit me from New York this weekend.  I love company and I was so excited to see her.  She has been following my margarita making adventures and requested that we make the Grapefruit Margarita when she comes to visit, because it is her favorite. Who am I to deny a drink request?  Megan, This Grapefruit is for you and my week 10 drink! I realized that though I confidently agreed to make this drink for her, I have actually never tasted a grapefruit margarita and have certainly never made one.  As the weekend drew closer, I got a little nervous.  What if it doesn't taste like she expects it to?  Will she tell me if it doesn't or just politely sip the drink and dump it down the sink the minute I leave the room?  Just some new drink jitters I told myself!  I've been doing this long enough now, that I have the basics down....