For Cinco de Mayo, my mother-in-law came over for mushroom and asparagus tacos and a little margarita tasting. I made a homemade margarita and compared it to two Skinny Girl cocktails: the regular margarita and the white peach margarita. I didn’t drink, so I had to rely on my husband and mother-in-law to decide which kind was the best.
For option 1, we have the White Peach Margarita by Skinny Girl {Don’t serve this one with salt like I did! Big mistake.}:
For option 2, we have the homemade margarita:
And, for option 3, we have the regular Margarita by Skinny Girl {which happens to be one of my favorite summertime cocktails}:
My husband and mother-in-law unanimously decided the winner was the homemade margarita:
For the homemade margarita, you’ll need:
tequila {we used 1800}, triple sec, 1 cup of sugar, 1 cup of freshly squeezed lemon juice, and 1/2 cup freshly squeezed lime juice
Directions:
1. Make the simple syrup. Place one cup of water and the one cup of sugar in a small sauce pan. Heat on medium-high and stir constantly until the sugar has melted completely. Remove from heat and allow to cool.
2. Combine the lime juice, lemon juice and simple syrup together. We put ours in a mason jar. Store in the fridge until ready to use.
3. Rim the glass with salt using lime juice and salt.
4. In your glass, add a few cubes of ice, 1 and 1/2 to 2 ounces of tequila, 1/2 ounce of triple sec, and fill to the top with juice/simple syrup concoction. Enjoy!
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