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When you take the candied limes and turn them into  Frozen Candied-Lime Margaritas!

We enjoyed these too much – and drank them too quickly to get a photo – but I wanted to share the recipe nonetheless.  Cause I *know* you all made those Candied Limes I talked about and are looking for things to do with them…*smile*

When I make my next batch, I promise to restrain myself and get the photo shoot in *before* I start drinking.  But in the meantime, these were delightfully green and *very* refreshing.  Another perfect weapon to have in your fighting-against-the-heatwave arsenal! Read the full article →

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It’s Good to Be Green

August 12, 2011

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Limes ready to be candied

Once I realized how much flavor the candied kumquats added to my margarita…I thought, I should start candy-ing all manner of citrus fruits to up-the-fruity-flavor in more of my cocktails….and so turned to limes first.  Probably because I was thinking “frozen margaritas’ at the time and lime is my favorite.

Doing a bit of research, almost no-one out there talks/writes about candying whole limes for this kind of thing.  There’s lots out there of sugaring and drying citrus fruits for snacking or garnish…but when it comes to cocktail-put-up (as in jarring) – citrus..I was left pretty much on my own. Read the full article →

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Frozen Candied Kumquat Margaritas

Yum, yum, yum!

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I have to say:  It’s good to be a white girl with adoptive Asian parents.  They hook me up!

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Empellón in the West Village

Bring him to Empellón for dinner.

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