{"id":51,"date":"2017-10-08T14:59:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T14:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/2017\/10\/08\/fresh-margaritas\/"},"modified":"2017-10-08T14:59:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T14:59:58","slug":"fresh-margaritas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/2017\/10\/08\/fresh-margaritas\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Margaritas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/media\/IMG_8037.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Margaritas\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Simply the best margaritas.  We no longer bother getting them out because they never measure up.<\/p>\n<p>4 tsp lime zest<br \/>\n1\/2 cup fresh lime juice<br \/>\n4 tsp lemon zest<br \/>\n1\/2 cup fresh lemon juice<br \/>\n1\/4 cup superfine sugar<br \/>\npinch salt<br \/>\n2 cups crushed ice<br \/>\n1 cup 100% agave tequila, preferably reposado<br \/>\n1 cup Triple Sec <\/p>\n<p>Combine zests, juices, sugar, and salt, cover, refrigerate 4 to 24 hours (or longer)<br \/>\nAdd alcohol &amp; half the ice, shake well to combine.<br \/>\nSalt the glass rims<br \/>\nServe over more ice. <\/p>\n<p>I often use regular granulated sugar instead of superfine, it just needs more mixing. Giving it a whir in the food processor would work too.<\/p>\n<p>I generally make up the mix (using a lot of long strips of zest&#8211;easier to strain out) and then make up margaritas as desired using equal portions of mix, tequila, and triple sec.  <\/p>\n<p>The sour mix freezes well in ice cube trays, then turn out into a zip-top bag.  Combine equal portions mix, tequila, and triple sec and shake until the sour mix melts.  Then add ice and continue as per above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simply the best margaritas. We no longer bother getting them out because they never measure up. 4 tsp lime zest 1\/2 cup fresh lime juice 4 tsp lemon zest 1\/2 cup fresh lemon juice 1\/4 cup superfine sugar pinch salt 2 cups crushed ice 1 cup 100% agave tequila, preferably reposado 1 cup Triple Sec &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/2017\/10\/08\/fresh-margaritas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fresh Margaritas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}