Mezcal Margaritas with The Mischief Maker
These margaritas are my favorite!
Pause Between the Chaos
Sometimes a nice drink, dinner, or a snack after a hard day in the garden or figuring out a sugar flower is needed. I used to use Mamaw's house as my monk-like time to exercise, abstain from cocktails, and leave all my fun for my returns home to Lexington after the sugar flowers were made and a cake was over, to which on many occasions I was buck wild. I realized at a point that this was not fair and no fun for my mother and that balance could be achieved in both places. So, we started doing cocktails together on breaks, and it's been a wonderful way to sit outside and gain new perspectives on whatever we are working on.
Mezcal Margarita
This is my mom’s pick of one of her favorites that I make her. She likes it with Mezcal or just tequila. She said, “They are good. I can only have one of those.”
2 oz Mezcal or Tequila
1 oz. Fresh Squeezed Lime Juice
1 oz Cointreau (You can also use Triple Sec or a different orange liqueur)
Take a cut lime wedge and go around the rim of your glass. Put Maldon sea salt in a plate and go around the edge of your glass. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. You shake it until it is very cold. Strain and pour into the salt-rimmed glasses. No ice in the coupe.
Cocktail Tip: You always strain any cocktail made with citrus. You should really double strain it. That means you pour it out of the cocktail shaker spout into a tiny mesh strainer into the glass. BUT I don’t ever do that when I make margaritas.
I will be posting videos for recipes and articles featured in my Newsletter, The Mischief Maker on Substack every week. Look out for a cocktail every Monday and a dessert recipe every Thursday.
My garden is pivotal to what I do with my sugar flowers. I need them to be growing, so I can cut and reference them for my sculpting and painting. Here the flowers cut from my garden serve as a fun mix with the sugar flower that we sculpted for September, the large pink dahlia on the left.
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