Recipes:

Jack's special Mexican martini

I have only found this drink in Austin, and not every bar makes it the same. The best ones are at the Iron Cactus bar and restraunt, but Trudy's also has good ones. You get it in a shaker or a regular pint beer glass with a strainer, along with a martini glass rimmed with salt, and they only serve you two, because after that you're not speaking English any more... you're not speaking Spanish either... I don't know what you're speaking, but it's not English...

I haven't been able to get the exact recipe from the bars, so I watch when they make it and I made my own recipe, so this one really is mine! I don't know why they call it a martini, because it doesn't have the elegant simplicity of that drink, but then again, it's from Austin and things have always been "different" there.

The same warnings apply as to my special bloody mary, so I'll repeat it here:

WARNING: This is a VERY STRONG drink. I am NOT KIDDING. Please be responsible, both as an imbiber and as a host. If you plan to drink this, do not drive or operate heavy machinery for several hours AFTER you have the last drink, preferably after a night of sleep. This drink is deceptively strong and will kick your ass into next week when you think it's still last Saturday.

If you are a host, please help keep the imbiber from doing something stupid like propositioning an inanimate object, accepting a marriage proposal from an invisible friend, or shaking their head too hard because then they'll think it came off and spend the entire evening looking for it.

This is another one I do by eye, but it's not quite as complicated.

fill the shaker half full of ice

2 parts tequila

1 part triple sec or Grand Marnier

a splash of olive juice (from the jar you get the garnish olives from)

a splash of lime juice

roughly 1 part of sweet and sour mix (lemon based), usually less than 1 part, whatever fills up the cocktail shaker

shake well and serve in a martini glass garnished with a few olives, this one definitely tastes better with the glass rimmed with salt!!!

drink and enjoy RESPONSIBLY

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Next time, actual food again, my Kinda-Southern Green Beans.