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Key Lime Martini

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This may be the perfect summer cocktail! Sweet and tart and limey (is that a word?) all at the same time. I’m in love! From Crazy Sista Cooking (one of my very favorite cookbooks).

You will need:

  • 1 oz vanilla vodka
  • 1/2 oz Licor 43
  • 1/2 oz KeKe Beach Key Lime liqueur
  • 1/4 oz key lime juice
  • 1 fresh lime wedge
  • Crushed graham crackers

To mix:

  1. Fill a cocktail shaker with lots of ice
  2. Add in vanilla vodka, both liqueurs and key lime juice
  3. Shake, shake, and shake some more
  4. Make a slice into the lime wedge and run it around the rim of a martini glass, then dip the glass rim into the crushed graham crackers
  5. Strain the cocktail mix into the glass, filling to the top
  6. Garnish with the lime wedge and enjoy!

Summer salad

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One of many perks to having a garden in the back yard? THIS at any time:

I love this super simple salad! Fresh baby lettuce from the garden, homemade croutons, diced tomato, cheeses, and just a bit of Newman’s honey dijon dressing. SO good! And now that we’ve installed chicken wire around the garden, all the salad is going to me — not the bunnies.

I have a lot of lettuce coming in… faster than I can eat it! So I’m sure I’ll have to get more creative with toppings as the summer goes on. What are your favorite salad toppings? Something unexpected, or do you stick to the basics? My friend loves Gorgonzola cheese on all her salads. The Yankee wants all Caesar all the time. The Kiddo wants, you know, yogurt and Cheerios. This post isn’t for him. 😉

So enlighten me! What else should I try while I have lettuce coming out of my ears?