Topic: Tequila Recipes?

[Bill Aurion]

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Originally posted by: Grey Ninja
Well, I don't know if you are being sarcastic or not, but just to be on the safe side, I am going to call you a wanker.

Fair enough

[aoi tsuki]

i intended to post earlier, but was busy all day. Despite my post being old, i'll post it anyway.

i'm more of a vodka and gin man, but i mix a few tequila drinks every now and then. Here's a couple of mine. Measurements might be a bit off since i haven't made one in a while. i mix by eye, so as long as you have an idea how much to add of each ingredient, you're good.

Classic Margarita:
2 ounces of tequila
1 1/3 ounce of Cointreau
2/3 ounce of lime juice

Brave Bull:
1 1/4 ounces of tequila
3/4  ounce of Kahlua

Acapulco:
1 1/2 ounces of tequila
1/2 ounce of Cointreau
1/2 ounce of rum
splash of lime juice & sour mix

i know someone else posted it but above is how i make them. If you wanna make frozen versions of those, add more sour mix/margarita mix and mix with crushed ice. i usually just pour them over ice myself; crushing ice is too much trouble for when i just want a drink.

i recommend Cointreau, which is one of the better triple secs available. Once you've tasted it, you won't want to go back to anything with "triple sec" emblazened on the label. It's expensive, but worth it, and will last a while used in moderation. Aside from stocking Cointreau (or if you're cheap, triple sec), i also recommend stocking lime juice (Rose's is usually it), and a sour mix. You can use a margarita mix, but i prefer a sour mix. And the free ones you get with some tequilas taste like arse if you don't doctor them up (Cointreau and lime juice works here). When i'm mixing drinks, Cointreau, lime juice, or sour mix is an ingredient 90% of the time; your mileage may vary. You can use fresh limes as well, but for the sake of convenience i use Rose's, which is also presweetened a bit.  

[The Omen]

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Both. I am an insomniac, so I would take them anyways, but they do enhance the alcohol I have found.

Its a symptom of an overactive imagination.  I sleep rarely more than 3 or 4 hours.  I don't take sleeping pills for the fact that they make me feel too groggy when i'm awake.  But anyway, be careful mixing alcohol and sleep aids, you may not wake up.  This warning was brought to you by the surgeon general.

[Hostile Creation]

I'm usually up in bed for up to 2 to 3 hours at night, but I get to bed at about 9, so I have plenty of time to get bored and fall asleep.

[aoi tsuki]

Melatonin works much better than sleeping pills for me. i wake up feeling energized, even moreso than when i'm not taking it, and i have strange but vivid dreams, usually in black and white.  

[aoi tsuki]

Melatonin works much better than sleeping pills for me. i wake up feeling energized, even moreso than when i'm not taking it, and i have strange but vivid dreams, usually in black in white.

[Grey Ninja]

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Originally posted by: The Omen

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But anyway, be careful mixing alcohol and sleep aids, you may not wake up.  This warning was brought to you by the surgeon general.

That's something I REALLY do not care about.  

[The Omen]

Sad but true, Ninja.  My most peaceful time is when i'm asleep.  If only i could get more of it....

[Ms.Pikmin]

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Originally posted by: Grey Ninja

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Originally posted by: The Omen

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But anyway, be careful mixing alcohol and sleep aids, you may not wake up.  This warning was brought to you by the surgeon general.

That's something I REALLY do not care about.

Grey Ninja, you worry me sometimes.  I wasn't going to post regarding your admission to mixing alcohol and sleeping pills because I don't want to forever bug you about this kind of stuff.  However, the statement about not caring if you don't wake up bothers me alot.  Be careful please.  I'll just leave it at that.

[Hostile Creation]

Yeah, you're too cool to not wake up

[vudu]

plus, if you die, you'll never get to play xenosaga 2, coming out for the n5 in 2005!!  w00t!!1!  it's true.  my friend's dad's next door neighbor when he was a kid works for namco and he told me all about it.  but shhh ... i'm not supposed to tell anyone.

p.s.  megaton.

[Grey Ninja]

lol.  You guys worry too much about stuff like that.  Dying really isn't such a big deal.  It happens to us all one day.  Whether it happens tomorrow or 50 years from now, it's all the same to me once I am dead.  The only difference is how long I have to put up with this life crap.  But no Ms. Pikmin, I don't actively seek out death.  I have a very strong sense of duty that keeps me alive.   I don't actively attempt to prolong my life, but I don't actively attempt to end my life either.  

[The Omen]

Don't worry Ninja, its guys like you and me , who are completely indifferent to life or death that live to be 120.    

[aoi tsuki]

Not that i can talk, but drinking and taking sleeping pills isn't exactly something people who aren't trying to die do. If you're looking to enhance your experience then, well... i guess i shouldn't promote that.

Geez, how did a thread about tequila turn into a thread about dying? The off-topic forum... i tell ya!

[Grey Ninja]

I know.  That's what really bothers me.  I see it around me all the time.  The people who have something to live for always die young.  Those of us who pray for death live to very old ages.  Back where I used to live, there was this bush pilot...  "Jimmy Anderson".  I used to hear stories about him growing up, but it wasn't until the Fort St. John International Airshow that I really realized just how famous he was.  It seemed to me that half the acts there paid some sort of tribute to Jimmy Anderson.

But that story aside, the man looks like a living skeleton.  He's crashed his plane probably more times than I can count, he smokes, he drinks, and he's OLD.  Yet I am right positive that the man will live for many more years.

God has a sense of humor alright.

[Bill Aurion]

If you're dead, then how in the world are you going to play Twin Snakes?

Unless of course you can play videogames in the afterlife...wouldn't that be something? ^_^

[Grey Ninja]

Nah, I am sure that I would go to hell and they would make me program software for Microsoft on a Macintosh computer.... *shudder*  

[oohhboy]

Sound like Robo-cop. the only thing stopping him frrom shooting himself was his sense of duty. So funny pradin those Robo Cop 2s. heheh.