Margaritas

This is margaritas as they should be, which of course starts with them being on the rocks and never frozen, if you want a slurpee go to seven-eleven.

Ingredients:

1. 1/2 cup of lime juice fresh squeezed from actual limes
2. 1/2 cup of lemon juice fresh squeezed from actual lemons
3. zest of 3 limes
   
4. zest of 2 lemons
   
5. 1/4 cup of superfine sugar (superfine matters, use a food processor to make it if you need to)
6. 1 cup 100% agave reposado tequila (I've had good luck with Sauza which isn't too expensive)
7. 1 cup Triple Sec (I use bols)
8. 2 cups of crushed ice
9. a pinch of salt (use kosher salt)

Steps:

1. Combine the lemon & lime juices, lemon & lime zest, sugar and salt in a container and cover with plastic wrap or a lid if you had the foresight to use a container that has one. Shake or stir to dissolve the sugar and salt.
   
2. Put the above mixture in the fridge for a minimum of 4 hours, ideally overnight.
3. Put 1 cup of the ice into your serving glasses
4. Put the other cup of ice into a pitcher or shaker, strain the juice mixture into the pitcher or shaker (you don't want the zest), add the tequila and triple sec. Shake or stir to chill, pour, consume.

If you need to make these in a hurry leave the zest out and don't bother with step 2, they won't be as good but they will still be far better than any pre-mix margarita you buy. For zesting you will use a microplane. 2-3 limes and/or lemons is around 1/2 cup of juice, buy more make a double batch more margaritas = good. I use a Presto Lemonade making device for juicing things, very convenient and good for making other citrus based beverages, it has marks for each 1/4 quart and as 1/4 quart = 1 cup it's awfully convenient for this recipe.