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Frozen Watermelon Margarita (non-alcoholic version included) + Video

June 26, 2017

This frozen watermelon margarita is like summer in a salty sugar-rimmed glass! For the kids and teetotalers, a non-alcoholic version is included! | Recipe from Chattavore.com

This frozen watermelon margarita is like summer in a salty sugar-rimmed glass! For the kids and teetotalers, a non-alcoholic version is included! Scroll down for video!

This frozen watermelon margarita is like summer in a salty sugar-rimmed glass! For the kids and teetotalers, a non-alcoholic version is included! | Recipe from Chattavore.com
Who out there can’t get enough ?watermelon? in the summertime (??)? Interestingly, I married a man who will eat watermelon if he is forced to, but since he’s never forced to, he doesn’t eat watermelon. He’s never liked cantaloupe or honeydew, and honestly, though I like them, I get that. Watermelon though? He used to like it but now he doesn’t. What gives?

Because of this, I have been forced to buy these little mini watermelons. I have seen them called “personal” watermelons and that always makes me laugh. It’s my own personal watermelon…it really is. It’s really kind of convenient, because even if Philip were eating it too a big watermelon would be way more than we’d ever finish before it went south and I don’t think I have any storage containers that big anyway.

Funny story about the watermelons used to make this recipe…I’ll admit that while I usually try to get my produce, at least in the summer, from local stands and what not, I bought these at Costco, which had these baby watermelons in pairs in a little mesh bag. My friend was grabbing dog food over by the wall and I told her that I was going to go grab some watermelons, and went traipsing back to the cart carrying two small watermelons right. in front. of my chest. Ooooooops. Also, how many of you can’t carry a watermelon without thinking about Dirty Dancing? I know I can’t (can you believe that Philip has never seen that movie?!?!).
This frozen watermelon margarita is like summer in a salty sugar-rimmed glass! For the kids and teetotalers, a non-alcoholic version is included! | Recipe from Chattavore.com
Mostly I’m a watermelon purist. I really don’t care to eat it in a salad or anything like that, and I would never, ever put salt on my watermelon. But…there’s something about a watermelon margarita that gets my heart pumping (especially a frozen watermelon margarita!). Watermelon and lime go really well together, and frozen watermelon is basically like melon flavored ice. I literally just chunk my watermelon up and freeze it – so easy. Instead of lime juice, I use frozen limeade concentrate here. You all know I usually go for fresh but I read a lot of articles about frozen lime margaritas and they all recommended limeade concentrate because it retains its flavor better. I’m not one to argue.

This frozen watermelon margarita comes together super-quick in your blender, and a non-alcoholic version is as simple as subbing in lemon-lime soda for the tequila and triple sec. And, I’m going to commit heresy against myself here, but a rimmed glass is an absolute necessity when you are having a margarita, virgin or not (I like a mixture of sugar and salt). I rolled my eyes at myself when I realized that I had put a straw in a rimmed glass, but then I realized that this drink does well with a good stir from time to time, so I recommend you follow suit!
This frozen watermelon margarita is like summer in a salty sugar-rimmed glass! For the kids and teetotalers, a non-alcoholic version is included! | Recipe from Chattavore.com


Mary

Yield: 1 drink

Frozen Watermelon Margarita (non-alcoholic version included)

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Ingredients

  • 1 cup frozen watermelon chunks
  • 2 tablespoons frozen limeade concentrate
  • 1 1/2 ounces (one shot) silver tequila (gold is fine too, but I always prefer silver)
  • 2 teaspoons triple sec
  • OR sub 1/4 cup lemon-lime soda (Sprite, 7Up, or Sierra Mist) for the tequila and triple sec
  • 3-4 ice cubes
  • lime wedges for garnish
  • For rimming the glass
  • lime juice or water
  • 2 tablespoons kosher or sea salt
  • 2 tablespoons granulated sugar

Instructions

  1. Pour the lime juice or water into one small plate and the sugar and salt into another plate. Mix the sugar and salt together with your fingers. Dip the rim of your glass into the water or lime juice then twist into the sugar/salt mixture. Set aside.
  2. Combine the watermelon, limeade, tequila and triple sec (or lemon-lime soda), and ice cubes in a blender. Blend until smooth. Pour into the rimmed glass and serve garnished with a wedge of lime.
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This frozen watermelon margarita is like summer in a salty sugar-rimmed glass! For the kids and teetotalers, a non-alcoholic version is included! | Recipe from Chattavore.com

Filed Under: By Course, By Main Ingredients, Drink Recipes, Drinks, Easy Recipes, Fruit, How to Use Tools & Techniques, How-To, Recipe Videos, Recipes, Tools, Videos Tagged With: beverages, cocktails, drinks By Mary // Chattavore 10 Comments

Adult Cheerwine Cocktail

November 25, 2016

This adult Cheerwine cocktail is quick and easy, and if you have a reasonably stocked liquor cabinet, you probably have what you need to make it right now. | Recipe from Chattavore.com

This adult Cheerwine cocktail is quick and easy, and if you have a reasonably stocked liquor cabinet, you probably have what you need to make it right now.
This adult Cheerwine cocktail is quick and easy, and if you have a reasonably stocked liquor cabinet, you probably have what you need to make it right now. | Recipe from Chattavore.com
Raise your hand if you’ve never heard of Cheerwine. I’ve honestly been surprised recently at how many people I’ve talked to that have no idea what Cheerwine is. Granted, these friends aren’t from around here, and Cheerwine is a decidedly Southern soda…so Cheerwine is to the South what Moxie is to the Northeast (have you ever had Moxie? It’s an acquired taste, but I love it).
This adult Cheerwine cocktail is quick and easy, and if you have a reasonably stocked liquor cabinet, you probably have what you need to make it right now. | Recipe from Chattavore.com
Actually, Cheerwine has only been back in this area for a few years. I remember being obsessed with it as a kid, when the commercials boasted a teenage girl who talked like a Valley girl and wore clothes that my eighties elementary-aged self thought were so cool. My friends and I all loved it, and then…it disappeared. I didn’t even know it still existed until I went to North Carolina for a conference in my twenties and saw Cheerwine everywhere. Then, a couple of years ago, it reappeared.

Anyway, for those of you who don’t know, Cheerwine is a cherry-flavored soda. It’s pretty sweet (as sodas go, of course) but pretty tasty when you’re feeling like a sugar overload. I don’t buy it often, as it has caffeine (Philip doesn’t drink caffeine) and, er, high fructose corn syrup. And let me warn you, don’t trust a recipe that tells you to boil Cheerwine for an hour until it turns into a thick syrup (Really. Don’t. You will regret it and you will waste a bottle of Cheerwine).
This adult Cheerwine cocktail is quick and easy, and if you have a reasonably stocked liquor cabinet, you probably have what you need to make it right now. | Recipe from Chattavore.com
Philip and I visited Asheville, North Carolina in October while I was on Fall break. We ate dinner one night at a restaurant called Bonfire Barbecue. The food was great – I had an awesome smoked turkey and pimento cheese sandwich – and, while the place was definitely not empty, being away from downtown gave it the advantage of not being completely packed out with people. The thing that really stuck in my head, though, was the Adult Cheerwine cocktail. Coke, whiskey, amaretto, and grenadine…adult Cheerwine popped right off the page at me and I knew I had to try it. It was perfect, and tasted more like actual Cheerwine than I could have imagined (by the way, did you know that most “cherry-flavored” things are actually almond-flavored???).

I decided that I needed to recreate the adult Cheerwine cocktail, and, of course, share it with you. I mean, it’s so easy, and it doesn’t require any unusual, crazy ingredients. That is, if you have a reasonably stocked liquor cabinet, there’s a good chance that you have what you need to make this Cheerwine cocktail.

So what are you waiting for? There’s online shopping to be done and this adult Cheerwine cocktail will make for fun sipping while you shop!

This adult Cheerwine cocktail is quick and easy, and if you have a reasonably stocked liquor cabinet, you probably have what you need to make it right now. | Recipe from Chattavore.com

Mary

Yield: 1 cocktail

Adult Cheerwine Cocktail

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Ingredients

  • ice
  • 1 ounce whiskey (I used Chattanooga Whiskey )
  • 1 ounce amaretto
  • 1/2 ounce grenadine
  • Coke or other cola (I used Mexican Coke, which does not contain high fructose corn syrup)
  • maraschino cherries and/or pomegranate arils, for garnish

Instructions

  1. Fill a 12-ounce glass halfway with ice. Pour in the whiskey, amaretto, and grenadine. Top the glass with the cola and stir to combine. Garnish with cherries and pomegranate arils, if desired. Serve immediately.

Notes

Pomegranate arils may seem like an odd garnish here, but grenadine is actually pomegranate flavored, not cherry-flavored! You can extract the arils from the pomegranate yourself - just cut the pomegranate in half and firmly slap each half with a wooden spoon over a bowl. OR, just buy a cup of prepackaged arils in the produce section of your grocery store.

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This adult Cheerwine cocktail is quick and easy, and if you have a reasonably stocked liquor cabinet, you probably have what you need to make it right now. | Recipe from Chattavore.com

Filed Under: By Course, Drink Recipes, Drinks, Easy Recipes, Recipes Tagged With: beverages, cocktails, drinks By Mary // Chattavore 2 Comments

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Hi, I'm Mary! Welcome to Chattavore, a destination for people who want to feed themselves and their families well every day! Life can be crazy, which means that getting dinner on the table can be a challenge (more often than not!) and my mission is to take all your favorite recipes and figure out how to serve them on a Tuesday.

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