(Part 5 in our Summer Drink series. Enjoy.)
Before they are totally gone from the supermarket, go buy a pint of strawberries. Cut them in half and put them in a large, airtight container. Now, take a bottle of decent tequila and pour it over the strawberry halves. Put a lid on it all, seal it tight, and stick it way, way back in your refrigerator. For a month.
Now I know what you are thinking: If I can't even get my shit together to make a crockpot meal before I go to work, how am I going to put together a drink that has to sit for a whole month before it's consumed. And the answer is that you won't. 99% of you will not make this drink. But a few of you will, and when October comes and you open that lid to ladle out a two or three shot glasses full of this summer-infused tequila, you will thank me. You will thank me and name your babies after me. You will ask your town council for a permit to throw a parade in my honor. You will carve effigies to me in butter, or whatever product your region is known for.
Or you'll just get sloppy drunk and send me an unintelligible text message. I'm cool either way.
My strawberries have been done for 6 weeks at least, you think tomato infused tequila is worth trying? ;) I've got some super sweet cherry tomatoes ready to harvest.
Posted by: Rayne of Terror | August 18, 2008 at 04:20 PM
Oooh, nice. If I wasn't pregnant (and if my son wasn't liable to dig them out and start eating them without realizing) I'd try it. You should also try pineapple with rum. The pineapple's a big hit at parties.
Posted by: qwyneth | August 18, 2008 at 05:19 PM
Tequila is satan's pee. It's true. I couldn't make something like that up.
Also, I dare you to give me your cell phone number.
Posted by: You can call me, 'Sir' | August 18, 2008 at 08:07 PM
Instead of texting you, can I just get sloppy drunk in your back yard then stumble home?
Posted by: 3-Martini Jennifer | August 18, 2008 at 08:14 PM
I try not to liquor up fruit since the Thanksgiving Drunk Out of 1997. We made a hole in watermelon, poured guaro (Costa Rican sugar cane liquor) in, then forgot... opened the watermelon, scooped out little bits with a melon baller and served them for dessert. Everyone was drunk. Everyone. Even teetotaler Christian folk. Oops.
Posted by: Cinthia | August 18, 2008 at 08:23 PM
I really hope I'm one of the few people who will actually make this. It will give me something to look forward to indulging in once this baby is born in October!
Posted by: Cynthia | August 18, 2008 at 09:51 PM
My grandmother used to drain the brine from the green olives, fill the jar back up with gin, and put them in the fridge to marinate. That way, she could just pop an olive whenever she "needed a little pick-me-up." Much the same idea, only no shot glass required.
Posted by: Taado | August 18, 2008 at 11:48 PM
I'd try this if I could only figure out a way to disguise it in the fridge. My inlaws assume that having booze around means that we have a problem. Little do they know that we drink because they drive us so crazy...
Posted by: Bec | August 19, 2008 at 07:37 AM
OMG Taado, that is absolutely BRILLIANT!!!!!(execpt substitute vodka for gin)
I am so going to do this (in preparation for my dirty martini's of course)
Posted by: Anne Prince | August 19, 2008 at 07:38 AM
3-Martini Jennifer: Instead of texting, maybe you could get drunk in his back yard, shout obscenities and tequila-induced poetry from below his window at 2AM, THEN stumble home. That's what I would do...
Posted by: loren | August 19, 2008 at 09:37 AM
Last weekend we made Strawberry Margaritas with strawberry sorbet - so good. This weekend, I'm picking up strawberries to get this in the fridge. Can't beat how easy it is.
Posted by: Cate O'Malley | August 19, 2008 at 09:58 AM
Hmmm....I never would have thought about using sorbet - did you just dump the sorbet in the blender and then add tequila/triple sec? What about ice?
Now I know exactly what to do with the mango sorbet!
Posted by: Anne Prince | August 19, 2008 at 11:17 AM
Yeah, Cate, I'm with Anne. Tell us more, you tease.
Posted by: Brian | August 19, 2008 at 11:20 AM
Ahh - this brings back such memories. Like the time when we visited you and the Mom in New Orleans, slept on the floor with I don't know how many other people, and imbibed your delicious concoction over Spring Break. We may just have to do that! Strawberries are in season, ya know! Ha.
Posted by: Ella's Mom | August 19, 2008 at 01:19 PM
Does it matter if I percolate the strawberries and jug of tequila in my tummy?
Posted by: abby | August 19, 2008 at 05:01 PM
loren, I'd pay to see you do that. You so crazy!
Posted by: 3-Martini Jennifer | August 19, 2008 at 08:53 PM
You have no idea! I have warrants for my arrest in 20 of the 38 states.
Posted by: loren | August 20, 2008 at 12:12 AM
As Tequila is our shot of choice, I will definitely try this with the pint of strawberries I just bought.
Posted by: Erika | August 20, 2008 at 02:45 PM
OOO! I actually have a bottle of tequila. I'm buying strawberries. They won't mold? You promise? God, this sounds awesome.
Posted by: Vee | August 21, 2008 at 04:49 AM
This sounds tasty. I might have to try it.
Posted by: Michell | August 21, 2008 at 06:23 PM
Holy deliciousness, Batman! I think you've discovered the effing Best. Thing. Ever.
My liver and I thank you for sharing! (Actually, my liver is sobbing, but I know she's happy on the inside.)
Posted by: Alison | August 28, 2008 at 06:37 PM