apple cider margaritas
sick as a dog, crunch factor, the one good time for a sugar rim
Hi! I know I’m a day late and a dollar short, trust me.
I caught a bug, coughed my little lungs right up, and just when I was turnin’ round the bend our sweet lil Squirrel stopped eating! If you have a cat, you know that’s bad. If you’ve ever met Squirrel, the fiend-iest of fiends for any food at all, you know it’s horrible. After a day of bribing him we had to take him to the emergency vet, which as you can imagine, was affordable and not at all a shocking amount of money. The kicker? He had a (stress-related) fever, nothing wrong in his bloodwork, and they gave him an antibiotic and $200 of subcutaneous fluids and sent him home. A day and a half later, he’s munching away. If it wasn’t so awfully stressful, it would have been at least a little funny. As long as I forget how much it cost, I can get a lil chuckle out.
Anyway - between that and catching up from missing class, I’ve been drinking these apple cider margs but haven’t been writing them down for you. Go on, sue me! Give it your best shot! I’ve taken exactly nine weeks of classes in completely unrelated legal fields I’m sure I’ve got it.
I’m needing these margs partially because firm recruiting events have started to pick up. With my biology and lab background, I fit in nicely to intellectual property law circles, and I’ll be damned if it isn’t the field that recruits as early as humanly possible. While I’m not completely sure about it, and am completely sure that I was schmoozing at Willis (formerly Sears) Tower the other day. In a blazer, no less! A blazer!!
To add a bit of insult to injury over this past week…I will admit to you all and the Internet that I didn’t realize I was in The Sears Tower** the whole time. I’m an idiot, drink a margarita.
**You should not be allowed to rename towers??? Especially skyscrapers that were super famous??? I’m blaming my whole confusion on this. I knew I was in The Willis Tower!
Anyway, this margarita is the only excuse for a sugar rim on a drink. It’s not even really sugar, it’s salty cinnamon sugar, and it’s divine. The apple cider is crisp, the maple syrup is Vermont-coded, the lime makes it a marg, and you can do tequila, mezcal, or a combo, if ya nasty. The apple slice garnish is a tequila-soaked snack you get at the end. It’s a good time.
Pumpkin muffins up next cause while I disparage many pumpkin products, you truly cannot-not make a loaf or a muffin out of it. It’s begging you!
apple cider margarita
serves 1
rim
1/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons flaky sea salt (less if you want it less salty…duh)
1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
drink
4 oz apple cider (the good stuff, just apples)
3/4 oz lime juice
1/4 oz maple syrup
2 oz tequila (i like reposado here), mezcal, or a mix
apple (honeycrisp is good here), sliced thin, for garnish
directions
In a small bowl that’s big enough to dip your glass, mix together the sugar, flaky salt and cinnamon. After you’re done, store leftovers in a container for future drinks.
Run a lime wedge around the rim of a rocks glass and dip it in the sugar. Fill glass with ice. In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, add apple cider, lime, maple syrup and tequila/mezcal. Shake until well chilled and strain into glass. Garnish with a few slices of apple.
side notes
Saw Jacqueline Novak live. You must.