Oh yes, last night we were mostly drinking Frozen Strawberry Daquiris. I know, I know…STB again, but actually I don’t feel as bad as I did last time, which is always a bonus. I was in a cocktail type of mood because of two things:
Firstly, we took twiglet dog to the beach and had a mighty fine time. We met some very friendly people who had a little girl who loved dogs. B took to her instantly, enjoyed lots of cuddles and gave her a jolly good wash (we were very impressed that she was still laughing at the end of that). She also did lots of barking at seagulls and sniffing of very interesting things in the sand while we skimmed stones and walked and talked, and basically got our fix of sea air. Having never lived by the sea before, this is a revelation. The first of many visits methinks.
Secondly, I’m delighted to report that the aforementioned girly weekend has been booked - wehay! After a flurry of emails, the flights are booked and C&R are coming for a visit from the good old UK! My responsibility is now to find a fab spa for us to spend a day being pampered. I’m also already thinking about doing a bit of a cocktail night when we get home from the spa, so I had to try out my new recipe (that’s my excuse and I’m not budging). I thought maybe we could have a couple of the abovementioned daquiris:
Frozen Strawberry Daquiri
This is slightly different from the peach one because instead of crushed ice and fruit, you just use frozen fruit. There’s a fab farm shop where I used to live in the UK that sold frozen fruit of all different descriptions from open freezers, and you just scooped what you needed and paid by weight, but obviously now I’m reliant on my new fave, Dunnes, which has a fairly decent selection in the freezers. If you used mixed summer berries you might have to sieve the pips out. So (sorry, digressing again):
Put frozen fruit in the fancy blender attachment of your stainless steel beast of a food processor (I know, been there before but please be careful your blender is man enough or you’ll have a frozen strawberry kitchen to clean up), then add:
Juice of one fresh lime
4 measures Bacardi
1 measure Cointreau
Whizz up and pour into chilled glasses. Repeat liberally until giggly.
We live about 20 mins from the beach and can’t wait to take Betty there for a nice walk and experience the different smells and sounds. Unfortuantely we won’t be able to let her free as she still doesn’t always listen when we call her and is still very small furry animals ‘gotta have some of that’ mode.
here wes can’t take the dogs on the beach from May - September for hygiene reasons for the tourists.
hugs
joan in italy
Comment by joan — September 18, 2006 @ 4:17 pm
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