Helen's Lethal Margaritas

OK...I will cop to it. This isn't the best picture. This is one margarita that didn't want to photograph. It was really irritating to me.  I needed to get it done, so I took the best of them and ran with it. Sorry for it being a tad blurry!

Now, I will cop to something else. I am a sucker for books with recipes in them. Normally, I can't stand the story, but I have found some really rock it with recipes. Many have made it to The P&G!

When I saw that Sherryl Woods co-authored a cookbook,The Sweet Magnolias Cookbook, based off her series, I knew I had to review it. Another thing that I must cop to is that I have never read a Sherryl Wood's book, but if her books are as great as the numerous recipes I have made out of this great book, including drink recipes, I might just have to wander in there. One of those recipes was Helen's Lethal Margaritas.

It was time to start to prepare for Cinco de Mayo for The P&G and Bette Lee Crosby's Midweek Mixers and I remembered this drink. I am not a fan of the frozen margarita, but I had given Bette and my readers numerous other margarita recipes, so I figured it was time for me to buck up and get to a frozen one. I liked this recipe because it used no margarita mix, but was still incredibly simple to make. Plus, it had me at agave nectar!

One thing I did notice in serving it is that these were thick. They were really a slush. As a result, where we would normally drink two margaritas with our meal, one of these was sufficient (and all we could really get through).

As to be expected, I changed the recipe just a very tiny bit. I noticed as published, it had a very strong tequila flavor to it. I am not a fan of that, so I increased the limeade and ice to support it. No biggie. If you like strong flavors go with the parenthesis amount!

Want either a strawberry or mango margarita? Simply switch out a 12 oz bag of the frozen fruit for 2 cups of ice! Yummers!

So, here we go!:

Ingredients:

10 oz frozen limeade, thawed (6 oz)
3/4 cup BLANCO tequila (the cheap stuff is fine)
1/4 cup triple sec
2 T. agave nectar
5 cups ice (4 cups)

Directions:

1) Place all ingredients in a blender and let it go!

2) Pour into salt rimmed margarita glasses and garnish with lime wedge!